On this morning's Fox & Friends, Fox Business host and GOP partisan Eric Bolling attacked MSNBC host Chris Matthews for being “disrespectful” to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) because he asked if she was “hypnotized.” The “disrespectful” remark is especially ironic coming from someone like Bolling, who has no problem lobbing sexist attacks against a female politician -- when she's a Democrat.
On January 29, for instance, Bolling played a video clip of Pelosi saying Democrats will parachute and pole vault for health care reform. Bolling then offered this respectful insight: “Eww! She's going to pole vault in? Ewww! She's going to parachute in? I'm not sure -- you know, Nancy Pelosi's parachuting, pole vaulting, visuals I don't really need.”
Last year, Bolling put up a graphic of Rep. Barney Frank on a baseball diamond and said that he was “appropriately positioned...catching, of course.” Bolling responded to criticism of his remark by attacking Pelosi: “Now, look, I come from a baseball past. We play -- listen, what am I going to do? Put Nancy Pelosi as a catcher? She'll get hurt. She's got all that plastic surgery. That would be terrible for her.”
Still, it's other television hosts -- not Eric Bolling -- who have a “disrespect” problem.
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