Fox Anchor Makes Barney Frank-Themed Gay Sex Joke (After Criticizing 'Tea Bag' Humor)

Look at me today, weighing in on the appropriateness and inappropriateness of various forms of humor today, like some learned cultural critic, or something!

Well, we've already established: I don't care for the whole "real person might die, ha ha funny" style of humor. Not for me! But as you probably know, I can go in for a good dirty joke time and time again. I said, "Sex is increasing exponentially!" on CNBC last Friday night and I used to guest blog over at Wonkette before I came here (the old, sex-obsessed Wonkette, not the new anger-enslavement version), so you all know where I stand: on very shaky ground where meeting your parents is concerned.

And I make no bones, for example, about loving me some Tea Party teabagging jokes! Indeed, those jokes are the only really positive thing those Tea Parties gave America. (And that's a good thing! That's one more thing than those IMF protesters with their puppets and piss-balloons and the way they busted up a local Wachovia, FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE!) But I remember people getting all worked up about how MSNBC managed to set the land speed record for teabagging puns. (FoxNews.com actually ran a story headlined, "Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor." WHY IS THAT?

Here's Tea Party sponsoring Fox Business Channel, getting down a dirty with a sex joke of their own:

BOLLING: And appropriately positioned, Representative Barney Frank, catching of course.

HA. See what Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling did there, with Barney Frank? It's a wonder that more people don't watch this "Street Meat" show, your one stop shop for sodomizing the recession!

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Comments

[TXnative]

appropriate and witty

[Raco]

Funny clip

[knosiswar]

Catching! - LOL

[metalcrafter]

big deal!!!

[Json]

I'm all for getting outraged at FOX, but that was actually kind of funny. I bet even Barney got a chuckle out of that.
Given the spectrum of homophobia on display daily at FOX, this was on the pretty tame edge. (I wonder how long they debated whether to make him the pitcher of the catcher)

[sprtakis69]

I've got to tell you. I work on a Navy ship, and every time Fox news comes on we change the channel. No one on board, and trust me, I mean no one, there's only 50 of us onboard and we talk about it. No one likes Fox News on this ship.

The tea bagging jokes were hysterical and I LOVED Rachel Maddow and Anne Cox's segment on it. They had me in tears!

[yankee452]

FoxNews can certainly be hypocritical and tasteless, but I doubt they are capable of being that witty.

[ColumbusMike]

I think Barney Frank handles all the homophobic ridicule directed at him with great dignity. Plus, he has one of the most analytical minds in the entire Congress. I admire him a lot.

[grave-robber]

That's a stretch. Whether or not that's what he intended that statement to mean, you have to read pretty deep to get that out of it.

[JackNasty]

No, you don't.

[TomInJax]

"catching of course." Sorry, but that's pretty blatant. Seth McFarlane could have written something more subtle so that you would have to "read pretty deep to that out of that."

I'm a gay man so if I have to spell out what he meant, I have heard them all.

[TaxDayMan]

But remember Frank was "parting the fannnie" at Freddie Mac with that guy Moses. The the CFO/Primary Accounting Officer "offs" himself so timely, UHM!

[gypsysailor]

Teabagger jokes? Balls in your eye say I. As for Barney's preferences, frankly my dears I don't give a damn!

[enriquecaliente]

Sure FOX has the numbers, everybody loves a train wreak.

[huffposer]

"And I make no bones, for example, about loving me some Tea Party teabagging jokes! "

And yet you cry foul about Barney Frank jokes. At least you admit you're a bold-faced hypocrite.

[Foreground]

I think there's a clear difference for making fun of someone for being openly gay and making fun of people going on national TV and innocently calling themselves "teabaggers" for weaks on end.

It'd be roughly analogous to the difference between making fun of Bushisms vs. making fun of Obama's skin.

[swo68]

If they called themselves "teabaggers," which they didn't. You're thinking of MSNBC and CNN. Those "professionals."

[swo68]

Good point.

[BluePrideStephen]

Within the gay community, by definition, for every 'catcher' ya have a 'pitcher' and many, many are in the middle of that continuum and enjoy both. Not so most bi guys I've met. Almost to a one, they are catchers, who then return to their girlfriends or wives. This, of course, is a deal-breaker. Cheaters deceive both.

The homophobia exists in the assumption that if you're gay you always get it in the ... and that it's funny that you do, and like it. So much of life ain't about that. But, I'm glad part of it is. Straights have a fixation on the mechanics of gay sex. So their humor tends to be the tweety kind of grandmothers and lecherous uncles.

Keep an open mind gays can teach you as much about yourself as we've learned about ourselves. Our community's challenges the last 30 years displayed gays as having miraculous resilience and perseverance.

[NoblesseOblige]

Excellent post--one of the best I've read at this site. Keep posting. Thank you!

[MarkBoston]

outstanding comment BluePride !

[Raco]

Agreed

[Taughtology]

Ditto NobleseOblige

[Yves Papa]

What is homophobia?

[Koreboomer]

Jeebus, that's awful.

Another Rupert Murdoch tabloid.

[Petey131]

Unless someone wants to be discovered as a comedian you go to Fake News. Other than that it is a waste of time to see or go there.