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What passes for humor on the Channel 25 morning news
By adamg on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 11:29am
A couple of UHub correspondents who actually watch Channel 25 in the morning report Gene Lavanchy was chatting with one-time state Rep. Maryanne Lewis about John Kerry becoming secretary of state. The topic of whom Deval Patrick should name as interim senator came up. Lewis cracked something like "There's a lot of talk about him possibly appointing a woman... So I think Barney Frank is a likely candidate." And they both had a good chuckle.
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Let it go
You can't complain that too many things are serious and humorless then jump all over someone for making an off the cuff joke. I don't like it, the sentiment behind it or what it implies, but I much rather live in a world where there are dumb jokes on the news on channels I can choose to watch va everyone being too politically correct and pomp all the time.
Well said, we used to be able
Well said, we used to be able to laugh at ourselves, why have we become so sensitive? It's a joke, a dumb one, but you don't have to laugh if you don't want too.
You hit on something right there
"We used to be able to laugh at ourselves."
Lewis wasn't laughing at herself.
She was laughing at somebody she thinks is a sissy.
She obviously never grew up past seventh grade.
Also, not only is it mildly
Also, not only is it mildly meanspirited, it's neither clever nor accurate. This isn't a jab at some persona Frank has-- he's not Holly Woodlawn or Lady Bunny-- but purely a poke at him because he's gay.
Ha ha, he's gay.
Fortunately, Barney is a bigger man than Lavanchy or Lewis
Exactly. What if Gene called
Exactly. What if Gene called her a whale on air? I don't understand how people think it is OK to equate a gay male to a female. This is like saying that anyone who wears pink is a girl, because girls like pink. Inane.
Extremely well said, Adam.
Extremely well said, Adam.
Yeah, those gays really need to chill out
I mean, jeez, why are they so bent out of shape? After decades of being the subject of jokes, fear, violence, hatred...
SUCH a bunch of DRAMA queens, those gays!
Don't they know how hard it is being straight and trying not to offend someone these days? Woe is me. It's just as hard as black people restraining themselves from robbing convenience stores!
HAAHAHA, see, an off the cuff joke! Isn't it SO FUNNY?
NO. Not going to "let it go."
uh huh.
Just like joking about a gorilla being a metco student, hey I was just joking!
I Still
think that was funny!
Fox affiliates becoming more like Fox News
I have noticed the past year or two that the news broadcasts on Fox affiliates has become more and more aligned with the right wing vein of Fox News. Maybe they thought Scott Brown being elected meant there was a niche for right wing TV news.
#1 What is the fascination
#1 What is the fascination with crusty one time state reps and Fox25?
#2 Hey, Maryanne, I heard you look like a fucking whale. I guess that's akin to calling Frank a woman. Maryanne likes to pick on his sexual orientation, so we get to pick on her weight, right? Fair is fair?
All I have to say about WFXT
All I have to say about WFXT is this
1. Its a Fox O&O Station. (Directly owned by Fox Television Stations, and not a affiliate)
2. WFXT got its start as a WXNE in 1977 as a Christian Station (it was bought by Murdoch in 1986 to become a Fox Affiliate)
3. This is the same station that until 1996, didn't have a news department of its own. Maria Stephanos has been there since day one.
Overall I don't have much faith in WFXT as a quality news station, it and WHDH run neck and neck in my book for the "most trashy". But its fun to watch though with a grain of salt.
Have you watched "Out Foxed"?
Have you watched "Out Foxed"? They go into how Murdoch went in and bought out all the local affiliates and gutted their actual news coverage, and canned people who didn't want to go with his movement toward conservative talking points and banter with weak liberals. That fat guy on Fox25 always interviews Warren Toleman. Are we serious here?
WFXT
Correction: WFXT got it's start way before 1977 when it was located in Needham on First Avenue and owned by Rex Trailer.
Wha Whhaaaa
Talk about the PC left wing.
The Left loves to
kick and scream about Fox but never brings up the fact CNN & MSNBC are just as bias and opinionated. Rachel Maddow!!!! Rev Sharpton!!! TALK ABOUT NUTS!!!!
MSNBC does not call Maddow or
MSNBC does not call Maddow or Sharpton "news shoes". This is political commentary. You should understand what you are talking about before reacting like such, anon.
Well i dont
Think Fox is considered a "News Shoe" either!
Pro tip
Calling out a typo in a post that managed to demolish your point in fewer than 30 words while not becoming shrill or defensive will subject you to a higher level of scrutiny than normal situations might. Thus, you should avoid making two separate grammatical errors in the three words you use for your counterargument's title.
Thanks, erikg. I find that
Thanks, erikg. I find that dismantling an argument through concise facts works a lot better than the "OMG LOOK AT WHUT LIBRIL AMERIKA DID LOLOLOLOL LIBRULS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but when your opinion is based on non-truths and empty talking points, then you deserve a call out. Danke, man.
Is there even a term for a false tu quoque?
Find me an example of Maddow (or hell, even Sharpton, since apparently the entire left side of the political spectrum is eligible for the "media bias" tag, even when they aren't actually on television) making an ethnic crack, an anti-gay slur, or a joke made at the expense of a minority with less power than they have, and I'll consider your argument.
Otherwise, you picked a bad day to piss down your own leg, because it's cold enough out that it's going to make your pants freeze to you.
Ask her
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maryanne-Lewis/10463...
Calling a man a woman is an insult?
There is a math here that I don't understand. How is calling a man a woman somehow a put down? To adapt a phrase: calling a man a woman is like calling a fish a bicycle.
Lightbulb moment! Calling a man a woman is junior high wit for telling a man he is somehow deficient. Wait...how is a man deficient if he is called a woman?
Seems to me that using the female gender as a way to put down a male is a total slam against women. So misogyny is alive and well on Fox tv stations.
As my mother used to say
"You're being deliberately obtuse."
It's offensive to not respect the gender identity of any person, and it's offensive to suggest that effeminate men or masculine women or anyone who doesn't conform to your ideals of gender or identity or behavior are not man enough or woman enough.
Now, now...
Can't we agree that the comment was homophobic AND misogynistic?
local news is enough of a
local news is enough of a joke without the low-rent don rickles act....
isn't there a counting dog somewhere they should be interviewing? Or an expose they can use to uncover conartists swindling octogenarians of their driveway repaving money?
Why is this a story? Are
Why is this a story? Are people seriously offended by this?
you answered it all by
you answered it all by yourself!
Gene doesn't seem like an
Gene doesn't seem like an ***hole, I'm sure it was just some nervous laughter after a juvinile comment. The real story here is that Barney has put himself out there in publicly asking to be appointed, and we know Deval is good buddies with Barak so.... Did Barney do this to pressure Deval? Love him or hate him Barney is a giant in Mass politics- how and why did this situation become public? Thoughts?
I accidentally +1 'd this
I accidentally +1 'd this comment.
Reviewing the segment again when Greater Boston replayed it Friday night (and have credit to uhub), I didn't think Gene's laugh was a result of nerves. He's been on air long enough to be able to handle clarifying his opinion in an awkward situation if he so chooses. He would have gained respect from me if he had intervened by saying, hey that's inappropriate. This was a gay slur disguised as bullying humor. Pretty disappointing. I had thought at least Boston's local Fox station was beyond this sort of denigrating BS.
I am seriously slow on the uptake
When I first heard this I thought she was talking about Barney's moobs. Later on someone pointed out that it was an anti-gay slur.
If anyone's wondering what I'm talking about, you need look no further than this picture
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/443352/BARNEY-FRANK-NIPP...