Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Fox & Friends hosts claim they weren't taking domestic violence lightly with 'take the stairs' joke

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/09/1328293/-Fox-Friends-hosts-claim-they-weren-t-taking-domestic-violence-lightly-with-take-the-stairs-joke?detail=email#

Fox & Friends covering video of NFL player Ray Rice knocking out his then-fiancee.


The morning after the hosts of Fox & Friends treated video of Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancee unconscious as an opportunity for some absolutely hilarious jokes, they put on their serious faces to assure viewers that they weren't really joking about domestic violence:
“Comments that were made during this story made some feel like we are taking the situation too lightly. We are not, we were not. Domestic violence is a very serious issue to us, I can assure you.”
ThinkProgress points out that this ... clarification? nonpology? insult to our intelligence? ... took all of 13 seconds. But hey, at least we now have Fox & Friends' 13 seconds of solemn assurance that when they said that "the message" of a woman being punched in the face by her fiance and then dragged unconscious out of an elevator is to "take the stairs," they weren't taking the situation too lightly.

do they really expect us to believe that lie well again they forgot they didn't have the only media depiction of that thing they weren't taking lightly, take a look at this and you make the call.

"The message is, take the stairs!": Fox News hosts joke about domestic violence, get a lot of other things wrong