Fox News denounces Pirro comments on Omar

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Fox News on Sunday night denounced remarks by host Jeanine Pirro this weekend suggesting that Rep. Ilhan Omar supports Sharia law in defiance of the U.S. Constitution because she wears a hijab.

“We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar," the network said in a statement. "They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly.”

Pirro's comments came on her weekly broadcast Saturday during a segment criticizing Omar, whose recent statements about Israel have provoked bipartisan repudiation and a House resolution condemning bigotry. Omar (D-Minn.) in 2018 became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).

“She’s not getting this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party. So if it’s not rooted in the party, where is she getting it from?” Pirro said. “Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59 tells women to cover so they won’t get molested.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/10/jeanine-pirro-ilhan-omar-hijab-1214844

[walkingman]

1. Who cares?

[dalton99a]

2. Glad they took care of it. Now I can watch Fox News again

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Good one.

[iluvtennis]

7. Good one +2

[Honeycombe8]

22. LOL! nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. If Jeanine Pirro should ever pull her head out of her ass . . .

She might actually learn something. But I won't hold my breath.

[True Blue American]

4. The heat Fox is getting

From everywhere, being called The Trump State Network must be getting through to the money men. They lost a great deal when Democrats refused to allow them to have debates.

[cstanleytech]

10. Its not just that as overall their ratings have slipped and now after the sale of so much of

their own production to Disney they do not have the profits of it to bouy them.
Sure they got billions from Disney but it wont last forever as news organizations are not cheap to run and ones that have effectively alienated half the population are even more so.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Fox News and Fox Entertainment have been separate for a long time. . . . nt

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Indeed her comments do reflect on the network.

They knew what they got when they hired her, and she isn't going anywhere. If anything, she'll move up a rank.

[catbyte]

8. Mrs Betty Bowers described her perfectly today: "Braying boozehound"

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[DesertRat]

11. LIE: "They do not reflect those of the network"

Yes they do!

[KT2000]

12. It's tricky for them

The way they make a name for themselves is to be more outrageous than the others. There is always the risk of going too far. But then the rest of them will be repeating her meme in a few days and she will get her own show.

[Raine]

14. She already has her own show

"Justice with Judge Jeanine" 1hr on Saturdays.

[LompocDem]

13. Pirro said...

“Think about it. Omar wears a hijab, which according to the Quran 33:59 tells women to cover so they won’t get molested."

Umm... Don't they say that rape victims encourage their attackers by the way they dress out the other side of their mouth?

[stonecutter357]

15. fox is not a legitimate news source .

[brooklynite]

16. ...which is why this comes from Politico.

[C_U_L8R]

17. Cynical or schizophrenic

Fox is a hot mess of hate.

[still_one]

19. Is Pirro still there? If so, then they don't mean what they say

[justhanginon]

20. This sleazebag is just trying for Bill Shine's old job,

Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications. Can you just imagine?

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Pirro is Lebanese

and her deplorables love to lump all "AAAAYYY-rabs" in together as "ragheads" and "sharia law terrorists" (whether they are Christians or not). So in her case, the stupid REALLY burns...

[dalton99a]

23. "The kids used to make fun of me...called me 'Camel Jockey'"

Jeanine Ferris Pirro was born June 2, 1951 in the small town of Elmira in the south-western corner of upstate New York. Pirro's maternal grandfather, by her account, was a very successful businessman who encouraged Jeanine's father to settle there with his family. Her mother, Esther Awad, had been sent to live with relatives in Bsalim, Lebanon from a young age. There she learned to speak Arabic and only returned when she married Nasser. Pirro's father passed away back in 1978 but her mother is still alive and living in Elmira. To this day, Esther Awad has family in Lebanon but whether or not the great Lebanese poet, Maurice Awad, who shares her family name and is also from Bsalim, is related to her is something, Pirro says she'll have to "talk to her mother about." It is her mother who really introduced Jeanine to the culture, food and traditions of Lebanon. However, her memories of growing up as a Lebanese-American teenager in Elmira are not all happy. "I remember the kids used to make fun of me...called me 'Camel Jockey' and 'Fat Lips.' I am very proud of my lips..." but she adds jokingly, "...of course as you get older they get thinner..."

"We were Catholic and I went to catholic school and just about everybody there was Irish and so I looked different. You know it's so amazing today how the multicultural definition of this country is just so different from when I was growing up. I mean everyone was a blue-eyed blonde and I just looked different."

During her teenage years, Pirro recalls she was not ready to embrace her foreign heritage or to make the effort to learn Arabic, "Growing up was very different for me. I didn't want to learn the language and it's a shame that I did not and I am very sorry for that. My mother reminds me every day...or every chance she gets."

"It's my goal, maybe even part of my 'bucket-list' to speak Arabic." Pirro found that as she grew older she returned more and more to her Lebanese roots. "I wanted to cook the food, and I still cook it, and I love to cook. My mother was a good cook...you know the kibbee, the tabouli, and hummus, banganoush, the sheikh el-meshee, the kibbee nayeh, mjadhara. Do you like my funny accent?..and I'm a great cook, by the way. I am a decent belly dancer too, and I love the music. I took my bose speakers and my Ipod to my Mom and played the music for her and she was in tears. You know she said, 'I remember when you were a little girl and you know you didn't want to hear that music,' and I said 'Yeah, I know Mom, and I'm so sorry."

http://www.al-mohajer.com/article.php?id=17&cat=3&lng=en

[BumRushDaShow]

24. And I'll note that people like her

and her fellow Lebanese compatriot and RW loon John Sununu, have diarrhea of the mouth. They will soon learn, like they discovered in their youth, that the white supremacists they lust after consider them inferior scum.

[Initech]

25. Pirro should be fired for this. If not time to go after her sponsors.

[Dawson Leery]

26. They won't fire Pirro as in their putrid core, they agree with her as does

the audience.

[nycbos]

27. When I hear the name Omar I still think of this Omar...

...

[Don Quijote]

28. Denounce Carlson too

Denounce both.