Discussing Peter Baker's upcoming New York Times magazine article on President Obama, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson went on a tangent about one line in the lengthy article. Baker reported, that “around the 100-day mark in Obama's administration,” someone “asked Obama what surprised him most since taking office. 'The number of people who don't pay their taxes,' he answered sardonically.” Apparently Carlson doesn't know what “sardonically” means.

She went off, tearing into the president for, in her words, saying “the biggest revelation for him as president of the United States was finding out how few of Americans actually pay taxes.” Following a dramatic pause, she yelled, “What?! I mean, how can you not know those facts and figures? We talk about it a lot on this program. I don't know how as a sitting Senator, you would not know the percentage of people who pay taxes in this country.”

Let me just help Carlson out here for a second. Obama was kidding. Merriam-Webster defines “sardonically,” thusly: “disdainfully or skeptically humorous: derisively mocking.” And, one would think that someone who graduated from Stanford with honors would know that. Therefore, some might say that she knows perfectly well that Obama was joking but just decided to attack the president for the sake of attacking him. Some might say.

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