Posted on 02/07/2010 1:21:15 PM PST by pissant
Jeri Thompson blasted Fox News host Chris Wallace on the Fred Thompson show today, calling his joke that he hoped Sarah Palin would sit on his lap during an interview with him "inappropriate" and "insipid," and demanding "action from Fox.
Thompson, the wife of the former senator and presidential candidate, told POLITICO's Jonathan Martin that the remark, to Fox Business's Don Imus, amounted to misogyny, and that she was tired of seeing it from "these dirty old men" on Fox, a network that she said ought to be respectful of conservative women.
"Sarah Palin is now part of the Fox family," Thompson said on the show. "She deserves you all watching her back -- and I do not mean it literally."
Wallace, she said, "owes her an apology."
"Not only is she a national figure – she deserves the respect that any other man would get in that situation," Thompson said, saying that her inbox was full of complaints from conservative women over the segment, and that the Palin group Team Sarah, as well as the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, were dismayed by the segment.
"I hope that Fox does something about this, and they actually take this on, because it is not funny," Thompson said.
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Ack! Is that Gloria Steinem or a Sith Lord?
A picture of raw uglyness.....
She’s all wee wee-ed up and wants some attention.
LOL
Chris Wallace stopped appearing on the Howie Carr radio show after Carr used Wallace’s comments about having a ‘man-crush’ on Mitt Romney in his lead-ins.
ROFL
Sally Quinn was drooling over Scott Brown recently.
Said he won because he was a hunk!!!
YES HE IS!!!
Yep your right....besides Palin can and does handle her own fights quite well...otherwise she just “plows thru” the nonsense.
Dayum! LOL.
Jeri!? Ease off babe! Take a chill pill! It was a joke! Silly — maybe even stupid when Chris KNOWS what the Liberofascists in the Lamestream Media and the Democrat party will fo with it.
But Jeri — get real Dear! So Chris apologizes for a silly joke that didn’t work, caused offense to some [overly sensitive] people, and we move on! Don’t turn FoxNews into the politically correct foolishness we used to be forced to want on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, HN, MSNBC etc...
IPUS hates, just hates, Sarah Palin.
The quote that Wallace should apologize for is asking Palin to say "You Betcha" at the end of the interview.
That was an elitist snobbish thing to ask. It was akin to asking Gomer Pyle to say "Shazaam," as if Wallace were asking a dog to do a trick.
-PJ
Sarah said she was contacted by people in the community of parents with developmentally challenged children and asked to speak out on Rahm.
She said she would and she did.
I guess that Chris can forget about any lapdances from Jeri!
Imus isn't just a misogynist, he's a misanthrope.
He pretty much hates humanity.
Hasn’t just about everything been in Baba Wawa’s lap? I don’t think her special talent was asking people what kind of tree the’d like to be. (Oh, wait ...)
True, would you say anything on the air that could not be said comfortly in front of Todd.
On the other hand if Palin inferred that she’d like Wallace to decorate her house because he’s light in the loafers we’d never hear the end of it.
The problem is that this is becoming a civil war within the conservative movement. Sadly, we're importing the type of behavior that is more typical of liberals. This is going to destroy us.
If we are smart enough to recognize that what we describe as "political correctness" is really "cultural Marxism," then we ought to be smart enough to just let good-natured remarks go.
There are enough real violations of civility and free speech to criticize in the enemies of liberty to go around. We should not be going after our friends, and certainly not going after anybody using the tools of the Left.
Well, I was wrong - I thought Imus said it...just goes to show, I don’t pay too much attention to this goofy comment. O’Reilly is the one to me that comes off as the sexist. But I don’t have to watch him either f I don’t want to...
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