FOX: Making Sure Even The Sports Division Sucks

During the holiday season, sports networks always use the military as a prop to pretend that they give a shit about the troops. They air these 10- or 15-second bumpers where the troops say hello to their families at home, or people in the US read their admiration of the troops off of cue cards. Usually very little thought goes into these segments and they can produce hilarious results. I caught one today.

During the Giants-Redskins game on FOX (of course), they cut to a woman from Minneapolis who said (paraphrasing): "I want to thank all the troops for making it possible for us to enjoy the Christmas season."

Right. Because as we all know, Saddam Hussein planned to use his completed nuclear weapons program to attack Minnesota on Christmas Eve 2005. It's a good thing we spent $200 billion and sent 2,100 troops to their deaths in order to prevent that catastrophe. Enjoy your fuckin' eggnog, lady!