Tonight's Top Story: We're Crybabies

Last Sunday saw the airing of this year's Emmy Awards, the awards show for excellence in television.

Conan O'Brien hosted, and the introduction of the show found him in a plane bound for Los Angeles and the awards. Turbulence hits, and the next thing we know, Conan is emerging on the island from Lost. Over the next five minutes he encounters personalities and situations from The Office, 24, House, South Park, and Dateline NBC.

Pretty funny stuff.

Fox News, however, thought differently.

Tragically, earlier in the day, a plane crash in Kentucky claimed the lives of 49 people. Fox News found the fact that Conan crashed in a plane was in poor taste, and should have been removed from the show.

But was that what Fox News was really upset about?

A reporter on the network complained that at a few points during the show, there were jokes made at Fox News' expense, including calling it "fake news."

OH THE HORROR! THE SHAME OF THE EMMYS!

Someone making fun of someone else on television? I'm shocked. Shocked and appalled.

Honestly, if Fox News is this sensitive about being made fun of, they shouldn't be on the air. Because someone makes fun of them practically on a daily basis. Apparently they don't watch The Daily Show. I didn't watch the Emmys, but I'm told there were only 2,3 jokes made at the expense of Fox News. The Emmys aired on NBC, and host Conan O'Brien dedicated an entire musical number to making fun of NBC. Shouldn't they be pissed?

Granted, the producers of the show could have pulled the bit where Conan was on the plane, shown him emerging on the beach, and they wouldn't have lost much. But honestly, were they really being insensitive here? It's not like they were using tragedy as a launch point for jokes. I didn't see it as, "ha ha! plane crashes are funny!" Sadly there have been several plane accidents and crashes over the past few decades.. does this mean that a television show or movie depicting a plane crash is being "insensitive?"

But again I don't think Fox was upset about the plane bit. They were just ticked about the fact that someone made fun of them. They only used their outrage over the plane bit to give their "story" some sort of "legitimacy."

Funny thing is, by doing a news story about the fact that the Emmys made fun of Fox News, they're just reinforcing the joke about Fox doing fake news. Because a story about being made fun of is not news.

And then they also present the story as if you, the viewer, should be offended by what you've just seen. "See how they just made fun of us, America? Let us rise up!"

Honestly, I'm surprised to see a major network pull something that generally you only see in grade school, or see some kid pull on their parents. "Jenny made fun of me, Dad!"

Grow a backbone, Fox News. Or at least a sense of humor.