Elisabeth Hasselbeck is "sure" that Sandra Bland "could have" because "someone has." Err...HUH???

[Miles Archer]

On Monday’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck speculated that an “irritated” Sandra Bland could have “attacked” Officer Brian Encinia with her cigarette, because the co-host is “sure someone has, in the history of this land, used a cigarette against a police officer.”

Putting aside the fact that “the history of this land” contains a nearly infinite number of otherwise innocent objects that could, in a pinch, be used by someone, somewhere as a weapon. At this very moment, I have access to pens, a lamp, a cup of rapidly cooling green tea, not to mention the very keyboard on which I type these words — any one of which could conceivably be used to attack another human being.

Just because I could toss a cup of lukewarm green tea at any police officer who walks into my office doesn’t mean that, should a police officer actually enter my office, he or she should feel immediately threatened by my Bigelow. There’s no logic to that logic — it’s effectively a license to live in perpetual fear of everyday objects, and Hasselback wants to grant it to law enforcement.

But Hasselbeck continued, albeit oddly, stopping and starting almost as if her brain didn’t want allow her mouth to eject the words it’d ordered her to say. “What if, I mean, there are times, I’m sure, someone has, in the history of this land, used a cigarette against a police officer,” Hasselbeck said. “Maybe chucked it at him — pushed it at him?”

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/fox_news_elisabeth_hasselbeck_justifies_sandra_blands_arrest_she_could_have_used_cigarette_as_a_weapon/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Sandra is gone and this asshat is still here

Nauseating.

[Faux pas]

2. She's an ass

has always been an ass and will always be an ass. That is all.

[DetlefK]

3. If you look at a cop and squint your eyes...

that means you are measuring the distance for poking his eye out.

[Atman]

4. How and why does this woman have a job in television?

She is an absolute idiot. What are credentials? Who the hell is she?

Oh, and a shout-out to my man, Will Pitt. At least HE knows I was making a funny.

[spanone]

6. because of rupert murdoch and roger ailes

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. What amazes me is that she gets paid big bucks for saying

astonishingly stupid stuff. But then she is amazingly good at it.

Do right wing guys think she's hot? That has to be the only reason she is still around.

[Atman]

7. Clearly, being hot is about the only qualification for being on Fox "News."

And "hot" is obviously a subjective term. I have actually heard and read comments by many people who admit to watching Fox "News" because of the good-looking women. Roger and Rupert are old coots. They're the type who pat the waitress's ass in a restaurant and think it's perfectly okay.

[tavernier]

8. Yes, because a black person would be excused

for tossing a lit cigarette at a white cop in the south.



I don't she was looking to get her head blown off for a lane change.
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E.H. = Moron

[Igel]

9. Ill will and mistrust.

Just because police officers have assaulted AfAm citizens for no reason doesn't mean that when I'm pulled over an AfAm motorist should feel threatened.

We're bad at intuitive statistics. We by default assume that what is know is all that's important to know. If we didn't hear about many AfAm deaths a year ago and hear about more this year, it can only be because there's a spike. Ignorance and innumeracy are often the basis for our conclusions. That goes for all of us.

We're defensive, so the "bad stats" assume outsized importance. That goes for all us.

We also justify and make excuses for those we empathize with or feel some solidarity with. It's an extension of being defensive. Our team is good, theirs isn't. This is what humans try to do naturally. All of us.

Everything said in this entire conversation has to be understood with those three things constantly in mind. Not just their side. Not just our side. Everything. We all have big mouths and little ears, and our brains are entirely dedicated to talking.

[tkmorris]

10. It is a medical miracle that Hasselbeck continues to survive...

Without the assistance of life support machinery. The woman makes the average IQ of any room she walks into plunge into negative numbers.

[cwydro]

11. She is such a moron.

And how did she get famous? From being on Survivor, right?

SMH