Monday Morning Eye Rolling Courtesy of Fox News
There’s some semi-hysterical woman on Fox news by the name of Jeannine Pirro. In all fairness, I have to admit that I am not a regular viewer of Jeannine’s show. And by regular, I mean ever. And I am grateful for that.
Come to find out, Jeannine is a colorful person. She is a tough talking law-and-order former prosecutor whose husband spent 11 months in prison for tax evasion and conspiracy. She herself got into a bit of trouble when she tried to talk Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik into illegally wiretapping her husband’s phone and yacht to catch him doing the wild thing with another woman.
Now all this stuff would make you lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut in the real world, but in the world of Fox news, she’s a bright lights big city star.
And that’s because she knows things. And she is white. And she can spew without spitting, at least most of the time.
Jeannine has this whole police thing figured out.
First, whenever you say the word minority, you should put air quotation marks around it because, you know, minorities are not real. In Janine’s world, a black person is a so-called minority.
Second, the problem is absolutely not that the police need to be more sensitive to minorities. No, siree. Minorities should be more sensitive to the police.
Yep. She said that.
Pirro quoted Fox viewer ‘Jeff’ who wrote, “Why is it always necessary to tip toe around the minority community,” with ‘Larry’ writing, “No. Enough is enough. The general public needs to be more sensitive to the police and show them the respect they deserve.”
Pirro added, “I agree.”
Yeah, like wives should be more sensitive to their philandering husbands.
If, like me, you have been blissfully unaware that this woman walks the earth and is entitled to an opinion that is obviously not her own, have a look-see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhjAe08pdak
I suspect that Jeaninne will start having sensitivity classes for black people as soon as she meets a black person.
Thanks to Irene for the heads up.
Claims to be a former prosecutor,judge and elected official from New York. Apparently forgets the part of the judiciary that relies on facts,not personal opinions. That must be the prosecutor side of this witch.
1“Suddenly, you’re a mouth breather.”
2What a perfect ad to show up after that… well, whatever that was.
Everyone associated with Fox Noose needs to join the 12 step Airheads Anonymous program!
3I’m going out on a limb here (okay, a pretty sturdy branch) that this woman would be perfectly fine with her Beemer beeing stopped at a random traffic check during which she was asked to get her “Intercoursing gluteus maximus” out of the car and assume the position against the hood. She probably also has nothing but praise for the TSA agent who tears open her carry on and tosses the contents on the table to check for extra liquids not in the one quart plastic bag.
4OK … so assuming that is not Rudy G doing a really bad impression of a diva, what is it “she” wants? Maybe black people should run a little slower, so the cops don’t need to expend as many rounds shooting them in the back? Perhaps wear hand cuffs while walking when black, to save those poor officers the exertion of cuffing them. And, by all means, apologize in advance for any dents one’s face might make in their cruisers.
5I saw a marvelous comment that said something to the effect of “Minorities wouldn’t have any problems with the police if they would only follow the law.” I guess he never heard of stop-and-frisk procedures.
I was still in Houston when Bruce Springsteen released “American Skin” with the unforgettable line: “If a policeman stops you, promise me you’ll always be polite…and keep your hands in sight.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMqWAiWPMs
6Aaaww, Hell. Take it easy on her. Can’t be easy being a Fox News token brunette.
7How is it someone can live on this planet with all kind of human beings 63 years and not learn any more than what she seems to have learned? Or else to be so wrong and confused about the lessons therein? WOW!!
8This is not HellCat Pirro’s first foray into the Creature Feature. I don’t remember the last one, I was disgusted, but have forgotten it now, which is probably what will happen to everything about her.
9I’m all for showing the police the respect they deserve. If they act like law enforcement agents and protectors of the innocent, I respect the heck out of them. If they regard nonviolent members of the public who happen to be differently pigmented as automatic suspects and “animals”, I know how much respect they deserve. If one of them puts a forbidden choke hold on a non-resisting man suspected of a minor tax offense and keeps squeezing until he’s dead, I know exactly how much respect that one deserves too.
10Anyone here remember the Firesign Theater? Someday, in a better world, Jeannine Pirro will be the one sent in for “regrooving:”
In a psychedelic future, when a citizen looks suspicious, the police would stop them, ask them some pointed questions to determine their grooviness. If the citizen wasn’t compliant, he/she would be “taken away for regrooving” which meant a massive reorientation to bring them up to date with the times.
11Respect is earned, not doled out like candy!
12If you want respect, you show respect. What you get by demanding respect is resentment and lack of cooperation.
13I live in San Antonio and am the (white) minority here. Do I exist?
14I respectfully decline listening to anything or watching anything from Faux Snooze … except for when Jon Stewart is airing a short something from them … that is the only time I will watch ANYTHING with the Fox name on it.
15“You don’t have a right to resist arrest”
And yet when Cliven Bundy takes up arms against the government, he is hailed as a hero.
The hypocrisy of the right is incredible.
16Well, I got left onshore when you said she got in trouble for wire tapping to catch her husband doing the “wild thing” with another woman on his yacht…I have (platonically) known a few Republician men in my life, and not one of them could muster “wild” for a million bucks–and at least two of them were millionaires!
17She really needs some sensitivity training herownself, “regrooving” would require that she were groovy at some point, and I just don’t see it.
As a mouth breather, I don’t appreciate being in the same airspace as she is.
If Garner was choked to death for not paying taxes on cigarettes,imagine the nukular holocaust coming the koch bros way plus all other korporations that don’t pay taxes.
18The Fox Propaganda Machine has done severe damage to American culture by fomenting this kind of racial backlash, political misinformation and disrespect for scientific findings.
19We are at the dawn of the new Dark Ages which could set us back decades of progress. Kudos to the few listeners who responded intelligently and negated her premise.
She’s 63, not bad. How does a prosecutor not know the definition of racial profiling? Here is the main question: even if we all agree that we should follow police directives, how can they explain why white people and minorities get different results when they don’t.
20Authority gets respect when it is legitimate. There is a whole lot of literature on this legitimacy thing when it comes to institutions. Not a bad read.
21@ Edward Starsmith – Brilliant!
22Pirro, like all Fox on air personalities, is an actress portraying a fictional character carefully crafted to appeal to a demographic of the dimwitted, the bigoted, the paranoid and the senile. Her one and only agenda is to keep that demographic watching and buying the advertised products. She does this by repeating the demographics already held prejudices and opinions back to them in a slicker manner than they are capable of. That makes them feel validated. She has no concern for their welfare. She could care less if somebody died from acting on her advise. It’s show biz, and making money is the only agenda.
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