Nil nisi bonum, unless ...

Wow, it must be genuinely low -- "classless," if you must -- to speak ill of the newly diagnosed. Right, Fair 'n' Balanced Network?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slammed Rush Limbaugh, who was recently was* diagnosed with cancer, as a “racist" on social media late Tuesday, saying he “cheapens” the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

AOC didn’t attend President Trump's State of the Union address, claiming it would have legitimized what she saw as lawless conduct under his administration. But she offered her thoughts on Limbaugh receiving the honor to her 4.2 million Instagram followers with a streaming video.

Well, that was then (as in "the No. 5 story on the Wednesday morning

homepage). This is now (to wit, "the No. 5 story on the Thursday morning homepage"). At least, it would be if Fox hadn't thought better of picking up a Page 6 tale from its Murdoch bedmates at the Post:

State Farm on Wednesday claimed actress Shannen Doherty is just looking for sympathy — and a payout to get her California home repaired — by announcing her terminal stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

Fox's updated story is a bit different:

Shannen Doherty's attorney is dismayed by State Farm Insurance's claim that the actress is using her terminal cancer diagnosis as a way to garner "sympathy" in her lawsuit against the company.

Fox is certainly on familiar ground in American journalism; one of the most pertinent observations about the First Amendment is that it doesn't distinguish marching behind the Nazi flag from burning the American one.** (Not that AOC is in flag-burning territory here; she isn't -- for example -- casting doubt on Limbaugh's diagnosis, though that would be one out of the Limbaugh playbook.) We can't cast Fox and its friends into the pit of not-journalism, but we can avail ourselves of every opportunity to hold them up to public ridicule and contempt. Please do.

* Fox doesn't go in much for editing, so it's nice to see a zombie rule edited into the patient here.
** Schauer, F. (2005). The exceptional First Amendment. In Ignatieff, M. (ed.) (2005). American exceptionalism and human rights. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.