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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou are not funny. You are not clever. And you are not excused.
from:
An Open Letter To Fox News About 'Boobs On The Ground'
.....the skill of women as fighter pilots is well established. And before you jump to the standby excuse that you were just making a joke or having a laugh, let the men amongst our number preemptively respond: You are not funny. You are not clever. And you are not excused. Perhaps the phrase boys will be boysinevitably uttered wherever misogyny is presentis relevant. Men would never insult and demean a fellow servicemember; boys think saying the word boobs is funny.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/an-open-letter-to-fox-news
randome
(34,845 posts)Just kidding. Did you hear how Jon Stewart tore into him? Stewart was royally pissed. It was a joy to behold.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
SunSeeker
(51,580 posts)When Ed Schultz made a sexist comment, he made a teary apology and was taken off the air for a week by MSNBC. Fox seems happy with a limp apology--or none at all in the case of Gutfeld.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025591622
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)I was fully expecting a fart joke, the tone was so juvenile.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)with fart jokes?
Do fart jokes come drenched in hateful ethnic bigotry, sexism, and general disrespect for the dignity of others like this oh-so-clever Boobs on the Ground thing?
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)I was thinking in the larger context of the conversation, I suppose. By themselves, some far jokes are funny.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,496 posts)calimary
(81,367 posts)You wanna to make it about boobs, 'eh, bolling? Schmuck. Just go look in the mirror.
That is why I once said earlier this week, I'm glad that my two boys will be grown into better men than all of Fox News' boys.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)The Righties® have no sense of comedy.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Plus, it's an insult to all the women who do have boots on the ground.
marble falls
(57,134 posts)demigoddess
(6,642 posts)We need more.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)coffee table in the Fox News studios.
polynomial
(750 posts)It was just a few days ago viewing the article about the United Arab Emeritus participating in air support establishing that a female pilot is in a leader role. That did make me do a double take. Heck some Arabs dont let women drive a car, let alone get training to wheel an F-16 Lockheed so this is news.
The cultural twist is an amazingly huge hypocrisy, a pretense of holding beliefs especially customs via Fox News significantly owned by Arabs.
Are those feelings, standards, or qualities and opinions, in motion to show a cultural change, or a new behavior in saber-rattling. America has be vigilant because these motivations, in the new Arab character now is more undetermined than how wide or long the Sahara desert changes.
Recall these long time characters, even in the time of Christ motivated the Hebrew slaves to wonder in the desert wilderness a long time. Seems they have that savvy way to do it again.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)confused.
randome
(34,845 posts)...no, that's not quite right. Never mind.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Initech
(100,088 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they make the rest of us look bad.
benld74
(9,908 posts)who support this type of tripe
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Hey those Liberals have no sense of humor and ought to lighten up..
Hey Fox Supporters... Go..........yourselves!!1
MADem
(135,425 posts)Rhonda Cornum.
TNNurse
(6,928 posts)Those two would lose their jobs over this...... if only.