Bill O'Reilly in Iraq "thanking the troops"

Don't ask me how I ended up at the blog of right-wing mouthpiece Michelle Malkin, but I really giggled when I saw this post of hers:

O'Reilly in Iraq. Hannity went last week. O'Reilly was there this week to thank the troops. ... O'Reilly visited the Soldiers [sic] of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) and other units at the Baghdad base camp to thank them for their service, he said.

"I came to see the Soldiers and say thanks to all the forces," he said. "That's our primary purpose over here."

WTF -- as if Bill O'Reilly were some kind of government official. There are those who say the line between Karl Rove's office and Fox News is way too thin, and this only reinforces that impression. But at least he was honest and didn't try to assert he was actually practicing journalism!

Note that capitalization of Soldiers. Because Supporting Our Troops means making them God-like.

But what's really funny is that now Malkin herself is jumping on the bandwagon -- she wants to go to Iraq to -- in the hilarious words of one blogger -- "assist in clearing the reputation" of the Associated Press. The whole quote is just too good:

AP's reputation is clearly on the line. What better way to restore it than to have a journalist of Michelle Malkin's stature assist in clearing that reputation?

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA.