The NewsHounds, elevating tastelessness and insensitivity towards terror victims to an art form

The mouth-breathing weirdos over at Newshounds.us keep looking for, and finding, lines to cross--and their latest is a biggie. In an item titled "Tastlessness [sic] and Insensitivity Elevated to an Art Form" ("Tastlessness"? Is that anything like "tastelessness"?) poster Marie Therese bemoans the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then she goes on to say that "nobody cares" that al-Zarqawi's wives and child may have died with him:

Last Friday during an "aren't we so cute and cool" moment on FOX & Friends, the hosts aired a clip from Jay Leno's June 15th monologue on The Tonight Show:

LENO: "It's not been a good day for Mrs. al-Zarqawi. They had the reading of the will today. She got the house."

All three hosts laughed. Brian Kilmeade, who fancies himself a stand-up comic in his off-hours, added:

"Hit by a missile! Let's see if they have insurance. And there are so many Mrs. al-Zarqawis!"

Co-host Alisyn Camerota chimed in saying "Yeah! There isn't just one!"

This entire segment took less than a minute.

Last week, when we killed al-Zarqawi, we also killed two women and a 6-year-old girl child. There was some speculation that one or both of these women might have been wives of the slain terrorist and perhaps the little girl was his offspring....to this day no one knows who these three were, what names they went by, why they were there....But, then, who really cares? ...certainly not the FOX & Friends trio.

...it becomes easy for glib comedians to rattle off a throw-away joke about "Mrs. al-Zarqawi" and for others to laugh and say "Hit by a missile!"

Memo to the NewsHounds: al-Zarqawi's death is about al-Zarqawi, and about all the innocent lives that have now been saved because he's been stopped. The story isn't about anyone who may have been with him when he died. And for the NewsHounds to imply that a healthy contempt for a monster--a man who was truly a "psychopathic international gangster," (to borrow Christopher Hitchens' great phrase, coined while appearing on "Your World w/Cavuto" today) equals inhumanity and insensitivity...well, that's logic worthy of al-Zarqawi himself.

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