Greta Van Susteren was about as shocked as most viewers on Wednesday night after Fox News’ “The Five” co-hosts made incredibly sexist comments about the female F-16 squadron commander who led the operation against ISIS this week.
Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, reportedly the first female pilot in the United Arab Emirates Air Force, headed the U.S.-Arab airstrikes on the Islamic State group.
But rather than praise Al Mansouri’s efforts, all Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld and Eric Bolling could do was crack sexist jokes.
“After she bombed it, she couldn’t park it,” Gutfeld said.
“Would that be considered boobs on the ground or no?” said Bolling.
Van Susteren, however, wasn’t laughing.
“Ouch!” the Fox News host said Wednesday night. “Oh, man, do you think the gents on ‘The Five’ — minus Bob — should get a do-over on that one?”
What on earth is the matter with these people? They need to be sent for sensitivity training and then put on 3 weeks of unpaid leave. Most people would be fired for some of the remarks.
Good for Greta for calling them out, especially since they are colleagues.
Good for Greta.
‘The Five’ has digressed into an hour of disgust. Both gutfeld and bolling act like crude adolescents. I guess bob beckel and the ladies really need the money to be part of it.
Bolling had no problem calling out President Obama for being disrespectful toward Marines for failing to salute? But he’s good with this. He’s nothing more than a bleeping hypocrite. This hasn’t been a real good month for women in the US. War on women? It’s more than that. It’s worse.
The rats who deny their own women any rights and who take non-Muslim women as sex slaves after murdering their husbands and fathers are being bombed by a female Arab pilot at the ultra-complex controls of an F-16. Delightful justice.
Indeed it is divine justice.
Another Iraqi woman residing in Mosul and a well known crusader for human rights and justice has been seized, tortured, and executed by ISIL. She was accused by an ISIL religious judge of having abandoned Islam because of her previously published support of civil rights for all. That makes about three or four such executions in the captured territory. Being a woman and a published fighter for human rights can earn you a death sentence. They just take you away from your family and then eventually tell the family to come to the mortuary to get your remains.
I am surprised these thugs even return the remains to the families.
You are pointing out a real war on women but I’m not sure the feeling I have that I’m better off than that makes me feel better. Luckier to only have to deal with insults and devaluation vs death when none of it should go on.
Standing ovation for Lyssa!!
I think this may be an example of a basic, non-partisan male disease in which being on TV sometimes causes a disconnect between the brain and the mouth. Go stupid and then wind up apologizing all over the place.
Great photo on the Daily Mail link of that UAE pilot in the F-16 cockpit with her flight helmet on. Kind of amazing, really, that she is in the air force of a country on the Arabian Peninsula.
My experience is that the behaviour we’ve seen recently is very non partisan. I almost wish it was partisan. It would be easier to address.
I see it on Faux News. I am still trying to figure out which Democrats are being that stupid.
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Human foot-in-mouth disease on TV does not pertain only to remarks about women. It is a widespread and very inclusive malady. But I liked it when Bolling admitted that some of the first flak he received from his remark was when he got home.
Mrs. Wolverine would nail your hide to the wall if you did something like that.
More than likely to an outside wall for others to see.
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Well, a lesson would have to be served up for the others.
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It shouldn’t have taken that long.