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Fox News host Eric Bolling apologizes for sexist 'boobs on the ground' joke [female fighter pilot]
Daily Mail UK ^ | 9-26-14 | Chris Spargo

Posted on 09/27/2014 10:26:11 AM PDT by smokingfrog

A Fox News host has issued an apology after making a sexist comment about a female fighter pilot earlier this week on The Five.

During a segment about Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, a female pilot from the United Arab Emirates who led a mission this week against ISIS in Syria, Eric Bolling referred to her mission as 'boobs on the ground.'

Now, after outrage from viewers, and even his own wife, following these insensitive remarks, he has apologized.

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'Do you think the gents on "The Five," minus Bob, should get a do-over on that one? They're going to get in so much trouble for that one,' she said.

Gutfeld still has yet to apologize for his statement.

Sadly, it seems that Maj. Mansouri is used to these comments, telling CNN in an interview earlier this summer, 'Whenever a woman enters a new male-dominated field, they find the same hesitation, the same prejudice, the same stereotype thinking.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boobs; boobsontheground; ericbolling; greggutfeld; mariamalmansouri; thefive; unitedarabemirates
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To: flaglady47; mickie; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; Bob Ireland; ExTexasRedhead
Your commentary is spot-on. Eric to me is the mainstay and quiet leavening agent when he's on the various panels...always low-key, astute and a gentleman.

I remember when Obama made his infamous "Apology Tour". It appears The Won's asinine cowering behavior has become infectious, if not epidemic, in some parts of the population...as the posts of the permanently-outraged/offended freepers here have displayed.

Bolling's remark reflected a humorous and topical play on words...and Greg Gutfeld, who is a political satirist, got a good one off about the female pilot's "parking the plane". It gave me a good laugh...and I'm a female.

Looks like this forum is getting a little top-heavy with political correctness, apology tourists, and prissy metrosexuals.

And Guilfoyle should move over to Whoopi's "The View" if she's so easily "offended".

Leni

41 posted on 09/27/2014 11:47:06 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: smokingfrog

I saw the movie `All Is Lost’ last night, starring Boob Redford in a no-talking role.
It was about a geriatric Boob trying to keep his boat up.
He was pretty spry, not sagging as one might think.


42 posted on 09/27/2014 11:51:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: smokingfrog
Whenever a woman enters a new male-dominated field, they find the same hesitation, the same prejudice, the same stereotype thinking.

If you can't stand the heat, go back to the kitchen.

43 posted on 09/27/2014 12:46:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: smokingfrog

The more I watch this guy, the more I am convinced she should be off the air.


44 posted on 09/27/2014 1:11:37 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Zeneta
The man can’t even speak in complete sentences.

You are correct. He is tough to listen to. Keep Tantaros and Guilfoyle on every day. Lose Juan Williams. The whole "dancing bear" is not all that amusing.

45 posted on 09/27/2014 1:14:43 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: smokingfrog

It’s nice that Joan Rivers’s writers didn’t have any trouble finding work again ...


46 posted on 09/27/2014 1:16:58 PM PDT by x
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To: smokingfrog

I like Eric. Not the cookie cutter TV news type.


47 posted on 09/27/2014 1:22:06 PM PDT by McGruff (we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama)
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To: outofsalt

I hope the courageous Major never goes Tango-Utah.
= = = = = = = = = = = =

think she has ever gone “Testicles to the Bulkhead?”


48 posted on 09/27/2014 1:49:20 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.)
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To: smokingfrog

He gets credit for staying away from the cockpit puns.


49 posted on 09/27/2014 2:28:57 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet

there you go ...


50 posted on 09/27/2014 2:47:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: eartrumpet

And the “joy stick” puns too.


51 posted on 09/27/2014 2:49:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

I don’t get the joke?

Over my head I guess.

I call people boobs, morons, goons, all the time.

Why would he be talking about her breasts and the fact that they were on the ground?

Perhaps he was taken out of context?


52 posted on 09/27/2014 3:01:31 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: real saxophonist
Well, she’s a pilot, so her boobs aren’t on the ground. They’re in the air, dumbass.

Perhaps "Boobs over Baghdad" would have been better?

53 posted on 09/27/2014 3:30:23 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: smokingfrog

ROFLMAO!


54 posted on 09/27/2014 3:41:24 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: cripplecreek

“Boobs on the ground makes it sound like they sent elderly women.”

LMAO!!!! Funniest thing I have heard in a while! :)


55 posted on 09/27/2014 4:30:26 PM PDT by sagar
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To: smokingfrog

Zing. Well done, Eric. Unfunny and shameful. Grow up. Also, it makes no sense whatsoever.


56 posted on 09/27/2014 6:46:25 PM PDT by gunn
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To: smokingfrog

Everyone is so hypersensitive. When will this end?


57 posted on 09/27/2014 7:24:11 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: cripplecreek

*incoming...!!*


58 posted on 10/01/2014 2:49:56 PM PDT by publius911 (`)
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To: smokingfrog
Sometimes people try a little too hard to be funny. I think he was trying to outdo Gutfeld’s parking joke (which was a joke that mostly fell flat, but not offensive IMO). In this case he undermined the overall message with his dumb comment.

It's amazing how many people take themselves so seriously, that they are wound too tight.
I thought both jokes were funny and chuckle worthy.
The fact that my wife parallel parks better than I do, doesn't prevent me from joking about her driving. Nothing sexist about it.

But that reminds me...
How about a non-controversial Obama joke?

A man dies and arrives in heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall full of clocks as far as the eye could see.
He asked, "What's with all the clocks?"
St Peter answered, "Those are the lie clocks. Everybody who arrives here has one assigned. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock moves.
The man looked around and asked, "Whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."
"Incredible," said the man "And whose clock is that one?"
"That's Abraham Lincoln's," replied St Peter, "The hands only moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his whole life."
"Where's Barack Hussein Obamas?"
Oh, Barack's clock is in Sarah Palin's rec room. She's using it as a ceiling fan"

59 posted on 10/01/2014 3:09:55 PM PDT by publius911 (`)
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To: publius911

Oh, and in case anyone wonders, yes, Sarah cleans Obama’s clock just about every other day...


60 posted on 10/01/2014 3:14:33 PM PDT by publius911 (`)
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