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Home Front: Politix
Fox News suspends two commentators for profanity while criticizing Obama
2015-12-09
[MONEY.CNN] Two Fox News commentators were suspended on Monday for using profanities while criticizing President B.O. on Monday.

Ralph Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst," called the president a "total pussy" who "doesn't want to hurt our enemies."

A couple of hours later Stacey Dash, a Fox contributor, said the president "didn't give a shit" about Sunday night's terrorism speech.

"Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable for our air," Fox senior executive vice president Bill Shine said.

"Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language, and have suspended both Peters and Dash for two weeks," he said.
I agree with the statements, I just don't agree with the language, not for national teevee...
Yup. Someone's got to show a little class...
Posted by:Fred

#12  Obama, lobotomized Quaker,
A taker, a 3 AM shaker:
"Be not an offender
To species or gender!
Please call me a fvckin' cloaca!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-12-09 21:03  

#11  USED Summer's Eve....
Posted by: Maggie Squank9646   2015-12-09 20:22  

#10  
A two week time out will give the parties time to come up with vivid but appropriate terminology for future use.


Obama gargles with Summer's Eve.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2015-12-09 19:36  

#9  In the meantime, here in Philly, Mayor Nutter called Trump an a$$hole !! That is all..
Posted by: Tom-Pa   2015-12-09 15:06  

#8  The convention, going back to the days of radio, is that interviews and talk shows -- with a few cable and late night exceptions -- are being piped into the living room of your gentle, maiden aunt, and language is to be modified accordingly. I suspect that President Truman, who was most certainly a gentleman of reasonable intelligence, used different vocabulary in public than he did in private. A two week time out will give the parties time to come up with vivid but appropriate terminology for future use.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-12-09 13:39  

#7  
Proverbs 6:16-19King James Version (KJV)

16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-12-09 08:43  

#6  Ralph also could have just quoted Dr. Lazarus:

"He's fucked up, he talks like a fag, and his shit's all retarded" (from Idiocracy)
Posted by: RandomJD   2015-12-09 07:22  

#5  We must be raising a bunch of hot-house, delicate pansy types in the media. If one checks out some of the language used by Democrat Harry Truman, one finds him unrestrained in his use of language. For example, he said: "General Douglas MacArthur was a "dumb son of a bitch," and Nixon was "a shifty-eyed goddamned liar."

"I never did give them hell," he once reminisced. "I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."

Perhaps, if the media and public figures used more colorful language, we might not have gotten saddled with some of the arseholes we have had in the WH.

Personally, I like the straight talk of Peters, Dash and Trump. Enough, already of the tyranny of political correctness.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-12-09 07:09  

#4  Then there are the many others who refuse to describe what they have a mouthful of.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-12-09 02:01  

#3  "Earlier today, Fox contributors Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash made comments on different programs that were completely inappropriate and unacceptable....,"

...but accurate.

Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-09 01:34  

#2  I remember a high school instructor once calmly saying to my unruly class, "Gentlemen, can we have a modicum of decorum now?" rather than saying "Shut the f--k up!" It worked. I admired him for his restraint.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-12-09 01:26  

#1  Ralph could have just quoted Shakespeare:

“A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” (from All’s Well That Ends Well)
Posted by: PBMcL   2015-12-09 00:37  

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