The cretins at FOX News should be ashamed of such tawdry race-baiting, except, of course, they have no shame. Or common sense. Or human decency.

Just days ago they tried the other favorite smear tactic — implying that the Obamas are terrorists — with the “terrorist hand jab” remark, and the blood from E.D. Hill’s seppuku knife wasn’t even cold before Michelle Malkin follows up with the big one: these people are niggers!

From now until November, and, if he wins, until the day he leaves the White House, FOX News is going to make sure that everybody knows that Barack Obama and his wife are BLACK!!! It is Strategy Number One from Roger Ailes, no doubt with some expert advice from Karl “I’m Just A Commentator” Rove. It will allow John McCain to put enough distance between himself and the smear campaign that he can say he never played dirty politics, and yet we are going to be plastered day and night with “don’t vote for Obama, he’s black” from FOX. Meanwhile, the other news outlets will be drawn like mosquitos to a bug zapper to the ongoing furor that will result, lending endless gobs of coverage, and hence credibility, to the whole damn sideshow.

I think it’s even more reprehensible that they’ve chosen to aim first at Michelle Obama. The insinuations of there being a videotape of her ranting, the instant comparisons of her wardrobe to HIllary Clinton’s (and here we go with that “the only thing that matters about women is their appearance” meme again), fabricating “quotes” from her college thesis, and now this low-life sleazeball insinuation jab.

Maybe from now until Election Day, every time John McCain’s wife appears on camera they should call her “that cunt, Cindy” to remind people what McCain seems to think of his meal ticket spouse. That would certainly level the playing field. Right into the sewer.