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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