?It?s a Food Product, Essentially?: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops
 

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Tonight, Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly got to talking about a UC Davis police officer's appalling use of pepper spray on nonviolent protesters over the weekend. Guess what direction the conversation took!

If you guessed "needlessly deferential to authority and dismissive to the suffering of protesters," you guessed correctly!

"I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," O'Reilly says, "particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus." God forbid! We'd never want to question Lt. John Pike's decision to generously and indifferently dust peacefully sitting protesters with pepper spray from only a few feet away. Especially given that Davis is, you know, a liberal campus! And, gosh, even if we were going to Monday-morning quarterback the police, shouldn't we remember, as Megyn Kelly tells O'Reilly, that pepper spray is "a food product, essentially"?

Now, look, Kelly and O'Reilly aren't saying the cops did the right thing! God, no! "I agree [the tape] looks bad," Kelly says. It's just that the protesters were sitting in a place where they weren't allowed to sit, so it's kind of their own fault! And in any event what right do we have to judge a cop for spraying a simple food product on the faces of a bunch of liberal college kids doing something criminal? You know? Maybe he was just trying to feed them?

http://gawker.com/5861688/its-a-food...per-spray-cops

They should volunteer to be sprayed like the journalists who volunteered to be waterboarded to get a sense of how bad it was (or wasn't).

if pepper spray is just a food product, then why aren't felons allowed to posses it in some states? :1orglaugh

Because if you spray it on scrambled eggs it ruins the taste?

Watching Fox News will eat your brain.

They do...as well as being tasered.

Most of TV News will eat your brain.

technically if you just want to move someone along a low amperage non-knockout TAZER probe will do the trick!

But fuck, take away the Pepper Spray off police, you think that's going to make society better?

Give the Police SOMETHING to prod Hippies along!

It's funny that they try to spin it this way, AFTER the Chancellor has apologized and others in the campus police have been put on leave.

feels good man

God damn fox fucks.. lowest of the low.

Oreilly and Kelly are not delivering news, they're delivering commentary.
funny how the anti-FOX crowd can't understand the difference the rest of us do.

anyone who even considers synthetic capsaicin to be food has never really messed with it.

My brother works at zatarains and has told me of the burns people get fooling with crab boil at the factory, and thats the EDIBLE versions of the stuff lol my sister in law was burned by it had to go to hospital and treated on hands and arms.

How many "news shows" do they run? They even do commentary during the actual "news" hours. I would say the only actual "news" show on FNC is Fox Report... even Studio B has commentary.

so?











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oh christ...the trolls have shown up already
im outta here for the day

some of us have to do work...lol

fox news will be the station pushing people to report their neighbours.

what some here dont understand is they will probably be the first ones reported, and rounded up..lol

Megyn Kelly on mustard gas: "It's a hot dog condiment, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on nuclear weapons: "It's a microwave dinner, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on sound weapons: "It's a boom box, essentially!"
Megyn Kelly on Molotov cocktails: "It's a flirtini, essentially!"