Tuesday, the all-conservative Outnumbered panel scolded Democrats for their not very proper language. But this being Fox News, President Trump's profanities were presented as part of his "authenticity." Hmmm. Double standard?
In a video titled "Will Blue Language Help Democrats Win Red States," the very proper cohost, Meghan McCain, reported, "Democrats are ramping up their profanity-laced rhetoric as the party attempts to reunite after a bruising election season." She claimed that DNC chair Tom Perez is in the habit of cursing and played video in which Perez said such shocking stuff as how Pres. Trump "doesn't give a (bleep) about health care" and described Trump's budget as a "(bleep) budget."
McCain read a quote from a New York Magazine interview with NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, during which Gillibrand used the adjective "fucking." Over a photo of Gillibrand and the dirty quote ("expletive") were the words, "Dems Talk Dirty." Without citing any specifics, she mentioned that Beto O'Rourke (challenging Ted Cruz) has "gotten comfortable swearing on the campaign trail."
McCain noted that this is an "interesting" topic for her because she has "the mouth of a trucker," except "at work and in professional situations because I don't think you get your point across when you are throwing around F-bombs..." She said it was "very unprofessional" for Perez and for sitting senators to be "throwing around language like this, especially when they are attempting to win over new voters." (The banners - "DNC Democrats and other Democrats Make Using Profanity the New Normal" and "Party of Potty Mouths, DNC Chair Charts New Course With Profanity.")
Former US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, the show's #OneLuckyGuy, called this is "an element in the coarsening of politics." You want to talk about "coarse?" In 1994, a US AID sub-contractor sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which she said that "Mr. Bolton proceeded to chase me through the halls of a Russian hotel -- throwing things at me, shoving threatening letters under my door and, generally, behaving like a madman." But I digress.
Bolton pontificated, "If they can't find some other way to emphasize their point, they really ought to ask themselves what point are they trying to make?"
Cohost Harris Faulkner added, "The louder and the saltier an argument, the lower the grade of the substance."
McCain showed a picture of a Democratic tee-shirt that had the words "Democrats Give a Shit About People." She said sanctimoniously that she "would never wear a tee-shirt with that, with vulgarity on it."
Cohost (and American Sniper widow) Taya Kyle speculated that the Democrats are trying to win over Trump voters who, the Democrats assume, use foul language. She described this as both a "poorly-executed marketing plan" and an insult to Trump voters.
Cohost Sandra Smith opined that, in his tweets, Trump "keeps it clean."
Faulkner acknowledged that Trump "did swear some on the campaign trail and he took a lot of grief for that." She made the false claim that he "was not dropping F-bombs, that I remember, but he was using some colorful language at times on the stump." She asserted that what works for Trump doesn't work for everybody else and that "He's president because he owns who he is, he is authentic." She urged Democrats to "find that authenticity."
McCain added, "This is a marketing ploy that has gone very wrong" and that nobody would buy "cussing tee-shirts."
So the "authentic" Donald Trump swears a little. You mean like this?
"She said he’s a pussy."
"They’re ripping the shit out of the sea."
"We can’t get a fuckin’ school built in Brooklyn."
"You’re not going to raise that fuckin’ price. You understand me?"
"I’m going to bomb the shit out of them."
"Listen, you motherfuckers, we’re going to tax you 25%."
"What’s the difference between a wet raccoon and Donald J. Trump’s hair? A wet raccoon doesn’t have seven billion fuckin’ dollars in the bank."
"I think that’s a disgusting thing that he said. And I could tell you, I would not use that word. But it’s political bullshit."
As usual, Fox News is full of (expletive)!
Watch the hypocritic poutrage from the Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Outnumbered. Also check out a couple of You Tube videos in which Trump uses profanities, including the "F-Bomb."