‘It’s a Food Product, Essentially’: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops

[DainBramaged]

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"?

Now, look, Kelly and O'Reilly aren't saying the cops did the right thing! God, no! "I agree looks bad," Kelly says. It's just that the protesters were sitting in a place where they weren't allowed to sit, so it's kind of their own fault! And in any event what right do we have to judge a cop for spraying a simple food product on the faces of a bunch of liberal college kids doing something criminal? You know? Maybe he was just trying to feed them?

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

[phantom power]

1. so is gravy

[DainBramaged]

2. From the comments

Megyn Kelly on fire hoses: "It’s a sports beverage, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on police dogs: "It’s a family pet, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on tasers: "It’s static cling, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on rubber bullets: "It’s a pencil eraser, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on hand grenades: "It’s a Fourth of July firework, essentially! God bless America." (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on beanbag rounds: "It's a game of cornhole, essentially!" (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on brains; "It's skull space-filler, essentially." (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on nightsticks: "It's an olive branch, essentially!" (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on waterboarding: "It's a water park ride essentially!" (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on Auschwitz: "It was a three star hotel, essentially." (Edit comment)
Megyn Kelly on fingernail extraction: "It's a mani-pedi, essentially!" (Edit comment)

[gratuitous]

6. That's exactly where my mind went

Megyn Kelly, were she "reporting" during the civil rights demonstrations of the 1950s and 1960s would doubtless be talking about how refreshing it can be to be doused with water on a hot Southern summer's day. Okay, maybe a fire hose brings the water with a little more pow than your garden hose, but really, water is water! What're those uppity folks complaining about? (And notice, please, that she didn't say "uppity black folks" because she's not racist. At all. So stop saying that.)

[DainBramaged]

14. She is a perfect FAUX mouthpiece, perfect.....

[nineteen50]

3. It will most likely become a vegetable approved for school lunches

[safeinOhio]

4. Some one needs to call them out to

take a face full of "food product".

[rurallib]

5. Megan, would you like to have a UCDavis cop serve some to your family

Thursday? Make a great feature you can run over and over. We can watch how your family enjoys the taste and the service.

[Sheepshank]

7. "particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus."

So what does a lib campus have to do with anything? I would imagine feeling threatened for their their own safety would come from a gun toting tea bagger group of worked up college students.

[Desertrose]

8. Simple food product? Good try you lame ass old fart.

Cayenne is food...stick some of that in your eyes you old sack of s......

[dtexdem]

9. "Arsenic and Old Lace": essentially, it's a clothing product.

;-)

Napalm: essentially it's a fuel product.

Faux News: essentially, it's NOT a news product.

[louis-t]

10. And there you have it. I predicted as much only yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2357010&mesg_id=2357135

[toddwv]

11. Does anyone else get the feeling that the right wants nothing more

than to shave our heads, force us to wear a big red L on our clothes and round us all up in a bunch of cattle cars?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. Mustard gas -- got the word "mustard" in it

Usin' it would be like eatin' a ham sandwich. Maybe a little pepper spray and mustard gas would be like eatin' spicy mustard.

[JNelson6563]

13. About the dumbest thing I've heard on this.

I think they should be willing to sit and get pepper-sprayed (and then water-boarded for good measure) and give us a first hand account of how insignificant it is to have a food product sprayed in your face (where we keep the most vulnerable things like eyes and noses.

The assholery just gets worse, doesn't it?

Julie