Fox News' Eric Bolling Tells Maxine Waters To 'Step Away From The Crack Pipe,' Later Says He Was 'Kidding' (VIDEO)

Fox News host Eric Bolling shocked his co-hosts on "Fox and Friends" when he told Rep. Maxine Waters to "step away from the crack pipe" on Thursday. Bolling quickly said that he was "kidding."

Waters stirred up anger on the right when video surfaced on Wednesday showing her calling House Republican leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor "demons."

On Thursday, Bolling and co-host Steve Doocy took turns bashing Waters for the remarks. But Bolling took things to another level.

"Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston," he said. "Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from the Lorazepam because it’s going to get you in trouble.”

The other hosts immediately gasped, and Doocy muttered, "she's not using drugs."

“How else do you explain those comments?” Bolling said. When the show returned from a break, Bolling quickly backtracked. "I just want to say I was kidding about the crack pipe," he said. "Just kidding.”

"Of course," Doocy said.

Bolling has gotten himself in hot water for racially charged comments before. He had to apologize last July after saying that President Obama was bringing "hoodlums" into the "hizzouse" — the White House, that is.

(h/t Politico)

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Comments

[Jackie1992]

10:02 AM on 03/29/2012

because I agreed, it didn't even get a chance being on post? fair and balanced, huffington/?

[Jackie1992]

10:01 AM on 03/29/2012

thank you Eric....and don't use the coward's way out by apologizing, the left has been calling the right vile names and making disgusting connections for years now...obama has totally divided the nation...hope he is so proud of himself

[Larry Kellogg]

11:30 AM on 02/25/2012

Eric Bolling should 'step away from that cage of gerbils'.

[Jason Benjamin M]

06:18 PM on 02/23/2012

Juan Williams, a renown civil rights activist, gets fired from NPR for being honest about his misconceptions about Muslims, and this unbridled bigot gets a free pass for saying one of the most godawful, abjectly racist, deplorable things anyone has EVER heard on a television news program?!?!

The apocalypse isn't coming... it's already here...

[Ktbu Lfu]

07:31 AM on 02/23/2012

This man should be fired!!!! No question!!!!

[Jerry Bourbon]

01:20 PM on 02/21/2012

Waters ought to sue for slander!!!

Oops. Wait a minute. Under American slander law, Waters would then have to prove that Bolling was lying. In other words, she would have to prove that she is NOT a crack head.

Never mind...

[thegreatdaveo]

11:06 AM on 02/22/2012

You have that completely backward. Under slander/libel laws, the burden of proof is on the person or organization that made the statement to prove it is true. I'll ignore your doubling down on the racism, in which you automatically assume that every black woman must be addicted to crack and I will pray for your soul.

[Jerry Bourbon]

01:52 PM on 02/22/2012

You have your country backward. You just described, perfectly, UNITED KINGDOM libal law. I suggest you review how the law is in the united states, and who the burden of proof is on.

[Jason Benjamin M]

06:17 PM on 02/23/2012

Not only is you knowledge of the American system of law laughably non-existent, you're just as big of a bigot as Eric Bolling...

You should probably get your hands on some of that Lorazepam sometime... you'll love it...

[richman64]

08:24 AM on 02/21/2012

isnt it funny how the real racists are calling this racist? the party of slavery never ceases to amaze!

[JacklynD]

07:07 AM on 02/21/2012

As a public figure, Maxine should not have called Cantor and Boehner demons. There are many of us who perceive them as the evil henchmen for destructive forces like Koch Industries but Maxine Waters should have broadened her vocabulary to express herself.

Her remarks do not excuse Bolling's racist remarks. Tying Maxine to Whitney is such an inexplicable leap that the only connection appears to be color. They are not related by age, profession, or politics. The people at FOX don't even recognize their racism or worse, maybe they do

[Antonio Barrientes]

02:41 AM on 02/25/2012

To be fair, even the other people around Bolling were visibly unnerved and made it clear that it was unacceptable.

[Jackie1992]

10:04 AM on 03/29/2012

and u can't even go on huffington to say the words she called GWB, it would never be posted, becuase of FCC rules

[SabrinaFair]

09:37 PM on 02/20/2012

24-hour-a-day racism over at FOX News.

They are being shown to the world for the racists they are. A disgusting disgrace to broadcasting courtesy of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. When they each shuffle off this mortal coil, I will personally cheer.

[amazin OZ]

11:19 AM on 02/20/2012

i give eric no RESPECTyou have to give respect to get respectand thie eric guy not once have i heard him address the President as Pres. Obama its allways mr. Obama....one other thing about eric he gets his facts from i dont know where....hes out there.....this mourning on Fox (the sky is falling) News eric say the Pres. Bush brought down the oil price in july of 08 till dec 08 by opening up drilling fields from 150 a barrel to 33 a barrel...hey eric the world resession didnt have anything to do with it??????

[Jackie1992]

10:09 AM on 03/29/2012

gas was $1.86 when GWB was in office....and it is now tipping $5.00....only places we are dilling is where GWB signed permits when he was in office and now obama is taking credit for 'him' drilling...and when GWB had the stock market at 14,500+ all said..oh that has nothing to do with the president...but, now it does as it goes up? it all went downhill when the libs got in congress and destroyed everything that was progressing, I don't expect you to face facts, you can't. it is too much for people with un-connected brain cells.

[mykirbyroo]

05:31 PM on 03/29/2012

Easy man. Chill. Breathe. Lots of folks from the press always refer to the president as Mr. (whoever). They did it for both president Bushes, Clinton, Nixon, as far back as I can remember, and now they're referring to Mr. Obama the same way. (I'm 63 years old, so I remember a long ways back.) It shows no disrespect to call someone Mr., Mrs. or Miss. If anything, it is a sign of respect. (Younger people probably don't know basic manners and common decency, but us older folks do. When a younger person refers to me as Mrs. Blank, I am flattered and look upon them more favorably.)

Your second point: "this mourning on Fox (the sky is falling) News eric say the Pres. Bush brought down the oil price in july of 08 till dec 08 by opening up drilling fields from 150 a barrel to 33 a barrel...hey eric the world resession didnt have anything to do with it??????"

I would refer you to: http://mediamatters.org/research/201103080015

[Mickey Ellis]

09:48 AM on 02/20/2012

"Just kidding", racists are soooooo funny.

[outwithshelby]

01:15 AM on 02/20/2012

I hope they know they can kiss Maxine Waters a--.The Girl is Bad.Go Maxine tell it like it is.

[CLSayles]

12:12 AM on 02/20/2012

Ahhh, those funny racist "focks" over at Fox news. They kill me...

[Adam Sanchez]

09:57 AM on 02/20/2012

why is it a racist remark?Ms waters has made many in her day.u libs kill me when ever u dont agree with something its racist.

[CLSayles]

02:14 PM on 02/20/2012

It's interesting that you defend a news/political organization that would ask you for "papers" before knowing your name...

[kleenex]

10:46 PM on 02/19/2012

She is an embarrassment to Democrats, Blacks, and women, and has been for a long time.

[leedart]

11:28 PM on 02/19/2012

No! You just cannot stand a black woman who calls a spade a spade! She says what most blacks, except for the "Clarence Thomases', and Cains, really do think. She is a champion, and to most blacks is the clarion call.
So keep on moving on , because your ignorance is more insulting to who u are. Please tell all of the people around you how you think so that there is a clear understanding of what kind of person you are.

[Adam Sanchez]

09:58 AM on 02/20/2012

oh because u dont agree with the other black americans they are wrong.hahahahah.that comment is a joke and so is ms waters

[Jackie1992]

10:11 AM on 03/29/2012

and her husband stole how much money being head of the bank where she funneled our taxpayer money??

[jtwalk45]

10:02 PM on 02/19/2012

hes got to go

[Jackie1992]

10:12 AM on 03/29/2012

maxine has to go