A general strike by women is scheduled for tomorrow, International Women’s Day. But judging from the comments on Fox & Friends this morning, you can be pretty darned sure no women will honor the effort by taking off from the “fair and balanced” network tomorrow.
At about 7:34 into her usual Tuesday Fox & Friends appearance, the subject of tomorrow’s “Day Without A Woman” came up. USA Today explains the action:
The organizers behind January’s March on Washington are using Wednesday as a day of action to spotlight the economic power and value of women and their contributions to society in paid and unpaid labor. Organizers hope to call attention to economic injustices women face such as lower wages, gender discrimination, sexual harassment and job insecurities. The day is also intended to push for gender justice, recognizing that trans and gender non-conforming people face equally compelling issues of discrimination and marginalization.
Ingraham called it “appalling” that some schools are supporting the strike. Naturally, that gave the Curvy Couch Crew a chance for a bash-the-schools detour. Ingraham called schools in support of the strike “another example of the left having burrowed into the academic establishment, from the administration on down.” Nobody mentioned that teachers and working mothers are on the front lines of the economic injustices that women face.
Cohost Brian Kilmeade cloaked his criticism as support for women. “I hang out in a lot of all-male locker rooms and a lot of all-male places. We do not need to be reminded of the importance of women,” Kilmeade said. “We think women are important, please work.”
After Ingraham assured the group she plans to work tomorrow, cohost Ainsley Earhardt asked what Ingraham will do if women at her company don’t come in. “Are they getting fired?” Earhardt wondered.
“I don’t know,” Ingraham replied. “I guess I would have to take that under advisement.”
“Just call a temp agency. Say, ‘Send me a man,’” Kilmeade quipped.
“Much like the Reagan air traffic controllers,” Ingraham responded. “We got to just fire them and move on. We’ve got a lot of people who want work.”
Watch it below, from the March 7, 2017 Fox & Friends.
Which women on CNN and MSNBC honored the effort and took the day off?
Lying media whores!!
Under the first amendment, anybody who may feel that s/he needs to do something visible in order to exercise her/his rights to free speech and opinion. That’s the freedom of association and collective action aspect of the Constitution. That being so, it follows that any actions that may be taken to stop a non-violent exercise of rights to freedom of speech and mobilisation is promoting an anti-Constitutional reaction. Laura Ingraham probably knows better but that pay check sure does come in handy and she’s no journalist.
I recall an ancient Chinese story (often attributed to Confucious) where women reacted against systemic abuse by refusing to accomplish their traditional wifely tasks of cooking, house-keeping and all the rest. In that story, their husbands realised that it was not in their own interests to continue to mistreat women. The same conclusion can certainly be drawn today.
Finally, and as amply demonstrated on this blog, there’s no grounds for taking FoxNews seriously as a news organisation. Rather, that’s a place where angry, mostly white and male folks can find confirmation of what they already believe or want to believe. Facts that go against their preconceived ideas are pushed aside as irrelevant. An in-depth analysis of how they distort the facts to pander to the faithful is provided by the book entitled “Outfoxed” (that Ellen helped do the research for).
The Murdoch “news empire” (a term I use advisedly) of tabloids (aka sensationalist, often if not mostly invented non-facts) and Fox-financed TV channels has given birth to what the Oxford Dictionary calls the post-truth" era.
Even Fox News claimed that its reporting was often “infotainment” (aka opinion, not hard news. That happened during a court case brought against them by a rebellious journalist in Florida. She’d discovered evidence that a Monsanto plant was contaminating the local milk supply. Fox refused to air the report and she was not paid. She won thecase in two lower courts but the verdict was overturned by the Florida Appeals Court.
THAT MILK WAS FED TO KIDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY and the story was buried by Fox with the blessing of the Florida Appeals Court. Interestingly, I first found that story on a very conservative blog, the name of which I’ve forgotten.
Doocy is the brains of the davenport. Probably as inspiring as Sylvester the Cat leading the Normandy Invasion.
A labor strike is not violence, not an assault of any kind. It is the withholding of labor to make assholes such as yourself understand the value of labor.
¿¿¿Do you sabe, Kemosabe???
