Fox host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Climate science is just a ‘product that’s sold’ to Americans

[doxydad]

Last edited Thu Apr 17, 2014, 11:08 AM - Edit history (2)

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Thursday morning declared that climate change was just another “product” being “sold” to the American people, which might explain why a recent study found that the network was wrong about the subject 72 percent of the time.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/fox-host-elisabeth-hasselbeck-climate-science-is-just-a-product-thats-sold-to-americans/

Yet another dumb ass Faux Noise blabberhead who needs to go BUY A DAMNED CLUE. FIXED, happy?

[NYC_SKP]

1. Please delete "dumb ass blonde" from your commentary.

Because it's rude and sexist and will likely be alerted on and hidden by a jury.

Please be more careful in the future.

Thanks in advance.

[shraby]

2. I don't see anything sexist about it. She IS blonde and she IS a dumb ass. The

sentences just simply describes her. Donald Trump is also a dumb assed blonde.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Because it perpetuates a meme that all blondes are dumb.

Do I really have to explain this?

It's a stereotype that's mean to women.

And it's fucked up that you want to defend it instead of considering the impact of it's use on future generations.

[doxydad]

8. it's fixed fer cripes sake!

It was a point that Faux Noise hires blondes specifically. ...and I removed it to make everybody feel good. unicorns and chocolate bunnies for everyone, OK??

[NYC_SKP]

11. Instead of being defensive, you might consider how use of stereotypes works over time.

First, the truth of something is no defense. If Megan on Fox is blonde and she's dumb, it's still a rude stereotype to say dumb blonde.

Mike Tyson is kind of stupid and he's black, I think you'd agree that it's not cool to call him a "stupid black".

On the creeping effect of casual use of stereotypes:

If we make it acceptable language in this online community, then people are more likely to use it in everyday language, in front of children, in front of girls.

If you had a daughter, a blonde 7 year old daughter, would you say things like "dumb blonde"?

Would you want others to?

Stereotypes might seem harmless, but they aren't.

I hope you'll put on your thinking cap with this one.

[Galileo126]

19. I'm a blonde

And she's really f**ing stupid.

I'm not insulted in the least. Tell it like it is, NYC_SKP!

[yellowcanine]

5. Nice try but still BS. No one calls Donald Trump a "dumb assed blonde' and you know it.

[Thor_MN]

22. Of course not. To do that would imply that he has hair...

The dead animal on his head does not count as hair.

[SummerSnow]

26. Lets call him a dumb ass dead animal on his head.lol

[Thor_MN]

27. Possibly a bit redundant, but works for me.

[doxydad]

10. I totally agree..

But I removed the 'offending adjective'...i don't want anybody blowing a gasket because Fox hires blondes basically exclusively. Gawd, people grow a damned skin!

[yellowcanine]

16. "Gawd, people grow a damned skin!" Grow a conscience.

And it seems to me that the thin skin is thine.

[DRiggs]

23. why do I have to read through this asanine shit

Why

[yellowcanine]

25. I don't know. Why do you? Your call I think.

Perhaps you were neglected as a child?

[yellowcanine]

4. I agree. My daughter is blonde and she is an ICU nurse and a good one.

Stereotyping people is wrong, and particularly wrong when it is based on something as insignificant as hair color.

[doxydad]

7. was NOT aboput hair color, at all.

It was a point that Faux Noise hires blondes specifically. ...and I removed it to make everybody feel good. unicorns and chocolate bunnies for everyone, OK??

[NYC_SKP]

12. "They're all blonde". Except when they're not.

Fox News Anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle:



Michelle Malkin, etc.

About half are blondes or light colored, not unusual for the industry.

http://www.foxnewsgirls.com/

[Prophet 451]

14. No chocolate bunnies for me

My SO used to buy me one for Easter and it always took me ages to eat it because it was cute. Then Lindt (company that makes choccy bunnies) put an advert out that animated the things and made them adorable and I just couldn't eat them after that.

[yellowcanine]

15. Is that supposed to be an apology? Snark much?

You protest way too much. Whether Fox hires blondes specifically or not is their problem. When you choose to play into the stereotype then it becomes your problem, whether you want to acknowledge it or not. Do you seriously think that it is not at least a little hurtful when a smart young woman who happens to have blonde hair sees yet another "dumb blonde" comment? You can keep your chocolate bunnies and unicorns - what is that supposed to mean, that people who disagree with the way you expressed yourself aren't really serious so can be bought off with a little candy - how insulting is that?

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It was alerted, but not hidden-- 5-2 to leave it.

[yellowcanine]

17. Maybe for the best - because some eyes may have been opened about stereotyping.

[TreasonousBastard]

18. What fascinates me is that out of 16 replies, only 2...

addressed the OP's point, with 13 complaining about a term that was not all that offensive when you get right down to it.

Once again a thread has been hijacked over a phrase.

[doxydad]

21. Glad somebody gets it.

THANK YOU TreasonousBastard ..I expect the Reddit kiddies to jump all over me, but not here. Let's say I'm Blonde. OMG, NOT THAT!! Still...does it make me another nitwit from Fox Noise? NOPE. And as far as the few non-blondes on Faux, they're nitwits too. Start the stoning...call out the dogs, rat me out to a jury...

[Warpy]

28. Oh, my. Is "look in the mirror for an artificial product" acceptable?

Honestly, all that dimwit has going for her are her looks and the fact that she married some past it football hero, and most of her looks aren't natural.

Science is what it is. Products are manufactured and so was she, just like all the other Pox News female bait that has been nipped, tucked, lifted, bleached, and dipped in depilatory up to the neck to suck in their target audience of bitter white retired males.

[Ash_F]

9. Yep it is a multibillion dollar industry

oh wait that's oil.

[Prophet 451]

13. These people are going to kill us

I think it is way past time that we stopped humouring the climate deniers and started just ignoring them as we do with creationists (who have much the same arguments).

[santamargarita]

20. Why does anyone pay attention to Fox Lies?

[FiveGoodMen]

30. Because we let Fox keep TELLING lies.

Propaganda works.

On LOTS of people.

If we had kept the notion that news orgs HAD to tell the truth, then we wouldn't have Fox.

[rationalcalgarian]

31. Fox News denied a license in Canada

We have freedom of speech here, too.... it is not the monopoly of the USA. In fact, most of the world has freedom of speech, except for a few notables.
You can stand on a corner anywhere in Canada and shout out any bullshit you want. The police will not arrest you. Religious garbage, political nonsense... whatever gets you off, you are free to do so.(It should be noted, however, that most people will walk past you, annoyed that you are interrupting their day.)
However....
Canadian law states that you cannot knowingly broadcast bullshit. The CRTC will not issue a media license to you if you have a proven track record of bullshit. For this reason, Fox News was denied a broadcast license here.
SUN TV is trying to pick up the slack for FOX, but no one is paying attention to them either. (In true right wing, conservative, "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", rugged individualist fashion, SUN TV went hat in hand to the government for a hand out to keep them alive. They got it... we have a tea-bagger prime minister. For now.)

[Blue_Tires]

24. Which is why for all his good works I can never forgive Michael Crichton

He went above and beyond the call of duty in making that "Climate change is a hustle for slicksters to sell stuff and professors to scam research grants" -meme stick in the collective consciousness of the public...

He wasn't just some ignorant fundie; he was a man of science and should have known better.... Instead he decided to be a big oil propagandist and sell out for the fast payday...

[Warpy]

29. A lot of men of science step out of their fields to comment

Some are incredibly successful at it like Nobelists George Wald and Noam Chomsky. Others show themselves off as myopic dunderheads like Chrichton--once you finish with his specialty, medicine, you've pretty much finished with him.

Some of us are generalists who read widely and occasionally deeply. That would be me. Others, like Crichton, don't seem to have much of a filter and go with whatever bullshit they find comforting. It's just too bad he lent his name to such utter twaddle. He was brilliant when he wrote medical fiction.