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MissMillie

(38,583 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 07:42 AM Aug 2022

"Ripe" enough to be President? (Fox News idiocy)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-host-says-women-who-haven-t-been-pregnant-aren-t-ripe-enough-to-run-for-president/ar-AA10lLe5?pc=U483&cvid=4e3ca8747f9c4e149ada95f298b7981c

Fox host says women who haven't been pregnant aren't 'ripe' enough to run for president

Fox News host Jesse Watters said that a woman has to get married and then get pregnant before she is "ripe" enough to run for president of the United States.

During Thursday night's episode of Fox News’ "The Five," Watters discussed the possibility of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) one day running for president.

"With age comes wisdom and she’s pretty young. That’s my nice way of saying she’s not very smart," Watters told his "The Five" co-hosts. "You know when you like pick a banana and the banana’s in your hand and it’s green and then even if you try to peel it, it’s still not even peeling? That’s AOC. She’s not ripe enough to run for president."


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While I certainly think wisdom and experience are important qualities for every leader... I don't know why marital or parental status has anything to do with anything. I mean, our last president was married multiple times and has a bunch of kids... certainly had nothing to do w/ his wisdom or experience level.

And as far as the age thing goes... you don't see Fox News hosts praising the wisdom and experience of our current President.

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Scrivener7

(51,025 posts)
1. Seems like suddenly the right wing is pushing the idea that
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 07:53 AM
Aug 2022

Dems are planning to nominate AOC, when Dems are planning no such thing.

DFW

(54,447 posts)
2. I think they are pre-fed their conclusions
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 07:54 AM
Aug 2022

It’s up to them how to get there.

Age equals wisdom if it’s a Republican, age equals dementia if it’s a Democrat.

Youth equals inexperienced and lacking intelligence if it’s a Democrat. Youth equals brimming with energy and ideas if it’s a Republican (or Kim Jong Un).

genxlib

(5,542 posts)
4. She's only 32
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 08:18 AM
Aug 2022

You have to be 35 to be president.

Only Fox (and especially Watters) could take a simple fact and somehow turn it into mysogeny.

tanyev

(42,632 posts)
5. Ah, but if the discussion had been about Hillary he would have come up with countless reasons
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 08:32 AM
Aug 2022

why she wasn't qualified, either.

area51

(11,925 posts)
6. "... pick a banana ... if you try to peel it ...."
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 08:34 AM
Aug 2022

Has he been smoking banana peels? He's still on the air, despite his past comment about a "kill shot" on Fauci? Fscking misogynist.

Croney

(4,671 posts)
7. Most men have never been pregnant,
Sat Aug 6, 2022, 08:40 AM
Aug 2022

yet many still run for President and consider themselves experts on pregnancy.

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