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Tripper11

(4,338 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 09:53 AM Aug 2018

Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt: America is great because 'we defeated communist Japan'



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/fox-friends-host-ainsley-earhardt-america-great-defeated-communist-japan/

Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt asserted on Thursday that America is “great” because it “defeated communist Japan.”

On Thursday’s edition of Fox & Friends, the three co-hosts complained about a recent statement by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).


“We’re not going to Make Donald Drumpf Again,” Cuomo said on Wednesday. “It was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.”

On Thursday, Earhardt encouraged Fox News viewers to email the network with comments about Cuomo.

“We want to know what you think,” Earhardt said. “We defeated communist Japan, radical Islamists. We ask our men and our women to go overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice so much for this great country so that we can be the land of the free, the land of the brave.”
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Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt: America is great because 'we defeated communist Japan' (Original Post) Tripper11 Aug 2018 OP
Is this from The Onion? lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #1
You don't get it! We defeated Communist Japan so thoroughly that today nobody remembers it existed. Towlie Aug 2018 #42
Oh that's right I forgot! That was right after Nigeria invaded Russia, right? lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #44
Ainsley Earhardt, "We defeated communist Japan." Botany Aug 2018 #2
Well, their flag has a red dot. dalton99a Aug 2018 #3
A Nazi! They're in cahoots! I knew it! Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2018 #37
One of my favorite scenes of all time... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2018 #41
Wow. That's some graduate-level stupidity right there. Aristus Aug 2018 #4
Well... have we ever been beaten by a communist Japan? jberryhill Aug 2018 #5
Yeah, we kicked their commie asses. 3Hotdogs Aug 2018 #38
Not long after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, right? unblock Aug 2018 #6
ROFL! calimary Aug 2018 #45
Yeesh, she's just like Laura Ingraham and Megyn Kelly. . . DinahMoeHum Aug 2018 #7
Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor??? Tripper11 Aug 2018 #8
That's exactly what popped into my head! Nevilledog Aug 2018 #22
Me too!!! winstars Aug 2018 #33
Ainsley Airhead MichMary Aug 2018 #9
+1 dalton99a Aug 2018 #10
baka! baka! baka! yuiyoshida Aug 2018 #11
All that peroxide she uses on her hair got down into what little brain matter she has. GoCubsGo Aug 2018 #12
she's on a roll... Javaman Aug 2018 #13
Osama Bin Ladin was eliminated while CIA Director Brennan was head oasis Aug 2018 #14
America is so great PatSeg Aug 2018 #15
Yeah but she looks AWESOME in a mini skirt though Saboburns Aug 2018 #16
The trouble is, you're not wrong DFW Aug 2018 #25
Sadly, you're absolutely right...we have a pathetic reality show with rump the so called star in SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #39
Good to see the spirit of Bluto Blutarsky is alive and well. peekaloo Aug 2018 #17
We need more of the Deltas and less of the Omegas! Initech Aug 2018 #20
That, and 10,000 marbles Brother Buzz Aug 2018 #24
And we're even greater than that! Permanut Aug 2018 #18
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!!!! Initech Aug 2018 #19
Senator Blutarsky and Mrs Ainsley Blutarsky Tripper11 Aug 2018 #21
Just when you think they couldn't sound any stupider... highplainsdem Aug 2018 #23
and also notice.... Tripper11 Aug 2018 #26
since everyone else is going all Animal House lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #27
Oh man, she's dumb as a post! donkeypoofed Aug 2018 #28
Because Communism And Emperors Go So Well Together ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #29
I am really crappy with history but even I know that is wrong and stupid. Doreen Aug 2018 #30
AND this is the site trump goes to for 'real news' spanone Aug 2018 #31
"And let's never forget the great D-day landing in Norman, Oklahoma!" struggle4progress Aug 2018 #32
Was that before or after sdfernando Aug 2018 #34
Was that before or after Borchkins Aug 2018 #35
I wonder if she was reading from a teleprompter malthaussen Aug 2018 #36
Low IQ Ainsley at it again. All 3 have the IQ of a potted plant Pepsidog Aug 2018 #40
the forest is so full of trees we might just miss it 0rganism Aug 2018 #43

Towlie

(5,324 posts)
42. You don't get it! We defeated Communist Japan so thoroughly that today nobody remembers it existed.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:57 PM
Aug 2018

Botany

(70,508 posts)
2. Ainsley Earhardt, "We defeated communist Japan."
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 09:56 AM
Aug 2018

And this is one of the persons from where Trump gets his daily information from.

DinahMoeHum

(21,791 posts)
7. Yeesh, she's just like Laura Ingraham and Megyn Kelly. . .
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 09:59 AM
Aug 2018

. . .another dumb ditzy blonde piece of eye candy.

MichMary

(1,714 posts)
9. Ainsley Airhead
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:02 AM
Aug 2018

is the stupidest of all the stupid Fox personnel. She only had two qualifications for the job.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
11. baka! baka! baka!
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:07 AM
Aug 2018

ばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばかばか ばか ばか!

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
12. All that peroxide she uses on her hair got down into what little brain matter she has.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:11 AM
Aug 2018

It fried the crap out of it, just like it did her hair. WWII Japan was a death cult--you know. Like the one to which you belong, you peroxide-poisoned imbecile.

I wonder if this brain-dead twit realizes that her Dear Leader just revoked the security clearance of several of the people who played a major role in defeating those "radical Islamists." Many of those people she has been demonizing, including Brennan, Strzok, and Mueller were the ones who went overseas to fight for our country and sacrifice.

oasis

(49,388 posts)
14. Osama Bin Ladin was eliminated while CIA Director Brennan was head
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:17 AM
Aug 2018

of U.S. Intelligence. I guess they had nothing positive written in their script about him.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)
16. Yeah but she looks AWESOME in a mini skirt though
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:19 AM
Aug 2018

And that's the most important thing.

(That's 100% sarcasm. Of course that's not the most important thing. It down right sucks that women get judged on appearance only by Republicans and various other groups of troglodytic nincompoops. I understand why that pisses off our wonderful progressives. It's just difficult for me to fathom how many troglodytic nincompoops remain in America 2018. I feel we are nearly, tragically, surrounded by them.)

DFW

(54,388 posts)
25. The trouble is, you're not wrong
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 11:35 AM
Aug 2018

To Republicans, the degree of truth in your statements is determined by how good you look on TV (if female) or how convincing your authoritative bluster is (Hannity/Trump). Whether or not what you say has any basis in fact at all is no longer relevant to them.

Republicans think they are, too, entitled to their own facts.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b3e35d91-f648-46f7-b862-888b455b3c12

SWBTATTReg

(22,129 posts)
39. Sadly, you're absolutely right...we have a pathetic reality show with rump the so called star in
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:44 PM
Aug 2018

front of us on a daily basis...I recall that rump wanted cameras in the WH so he could continue filming or whatever for the idiotic show he had (appren whatever (can't remember how to spell, never watched, don't care)). What an ass.

As a matter of fact, how good you look I think drives a whole lot of stuff in this superficial country of ours, when it shouldn't and the repugs for the most part seemed to realize this sometime ago.

Remember Scott Brown of MA (I think) on centerfold of magazine, not too terribly bright...still around.

peekaloo

(22,977 posts)
17. Good to see the spirit of Bluto Blutarsky is alive and well.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:26 AM
Aug 2018

Not only in public discourse but this thread.



Permanut

(5,609 posts)
18. And we're even greater than that!
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 10:37 AM
Aug 2018

We beat the crap out of the French in 1776, and who could forget the great Falkland Islands victories. And the 6 day war in 1967, the hundred years war, so much winning!

Tripper11

(4,338 posts)
26. and also notice....
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 11:41 AM
Aug 2018

...that those 2 fence posts on either side of her didn't refute or correct her. They just smiled along gleefully while sneaking peeks.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
27. since everyone else is going all Animal House
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 11:42 AM
Aug 2018

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book,
Don't know much about the french I took
But I do know that I love Trump,
And I know that if Trump love me, too,
What a wonderful world this would be


Doreen

(11,686 posts)
30. I am really crappy with history but even I know that is wrong and stupid.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:05 PM
Aug 2018

If you are going to say something about history look it up first.

malthaussen

(17,199 posts)
36. I wonder if she was reading from a teleprompter
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:37 PM
Aug 2018

If so, maybe there are some subversives in Fox News's production staff.

-- Mal

0rganism

(23,955 posts)
43. the forest is so full of trees we might just miss it
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 01:12 PM
Aug 2018

gloating about this mistake is part of our messaging failure

Ainsley Earhardt is a dolt. the person who wrote the script she reads from the teleprompter may also be a dolt. however, when we mock them over this mistake, we miss the forest through the trees. what they said is stupid, like failing 7th grade history stupid, but that's barely a story.

first we need to be crystal clear about this: whether or not you happen to agree with his assessment, what Cuomo said was STUPID. like a nice batch of presents under a goddam christmas tree for NY Republicans. i think he can turn things around and still win his race this fall without depressing support for down-ballot races, but it will require a lot more effort now.

back to the dolts at Fox. we underestimate how forgiving their audience is. when she says, "we defeated communist Japan, radical Islamists," they're going to think, "well she misspoke, but what she meant is we defeated communists, Japan, and radical Islamists."

while we laugh at her doltishness and fixate on minutiae, they've already gotten the intended message and moved on to the next thing: bashing Gov. Cuomo. the rest of her statement provides an embrace of militarism, patriotism and a direct reference to the national anthem. what will Fox viewers remember? will it be the doltish mistake, or the nationalist call to support the troops that follows it?

i swear, the writers at Fox News probably dropped that turd into the mix just to confuse the liberals. while we're pointing and laughing and blogging and retweeting about how Japan wasn't communist, the target audience is getting pissed off and emptying their wallets at NY state races. this is a dismal situation for us, no question.

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