Once A Year, I Promise

I like to mention Fox "News" about once a year; watching or talking or thinking about them makes me choleric, and I don't want to be choleric.

Everyone knows the new senator-elect from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - the state that gave us the cheese steak, the Bristol Stomp, and the Liberty Bell - is a man who is outsized in every way. Long tall John Fetterman won a hard-fought campaign against the Wizard of Oz for the seat, and will be sworn in in January. For now, he's just being sworn at, and so is his wife, the lovely Gisele Barretto Fetterman, because jealousy is like that.

Fetterman is 6' 8" tall. I myself topped out at 6' 5" before the ravages of time and diminished bone density lowered my altitude, but still, I know the horror that Mrs Fetterman's husband knows any time someone aims a camera in his direction. We tall people know there's a good chance when the picture comes out, not all of our head will be shown. People get the normal-sized people in the frame just fine, but those whose heads are up in the clouds don't get to see their whole head.

Or - the other thing - we wind up bending in half at the waist or doing a knee bend in order to try to match the heights of the other photo participants. You'd think this would be the answer, but no, because these bend-over shots tend to make us look like Gorgo leaning over to grab a section of a railroad bridge to use as a toothpick.

But those amiable FOXers have been messing with photos of the Fettermans as they prepare to move to DC. They don't realize that Mrs F has been intentionally taking headless Norseman pictures of Mr F for fifteen years now, but they crop the photos to make it seem like she wishes to marginalize the big man and shine all the brighter herself.

As it happens, Mrs Fetterman opened a Free Store in the town where they live in order to help people in their community find food and needed supplies. Read the story and then decide for yourself if her star doesn't shine brightly enough on its own without trying to detract from her spouse's good work to add attention to herself.

That "news" channel is great at fomenting displeasure and suspicion. Perhaps they could step up and help people as Mrs Fetterman does, or at least not demean her for doing so.