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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 02:38 PM Sep 2014

Fox Hosts Giggle That NFL Player’s Abused Girlfriend Should Learn To ‘Take The Stairs’

The hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday turned video of NFL player Ray Rice punching his then-girlfriend unconscious in an elevator into a joke, saying that in the future she should “take the stairs.”

After TMZ released a leaked surveillance video that showed what happened when Rice knocked out the woman inside the elevator, the Fox News hosts asked viewers if a two-game suspension had been appropriate.

“We should also point out, after that video — and now you know what happened in there — she still married him,” host Steve Doocy explained. “They are currently married.”

“Rihanna went back to Chris Brown right after [he assaulted her],” co-host Brian Kilmeade noted. “A lot of people thought that was a terrible message.” “I think the message is take the stairs,” he added, as co-host Anna Kooiman giggled.
“The message is, when you’re in an elevator, there’s a camera,” Doocy concluded. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/08/fox-hosts-giggle-that-nfl-players-abused-girlfriend-should-learn-to-take-the-stairs/

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Fox Hosts Giggle That NFL Player’s Abused Girlfriend Should Learn To ‘Take The Stairs’ (Original Post) big_dog Sep 2014 OP
i CANT SAY ANYTHING randys1 Sep 2014 #1
basically there is no level they wont stoop to big_dog Sep 2014 #2
"seems"? SMC22307 Sep 2014 #9
Ok there is alot of bullshit to the 'Rihanna went back to Chris Brown' statement LynneSin Sep 2014 #3
Chris Brown has not improved his behavior ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #5
well never said he was truly rehabilitated LynneSin Sep 2014 #8
I don't know which is worst ... 1StrongBlackMan Sep 2014 #4
This is unreal RockaFowler Sep 2014 #6
I wish I could introduce these guys to some stairs. geomon666 Sep 2014 #7
I would like to put these guys in a small room with a man twice their size who was angry redstatebluegirl Sep 2014 #10
Oh, it's happened ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #11
Dumb Fucks and Friends strikes again. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2014 #12
In other words, beat her, but not where it can be filmed... joeybee12 Sep 2014 #13
The sun will rise on your corpse. alphafemale Sep 2014 #14
I am not joking. nt alphafemale Sep 2014 #15
Oh how I hope this gets the Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert treatment. tanyev Sep 2014 #16

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
9. "seems"?
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:27 PM
Sep 2014

Those fuckers have been spewing their poison since 1996, and their brainwashed wingnut viewers absolutely love it. I remember standing in the kitchen at work during FUX's early years thinking "what is this bullshit?". We're going on nearly 20 years of toxicity... how depressing.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
3. Ok there is alot of bullshit to the 'Rihanna went back to Chris Brown' statement
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 02:59 PM
Sep 2014

Yes they did get back together. But that was 3 years AFTER that first incident when he had beat her up. After that first attack in 2009 he was charged and found guilty for domestic abuse where he received a sentence of community service and ordered to attend anger management classes for domestic abusers.

So when the 2 did get back together it was 3 years after the incident, after Brown had served his sentence, went to anger management classes and worked hard to rehabilitate his image. But the reunion was short lived and no reason was given as to why they broke up although if he had beat the crap out of her again I'm sure he would have landed in jail again.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
5. Chris Brown has not improved his behavior
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:14 PM
Sep 2014

Didn't he go to jail for assaulting a valet?

Look, I'm not going to get into victim blaming asking why she'd go back with him, but it really shouldn't be defended either.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
8. well never said he was truly rehabilitated
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:16 PM
Sep 2014

He has had more issues of lately.

But at the time when he got back to Rihanna he had pretty much cleaned up his act. But in the end it was an act.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
4. I don't know which is worst ...
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:05 PM
Sep 2014
“I think the message is take the stairs,” he added, as co-host Anna Kooiman giggled.

“The message is, when you’re in an elevator, there’s a camera,” Doocy concluded


The female joking" about the "message"; or, Doocy's "just don't get caught" comment?

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
6. This is unreal
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:15 PM
Sep 2014

Yeah - let's make light of a terrible situation

Thanks Douchey. You are living up to your name

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
10. I would like to put these guys in a small room with a man twice their size who was angry
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 03:52 PM
Sep 2014

with them for some unknown reason. Of course the beating the got would be Obama's fault.

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