Quote of the Day: Veterans take down Fox News for “boobs on the ground” joke

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Sixty US veterans from the Truman National Security Project have written an open letter to Fox News’ Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld over their oh-so-funny jokes about Major Mariam Al Mansouri, the female UAE pilot who led airstrikes in Syria.

 “[B]efore you jump to the standby excuse that you were ‘just making a joke’ or ‘having a laugh,’ let the men amongst our number preemptively respond: You are not funny. You are not clever. And you are not excused. Perhaps the phrase ‘boys will be boys’—inevitably uttered wherever misogyny is present—is relevant. Men would never insult and demean a fellow servicemember; boys think saying the word ‘boobs’ is funny.”

Word. 

Bolling has apologized for his “boobs on the ground” comment, while Gutfeld maintains that his crack about how Major Al Mansouri can’t park the jet was just “misinterpreted” (and he thinks she’s awesome for “blowing up those heathens” because, oh my god, that’s something that they actually say on Fox News.) You see, he makes “very hacky jokes knowing they are hacky” and that’s what makes them funny, in case you haven’t heard that justification approximately one million times before.

Maya sometimes forgets Fox News exists and then gets depressed all over again.