Gretchen, you ignorant slut...

Benen has a post up today documenting yet another instance of Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson overreacting to a perceived outrageous tragedy of epic proportion which is non existent.

Pray tell?

In July, "Captain America: The First Avenger," a big superhero movie, will hit theaters. But because Hollywood studios rely so heavily on the international box office, in much of the world, the movie will simply be called, "The First Avenger." As a business decision, this isn't exactly shocking.

At least, it shouldn't be. On "Fox & Friends" this morning, Gretchen Carlson was outraged by the news.

"You know what? That is so crazy. Before you know it, this country will just be called 'Half of North America.' OK? Because, 'Oh, you can't say, America.' What will we say? What will we call this country when we can't say 'America' anymore?"


In Carlson's mind, it's reasonable to think we may reach a point at which "we" can't even utter the word "America" anymore. Never mind that this is one movie studio making a reasonable marketing decision about the title of one movie, the Fox News personality is actually worked up about this, as if there's an active campaign underway to restrict use of the word "American."

Let's forget two issues so absurd that they were pointed out by commenters under Benen's article:

1) "We" will most likely call this country the United States, since that's our name (hattip Joshua Norton); and,

2) "We" are actually only one-third of North America (hattip FlipYrWhig); but...

More importantly...Gretchen...How the hell are we gonna say North AMERICA without saying AMERICA?!?!