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Fox News pundit makes gay joke about Sandra Fluke
By EJ DicksonApril 26th, 2012, 10:45 pmComments (26)
You know that girl who you used to be friends with in middle school who dumped you after she got boobs and a nose job and a Brazilian blowout midway through freshman year, and then spent the rest of high school telling everyone you were a total lesbian because of that one time you practiced French-kissing on each other's arms (which, by the way, was totally her idea and you weren't even into it at all and no, you don't still hold a grudge, why do you ask?) Well, that girl is all grown up now, and she hasn't changed much: her nose is still straight, her hair is still shiny, and she still thinks that calling people gay is funny, except now she's working as a political and foreign affairs analyst for Fox News.
In response to news that Georgetown law student/employer-covered contraception advocate Sandra Fluke had just gotten engaged, conservative pundit Monica Crowley tweeted, "To a man?" (So you know, Monica, Fluke is engaged to her longtime boyfriend Adam Mutterperl, a Los Angeles-based comedy writer and producer. So she'll probably have more lolz in her life than you could ever have hoped to inspire with your attempt at cutting political humor.)
Not surprisingly, Crowley's tweet spawned a fair amount of criticism on Twitter; replies ran the gamut from "you're a terrible person, just FYI" to my personal favorite, "that wouldn't even pass for wit on Fox." In true mean-girl fashion, Crowley responded to her detractors by tweeting, "I love exposing the Left's total lack of a sense of humor," which is essentially right-wing pundit Internet speak for, "ROTFL u guyz r just jellis btchz y cnt u tk a joke?!?! JELENA 4L :-)."
Later, Crowley reversed her position that all of her critics were humorless, latte-drinking, abortion-loving liberal sticks in the mud with her response to one person's claims that she had "insinuated" that Fluke was gay: "Insinuating nothing," Crowley tweeted. "Straightforward question. No answer yet." Here's your answer, Monz: take your shiny hair and your adolescent sense of humor and go crawl back into that musty girls' locker room from whence you came. There'll be plenty of "lesbians" for you to pick on there.
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Commentarium (26 Comments)
"You know that girl who you used to be friends with in middle school who dumped you after she got boobs and a nose job and a Brazilian blowout midway through freshman year" ... uhhhh no actually.
Interesting portal into the mind of EJ Dickinson here. Me thinks someone went to their Senior Prom with a distant male cousin and never quite got over it!
^^ nope. I know that girl, too.
Really, "to a man?" is considered an egregious insult?
The Pew Research poll showing libs are, well, challenged is validated every day on nerve.
you're an idiot. the whole point is not that it is an insult, because who cares if you're gay? the point is that fox news is paying this person *to be a homophobe*
Ah, name calling, the last, sad refuge of an intellectually challenged liberal. Just to be clear: It makes no difference if Fluke is homosexual or not - there's no difference - but expressing any interest at all in who she's marrying makes one a homophobe?
The Pew Research poll results are validated every day on nerve. It was your turn today, wb!
@Hah
Your condescending hurtful b.s. aside, the insult is the coded implication that by being a "feminist" she must also be a lesbian. Hence the feigned shock—To a...man?—which implies that it is surprising that Fluke isn't a homosexual. The Pew Poll that denoted that conservatives aren't very good at nuanced/critical thinking are validated every day by the morons who show up to troll here.
I saw it as disappointment, MS, not feigned shock. Why are you so homophobic?
Sorry I was hurtful. It must have hurt so bad that you didn't notice that you engaged in the same behavior. I realize intellectual consistency is a bit of a blind spot so I'll let it pass.
Sadly, the Pew Research poll does not indicate what you describe.
Wow! Seems like every other comment on this board for the last couple days makes a reference to a Pew Research poll. It's like a modern-day version of Mao's Little Red Book.
@hah/nah it is somewhat amusing that you hide behind a cry of ad hominem after beginning things by calling all liberals stupid. rhetorically, of course, you were merely doing us all the favor of sharing the findings of a pew research study. how very clever.
Unfortunately, there are several problems with your reliance on this pew poll as the basis of your 'liberals are not intelligent' line of rhetoric. First, it is not about general intelligence, but rather a survey of republican/democrat knowledge about the parties themselves. Second, it was *13 questions* long. It is still up, you can take it. I got all 13 right, so, go me? Basically though, this was not a 'research study' as you have been claiming, it was a simple poll.
In a previous story's commentarium, you, or someone who writes remarkably like you, linked to tucker carlson's site, the daily caller, rather than to Pew's site when referring to this poll. The daily caller does not link to Pew's site, so here's the full 'study.' http://bit.ly/HLhHud my favorite part, the party breakdown numbers are not nearly as divisive as the age-group numbers.
while i was not necessarily expecting you to have any idea what you were talking about, i am left wondering just what you're doing here? is this kind of trolling really that fun?
Well said, wb.
wb, you are amazing, but Hah!/Nah/Greg is a troll and will not be stymied even one inch by your patiently argued points.
Whatever you do, don't allow alternative points of view influence you, why the next thing you know, you'll be open-minded!
The Pew Research poll was spot on!
The fact that you ignored wb's post wholesale, and only saw the word "troll," when I was using it to describe why you would ignore wb's post, is staggering. You used exactly the kind of ridiculous anti-logic that I was saying you would. I realize that you're not actually a troll, btw, because the point of trolling is to light a bomb and then walk away, not to continue on and on, day after day, well after you've stopped being able to really bait anyone.
Durn lihbruls, you just can't seem to stop hanging on their every word and obsessively commenting on what you perceive them to be. It'd be cute if you weren't so smitten with an inferiority complex.
why do people think misspelling "liberal" is an insult?
@steve
B/c they're not intelligent enough to come up with reasoned responses. Although Drakma's point is well taken. Nerve only adds fuel to this fire while pretending to be above by breathlessly reporting what every bleached blonde maroon over at Fox gurgles out at 3:30am.
"b/c" you're so much smarter, eh? So smart you must not realize that Monica Crowley is on FNC during prime time unless she's on Red Eye. Red Eye is, incidentally, one of the best talk shows on TV. Its ratings are similar to Fallon's which is to say horrible but what are you going to do?
Keep congratulating yourself, MS, but whatever you do, don't read the Pew Research p0ll. It will destroy your view of yourself.
Maybe somebody should take notice that this poor gal that needs public assistance to buy contraception is engaged to a member of the uber-wealthy Mutterperl family. You'd think he could just buy some condoms instead of sending her to DC to ask for birth control pills.
It was never about birth control, Bogota, it was about making non-governmental organizations heel to their government masters. Those of us who worked one (and sometimes two) jobs in grad school didn't have time to make the talk circuit tour whinnig about not getting enough government handouts.
If someone says something stupid and Nerve isn't there to repeat it, does it make an outrage?
Pffft. Bill Maher does this about Michelle Bachman's husband, Marcus all the time, and he gets off scott free. Fake outrage alert
The hatemonger Maher but nerve does the same thing. Look at past stories about Bachmann.
Hypocrisy, thy name is nerve.
To be fair to Ms. Crowley, she wasn't necessarily being homophobic directly, although she was very likely trying to appeal to the homophobia of her followers. But it's probably just as likely that she was making a bestiality joke, and attempting to appeal to the high number of bestiality aficionados among her followers.
...nerve isn't homophobic but it appeals to the homophobia of its readers when it writes about Marcus Bachmann?
Old news department, but seeing how many people missed the point:
Odd, I thought Sandra Fluke was supposed to be a "slut" who was having "so much sex" that she couldn't even afford all the birth control necessary to flaunt such a slutty lifestyle. When that approach blew up in Rush's face, suddenly Fluke is a lesbian? Earth, to Monica, come in, Monica: Lesbians don't need birth control for that reason.
Rush and Monica Crowley: two sterling examples of how conservative commentators can't think their way out of a wet paper bag.