Fox News Spew Tuesday
There were so many ugly moments on Fox Monday night I wasn't sure which one to pick as the highlight, or whether to pick one at all. But you know, this is the kind of junk we have to put up with from them, 24/7. No issue can be a serious one, no discussion can be devoid of snark and nastiness. So I've made a collection. Ask Granny next time you see her how she feels about these little moments and whether she really thinks Fox News has any semblance of fairness. Or balance.
We begin with Michael Scheuer, who wins my "Sexist Comment Un-Masked" (SCUM) award. In this segment, they're nattering over Afghanistan, and how the mean Muslims seem to be the only Muslims over there, and how it's the fault of the mean Muslims that Americans died after the scum on this side of the ocean burned the Koran, giving the Taliban an excuse to go on a murderous rampage.
Here's the key line from Scheuer, at about 60 seconds in:
No US Marine should die so Mrs. Mohammed can vote.
You know, there's a lot of arguments for why we shouldn't be in Afghanistan. I can think of many, and if it had been up to me, we wouldn't be in Afghanistan. But Scheuer's remark just leaps right out of the screen and slaps every woman in the face. See, it's all about MISTER Mohammed's right to vote, because we are always pro-democracy as long as it's a male-dominated Christian, shut-the-women-the-hell-up kind of thing. He is deserving of my SCUM award, and now he has it.
