Fox News: "What's the big deal,pepper spray is a food product"?

[sufrommich]

Tonight, Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly got to talking about a UC Davis police officer's appalling use of pepper spray on nonviolent protesters over the weekend. Guess what direction the conversation took!

If you guessed "needlessly deferential to authority and dismissive to the suffering of protesters," you guessed correctly!

"I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," O'Reilly says, "particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus." God forbid! We'd never want to question Lt. John Pike's decision to generously and indifferently dust peacefully sitting protesters with pepper spray from only a few feet away. Especially given that Davis is, you know, a liberal campus! And, gosh, even if we were going to Monday-morning quarterback the police, shouldn't we remember, as Megyn Kelly tells O'Reilly, that pepper spray is "a food product, essentially"?


http://gawker.com/5861688/its-a-food-product-essentially-fox-news-starts-spinning-pepper-spray-cops

[JoePhilly]

1. We should feed them some.

[elocs]

2. You missed this thread about this from last night:

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2360465

[Kber]

3. And water-boarding is like running through the sprinklers.

In fact, I think anyone who can make that statement in public should be able to demonstrate how easy / harmless the substance is. In public.

We can make a picnic out of it.

[sufrommich]

6. Someone on Fark suggested that O'Reilly be

waterboarded with Gatorade, it's merely a drink product.

[Enrique]

4. so is felafel n/t

[Mira]

5. These people are pond scum.

I cannot imagine that they sleep at night unaided by medication.

[Locrian]

7. pepper spray is the new GOP vegetable.... nt

[eShirl]

17. +1

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

8. Ugly as the Fox twits are, the comments in reply to these two asshats are hilarious.

ie:

Megyn Kelly on being laid off when your wife is pregnant: "It's European style family leave, essentially."

Megyn Kelly on tear gas: "It's like a sad story, essentially!"

Megyn Kelly on flashbangs: "It's like a surprise party, essentially!"

Megyn Kelly on sleep deprivation: "It's like a cup o' Joe, essentially!"

Megyn Kelly on stress positions: "It's like yoga, essentially!"

Megyn Kelly on mock executions: "It's like make-believe, essentially!"

:wow:

[treestar]

12. Someone should inform this moron that if those things are

so minor, why is that all that is being done to terrorists?

[sufrommich]

14. lol, I missed the comments. t

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. I see the Megan Kelly meme page coming....

[Brigid]

9. "Food product?"

OK, stupid FOX blowhards -- care to take a dose of that "food product" in the face and see what you think then?

[lonestarnot]

10. So are cracked nuts!

Eat the rich!

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[krispos42]

13. Isn't cyanide also a food product?

Hmmm...

[backscatter712]

15. It's like a friend of my dad once said of mushrooms...

"All mushrooms are edible. Some only once."

[krispos42]

21. *snort*

:rofl:

[Ganja Ninja]

30. Ricin is a food product too.

Bill'o should try some on his next falafel.

[krispos42]

36. I thought it was a faloofa?

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

16. so is the castor bean but it`s also deadly

[NYC_SKP]

19. Megyn Kelly on Ricin: "It's like a zesty Latin dish, essentially!"

Goes well with rice!

[eShirl]

18. and waterboarding is a beverage

[Hepburn]

20. KnR...n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. I really hope this doesn't trigger a movement to pepper spray Fox News anchors on sight.

Really I do. That would be a terrible thing.

[mod mom]

24. I'm sure they wouldn't mind as it is a food.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

28. By the beard of Zeus!! You are right. nt

[barbtries]

23. throw out that word, liberal

and any heinous act is okay. fuck them.

[Greybnk48]

25. Guess who needs to give pepper spray a try?

Willingly or unwillingly.

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Yep, pepper spray and pizza sauce are the new 'vegetable' part of a balanced diet.

[hootinholler]

27. So then why didn't they start by casting asparagus?

No, the cops escalated and went straight to pepper spray.

[Javaman]

29. alright them billy boy, step up to the salad bar and have some for yourself.

I think it goes without saying the bill o'lielly, enjoys being ignorant and stupid.

remember his comment about the tides?

[madmom]

31. Ok, I don't know if this is true or not, but I was told by someone that

if you were to spray a police DOG with the civilian version of pepper spray (not the stronger military version)you would be arrested fro committing a felony. Is this true anyone know? If so, how is it ok since "it's just a food product"?:shrug:

[Douglas Carpenter]

32. yeah and what's a little water and a wash cloth? And what was it with all this fuss at Abu Graib?-

we have all have had to change in a locker room before.

[woo me with science]

33. Chorost: "If I had to sum up the attitude of America's governing classes in one word..."contempt."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2353574

[RevStPatrick]

34. I guess they haven't seen this...

http://blogs.plos.org/speakeasyscience/2011/11/20/about-pepper-spray/