It didn’t last 24 hours. The good feelings and hopes for unity that were universally expressed at the Tucson memorial for the victims of the shootings on January 8, were unceremoniously cast into a ditch by Fox News at their Fox Nation web site.

The featured headline on Fox Nation reads: Obama Distances Himself From Loons on the Left. The Fox Nationalists are apparently incapable of refraining from disparaging rhetoric for even a few hours. They are also incapable of noting the sick irony that their own insulting headline article began with a call for thoughtfulness and civility:

“President Barack Obama called on the nation to resist the temptation to assign blame for a shooting rampage here that may never fully be explained, but to emerge from the tragedy a more thoughtful, civil nation.”

At Fox they have emerged a more thoughtless, uncivil Fox Nation. The portrayal of the left as “loons” was an editorial invention of Fox. There was no such language in the article to which they linked. And their proclivity for animus was extended by posting five additional stories that were critical of the memorial, the left, or the President, even as most of the country was touched and inspired by the event and Obama’s speech.

They just can’t help themselves. They were born to be a repulsive purveyor of nasty propaganda, and they are living up to their mandate. Rupert Murdoch must be so proud.