Fox News’ debate counter-programming
by digby
During last night’s debate, the question of women in the military came up and several of the candidates came out for women being required to join the selective service and be subject to the draft. I happened to flip over to Fox after that exchange when they went to commercial. This is what they were saying:
There was lots of guffawing and joking about women in general.The following was just a small part of the “comedy”:
On a Saturday broadcast of The Greg Gutfeld Show, [men’s rights activist] McInnes griped about the idea of including women in the draft for military service.
“They want equality for everything fun,” said. “How about you’re equal in sanitation, how about you have to go down into the sewers and remove rats from blocked pipes? How about you go to war and die?”
“If we’re going to do that, we’ll have to talk to President Hitler,” McInnes opined. “Because if women were soldiers for the last hundred years, we would have lost World War II.”
Gutfeld remarked that “women want total equality and this is total equality.”
“By every metric, men have it worse off,” McInnes replied. “We’re more likely to get raped if you include prison, we’re more likely to be assaulted, we’re more likely to die, we’re more likely to commit suicide.”
“And you’re not as smart,” former White House National Security Council staffer Gillian Turner interrupted.
“If you want to come over to our side then get ready for some rough times,” McInnes quipped.
Again, you have to listen to the whole thing to get the full gist of the conversation.
That’s your flagship GOP news network.
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