Fox News--really?

[gethen]

Since I haven't yet figured out how to post a link here with this dumb tablet, I urge everyone who is overdue for a good old-fashioned screaming fit to google "Fox news and female fighter pilot" to get the full effect of watching the tape. Briefly, a female reporter from Fox read a tribute to the female fighter pilot now taking part in the bombing of ISIS. and the old boys at Fox News just couldn't restrain themselves from making fun of her. "Can she park that thing?" And "Does this qualify as boobs on the ground?" Seriously. Is this 1950. Are you boys 12 years old?

Obviously the two boobs on the ground over at Fox have offered apologies. (Snicker, snicker.) the apologies might have been somewhat encouraged by the large number of current and former military personnel, both male and female, who have expressed their disgust in writing to Fox News.

[Swift]

I hate to say it, but this is the least of Fox's crimes against humanity.

[FZR1KG]

I did see that.
All I can say is how happy I am that we got Murdoch out of Australia and how sad I am he didn't take up residence in Syria.

[gethen]

I hate to say it, but this is the least of Fox's crimes against humanity.

I agree. I just think it has reached the point where Fox broadcasters don't even keep up the pretense of caring whom they offend or how badly. No boundaries. Incredible arrogance. And still they have lots of viewers.

[FZR1KG]

They do have a lot of viewers, but careful analysis has revealed that they are all related.
It's called the West Virginia Syndrome.

[Rommie]

Hey now, my college roommate was from West Virginia, and I assure you she'd be insulted by that.

Finally sought out the clip. What really amazed me in some senses too was how the woman who gave the report immediately basically tells the guys to shut up, and gets a "go away now, man talk!" kind of reaction from them. Must be one helluva work environment.

[Sigma_Orionis]

The two idiots had to apologize. Serves them right. The kind of cojones that lady displayed by managing to be the first fighter pilot in the military of a country where the law is based on Sharia Law is several orders of magnitude beyond the ones those two assholes will ever have

And reportedly 60 US armed forces veterans from the Truman National Security Project give the two idiots a piece of their mind

[geonuc]

The two idiots had to apologize.

Yeah, they apologized:

"My remark was not intended to be disparaging of her, but that’s how it was taken."

"I have heard that some people in Washington and elsewhere may have misinterpreted my joke about the amazing female fighter pilot from the United Arab Emirates asking if she could park the jet."

My bold/italics.

They both can take their apologies and shove them where the sun don't shine.

[Rommie]

Yeah, my biggest pet peeves is the fake "I'm sorry for how you took it" non-apology. Is it really that hard even if you didn't intend for people to get offended to say you're sorry? Apparently for many people it is.

[FZR1KG]

I recently heard about two idiots that made the statement that FOX was a news service.
How stupid and rude some people are!

[SciFi Chick]

Jon Stewart summed this up so fucking well, and I love his outrage, because it mirrors my own.

[Swift]

Jon Stewart summed this up so fucking well, and I love his outrage, because it mirrors my own.

Yes. I love John Stewart.