This chart shows just how many sexist slurs Trump supporters are tweeting at Megyn Kelly

[ashling]

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10852876/donald-trump-supporters-sexist-tweets-megyn-kelly

[hollysmom]

1. less than I thought but blonde

I swear I have been blonde most of my life and really have a white hot hate for people who think blonde jokes are funny.

[Flying Squirrel]

3. That reminds me of a joke...

Jk

[Hortensis]

8. LOL. I'm blonde all my life so far,

and I guess maybe I should have been more offended by blonde jokes -- that chart suggests it's considered right up there as a slur.

[roguevalley]

23. I sorta have a tiny bit of unconcern about Megyn inside. Shoe is on the other foot and she now is

feeling some of the shit she's dumped on others with her employment at Fux.

[Hortensis]

26. Oh, Megyn's a vicious she-wolf. That's a

real talent, one no doubt already nicely developed before she started at Fux.

[forest444]

42. And, it should be noted, she's not a real blonde.

[Hortensis]

44. Oh, dear. I think she was meant to be a blonde.

Please just don't tell me the signature Fox thighs aren't original.

[forest444]

46. If I could ask Roger Ails, I could probably give you a more informed answer.

[Hortensis]

54. Definitely a leg man. I guess we can assume

they're nonnegotiable.

[forest444]

56. Ailes strikes as the sort of man who believes everything's negotiable.

And that everyone has a price (especially, in his view, women).

[LuckyLib]

58. "Targeting women voters." Yep, that's the ticket -- show a little leg.

I don't see cable news so I'm always shocked at how superficial and tarted up the female "reporters" appear. No substance whatsoever when they open their mouths to speak.

[forest444]

87. That's how jolly Roger likes'em.

Compliant, objectified, and bleached.

[maddiemom]

82. How many "blonds" are?

[wordpix]

105. you can tell from the roots

Most true blondes early in life have darker hair by their 20's and 30's. One girl I know with white-blonde hair in youth now has medium brown hair in her mid-30's.

[forest444]

107. Absolutely - plus hair dye is bad for you.

Like many Republicans, besides being a political fascist Roger Ails is also a body fascist. Typical among people with poor self-image.

Although to be fair, who could blame him!

[wordpix]

111. I stopped coloring my early grey hair when I got bumps on my scalp

Luckily it went away once I stopped coloring. But guess what? Cancer has been linked to tissue damage as a cause.

The funny part is, once I went grey-white, people started complimenting me about the color(!) Some people even thought I was putting a platinum blonde dye on my hair b/c it looked that way in some light.

I understand the vanity since I was there myself, but as a Stage 4 cancer survivor for 2 yrs., I can only advise younger women to just love your hair and love yourself. Take care of yourself (diet, exercise, meditation, practicing gratitude). You don't need hair dye (it looks fake to anyone in the know, anyway), boob jobs or face lifts. Love yourself and however your hair is. Change the style, put ribbons in it, jewelry and fancy clips, whatever. Get a blonde wig.

But going the chemical route and having unnecessary surgeries are dangerous to your health. You are fine the way you are without these.

[forest444]

113. Kudos to you, wordpix.

I bet you still break hearts!

[wordpix]

116. oh yah, you know I do

[Quantess]

124. Purple shampoo

You will thank me for this precious bit of advice!

[wordpix]

128. what will it do? I only use good quality shampoo, i.e. from natural food stores

I am anti-chemical all the way, from food to home and personal care products

[Quantess]

136. I take it you don't color your hair then if you are opposed to chemicals.

Purple shampoo has puple dye in it. It leaves blonde hair a more *platinum" shade.

[Skittles]

53. blonde jokes are about fake blondes

real blondes are intelligent!

[steve2470]

71. we sure are, Skittles!

from a fellow natural blonde!

[7962]

92. Now that was funny

[Egnever]

5. ...

[Jack Rabbit]

18. My mother was a blond

She taught me to use the dictionary and the encyclopedia, opening up a wide world of knowledge. Apart from giving birth to me, which only she could do, that is the greatest gift I have ever received for anyone.

Dumb blond? Not my mother.

I don't really believe that Megyn Kelly is dumb, either. She's capable of holding a job as a journalist at a real news outlet, should more such things ever return to America. I very much enjoyed the way she undercut Karl Rove the night of the 2012 election. That was both informative and delicious. So was her questioning of the proto-Nazi with the atrocious combover. I would like to see her do more of that and less of the kind of FoxNews shtick of which, unfortunately, she has been guilty.

To be fair, blond is the only word there that fits Megyn Kelly. Most of those words don't even apply to Sarah Palin.

[randys1]

27. Funny, my mother wasnt just blonde but pictures of her in her 20's she looks a bit like

Marilyn Monroe, and she was smarter than any 10 people I knew put together.

Way smarter.

[maddiemom]

89. My mom, too, was a real blond. Her hair was almost white (re: photos) as a child. Through high

school she was "darkening" as a blond, but had VERY light hair, just nothing like the "peroxide blonds" of movies. She was insulted when it was implied that she'd ever enhanced her hair color. Although she gradually darkened to a very light brown, she never "messed" with her hair until later life when she actually "reversed (darker) frosting" when she was really getting gray. I had my Dad's dark hair and premature gray from both sides of the family. Ironically my brother inherited the blond hair, but accompanied by early balding. I have developed into a premature graying (first gray hairs in college), but do nothing because my hair looks pretty good as as it is, and looked better frosted or streaked rather than back to my medium brown ( a phony looking disaster).

[maddiemom]

90. My mom, too, was a real blond. Her hair was almost white (re: photos) as a child. Through high

school she was "darkening" as a blond, but had VERY light hair, just nothing like the "peroxide blonds" of movies. She was insulted when it was implied that she'd ever enhanced her hair color. Although she gradually darkened to a very light brown, she never "messed" with her hair until later life when she actually "reversed (darker) frosting" when she was really getting gray. I had my Dad's dark hair and premature gray from both sides of the family. Ironically my brother inherited the blond hair, but accompanied by early balding. I have developed into a premature graying (first gray hairs in college), but do nothing because my hair looks pretty good as as it is, and looked better frosted or streaked rather than back to my medium brown ( a phony looking disaster).

[snooper2]

24. I was a blonde up until around 3-4, Weird, I didn't know your hair could get lighter with age...

[Demoiselle]

74. Oscar Wilde line:

"Her hair has turned quite gold from grief…"
Can't remember which play, but never mind…

[MADem]

104. Look at Tweety Bird. He went from red to blonde to near-white!

Holy Cross



On AF1 when he worked for JC. Seated, to right w/striped tie and soup-bowl haircut:



In the nineties:



More recently.....

[Demobrat]

45. I'm blonde and couldn't care less about blonde jokes.

If that's the best people can do I feel sorry for them.

[hollysmom]

64. I worked in IT management, it was pretty much a guy's world and soe guys were great,

but a lot wanted me out of there. Blonde jokes was just one of the means they tried to get rid of me. The porn pictures on their office walls , the constant use of the name Debbie instead of my name which was a common name not particularly forgettable. (it was when there were so many jokes about Debbie does Dallas et al) I wore a big name button I got when I was a kid and drank out of a coffee cup with my name on it, one day I wore a sweater withmy name on it. One guy was always reaching over to unzip my skirt..... you get the picture - so I developed a sensitivity to blonde jokes, I didn't have the luxury of an easy job. Harassment was not pursued in those days, I was told to get with the program and let the guys have their jokes. They did finally act when I found the 5th dildo in my desk along with the usually porn magazines and some other toys.

[Demobrat]

76. I'm sorry you went through that.

Where I work in a Fortune 100 Corporation that sort of behavior would get a guy kicked to the curb faster than you can say Anita Hill.

[hollysmom]

118. it was mostly back in the 60s and 70's, it got more subtle as I got older and companies got sued

Look, it was what happened at that time, the same time that stuff was appearing in my desk an older man befriended me and one day told me that because I was not wearing a wedding ring, he felt it would be OK to rape me. I avoided him like the plague but never felt he was a threat - I could take this little guy - but that he thought what he said to me was good advice was what killed me, this guy liked me, claimed he wanted to protect me and still said that.
Oh and companies felt fine with forcing pregnant women to quit, so they would not have to pay unemployment, my sister was taken off visiting accounts as a consulting accountant so as not to offend their sensibilities and given work moving heavy boxes in the back office while a company I worked for would not help the woman computer operator, the guys were told not to help her when a printer ran out of paper, those things weighed a lot, maybe 50 pounds and were stacked high. But it was good that she quit, I later learned the ink in the printer was involved in birth defects.

[Hortensis]

77. You were a pioneer, hacking a path

through the blockheads. I'm sorry for what you endured too, though.

[steve2470]

80. so sorry you had to endure all that harassment!

[Dustlawyer]

69. Try being a lawyer!

[hollysmom]

119. It might depend on those around you, but at work you would be safe,

[UTUSN]

2. k

[Bucky]

4. I thought that Towhead-Americans had embraced the B-word

I mean, if they call themselves "blonde" why can't us normal Americans use the same word?

[OriginalGeek]

17. I never heard that term until high school

when my English teacher used it about some kids who did something stupid. Don't remember the crime but I thought she was calling them toe-heads and that made me laugh. I figured she meant they were so dumb they had toes for heads and toes don't have brains.

So I promptly started drawing cartoons in class of people with toe heads doing dumb stuff.

She saw I wasn't paying attention so came and confiscated my drawings and laughed so hard she just gave me back the drawings and carried on with class. That was one of the very few times a teacher noticed me without me actually getting sent to the principal's office.

I wish I could find those drawings.

[maddiemom]

83. Wow. I'm 70, but how old are you? Amusing as your "take" was, as a former English teacher

it's hard to credit such insults passing in a classroom in the last fifty years. HOWEVER, it's gotten obvious in recent years that considerable shit gets by that would never have happened in the school districts in which I worked up until a few years ago. Also, your teacher was NOT right in the way she handled you: laughing at your cartoons but only then "noticing" you without further discussing the cartoons with you (or did she?)

[OriginalGeek]

88. I'm 52 - this was late 70s, early 80s

she was calling some kids tow-headed idiots for doing something stupid - I don't remember what - might have been a prank , toilet papering another teacher's house or something along those lines. She thought it was funny that I didn't understand she meant they were blonde and they were dummies for the prank they pulled. And she thought my illustrations of toe-heads were funny.

She was my English teacher all 4 years of private, baptist high-school.

also the kids she was calling idiots were not in our class at the time. They were from another class. But she would have had no problem calling them idiots had they been there lol.

[Egnever]

6. More proof there aren't as many trump supporters as people think

[Quantess]

7. That many tweets from how many individuals?

Probably less than 100

[Bryce Butler]

57. The number of tweets is actually...

80,000.

A Vocativ analysis of 80,000 tweets directed at Kelly's Twitter handle from Tuesday (when Trump announced his decision) through Wednesday morning found a torrent of misogynist hate. Most of the haters appeared to be on "Team Trump," according to Vocativ.

[Quantess]

60. 80 000 tweets from a handful of jerks

No really. 80,000 tweets from how many, again? 500 douchebags more or
less.

[earthshine]

9. The ones identified in the red obviously find her sexy. nt

[Amimnoch]

10. The sexist slurs are disgusting, but i'm still just finding it really hard to feel sorry for Megyn.

She's been such a vile presence on that station for so long..

I mean this is a person that referred to Native Americans as the "actual" illegal immigrants.

Referred to skin cancer as a "tan"

Referred to Guantanamo bay as a Caribbean resort in regards to the human rights violations.

Paraphrasing here, but had made a comment about not wanting to keep black people out of Christmas because Santa's elves were almost definitely black.

Did a special piece just to comfort kids that Santa and Jesus are definitely white.

Yeah, the words are disgusting, but if they have to be used on a person, she's one of the better candidates imo.

[Phentex]

11. I do not feel an ounce of pity for her...

I would not apply sexist labels to her but I think calling her an idiot who gives as good as she gets is fair game.

[BlueJazz]

14. I was thinking the same thing. As much discourse and hate that she's spewed, It's rather hard to ..

...feel "Awww, poor thing"

[840high]

33. Agree with you.

[gvstn]

12. I don' think she is dumb.

She just does anything to collect her paycheck.

Her stance on maternity leave changed immediately when she got pregnant. Just a typical Repug, when I can benefit it is important, otherwise not so much.

But your post shows some of the vile things she has said in the name of keeping her job.

[tularetom]

78. "She just does anything to collect her paycheck"

There's a word for that.

And 88 of the people in that graphic used it. Not to mention the 13 who used a slightly nicer term.

I have difficulty feeling sorry for her myself.

[BlueMTexpat]

15. +1! eom

[randys1]

30. This isnt about her, is it. It is about tens of millions of people who think treating Women

like this is OK.

We cant decide who we will and will not apply our rules to, cons do that, not us.

If our rule is you dont demean Women, then you dont demean Women.

She is not being attacked for her horrific views on life, hell they love her horrific views on life, she is being attacked because she is a Woman and asked an inconvenient question.

[840high]

34. Do you get upset when same

is posted about Palin or her daughter?

[LanternWaste]

35. Do you get upset when racist slurs are leveled against Edward Brooke?

Do you get upset when racist slurs are leveled against Edward Brooke?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other... and each focusing on the person rather than the sexism or racism at issue-- that being their fundamental flaw.

[randys1]

41. The poster in question was in such a hurry to attack me (i know why) the poster

missed that I was being upset at the attacking of this rightwing Woman.

The poster cant get more obvious.

Besides, anytime attacks of the Palin Women are based on them being Women, i get upset and say so.

But almost all attacks of them are based on them, plain and simple, for being the nightmares they are.

[maddiemom]

91. Wait,,,racial slurs about the late Edward Brooke?

Didn't he pass away last year and was honored for his early (by recent generation) in government? What did I miss?

[7962]

94. Well, how many times has "Uncle Tom" been used here?

I alerted on 2 posts last year for that BS; both were allowed to stay. I remember one juror comment saying something like "well, its true, so I'm not hiding"
Randy is correct

[7962]

93. You are right. But from the comments here, some may not agree with you

I already see "she-wolf" up thread somewhere. I cant stand the double standard a lot of people have.
And I really dont think Kelly gives a whit about those idiots and their stupid tweets.
But they sure didnt shy away from using the most vile ones, did they? AAlthough I dont really think "blonde" should be grouped with the others

[wordpix]

106. I would say asking inconvenient q's of the Trumpster is key

Whether man or woman, he will come after anyone who does that. However, in this case, he couches his critique of her questions as anti-woman, hate-spewing rhetoric.

I think that's why he now has Melania by his side. She wasn't, at first. He is now showing her off as in a recent appearance when he acknowledged she was there and he said, "Stand up, honey," just so sweetly.

In contrast, when he first announced his candidacy and together they descended the escalator at Trump Tower (or whatever his property), Melania was five escalator steps ahead of him and they did not acknowledge each other's presence at all. I noted that was strange at the time. Bernie is almost always with his wife and Bill and Hill---et's just say we're used to it, however you'd describe it.

[homegirl]

125. Right on!

You called it. Bravo!

[closeupready]

40. Don't forget, 'pepper spray not a weapon, but a food product'

thus, diminishing the harm law enforcement had done to protesters.

[Sunlei]

13. I bet fox pays her more then the million a year they paid Palin.

Republican fox never expected to have to spend millions against their front runner republican.

Republicans deserve Trump.

[7962]

95. I've heard its quite a bit more. Palin got 999,999 more than she shouldve.

I have watched her many times and i actually think she's very good. I've seen her skewer GOP & Dem alike. I'll NEVER forget that slam of Rove on election night. When she says she's "Independent" I kinda believe her.

[wordpix]

108. I truly doubt Faux is spending a dime against Trumpty-dump

This faux split's major result is probably that Roger Ailes and Murdoch get more viewers and make even more money on their "product" via ads. A controversy is always good for viewership.

Interestingly, I've noted of late that Faux has been allowing more female and black/brown pundits with diverse viewpoints on their shows, like Juan Williams. Maybe Faux is getting hurt by Trumpty's histrionics against the corPOS and wants more support for their "moderate" and "diverse" programming I have yet to see one of these diverse pundits have his or her own show.

Trump and Faux and the great big Clown Bus are all rats blaming each other for their sinking ships but in Trump's case, he's blaming Faux for not acceding to his "I am King!" demands.

And they think they should run the country...

[wordpix]

109. she does deserve equal pay for equal work. I think Megyn has been right on lately

re: Trumpty-dumpster

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. No matter how despicable she is, I'm not happy about the tone of discussion

If she were black and targeted with the vilest racist slurs, good liberals would be aghast at the inhumanity, and the number of righteous posts would be in the hundreds.

Sexist attacks? "Meh", as usual.

[demmiblue]

19. +1

[NastyRiffraff]

39. Exactly!

Bigotry is bigotry. I'm certain no fan of Megyn Kelly, but I don't want to see any woman subjected to that kind of filth.

[Separation]

62. The nail has been hit!

These people who are tweeting these vile things probably cheer, or nod their heads in agreement any other night of the week. By God though, a woman doth speak out of place against their known womanizing candidate?! Hellfire and brimstone!!

[steve2470]

72. nailed it nt

[Chakab]

79. If she were a black conservative who sat around insulting every minority group (including other

black people) for a paycheck, there would be a lot less sympathy for her being subjected to racist attacks because she stepped out of line with the people that she was pandering to before.

In fact, we've already seen this play out. I don't recall much (if any) outrage here when Coulter said that she wanted to deport Nikki Haley because of Haley's mild criticism of Trump, which prompted Trump's followers to direct a barrage of racist, xenophobic at her on social media.

[wordpix]

110. totally agree

[oberliner]

20. Blonde is a slur?

I do not think that word should be grouped with the others.

[DanTex]

21. I agree. That's a little odd.

[NewJeffCT]

31. perhaps the context?

dumb blonde, or blonde bimbo or whatever?

[LanternWaste]

36. Since the eighties, it's often been used as one.

Since the eighties, it's often been used as one. I'd presume the person not knowledgeable of that either living outside of America, dishonest, or dull-witted. I imagine a case could be made for other possibilities mathematically, but I'd surmise that as rather unlikely.

[valerief]

22. "Fox asshole" would have been appropriate, but the rest are just dumb. nt

[houston16revival]

25. Trump has manufactured a Reagan moment here

Reagan famously became belligerent in a New Hampshire GOP debate,
grabbed the microphone and yelled "I am paying for this microphone!"

[randys1]

28. It is said this is when he became a super star. Too bad, fucking moron

that he was.

Doing more harm than is imaginable.

[mdbl]

66. Reagan was the worst thing for this country

when I see streets named after him i wanna barf.

[houston16revival]

67. LOL, yeah, me too

This was a concerted effort by Republican operatives in many towns to
name streets after Reagan, to have a Republican "hero".

Of course the flip side is you have to go at it that way because there
would never be a popular movement to name streets after him.

[Tanuki]

101. Flying into "Reagan National Airport" in DC make me want to barf! n/t

[wordpix]

112. I'm from DC & not happy the r's changed National's name to Reagan Airport

The initials for the airport are DCA. That's better than RGN but I think the acronym should be DCN---N for National.

Reagan---the man running the country with Alzheimer's Disease, and he was not very smart before that. Another stupid like GWBush under the tutelage of Dick Cheney/Big Oil. Reagan was similar.

But looking at that clip, I am also reminded of Trump, with all the chest-beating, warhawk talk about getting tough with those enemies overseas and he's the one to fix it all. Like it's just so easy, as we witness/ed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[MyOwnPeace]

134. What bothers me.....

is the idiots (congress) named the airport after him AFTER he fired the air traffic controllers - union-busting SOB - and former union president (stage actors guild).

[guillaumeb]

29. Megyn Kelly, the resident Fox News liberal propagandist?

How amazingly stupid.

[liberalnarb]

32. Terrible.

Ugly is sexist?

[Chakab]

37. Almost as bad as all of the race baiting that she does on a regular basis on Fox.

Sorry, but I don't feel any sympathy whatsoever because the lunatic fringe that she helps to feed on a regular basis turned around and bit her hand.

Let's also not forget that she gleefully joined in on the ridiculous attacks against Sandra Fluke.

http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/06/30/bill-oreilly-and-megyn-kelly-ridicule-sandra-fl/199941

[PatrynXX]

38. and he has Sarah Palin as his side kick

and my own mom called her the Bimbo , not really sure I'd go that far but I do believe she's being used. Kelly.. nah. she can be a major pain in the neck but she's no bimbo. I can't imagine on what planet she's Ugly but then again people think Michelle Obama is ugly and well thats totally absurd. Michelle found the fountain of youth. I don't like that word myself because I'm not handsome .

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. Ugh

[japple]

47. I hate Fox News and I don't like Megyn Kelly at all, but no

woman deserves this.

[MariaThinks]

49. she would have no sympthany if this was being done to a progressive woman

where was she when the Dixie Chicks were being destroyed.

[japple]

51. If

ETA: I don't believe in an eye-for-an-eye, etc. I stood up strongly for the Dixie Chicks against my fellow co-workers. I do not believe any human should be subjected to this sort of this sort of treatment based on their looks, weight, color, sex, religious, decorating, musical, cultural dispositions.

[MariaThinks]

48. megyn kelly is a horrible person - and she has shown no sympathy for anyone in crisis.

to me these are two extremely evil things fighting it out and I hope they destroy each other.

[patsimp]

68. I agree.

[randr]

50. Trump minions hate American workers

Kelly was just doing her job, and quite well at that.

[7962]

96. Trump minions hate ANYONE who dares go against Dear Leader.

And I agree that she did a good job. The thing is, everyone expected Fox to softball the republicans and I dont think that was the case at all. I think the Democratic debates could have learned a bit from them

[wordpix]

114. Ailes and Murdoch don't want to offend whoever becomes the nominee

So they are trying to be fair, maybe.

Then we have Trumpenfuerher who butts heads with anyone who disagrees with him or asks him pesky questions. If he can't handpick the reporters and control Faux News, he's taking his football home. Since these Faux News propagandists are not working well with Trumpty-dump, he has to find his own people and concoct his own events. Like this veterans' group that will get the $6 million. Trump has a history of zero contact with the military, except he "feels" like he was in the military bc he went to a military boarding school. He has multiple military deferments.

He now wants to make up for lost time by supporting veterans' groups, but the earlier "group" he tied himself to when he made his announcement on a huge carrier was one guy, and the "group" is now defunct as a registered non-profit. VoteVets don't want anything to do with Trump. So who is getting the $6 million he raised for veterans a couple nights ago?

How about you billionaire$ and Congre$$men stop sending American jobs and corporate headquarters overseas, stop the tax inversions, stop the tax haven$, and pay your fair share of taxes? Maybe then we can get the debt and deficits under control and pay for what veterans need, and not just clap for some very rich friends of Trump who benefit from the current system and gave $6 million, a measly amount considering the tax benefits and Wall St. insider information enjoyed by the billionaire class and their puppets in Congress.

I believe it was Rachel who recently highlighted the Trump facts above.

[7962]

120. Yes, I'd like to see followup on where the 6 Million went. nt

[wordpix]

129. another DU thread says it's going to The Donald Foundation

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141331835

wait---I thought it's going to the vets...so said lying Trumpty-dumpster before and during the event

[olddots]

52. Theres No Business Like Show Business

They are probably good freinds with each other .

[Mike Nelson]

55. I think she's awful and wish she were...

...not on TV at all, anywhere. But I wouldn't use any of those terms to describe her... an unfair journalist... so bad I can't believe she got a degree!

[iandhr]

59. Wow

I never thought I would EVER sympathize with Megyn Kelly. Trump has accomplished the impossible

[jalan48]

61. Yikes! I just thought she was a capitalist tool who happened to be a woman.

[Des Moines De Mon]

63. Given the Mentality of the Average Trump Supporter,

I'm surprised the c-word wasn't in the Top 3.

[Helen Borg]

65. Wow, B words are popular!

[MadDAsHell]

70. Reads like DU during the 08 primaries between Obama and Clinton. nt

[steve2470]

73. not a Megyn Kelly fan but the sexist shit needs to stop nt

[Reter]

75. Ugly?

Who in their right mind would say that? She's one of the hottest 45+'s on the planet.

[7962]

97. Oh, you should read some of the stuff I've seen!! And a LOT from WOMEN!!

LOTS of plastic surgery stuff, slept her way to the top, uneducated, plus all the crap in the OP. Just vicious stuff. It started when she roughed up Dick Cheney. Yet, when she was tough on a Dem a couple years back, oh she was the hero. But apparently Trump has the cache of Kim Jong Il to his followers

[maddiemom]

81. Seems as if Kelly has been shooting for serious newswoman status

since the 2012 election night, when she challenged Karl Rove's astonishment at the results that were coming in. Although I'm not a Fox viewer, it's impossible to avoid them when following wide-ranging news mostly, on line. I thought of Kelly as the premier Fox Blond parrot with vicious right wing talking points. Over the last few years, it seems as if she might really have a functioning, questioning journalistic mind.

[Promethean]

84. Oh noes bad words were said to me on the internet!

Everybody has bad words said to them on the internet. If you draw attention to yourself, like by putting yourself on television, you are going to have more bad words said to you on the internet. Bad words on the internet mean nothing. Empty nonsense that nobody should pay attention to.

[7962]

98. So women should just ignore it when called a c**t?

Isnt that the "holy grail" of insults to a woman? Not to mention the other stuff.
I do agree that too many people get their feelings hurt over trivial shit, but there has to be a line we shouldnt cross

[Promethean]

102. You just declared bad words on the internet

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have the ability to exceed the level of trivial shit. If the previous sentence doesn't immediately make you say "thats absurd" then you seriously need to re-evaluate something.

[7962]

121. Well, use 'em here & you'll get tossed in short order!

especially the aforementioned "c-word"

[Promethean]

123. If I get tossed for invoking butthurt over what we have now established to be trivial shit

I won't regret leaving a bastion of pointless censorship behind me. Though that is unlikely because I find my time is better spent on endeavors that rate above the level of trivial shit.

By the way I very much enjoy referring to bad words on the internet as trivial shit because it fully demonstrates the absurdity of the current internet butthurt/censorship movement. Thank you for sharing/inspiring it.

[7962]

126. You're welcome!

If you wanna get a good dose of it, just peruse one of the Hillary rooms; they're ALWAYS bumping out people for the least little critical word. I got the boot a month ago. I think my offense was "angry"

[LiberalLovinLug]

85. My take....

[Initech]

86. Stay classy, Der Trumpenfuror.

[ZX86]

99. Megan Kelly is a racist bigot.

Day after day she helps create the attitudes and atmosphere where these types of vulgar and sexist comments are acceptable. She's smart enough to know better but she does it anyway for the money.

I'll just take the attitude she did when some racist cop was filmed violently assaulting a 15 year old girl in a bikini at a pool party........"She's no angel".

[Depaysement]

100. Trump and Kelly

It reminds me of the story my mother used to tell me of the little boy in school who pulled the little girl's hair and made fun of her because he had a crush on her.

Trump and his disciples are just as petulant but a lot creepier.

[IronLionZion]

103. Making insults sexist, racist, or homophobic

is generally saying more about the person making the insults. As in they are already filled with hatred towards whichever group they are targeting and have just found a convenient excuse to build on their hatred. And also they are simply not intelligent enough to come up with any substantive material they don't like. They are probably unhappy with their own situation in life and want to blame someone.

Trump has found a way to tap into this disgusting side of human nature and whip up resentment and anger into support for his campaign.

[wordpix]

115. some of Trump's supporters I know

and I don't know many, are either 15 y.o., watch Faux almost exclusively, and/or are just plain stupid and don't want to hear facts about Trump or any other candidate, once they've made up their minds.

[Grins]

117. What "War on Women™"?

What "War on Women™"?

[Politicub]

122. Forgive me if I don't feel compelled to shed a tear for Kelly

They're cheap shots. But what else do you expect from Trump supporters?

[Ilsa]

127. Ugly name-calling says a lot more about the insulters

than it does about their target, IMO. Trump & his supporters tipped their hand in showing the world their misogyny.

[Bad Dog]

130. I'm sure these individuals didn't start sexist tweets,

when Megyn Kelly fell out with Trump. I'm sure they were doing it long before then, and if they're targeting a repulsive individual like Kelly, they're not using that time insulting a decent woman.

This was, and is, an issue long before Kelly became the target of sexist abuse.

[yuiyoshida]

131. These people support Donald Trump ...

It takes one to follow one, and Trump is so bad for this country, as a President he would be a disaster. He might come to think of himself in terms of a fascist dictator rather then a President of the Free world.. The only way he could make Mexico build that wall of his, is to put a gun to their collective heads.

[whereisjustice]

132. Could be worse. They could have called her conservative. Yuck.

[bluestateguy]

133. Despicable, sexist, and beyond the pale.

That said, it's not my job to defend Megyn Kelly. Somebody else will have to do that.

[burfman]

135. This is what happens when the 'debates' are run by cable....

Somebody please tell me why the 'debates' are not run by the League of Women Voters the way they used to be? Who turned over the keys to these insipid cable companies whose don't deserve the power they have been given?