{"id":182148,"date":"2015-12-07T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/07\/fox-news-has-its-limits-who-knew\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T01:40:00","slug":"fox-news-has-its-limits-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/07\/fox-news-has-its-limits-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Has Its Limits \u2026\u2026\u2026 Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that if you call the President a &#8220;Pussy&#8221; on the air, or if you saying that Obama, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t give a sh%$,&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/12\/07\/fox_news_suspends_contributers_for_lashing_out_at_president_obama_in_separate_expletive_laden_on_air_rants\/\">a bridge too far for the performance art troupe known as Fox News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fox News has suspended two contributors, Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash, who described President Obama as a \u201cp**sy\u201d who doesn\u2019t \u201cgive a s**t\u201d on air today, reports CNN.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Peters\u2019 and Dash\u2019s comments \u201cwere completely inappropriate and unacceptable for our air,\u201d Fox News senior executive vice president Bill Shine said in a statement announcing the suspensions this afternoon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Peters, who Fox describes as its \u201cstrategic analyst,\u201d called the president a \u201ctotal pu\u2014\u201d who \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to hurt our enemies\u201d during an apperance on Fox Business Channel on Monday. \u201cThis guy, [he] is such a total p**sy, it\u2019s stunning,\u201d Peters told host Stuart Varney, reacting to the president\u2019s recent address on terrorism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On her regular turn on the \u201cOutnumbered\u201d couch on Fox News Monday afternoon, former Clueless star Stacey Dash just couldn\u2019t contain her anger at President Obama\u2019s Sunday evening Oval Office address on terror, saying that \u201cI felt like he could give a shit \u2014 excuse me, like he could care less.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cFox Business Network and Fox News Channel do not condone the use of such language, and have suspended both Peters and Dash for two weeks,\u201d Shine said. Both Peters and Dash have been suspended for two weeks.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s only 2 weeks, but I wouldn&#8217;t have expected 2 minutes from Emperor Ailes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that if you call the President a &#8220;Pussy&#8221; on the air, or if you saying that Obama, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t give a sh%$,&#8221; is a bridge too far for the performance art troupe known as Fox News: Fox News has suspended two contributors, Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash, who described President Obama as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1130,1064,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-media","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}