Stupid quote of the year? FOX vs FOX.

[trashcanman]

Now, there are two things I really like to mock on this site (and elsewhere). ICP and Bill O'Reilly. But who knew that the two were so alike? ICP gave us:


and all the residual internet joy associated with that brand of stupidity,



But O'Reilly is nothing if not a jealous man is search of attention, so he feels he needs to take ignorance back from the lower class and make it the domain of the wealthy old white man once more. behold and despair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5Xn9X6xtU&feature=player_embedded#!

And he can't even claim his classic "out of context" excuse since the vid was made by and for his own fucking website and uploaded to youtube by him himself. So there you have it: the man just admitted he does not understand gravity and the fact that the Earth rotates. And a new mockery meme is born.




But wait, FOX News' #1 show has something else for dat educated ass. Know it all conservative grade school drop outs with their own talk shows be damned, this hot bitch, Megyn (nice spelling) Kelly, shows up to pwn O'Reilly on his own show with another brand of idiocy entire. Defending the decision of a cop to pepper spray a group of students staging a peaceful "Occupy" protest on their college campus by declaring pepper spray to be "a food product, essentially". Nice.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNXPB6TFZgE

This has led to petitions demanding that Ms. Kelly drink some pepper spray on the air. No response to the challenge so far. And just to put into context the misinformation distributed throughout the rest of the video claiming that the cops were in the right, I'd like to post the all-encompassing First Amendment of the US Constitution here in case anyone is as unfamiliar with it as these professional political commentators.


That is law. Federal fucking law. "RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE" is pretty simple to understand. Much more so than even tides and the Sun rising and setting. Those kids were assembled and more than a little peaceable, from the look of it, what with the just sitting there and all. And again the internet 'splodes.





As much as I sometimes dog internet culture for it's excessive douchebaggery and overall negativeness, sometimes it really is the saving grace of this fucked up planet. So head to head, who wins the stupid quote of the year?



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[The Curmudgeon]

Oy. Where to start?

I'm pretty sure Hawking COULD explain how the tides come in and out "without interruption" (what does that even mean?") In fact, I'm pretty sure anyone with a basic grasp of science could explain it. Hell Bill, ever heard of Wikipedia?

It's an age old problem though; give stupid people a platform and they'll talk bullshit. The platform in question happens to be Fox News, and you know, thank fuck we have people who can see through the hypocrisy and the bullshit and the right-wing propaganda that O'Reilly and his mob spew out and can label him a moron and a joke. Sadly, there are probably a higher number of people who actually take what these people say as not just "fact" but "correct".

The O'Reilly comment is one thing. That's just religious brainwashed idiocy. The really galling quote is from Tits McGee. Seriously, a peaceful protest, protected by the fucking First Amendment, is broken up by pigs using pepper spray.. and you can even ATTEMPT to defend that? God almighty.

These people shouldn't even be allowed to OWN a television, never mind appear on it.

[trashcanman]

Man, I can't decide between these two. I go back and forth. I could see "Megyn" (sic) saying something dumb like that in an interview without really thinking through how it would sound, but O'Reilly specifically got a camera and sat down to respond to that question that was written for him with all the time to research and think about his response and that's what he came up with. It really does boggle the mind. But then again, the two of them sitting their defending "pepper spray cop" (as he shall forever be immortalized in meme form) assaulting a bunch of students for sitting together on a walkway, as is their right, is just......wow.

[Ben]

I remember some kid asking my high school officer once upon a time if his pepper spray was edible.

"Yeah, it is. But it's 900 times hotter than your standard taco sauce."

Essentially a food product my ass. The sad thing is how often this happens. It seems like any time anyone with a clear political affiliation speaks now days all that comes out is big globs of shit.

[trashcanman]

I used to work with an ex-cop and they all have to take a dose of pepper spray in the face during standard training and she described it as being absolutely horrible to go through. And no, it doesn't "just burn your eyes". It burns everything it comes into contact with right down to your immortal soul. Police who have to subdue tweaked-out criminals with possible murderous intent aren't fucking around with things that only give a little discomfort. If a cop is wielding it, it is serious business. I only use cable news as a source of unintentional comedy these days. It's gotten to the point where it offends me worse than popular radio if I have to listen to more than a few minutes. It's just unbelievable. Every political education should begin and end here: factcheck.org/

[The Curmudgeon]

I always imagine Fox News and the like to be like real life versions of Jonah Jamieson. "Facts don't sell newspapers, Parker!"

And didn't Homer Simpson use Marge's (when she was a cop for an episode) pepper spray on his food? And even then it nearly killed him. So, yeah. Homer Simpson and this "Megyn" creature. Join the dots.