Just before giving his speech claiming the Democratic presidential nomination last week Obama bumped fists with his wife Michelle. But for Fox News it was something more sinister, possibly even a "terrorist fist jab" according to the network's brain dead host E.D. Hill.

Hill made the remarks while introducing a discussion on what she called  "a fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."

During the follow up discussion with Janine Driver - "a body language expert" - Fox's Hill said "people call it all sorts of things," and asked Driver: "Let's start with the Barack and Michelle Obama, because that's what most people are writing about -- the fist thump. Is that sort of a signal that young people get?"

She never returned to her throwaway reference to "a terrorist fist jab," but that's the way things go at the "fair and balanced" Fox News.

The American media is now obsessing with Obama's fist bump, dap, or fist pound. The Washington Post's "Reliable Source" called it: "the fist bump heard 'round the world," but nobody thinks this gesture is a secret Hizbollah or Hamas hand signal.

Fist bumpers have been around for a while as Fox should know. As far back as a 1995 Sprite ad that featured hip hop artists Large Professor and Grand Puba. Puba speaks to the happiness that can only be achieved by occupying both hands with fist pounds and sugary drinks:"I give a pound to my man wit my right hand / cuz I, I keeps the Sprite in my left hand..."

Quite.