Greta Van Susteren Criticizes Fellow Fox Newser Cal Thomas' Ugly Attack On Rachel Maddow

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201202100011

Greta Van Susteren Criticizes Fellow Fox Newser Cal Thomas' Ugly Attack On Rachel Maddow

February 10, 2012 2:06 pm ET by Terry Krepel
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During his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, Cal Thomas cracked that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow "is the best argument in favor of her parents using contraception. I would be all for that. And all of the rest of the crowd at MSNBC, too, for that matter" (h/t Think Progress).

Maddow responded to Thomas' comment on her show Thursday night: "Mr. Fox News person speaking there, I am sorry that you feel that way about me, that you wish I had never been born. Personally, I'm glad that you were born. Otherwise, how would Republicans get the special Fox News bat signal that it's time to be outraged now, about what used to be Republicans' own policy idea?"

In addition to being a syndicated columnist, Thomas is a regular panelist on Fox News' "media criticism" show, Fox News Watch. In 2012, he has appeared on the January 14, January 28, and February 4 editions of the weekly show.

Thomas' comment was so offensive that at least one of his Fox News co-workers has called for him to apologize. On her Gretawire blog, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren wrote: "Cal Thomas needs to pick up the phone and make a personal call to Rachel Maddow. Then he needs to publicly apologize."

Does Van Susteren's criticism portend Fox News itself sanctioning Thomas for his ugly remarks about Maddow? We shall see.

[Thrill]

1. Republicans are really ugly nasty people

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[JaneQPublic]

7. and greedy... and hateful (nt)

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. I would fire someone for remarks like that

if they represented my company, agency etc..

[Quantess]

3. All it does is reflect poorly on him.

He should be embarrassed if he has any sort of self-awareness of how crass, how graceless, it makes him look.

Especially saying that to someone with such a classy, graceful character as Rachel Maddow.

[spanone]

4. i doubt that arrogant gasbag has ever apologized to anyone

[virtualobserver]

9. the self-righteousness literally oozes from this man and fills the air with his stench

......but in a really cool way.

[renie408]

5. Why can't they LEARN?

It's like they haven't figured out that whatever they do, whatever they say, it is going to be all over everywhere in fifteen minutes these days. Do they really think that because the comments were made at CPAC, that a broader audience isn't going to hear about them?

[Spazito]

6. I don't often agree with Ms. Van Susteren since she went to Fox but...

I certainly agree with her here. Even further, Mr. Thomas should be stricken off the list of contributors to Fox but I doubt that will happen, they may even give him greater prominence as seem to be their obscene habit.

[nbolick]

8. Doesn't surprise me at all.

[malaise]

10. Thomas is no Rachel Maddow

Stanford, Oxford, Rhodes Scholar, PhD and best host of them all.

Fuck Fox!!!

[lpbk2713]

11. I don't expect any apology forthcoming.

The only time a RWer apologizes is to get out of criminal prosecution or to avoid civil litigation.
Issuing a sincere apology would make them look like they were in the wrong and their ego just
can't handle something like that. Thus anything that remotely sounds like an aoplogy just drips
with insincerity because it was done out of expediency.

[Skittles]

12. wow

you know they've sunk pretty low when even their own peers at that shitty station are offended

[babylonsister]

13. UPDATE: Per Rachel, Cal Thomas DID apologize. nt

[Graybeard]

14. He apologized personally, by phone.

Told Rachel she could make it public on her show. I don't know if he intends to apologize on the air.

[Redstate Bluegirl]

15. Pink slip for Greta?

I wouldn't be surprised.