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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 10:17 AM Sep 2014

You 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 boys”—inevitably uttered wherever misogyny is present—is 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
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You are not funny. You are not clever. And you are not excused. (Original Post) kpete Sep 2014 OP
Well, Eric apologized so that ends this controversy, doesn't it? randome Sep 2014 #1
Gutfeld has yet to apologize. Nor has Fox for letting it all air in the first place. SunSeeker Sep 2014 #14
Gutless Gutfeld. randome Sep 2014 #21
I watched the video, because I refuse to watch Fox itself. ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #2
Hey, what's wrong Jackpine Radical Sep 2014 #4
Good point! ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #7
I'm truly a-gassed you would throw fart jokes in with that NuclearDem Sep 2014 #9
Stop raising a stink. randome Sep 2014 #10
*rim shot* ColesCountyDem Sep 2014 #11
Fox News: boobs on the air. n/t winter is coming Sep 2014 #3
More like hot, stinky air! Dustlawyer Sep 2014 #24
AND hot, stinky boobs, too. Those schmucks are all nothing but pathetic boobs. calimary Sep 2014 #25
Exactly! TRoN33 Sep 2014 #5
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Sep 2014 #6
It's not even a good pun. sarge43 Sep 2014 #12
Amen! marble falls Sep 2014 #8
jon Stewart was a joy to behold!! demigoddess Sep 2014 #13
The boobs on the ground of both genders are in fact sitting around the Cleita Sep 2014 #15
Flatuation, infatuation, or just coquetry in motion… polynomial Sep 2014 #16
Steve Douche.... His name is so close to perfect! maddiemom Sep 2014 #17
And yes, I realize this was Eric Bolling, but I couldn't resist. Damn, but I always get those two maddiemom Sep 2014 #19
When you've seen one boob... randome Sep 2014 #22
The only real boob in this story is Eric Bolling. Initech Sep 2014 #18
Some men never grow the hell up... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #20
The ONLY boobs on the ground are those males benld74 Sep 2014 #23
And most of Fox’s watchers? busterbrown Sep 2014 #26
I'd like to see those chickenshit FUXers make those kinds of comments around Tammy Duckworth or MADem Sep 2014 #27
If only TNNurse Sep 2014 #28
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. Well, Eric apologized so that ends this controversy, doesn't it?
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 10:18 AM
Sep 2014

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.
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SunSeeker

(51,580 posts)
14. Gutfeld has yet to apologize. Nor has Fox for letting it all air in the first place.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 12:54 PM
Sep 2014

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)
21. Gutless Gutfeld.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 04:08 PM
Sep 2014

[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)
2. I watched the video, because I refuse to watch Fox itself.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:07 AM
Sep 2014

I was fully expecting a fart joke, the tone was so juvenile.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
4. Hey, what's wrong
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:12 AM
Sep 2014

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)
7. Good point!
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:21 AM
Sep 2014

I was thinking in the larger context of the conversation, I suppose. By themselves, some far jokes are funny.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
10. Stop raising a stink.
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:53 AM
Sep 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

calimary

(81,367 posts)
25. AND hot, stinky boobs, too. Those schmucks are all nothing but pathetic boobs.
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 02:32 AM
Sep 2014

You wanna to make it about boobs, 'eh, bolling? Schmuck. Just go look in the mirror.

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
5. Exactly!
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 11:13 AM
Sep 2014

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.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
15. The boobs on the ground of both genders are in fact sitting around the
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:15 PM
Sep 2014

coffee table in the Fox News studios.

polynomial

(750 posts)
16. Flatuation, infatuation, or just coquetry in motion…
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:38 PM
Sep 2014

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 don’t 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)
19. And yes, I realize this was Eric Bolling, but I couldn't resist. Damn, but I always get those two
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 01:48 PM
Sep 2014

confused.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
22. When you've seen one boob...
Sat Sep 27, 2014, 04:10 PM
Sep 2014

...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]

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
26. And most of Fox’s watchers?
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 03:22 AM
Sep 2014

Hey those Liberals have no sense of humor and ought to lighten up..

Hey Fox Supporters... Go..........yourselves!!1

MADem

(135,425 posts)
27. I'd like to see those chickenshit FUXers make those kinds of comments around Tammy Duckworth or
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 04:34 AM
Sep 2014

Rhonda Cornum.

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