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Jeri Thompson: Fox's Wallace owes Palin an apology
Politico ^ | 2/5/10 | Ben Smith

Posted on 02/07/2010 1:21:15 PM PST by pissant

Jeri Thompson blasted Fox News host Chris Wallace on the Fred Thompson show today, calling his joke that he hoped Sarah Palin would sit on his lap during an interview with him "inappropriate" and "insipid," and demanding "action from Fox.

Thompson, the wife of the former senator and presidential candidate, told POLITICO's Jonathan Martin that the remark, to Fox Business's Don Imus, amounted to misogyny, and that she was tired of seeing it from "these dirty old men" on Fox, a network that she said ought to be respectful of conservative women.

"Sarah Palin is now part of the Fox family," Thompson said on the show. "She deserves you all watching her back -- and I do not mean it literally."

Wallace, she said, "owes her an apology."

"Not only is she a national figure – she deserves the respect that any other man would get in that situation," Thompson said, saying that her inbox was full of complaints from conservative women over the segment, and that the Palin group Team Sarah, as well as the anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List, were dismayed by the segment.

"I hope that Fox does something about this, and they actually take this on, because it is not funny," Thompson said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apology; chriswallace; climategate; didntsaythat; education; fns; government; healthcare; jerithompson; military; neversaidthat; notbreakingnews; obama; obamacare; palin; politics; purebs; wasntsaid
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To: pissant

Maybe Sarah’s hubby will 8itch slap him when he sees him! Or better yet maybe Sarah will!


121 posted on 02/07/2010 4:50:52 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: I see my hands
Keep sucking on that bottle of rot gut, you should be good for a few laughs this evening.

Classic projection. Looks good on you.
122 posted on 02/07/2010 5:16:01 PM PST by mkjessup
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To: matthew fuller
I stand corrected.

I've heard him mention his ranch before but I never knew there was more to it.

Thanks for setting me straight.

I dislike like him now just a little less than I used to.

123 posted on 02/07/2010 5:19:58 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: mkjessup
You get weak fast.

124 posted on 02/07/2010 5:25:14 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Huskrrrr
I’m with Wallace on this one.

Yeah, rude is cool.

LOL!

125 posted on 02/07/2010 5:27:02 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: KansasGirl

I think the comment by Wallace was extremely inappropriate.

^^

I agree, but Jeri should keep out of it.


126 posted on 02/07/2010 5:29:51 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: KansasGirl

So did I, and I let FOX know that....


127 posted on 02/07/2010 5:30:48 PM PST by Freddd
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To: pissant
I don't think Chris Wallace meant to offend Sarah at all.

I seriously doubt he'd want the likes of Hillary sitting on his lap..

128 posted on 02/07/2010 5:37:27 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife (11/02/10)
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To: Sioux-san

Wallace typically acts in a respectful manner, so why talk with Imus who has no class or manners, or audience???

&&&
I agree. I fail to understand why any decent person would go on that jerk’s show.

(Yeah, yeah, Imus defenders, I know about his ranch. And that’s good work, but he is still a lowlife jerk.)


129 posted on 02/07/2010 5:44:48 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: pissant

Agree. Wallace was a cad. Reading the title I was expecting someone picked up on the request youa “you betcha” this morning, because it emphasized something the left could rag on. Wallace should apologize for both.


130 posted on 02/07/2010 5:49:37 PM PST by School of Rational Thought (Most interesting man in the world.)
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To: pissant
Good Lord. I can only hope to sit on Dubya’s lap. Guess that makes me a dirty old woman.

Normally I like Jeri Thompson, but she is coming across as a femi-nazi on this one.

131 posted on 02/07/2010 5:57:53 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: pissant

Wallace is an anchor and basically a hard news guy and certainly one of the foremost interviewers of politicians in America — and a remark like this made on TV is incredibly inappropriate and well beneath the dignity of his place at FOX.

I realize that we might not want to get too caught up in our own right-speak campaigns, as many have said here, but this is a specific guy with a specific job saying something that is so far out of bounds it’s hard to believe.


132 posted on 02/07/2010 8:40:30 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: Texas Eagle

You’re a gentleman and a scholar. Actually, I don’t care much for his on-the-air persona either, but he really does a lot of good for those kids. That has to count for a great deal.


133 posted on 02/07/2010 8:46:42 PM PST by matthew fuller (GO GREEN!!! Recycle the Senate and Congress in 2010)
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To: matthew fuller

Amen.


134 posted on 02/07/2010 8:52:48 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: pnh102
I'm really starting to not like this type of hypersensitivity coming from our side. We should not seek to emulate the left in this regard. Sometimes a joke should just be left as a joke.

We are using THEIR arms - ALINSKI, remember? That's about time we do it. That's what they do all the time and that's how they won. Affirmative action - racism and all. We are FINALLY understanding how they do it and we are FINALLY learning how to use it. About time! GOOD!!! Keep it up! They don't know how to react when we use their own tactics. Like Sarah with the retarded thing..dead fish Emmanuel is running around apologizing to everybody. GREAT JOB! KEEP IT UP!
135 posted on 02/07/2010 10:00:18 PM PST by American Dream 246 (Open your eyes. Freedom is not a one day fight. Enemies of Freedom are legion.)
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To: pnh102

Yeah, let’s treat all women like whores - We’ll use Bill Clinton’s standards as our own.


136 posted on 02/07/2010 10:07:13 PM PST by donna (Sarah PAC has donated money to...(wait for it)...Lindsey Graham!)
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To: pnh102

It WAS rude and disrespectful of him. He was talking a real woman not someone sporting a tramp stamp for all to see.


137 posted on 02/07/2010 10:10:25 PM PST by GeronL (It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Petronski

It might have sounded better in context but I doubt Chris should talk about a fellow employee like that.


138 posted on 02/07/2010 10:11:59 PM PST by omega4179 (NOT TRUE.)
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To: pissant

I watched Fox News Sunday and it seemed Wallace is smitten with Palen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him behave as he did with any other female on his show.

It was cute actually, he’s always reserved and business like.


139 posted on 02/07/2010 10:15:37 PM PST by swheats (America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!)
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To: pnh102

Maybe FOX should just go Howard Stern and have naked women do the news. Heck, minor naked girls doing news would be perfectly legal apparently, go for it FOX.


140 posted on 02/07/2010 10:16:17 PM PST by GeronL (It's my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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