Wednesday, December 31, 2014

2014: Clueless Rich People saying Horrible things on TV, What they said.

http://www.alternet.org/media/2014-was-banner-year-clueless-rich-people-saying-horrible-things-tv?akid=12633.294211.Z5RXaY&rd=1&src=newsletter1029524&t=13


Were people always this horrible, or is it just that we’re all newly allowing our bigotry to surface?
If 2013 was the year of leaning in, then 2014 has been the year of leaning the fuck out. And if, theoretically, a person were to only watch cable news this past year, he would probably think that America had regressed into something much uglier than previously imagined.
Behold: Here are the most offensive, cloistered, ignorant things said on cable this year.
Cable news on women
In October, a woman filmed herself walking around New York City for a day, during which time she was  catcalled over 100 times. The video went predictably viral and the media had a blast adding insult after insult to injury. In the clip below, “The Five’s” Bob Beckel contributed to the harassment conversation with the following lurid observation: “Damn, baby. You’re a piece of woman”:

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