Viewers Force Gibson To Apologize For Airing Joke About ‘Ejaculating In A Woman’s Eye’
Viewers Force Gibson To Apologize For Airing Joke About ‘Ejaculating In A Woman’s Eye’
Radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony were recently suspended from XM Satellite Radio “when they broadcast May 9 the rantings of a character they call Homeless Charlie, who fantasized about having violent sex with Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II.”
On Monday, “stand-up comic” Patrice O’Neal appeared as a guest on John Gibson’s Fox News show, The Big Story, and defended Opie and Anthony. He said they were just “trying to be funny,” adding that he has a “couple” of “pretty good” rape jokes in his HBO special. As an example, he cited a “donkey punch” joke: “[I]t’s ejaculate in her eye and kick her in the shin and she walks around like arrgh, it’s the angry pirate.”
When Gibson argued that “you can’t say just anything on the air” (even though he aired the “joke”), O’Neal claimed, “You can say anything you want.” Watch it:
O’Neal also criticized Gibson’s other guest, Sonia Ossorio, and her organization, the National Organization of Women, for “not representing the nappy ho part, she’s representing just the ho. The nappy headed part, she has nothing to do with, just the ho.”
Viewers, understandably, were outraged that Gibson’s show, which is on at 5:00 PM ET, aired O’Neal’s remarks. One viewer wrote in and said that Gibson “blew it yesterday,” and that women need to “raise all sorts of heck against this man and others who degrade women of any race.” To his credit, Gibson apologized:
Patrice said something which should never have been aired and for those of you who heard it, I apologize. There are rules governing this business and what he said violated those rules. It’s my show and it’s my fault, and I apologize sincerely to all and any who were offended. And that is your word.
(HT: News Hounds)
Transcript:
GIBSON: More CBS radio firings, they’ve been on a terror lately. Are they cleaning house, or is this the PC cops run amok?
O’NEAL: You know what it is John. You know what it is while you’re reading that paper. It’s the PC cops run amok.
GIBSON: Who do you think (INAUDIBLE) a PC cop.
O’NEAL: She’s a PC cop, of course she is. She has an entire encyclopedia of her stance on it, but it’s no passion involved. It’s not a real — this is just what she has to say. We are outraged and fired and fired and fired.
OSSORIO: He’s a fool, he’s an absolute fool.
O’NEAL: Name calling. I’m outraged. I am outraged.
OSSORIO: You should be, you should be outraged.
O’NEAL: I am a fool. Now if I called you a fool — ah!
OSSORIO: You know what, people are feeling a new sense of entitlement to decency in this country.
O’NEAL: Who are these people? Who are the people?
OSSORIO: A new sense of entitlement.
GIBSON: How can you — Patrice so here is my question — how can you justify a bad joke, a joke that isn’t funny — wait a minute, that isn’t funny, doesn’t get any laughs, and is about raping the first black woman to ever become the secretary of state of the United States?
O’NEAL: Don’t throw that at me.
GIBSON: Well why not?
O’NEAL: The attempt is what I’m trying to fight for. The joke may or may — funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth. You don’t know if anything is going to be funny. You should attempt to be able to make anything funny.
GIBSON: Don’t you think a joke about rape is doomed to be not funny?
O’NEAL: It’s possible, but I’ve heard them. I’ve heard them –
GIBSON: You’ve heard a funny rape joke?
O’NEAL: I’d say a couple. Watch my HBO special, I’m pretty good at it.
OSSORIO: Yes, Patrice says that if you’re having sex with a woman doggy style and if you hit her in the head at just the right time –
O’NEAL: No, its ejaculate in her eye and kick her in the shin and she walks around like arrgh, it’s the angry pirate. That’s what she was trying to say.
OSSORIO: No, no. He said a violent act of hitting her in the back of her head, her body freezes up, which will then –
O’NEAL: It’s called the donkey punch.
OSSORIO: Which will then –
O’NEAL: Why are you laughing? She’s outraged. It’s called the donkey punch, its called humor that she has no clue what it is.
GIBSON: We have the same problem that Opie and Anthony does. You can’t say just anything on the air.
O’NEAL: You can say anything you want. It might not be funny, you might get in trouble for it, but you should be able to be attempting — and plus, when is a crazy bum going to get an opportunity to rape the president’s wife John? It was trying to be funny.
GIBSON: All right Patrice, why aren’t I hearing Al Sharpton complain about this thing involving –
O’NEAL: Because it wasn’t involving young black women.
GIBSON: Well, it’s involving a very prominent black woman.
O’NEAL: Well where was she during young black — everybody has their agenda.
OSSORIO: I was there, I was there.
O’NEAL: Oh I’m sorry. All right, excuse me.
OSSORIO: Well why am I not hearing from Sharpton?
O’NEAL: Because this doesn’t concern him. It does not concern him. You know, come on now, you know Al Sharpton has his agenda and it was perfect for Al, young black women. And now she’s representing just women in general. She’s not representing the nappy ho part, she’s representing just the ho. The nappy headed part, she has nothing to do with, just the ho.
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A fine example by Fox of family values.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:10 pmPatrice O’Neal is hilarious.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:10 pmThanks for the apology. Apology Accepted.
Let’s move on
May 16th, 2007 at 1:11 pmBetter call out the socialist/feminist police to bring em to justice!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pmWell, we shall wait and see if Fox is levied heavy fines for this (as CBS was for the Superbowl Halftime Wardrobe Malfunction), or if Fox will begin the process of firing prominent employees who had a part in this particular episode
May 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pmFurther proof that FOX News is crap.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:14 pmWhores and losers guest on FOX. I don’t really give a crap about some baseless weird attempt at forcing standards on those propagandists.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pmWow, so now we’re back to the “nappy headed ho” thing.
More people murdered in Iraq. More billion$ being stolen. Our food supply is in crisis (bees), our planet is in meltdown, and our nation is collapsing.
But hey, aint it fun to be able to throw around “nappy headed ho” in a conversation and still act like the conversation and topic are relevant.
Advanced sensibilities indeed.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pmCAN WE GET A TISSUE TO CLEAN VALIUNTS EYE OUT?
May 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pmDid Gibson apologize for his “knuckle-dragging savages” comment? Or did he merely suggest that O’Neal get “five in the noggin?”
May 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pmA couple of good rape jokes? What a tool. However he’s right about NOW.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:20 pmPatrice does a bit about how he always gets receipts and makes a big commotion when he goes places so he can’t be falsely accused of crimes. One of the jokes, he says he never litters, not because he cares about the Earth, but because he doesn’t want his prints / DNA landing on a crime scene. Like tossing a soda can out, it lands on a dead woman’s head, and now he’s the Pepsi Cola Rapist.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:27 pmO’Neill is funny. He’s a comedian. Don’t become ridiculous prudes.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:30 pmWe’re becoming a nation of pussies.
Our food supply is in crisis (bees)
I heard on Coast To Coast last night that the organic beekeepers are not losing bees.
Apparently it is only the big commercial beekeepers who are getting hit by this.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pmYes, censorship is an area where sensitive liberals verge on fascist tendences. Freedom of speech means there will be great offense taken at time. Live free or die. The market allows for enough policing of speech. Humor is amoral. You can laugh at something horrible but not condone the action. There’s usually an implicit ironic gap between the speech and that what is represented–you generally have to have some distance to appreciate humor. And you can’t judge a person’s soul by the jokes they tell. Now, how people USE humor, that’s another matter, and can be a weapon of harassment, but the intrinsic joke itself must have a certain freedom. Live with it and don’t be a mind slave.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pmO’Neill is funny. He’s a comedian. Don’t become ridiculous prudes.
We’re becoming a nation of pussies. – Comment by Alejandro
We should have Jeffy Lube Gannon ejaculate in Alejandro’s eye.
LOL! That would be a laugh riot!! /sarc
May 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pmWho’s that funny black man? And no that statement isn’t racist you PC punks!
Haha, he said “donkey punch” and “ejaculate in her eye”
FOX family values at its best
May 16th, 2007 at 1:38 pmhere’s come in your eye!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pmOn Gibsons RADIO show yesterday, he lambasted Opie and Anthony for allowing a guest to say inappropriate comments, stating further that as a nation “nobody has real freedom of speach” giving the yelling “fire” in a theater example. He went on and said that O&A deserved the punishment and should probably be fired. How is his situation any different. I think the comments on his show (which are listed above out of context, actualy Patrice is making reference to comments he made in the past and a joke that the lady from NOW didn’t get), the comments were directed at ALL woman, not just 3 woman as on O&A. I think Gibson should get equal punishment as the boys.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pmWho the devil is Patrice O’Neal? And why is someone so offensive getting airtime other than pay-per-view? I’m not a prude – but there is nothing funny about degrading women or anyone else. I’m sure Mr. O’Neal would object to jokes about lynching, as would I.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:42 pmO’Neill is funny. He’s a comedian. Don’t become ridiculous prudes.
We’re becoming a nation of pussies. – Comment by Alejandro
We should have Jeffy Lube Gannon ejaculate in Alejandro’s eye.
LOL! That would be a laugh riot!! /sarc
Comment by Tom3 — May 16, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
I think it would be funnier if Ted Haggard and Mark Foley double-teamed and both shot in Alejandro’s eyes. HA, HA, HA! Funny stuff!!!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:44 pmWow! A right-wing Faux news personality actually apologizing? And sounding like he wasn’t blaming other people while he was doing so?
Let’s give credit where credit is due, people.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:44 pmBUT AL SHARPTON SAID IT WASN’T ABOUT FORGIVENESS, IT WAS ABOUT THE PENALTY!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:45 pmPowcat-Patrice O’neal is a comedian who appears on the Opie and Anthony show from time to time, and also appears on FOX and other news channels to offer comentary on the radio industry, free speach, race issues and comics. He is a very funny comedian and actor (has been in movies and is seen in “The Office”. He would think that any issues are funny including “lynching” as you say Powkat. He thinks as a comedian/entertainer that ALL material should be allowed and protected as the constitution states.
May 16th, 2007 at 1:48 pmI’m trying to decide whether TP’s various campaigns are trying to move us back to the Soviet era, or to the Victorian era. Does anyone know?
May 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pmFox News, We report and then we ejaculate in your eye.
-GSD
May 16th, 2007 at 1:54 pm“BUT AL SHARPTON SAID IT WASN’T ABOUT FORGIVENESS, IT WAS ABOUT THE PENALTY!”
Al Sharpton is an idiot!
May 16th, 2007 at 1:58 pmHe couldn’t even get the joke right – a donkey punch has nothing to do with a pirate! (but they’re still both very degrading)
May 16th, 2007 at 2:01 pmOops, my bad – helps if I read the transcript.
How the hell did this exchange get on the air???????
May 16th, 2007 at 2:04 pmWow, this is what we’ve come to??? The guy is a comedian, and said (in my opinion) funny stuff. Maybe i was inapropriate for “free” cable, but the apology was made….move on. I’m not defending Fox News, but it seems to me like TP takes ANY chance it has to pile on to them….Am I wrong here??
May 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pmPatrice O’Neal is funny. O&A should not be fired — especially since their show is on a pay service.
I’m sick of my fellow liberals bending over backwards to achieve the same aims of the Moral Majority.
Grow up people.
There is a war on. I don’t give two cents what is said on the air.
If you don’t like it, turn the station.
Free speech trumps almost any other right in this country.
Liberals would do well to remember that before they start coming after us.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:10 pm#28,
May 16th, 2007 at 2:12 pmThe exact same way that it just got added to the comments, moron.
I’m sick and tired of the heavy hand the FCC and all these special interest groups have on radio and now XM. Its an effort that is slowly reversing the first amendment.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:15 pmviewers should be upset at Fox for that sort of content,
May 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pmthe way it was presented.
Gibson probably was enjoyin being a titillating host.
why patrice and his shock humor was there is beyond me.
of course, he is free to spout whatever he wants,
as are Opie and Anthony.
the shock is that there are apparently scads of people that listen to this shit and think it’s funny.
….of course, i never saw the humor in Imus, either,
so whatta i know?
Imagine if this was on Air America or a ‘lefty’ station – the Repugs would be going crazy!
You can’t just say whatever you want and then wipe it all away with an apology – responsibility is a cornerstone of Free Speech (just because you can say something doesn’t mean you should).
May 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pmEnough is enough, if you dont like what is said on a station, turn the station. what the heck happened to the no seat belt or helmet wearing country, now we sue for coffee being too hot, joke tellers for telling jokes, and shock jocks for bieng shocking. Whats next, enforcing spead limits during NASCAR races. This has got to stop now.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:17 pmOpie and Anthony need to be fired, sorry. This was far worse than Imus’ comments.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pmXM facing huge subscriber losses over suspension and possible firing of Opie & Anthony
XM satellite radio has suspended and is rumored to have fired shock jocks Opie & Anthony over comments that a homeless man made during his appearance on their program towards Condi Rice, Laura Bush and the Queen of England. Fans are showing their support in large numbers for the show by canceling their subscriptions. The angry subscribers are being offered an average of 3 free months of XM satellite radio .The vast majority of the fans are turning down that offer and canceling their subscriptions. Many of the fans had multiple XM units on their accounts. The average wait time to cancel is 1-2 hours due to the large volume of cancellations by dissatisfied customers.
LINKS to Opie and Anthony message boards that have a thread with a list of cancelled subscribers .
May 16th, 2007 at 2:26 pmhttp://fullblownaids.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12101
http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJvKmrgzghE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW1-_JmXQt0
May 16th, 2007 at 2:39 pmBest news segment ever! The camera man, Gibson, and even the NOW president were laughing. I also think it was well within FCC standards – he said “ejaculate” not another word for it. It’s also a cable channel. If you don’t like it – turn the channel.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pmPicture this, if we don’t stop this over- censorship now, all radio stations are going to carry Mancow.
May 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pmI love that guy..
May 16th, 2007 at 3:07 pmI just need to clarify something. His “joke” actually combined the donkey punch AND fish eye together. Check urbandictionary.com. They know everything there.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pmOhhh, some people don’t like you to talk like that. Ohh, some people like to shut you up for saying those things. You know that. Lots of people. Lots of groups in this country want to tell you how to talk. Tell you what you can’t talk about. Well, sometimes they’ll say, well you can talk about something but you can’t joke about it. Say you can’t joke about something because it’s not funny. Comedians run into that shit all the time. Like rape. They’ll say, “you can’t joke about rape. Rape’s not funny.” I say, “fuck you, I think it’s hilarious. How do you like that?” I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See, hey why do you think they call him “Porky,”
May 16th, 2007 at 3:22 pmYou know what, the only “nation” in outrage over those comments and the comments of imus and JV and Elvis are old farts who grew up in a different time. Ask your average 19 year old what offends them … the answer is nothing. When the 40somethings of the world are a generation raised on the free flow of information and ideas (the internet) we’ll all realize how truly trivial comments like “donkey punch jokes” and “nappy headed hos” really are. A personal attack by someone you know will always be considered disrespectful and treated accordingly. Me saying “oh by the way fuck spics!” (im puerto rican by the way) doesn’t harm anyone, doesn’t offend – really offend – anyone. lets all get over this PC crap, and lets do it before old age does it for us
May 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pmMaybe Patrice wouldn’t like a joke about lynching…or maybe he would, if it’s funny. A joke is a joke. Some are funny to some people while not funny to others. A lot of jokes are centered around atrocious things. Did anyone see The Aristocrats? Hilarious.
BUT! we can’t have PC police running around censoring jokes.
May 16th, 2007 at 3:49 pmLet Jerry Falwell rest in peace.
#34– Was what he said really that bad?? If you watch any “newer” show, you’ll hear referances worse than donkey punching on the daily. Hell, maybe they’ll get fined, maybe not.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:01 pmAnd you saying that the neocons would be all over it is true, but by people going after it here…..the “tit for tat” just seems childish, ya know.
Free speech splinters between the words and the intentions. It is the difference between comedy and news, the difference between George Carlin and Bill O’Reilly. Comedy, like all forms of art, needs to have no limits as it becomes the boundaries and reflections of the culture. Comics are there to merely make jokes, with the responsibility only to be the best their art, and if the art is personally objectionable, walk away. News needs monitoring as its very purpose is to merely show what is happening, while political talk shows are designed solely for the purpose of rhetoric, to convince and convert. Responsibility comes here, as history shows how easily movements and rhetoric snowball into active forces, and how it always begins with the limiting and controlling of art and speech.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:07 pmHilarious
May 16th, 2007 at 4:28 pmI love the scare quotes around “stand up comic.” Whether you think he’s funny or not, that is indeed how he makes his living.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:39 pmOpie and Anthony should be fired for something THEY NEVER EVEN SAID? They should be fired because a homeless person expressed his opinion of the Secretary of State, the Queen of England, and Laura Bush? Get the facts before you claim to have an informed opinion, CompTROLLER.
On the subject of “rape can be funny,” I remember a George Carlin bit where he states he proves it: “Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. I know, I know what you’re going to say, Elmer was coming on to Porky. He got a hard-on, he lost his mind.”
Where was the holier-than-thou NOW spokesperson then?
In Neil Simon’s “Biloxi Blues,” Wykowski fantasizes about banging the Queen of England. No outrage.
Laura Bush married a drug-abusing, alcoholic liar, and fathered two alcoholic daughters. I’m sorry, but that is a comedy routine BEGGING to be written.
May 16th, 2007 at 4:50 pmFree Speech does not cover threats to the public, such as yelling FIRE in a public place. Saying you are going to “rape someone to death” is a threat. Patrice O’Niel is obnoxious and his “jokes” perpetuate violence and the objectification of human beings.
f*ck that noise
May 16th, 2007 at 4:56 pmI’m a regular reader of TP and would definitely endorse it any day of the week.
But this? C’mon..
Comedy should not have boundaries.. it is meant to be over the top, which is half the reason why its funny.
When a comedian is making a joke about an old person who shouldn’t have a liscense mowing down a slew of pedestrians, its not like he’s secretly harboring some desire to see people get ran over.
Everyone has their taste of jokes.. You have your Jerry Seinfelds, to your Eddie Murphy’s (pre-family), to your Larry the Cable Guy’s.. Everyone has their own style and appeal to a certain audience. Some people find some humor funny, other’s just don’t get it.. but that doesn’t mean that everytime someone tells a crude joke, everyone should go up in arms.
There are things to stand up for.. that actually matter.. as many posters have already commented on. This is not one of them. Censor everyone? I thought that was the Right’s job.
So get off your high horses, tell a fart joke, and move on w/ life. If you want to be truly outraged about something, be outraged that the media is drawing focus to this (non-)news.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pmBRAVO #50!!!
May 16th, 2007 at 5:14 pmmucho thanks :-P was the first time I actually felt compelled to post, instead of just lurk.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pmfire him
May 16th, 2007 at 10:27 pmDon’t care what your opinion is, but why put “stand-up comic” in quotes as if to imply it’s not true. You may not like Patrice’s comedy, but he has made a living as a stand-up comic since the late eighties. He is a stand-up comic. It’s a fact, not something to be opined. If you were a conservative, Media Matters would have you for lunch over something so misleading and perjorative.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:02 pmPatrice offered a fine piece of modern oratory; I dont understand why pundits can act as if their offended and state that their upholding the rage and outrage of the American people.
May 16th, 2007 at 11:11 pmHilarious by Patrice O’Neill. I’m proud that I live in a country where someone like Patrice can shut up a propagandist hack and a sanctimonious whiner with jokes about donkey-punching laura bush. Makes me even more sad that Bill Hicks is gone.
May 17th, 2007 at 12:28 amPatrice was put on this show for what reason? Do you think that the producers of this live news talk show knew of Patrice’s level of humor when he was invited, or was Patrice set up in hopes he would speak his mind as anyone in their right mind would expect him to? I think all the above, the answers would be yes.
May 17th, 2007 at 12:40 amDo i think the term “nappy headed hoes” is appropriate at any level? no. Just as i believe that labeling most men as potential abusers, dead beat dads, and irresponsible parents labels should be done away with also.
There is a terrible double standard here, that while it can never be politically correct to consider abuse of women to be humourous, it is always down right funny to see a man get kicked in the groin or slapped in the face for no other reason then saying the wrong thing. Take the time and watch tv, and just as i have noticed averages of 7 slaps a day and 3 to 4 groin “high kicks”, and the 1 or 2 times you will see a man get hit in the head with an iron skillet on an average daily basis , on “REGULAR” tv.
If this can be funny , then what is wrong with me feeling Patrice is a great comedian..
okay the story is becoming a story now, lets keep it moving and by the wat John if it isnt to incorrect YOU ARE A HOTTIE
May 17th, 2007 at 2:16 amPathetic how the thin skin of liberals and the politically correct world they want us to live in is based on censorship. It was Sean Hannity who had to stick up for Opie and Anthony and their rights to make a “joke†about Raping Laura Bush and Condi Rice.
While you POS scumbags cheer the death of a reverend and spit on the flag, and not in jest. With the new Democrat congress approval rating plummeting below Bush’s rating you people should hide your heads in shame. Stop sucking George Soro’s dick and get a spine and get a life.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:17 amWhoever wrote this article is a racist – the only reason that this is news is because a black man said those comments. I will never visit this site again and will tell others of the bigotry that is on display here.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:28 pmNow, perhaps I’m just ass-backwards on this topic, but I always thought that it was the conservatives that were blocking free speech while the libs fought for it. Some of the comments I’ve seen would suggest just the opposite.
As for me, I think that people should be able to say whatever they please. I do have standards, however, and I won’t be swearing or making donkey punch jokes around kids. That said, as an adult, how can one truly be watching a channel which they paid for the right to watch and know that the guest speaker relies on shock value in his comedy and then be outraged when he says something shocking? Look at Dave Chappelle for Christ sake, he makes more jokes about slavery and black culture than anyone. And get this….he’s black. Loosen up a bit folks, it’s not the fifties anymore. That said, in the fifties jokes about blacks and women were probably more socially acceptable. Go figure.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:30 amYou know that the worse thing to do is to Take yourself to damn seriously. EVERYONE has something funny about them. And yes, to make fun of our Differences, especially when they are apparent, should be OK.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:57 amGod, can’t we just laugh at each other, and ourselves??
Maybe if we laughed more, instead of shooting each other, the world would be a better place.
Opie and Anthony use stupid, over the line humor. That is what their show is about. That has never been a secret. For God’s sake, if you don’t want to hear what they say, change the damn channel, but don’t censor them.
First of all, as soon as I read the headline I know the idealoges would be blaming FOX, instead of the moron who made the comments. Hes and adult, he knows he shouldn’t have said that stuff. If he was a white male though you would have the moral “left” or the speech nazi’s as they should be known, after his head. Liberals dont fight for freedom of speech or any right, they fight for their own idea’s same as the conservatives.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:02 amGibson apologized for another disrespectful, uncouth adult on his show, that is a noble thing. Also, notice how he is a white male and being persecuted for these comments. Also, how those non-talented punks Opie and whoever were targeted for something a black guy said.
Get your heads on straight, there is a bigger picture, more to see that just what exists on your parties little bandwagon.
There needs to be more of this on Fox News. I’d watch it!
How about the Rusty Trombone? The Blumkin? The Delaware Ditch? The Cleveland Steamer? The Hot Karl? Come on now, give these and other acts equal time, Fox!
May 18th, 2007 at 9:05 am“GIBSON: You’ve heard a funny rape joke?
O’NEAL: I’d say a couple. Watch my HBO special, I’m pretty good at it.
OSSORIO: Yes, Patrice says that if you’re having sex with a woman doggy style and if you hit her in the head at just the right time –”
He said watch my HBO special and that was the end of that. Ossorio was the one that went into detail. String her up.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:35 amIn all seriousness, we Democrats should not be so damn reactionary. Our point of view has an awful lot to offer than being the opposite of Republicans. This is the end result of pursuing wedge issues and taking the bait. How many of you would have laughed if the woman in the clip if he’d been ahmmering Ann Coulter instead of the NOW.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:37 amXM has handed their unregulated industry to the White House so they can merge with Sirius and create a monopoly. Where’s the outrage for that.?
I’m a staunch Democrat. But when we run around chasing crap like this, I’m not so proud to be one.
Patrice is the best. Hilarious, hilarious people.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:57 amFirst off – back story – the NOW woman had very recently written an article attacking Patrice for his stand-up specifically about the donkey punch. She did not get the description correct, and she is the one who brought it up.
Where is the outrage for her comments, and I thought liberals were supposed to be for progress, you know like getting to the level beyond “OWWW Words hurt me….” – are you really proud that he had to apologize because we cannot have an adult conversation in America?
May 18th, 2007 at 10:02 amthe fact that crap like this gets so much attention shows how pathetic and trivial the american society has become people starving in the street in every city and what are yall worried about…silly words yall should get your prioritys straight what ever happended to sticks and stones? oh yea i forgot they went the way of good ole’ american common sense
May 18th, 2007 at 10:02 amThis is the most entertaining and genuinely enjoyable thing that’s *EVER* been on Fox News. They should apologize for every other minute they’ve ever broadcast, not this!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:04 amI love the irony of this. You get Gibson talking about what Opie and Anthony did, when it was a guest on their show, not the hosts…and Patrice did the same thing and Gibson let him get away with it not realizing that he was letting a guest on his show say things that should not be on TV, especially at 5.
For the heck of it, I filed an FCC complaint against the show because I was “shocked” by the comments made! LOL!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:32 amPatrice makes me cry laughing!
May 18th, 2007 at 10:34 amO & A being suspended is ridiculous to begin with.
its subsrciber radio..
you pay to be there….
The show is designated with and XL for extreme…
You have and option for channel blocking…
Its totally and issue of free speech and censorship.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:40 amPATRICE ONEAL IS FUNNY AS HELL>. HE SHOULD OF GAVE THAT STUPID NAPPY HO A DONKEY PUNCH AND A ANGRY PIRATE.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:43 amhttp://www.peopleagainstcensorship.com/
Join. This has gone too far.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:46 amPatrice Oneal is funny and speaks the hard truth. That woman from NOW is hot.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:01 amWhenever I hear of someone subjugating womyn beneath the hobnailed boot heel of the phallocracy, I’m always duty-bound to offer up the quote “words can hurt like a fist!” but we’re talking about a donkey punch here, so that would just be completely inappropriate.
Pretty goddamned funny, though.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:06 amWords can hurt like a fist, but not nearly as much as a donkey punch.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:07 amHello? its FREE SPEECH.. if you don’t like it .. TURN IT OFF. People are turning into such a damn bunch of pansies over there, for shame America.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:08 amPatrice O’Neal is hilarious. I was laughing watching this.
I hate the PC police. Fricking grow up and deal with it.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:15 amThat was funny. People are so tight, relax! Life is short, lots of time to be dead.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:31 amYou uptight morons make me ashamed to be a liberal…you act just like the uptight morons on the other side of the aisle, minus the Jesus.
Plus the angry pirate is completely different from the donkey punch. Fact-checking? Who needs it?
May 18th, 2007 at 11:49 amWait a minute, Liberals are the ones who get upset over stuff like this? I thought it was Right Wing Christians. I keep getting that confused. Can’t we all just donkey punch each other and get on with it.
They’re only words people. It’s a bad joke. Do not allow it the power to hurt you.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:57 amWhy are americans so stupid? its a freaking joke, they want the right to free speech but cant handle it!. why dont you ask your government to take away more of your rights, seems you cant think for yourselfs.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:02 pmMorons!
I think donkey punches are hilarious. I would never do it, but joking about it has made me smile since 11th grade. If joking about the good ol DP is banned, I will be saddened.
Liberals, conservitives… we’re all people… and we all like to have fun.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pmThis is one of the best Fox News segments I’ve ever seen to air. Patrice O’neal articulated his viewpoint in a comedic fashion and argumentatively destroyed his opponent. He is completely correct in pointing out this false outrage.
The people who were offended by this segment are idiots and have completely missed the object of this exercise. Why are they offended? Because he said ‘ejaculate’? Humans don’t ejaculate! How offensive!!!!!!
“Why are you laughing? She’s outraged!”
Represent the nation? Hah. That NOW spokeswoman couldn’t even represent that room.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:56 pmPatrice is THE MAN!!! He tells it like it is no matter what. I’m glad he explains that it was just a comment made to get a laugh. There was nothing malicious about. If it offends a few people so what. PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN WHAT A REMOTE IS FOR, if you do not like what is being said on a particular show CHANGE THE CHANNEL.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pmOh Patrice, how you crack me up. I love that the show had to appologize because they know Patrice sure as hell wouldn’t. Also Sonia Ossorio is a useless hole that needs a good donkey punch. Uh-oh call the PC police somebody made an off color joke
May 18th, 2007 at 1:17 pmWe need to stop the Liberals from totally censoring every media we have. Should have stopped them with Imus’ firing.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:37 pmGibson apologized, so I’m fine with it. What I love is the inescapable irony of a show apologizing for speech that happened from a segment about unacceptable speech.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:59 pmi’ve never really thought patrice is very funny, but the posted clip has made me reconsider. is fox always this funny? maybe i’ll start watching.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:10 pmYou are a cunt. I hope that O&A’s next rape joke is about you.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pmSUCK IT UP NO ONE CARES IF YOU ARE OFFENDED.
You people are like fat kids on the grade school playground.
Time to go whine to the teacher that someone hurt your feelings.
Very adult.
stop telling me what’s funny and what’s not funny!
‘gallows humor’ or ‘offensive humor’ has been around as long as spoken language. nobody here is the arbiter of taste.
You people who want to censor the thoughts and words of others make me sick.
Leave this type of religiousness and censorship to the Taliban.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:53 pmHumor must be banned in its entirety. Every joke is at someone’s expense, and no one should have to endure being laughed at or about. The money Americans save by eliminating humor could very well fund a much needed bombing campaign somewhere inhabited by brown-skinned people.
And of course, Americans could still be sated with their evening sitcoms, because they are none of them funny.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:15 pmDRxJ-
Cable tv doesn’t have the same restrictions that regular broadcast tv does. Since this was on a cable channel, the FCC can’t fine them for this like they did to CBS for the superbowl.
This doesn’t really compare to the Don Imus thing either. Don Imus made the comment, which is why he was fired. Opie and Anthony didn’t make the comment, one of their guests did, which is why they were only suspended. Gibson’s guest is the one who made the comment, so while he might be suspended, he won’t be fired.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:09 pmGibson is a tool. FOX news is nothing more than a bunch of morons saying “do as I say, not as I do.”
I hope Gibson loses his show over this.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:45 pmARHHHHHHHHHHH
May 18th, 2007 at 9:36 pmBefore you go crazy about the McDonalds coffee suit (see #35) maybe learn the facts first. The woman was burned so badly, she had to have skin grafts, because the coffee was dangerously hot, and McDonald’s had been made aware of this by settling many previous claims. I’m not saying there’s no such thing as a frivolous suit (there are many), but the McDonalds coffee suit was not one of them.
Facts about the McDonalds Coffee suit here:
http://www.caoc.com/CA/index.cfm?event=showPage&pg=facts
Interesting discussion of frivolous suits, and urban legends about frivolous suits here:
http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
May 19th, 2007 at 1:13 amDid she say “DOGGIE STYLE” ??? i’m offended i want an apology
May 19th, 2007 at 1:56 amI think this is pathetic, and if you’re offended, then change the channel. I have to deal with stumbling through Christian rhetoric transmitted via radio waves and cable TV lines, and I have the will to change the channel and not throw a fit because I was offended, so explain to me how it is different when something offends someone else? Learn to change the channel if it offends you.
This country is full of whiners who all want their own views to be mandated for all to live by. Either sensor EVERYBODY and make EVERYTHING politically correct, or go F yourself and learn how to use a remote.
May 19th, 2007 at 3:38 am#99 – Yes, she said “doggie style,” as in, “the woman is a dog.” She should be ashamed. The politically correct term is “graceful gazelle style.”
May 19th, 2007 at 8:48 amShe brought the joke up. Go after her.
May 19th, 2007 at 6:41 pmWOMEN ARE NOT A MINORITY THAT NEEDS PROTECTING!. The term “degrading to women” means NOTHING. You are 53% of the population of the planet, you will be the butt of jokes, you will come up against fascism, you will come up against favoritism both pro & con towards you…in short, you will experience every single aspect of human interaction because you are human just like men. If you demand equal footing then truly do what you say and STOP looking for special consideration when it comes to language in humor (and a million other things for that matter).
May 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pmShould not have apologized!!!!
I was refreshed by hearing actual debate and dialogue on a news station. This was probably the best discussion on the opie and anthony ordeal that I had seen.
By the way, I despise Fox News and John Gibson, but in this regards, I support him and Patrice.
I’m a liberal in a classical sense, meaning more liberty for the individual. No one was harmed.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:23 pm