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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 04:44 PM Oct 2017

Fox News is morally outraged Hillary Clinton cursed on a late night TV talk show

By Bil Browning · Tuesday, October 24, 2017

With a headline like “Hillary Clinton uses obscenity on TV describing reaction to Trump’s inaugural speech,” you could be excused for thinking she went on an expletive laden rant. But Fox News’ headline is exactly what’s wrong with the right wing outrage machine.

Appearing on the British late night talk show, The Graham Norton Show, Clinton and the out gay host, started chatting about the Trump inauguration and her attempt to get out of attending. (Because, seriously, would you want to go? You didn’t even run against him and the ceremony probably turned your stomach.)

Clinton recounts that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, thought they might have found a way out, but it depended on what the other former presidents would do. “We thought, okay maybe others aren’t going, so we called the Bushes, and the elder Bushes were in the hospital, which I think was legitimate,” she said as the audience laughed. “So then we called the younger Bushes and they said ‘yeah we’re going’.”

When the Carters told them they would also attend, the Clintons knew they were stuck. But when she talked about Trump’s inauguration speech, she told a quick anecdote that has the right wing in an uproar.

“I was sitting next to George W. Bush and Bill was on my other side and we were listening to this really dark, divisive speech that I describe as a ‘cry from the white nationalist gut. I was so disappointed. Really so, so sad that it wasn’t an outreach; it was a narrowing and a hammering of what he had said before,” she told Norton.

“It was reported that George W. Bush, as it ends, said, ‘That was some weird shit’,” she said as the audience roared.

"And it was,” Norton replied.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/10/fox-news-morally-outraged-hillary-clinton-cursed-late-night-tv-talk-show/

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Fox News is morally outraged Hillary Clinton cursed on a late night TV talk show (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
So now she gets blamed for W's language? LisaM Oct 2017 #1
Correct. And it was after the 9pm watershed, when language is way loosed. OnDoutside Oct 2017 #4
Of course, "cause Benghaziiiiiiiiiiii DK504 Oct 2017 #5
And on BBC America, the 'shit' was bleeped out. Much ado over nothing, as usual. CurtEastPoint Oct 2017 #2
They know their audience is collectively off their rockers. Same audience is ok with this: JHan Oct 2017 #3
Was just about to post the same thing. onenote Oct 2017 #12
because they're such sticklers for propriety eShirl Oct 2017 #6
so glad she didnt say "pussy" MFM008 Oct 2017 #7
Shit, seriously ??? SamKnause Oct 2017 #8
Go blow it out your ass, Fox News. Initech Oct 2017 #9
That was some weird shit Gothmog Oct 2017 #10
VIDEO yuiyoshida Oct 2017 #11
Yeah, Fox News "outraged"... Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #13

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
1. So now she gets blamed for W's language?
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 04:46 PM
Oct 2017

By the way, on a show in a country where they are much less rigid about what you can say on TV.

SamKnause

(13,107 posts)
8. Shit, seriously ???
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 05:55 PM
Oct 2017

Fuck that !!!

Curse words really terrify some people.

Evil deeds and actions terrify me.

Curse words, not at all.

Fuck is my favorite word.

Check out this short video; The word Fuck.



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