Not only that, it was clearly an intentional pun. Spoonerism are, by definition, accidental.
I disagree; they are often sought after and deliberately employed. They may be fortuitous, but they are very often intentional.
Your vileage may marry.
ISIS will be going: inshallah she doesn’t get anywhere near that plane while PMS.
If you watch the clip closely, you will see the woman that opened the story show quite a bit of consternation at the comments that where made.
This is not in defense of FOX, or the idiots that made the comments. At least the woman immediately saw how badly those ‘jokes’ came off.
Basically yeah. In other news, sixty men and women who’ve served on the armed forces make their views known with an open letter. I’m going to quote it in full: it’s an open letter. I’ll add emphasis.
[INDENT] Dear Mr. Bolling and Mr. Gutfeld,
We are veterans of the United States armed forces, and we are writing to inform you that your remarks about United Arab Emirates Air Force Major Mariam Al Mansouri were unwarranted, offensive, and fundamentally opposed to what the military taught us to stand for.
First, foremost, and most obvious to everyone other than yourselves, your remarks were immensely inappropriate. Your co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle was so right to call attention to an inspiring story of a woman shattering glass ceilings in a society where doing so is immeasurably difficult. We never heard an answer to her question: why did you feel so compelled to “ruin her thing?”
As it turns out, women have been flying combat aircraft since before either of you were born. Over 1,000 Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) flew during World War II. Seeing as U.S. Army Air Forces Commander “Hap” Arnold said “Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as men,” we can probably guess he thought their parking was adequate. The WASP legacy reaches into the present day; on 9/11, then Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney scrambled her F-16. Completely unarmed, she was ready to lay down her own life to prevent further devastating attacks on American soil.
Thus 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.
The less obvious implication of your remarks, however, is that by offending an ally and cheapening her contribution, you are actively hurting the mission. We need to send a clear message that anyone, male or female, who will stand up to ISIS and get the job done is worthy of our respect and gratitude.
We issue an apology on your behalf to Major Al Mansouri knowing that anything your producers force you to say will be contrived and insincere. Major, we’re sincerely sorry for the rudeness; clearly, these boys don’t take your service seriously, but we and the rest of the American public do.
Very Respectfully,
Michael Breen, U.S. Army
Shawn VanDiver, U.S. Navy
Kristen Rouse, U.S. National Guard [/INDENT] I left out another set of signatures.
I agree with this letter. Idiocy and cheap shots pretending to be political commentary damages America. I stand with our military and national security team on this one. Fox News viewers and their apologists owe an apology – to America.
Yes. A thousand times yes. Talk about hitting the nail on the head!
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I long ago stopped being surprised and outraged by idiots on Fox News saying stupid shit.
What is surprising and outrageous (and more than a little frightening) is the fact that this network is the primary source of information for a significant percentage of Americans.
O’Reily’s show, which is the most popular on cable news, has a viewership of about 3M people. The show in question here gets about 2M, and I think it’s #2. I wouldn’t call that a significant percentage of Americans (just a few percent of the adult population). But they get more mileage by creating “controversies”, like this one, so that people keep talking about them.
Talk radio has a much larger audience.