CNN reports: Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning Thursday so he can visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, an Obama spokesman said Monday.

"Sen. Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham has always been one of the most important people in his life," spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.

Fox News reports: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, a spokesman said.

Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Obama's plane that Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise Obama, was released from the hospital late last week. But he said her health had deteriorated "to the point where her situation is very serious."

Let's compare and contrast:

CNN calls it "will take a break from campaigning" while Fox News says, "is canceling nearly all his campaign events."  Which one sounds pointed?

CNN attributes this break to "visit his ailing grandmother" while Fox News says, "to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother."  Which one sounds condescendingly like a lazy person calling out of work?

Both refer to Obama spokesman, Robert Gibbs' comments regarding his grandmother.  But which one sounds like Obama is just making stuff up?

There you have it, folks!  Definitive proof that Fox News is "fair and balanced," while CNN is clearly the "liberal mainstream media".

You assholes.  Dude's gramma is sick.  Kind of reminds me of the last time Obama went to visit his grandmother and McCain tried to paint him as an elitist, accusing him of taking a "vacation on a private beach in Hawaii".  Ooh...he visits his grandmother...he's so elite! (or a slacker, dependent upon which source you trust more: Dumb or Dumber)

Update: My mother's implication (most likely obtained from FOX News, since it's her only source of information) is that he had to make up an excuse to go look for his birth certificate because he was really born in Kenya.

Update 2: 11/02/08, Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has succumbed to cancer.  She passed away in her sleep just before midnight.  FOX News and my mom are assholes for politicizing this.