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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Does joking about a woman that way make America great again?"
Tamron Hall asks a great question:
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/TamronMSNBC/status/755440708094271489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)pkdu
(3,977 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)I love Tamron Hall, she doesn't let anyone get away with crap, unlike a lot of people on MSNBC.
Over the course of four minutes, Hall repeatedly skewered Baio for sharing the meme, demanding to know, "Did you think about that in church, when you tweeted it out?"
Baio, who is best known for his role as Chachi on Happy Days, attempted to backtrack. "I offered it without commentary, that was just put up," he said. "I just put it up there."
"Yeah, but you know what it meant when you tweeted it out," Hall said. She then pivoted to another tweet that showed an unflattering picture of Michelle Obama with the text "Wow. [Obama] wakes up to this every morning."
"That tweet was a joke. Tamron, I'm a guy from Brooklyn. I have a certain sense of humor. I sit with my buddies and we smoke cigars. I joke about "
http://theweek.com/speedreads/636982/watch-tamron-hall-hold-scott-baio-accountable-sexist-memes-epic-interview
Also it appears that Baio "accidentally" blocked Hall from his Twitter account.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)What a great way to start my day this morning.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/755431833584570368?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
True Dough
(17,320 posts)Chachi is a real Trumpeteer.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)or something.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)So full of himself. So trump-like
trotsky
(49,533 posts)You just need the decoder ring.
"Great" = run only by straight white men, all others must know their place.