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  • Katherine Timpf: Fox News Contributor Refuses to Apologize for “Star Wars” Jab Despite Death, Rape Threats

    Katherine Timpf is the Fox News contributor who made an on-air Star Wars jab last month. As a result of that jab, she has received both death and rape threats. Despite those threats, Katherine Timpf refuses to apologize.

    In an essay for the National Review that was published on Tuesday, Katherine Timpf wrote, “A lot of people are clearly a lot of upset. But guess what? I’m not apologizing. Why? Because the all-too-common knee-jerk reaction of apologizing for harmless jokes after overblown hysteria is ruining our culture. This political-correctness obsession threatens free speech, and I absolutely refuse to be a part of it.”

    Here’s what Timpf said last month that has people up in arms–and making illegal threats. It was on Fox’s late night offering, Red Eye, that she made the following comments. The satirical show airs at 3 a.m., and isn’t meant to be taken seriously.

    “I have never had any interest in watching space nerds poke each other with their little space nerd sticks, and I’m not going to start now. You people are crazy. You Star Wars people are crazy. Yesterday I tweeted something, and all I said was that I wasn’t familiar with Star Wars because I’ve been too busy liking cool things and being attractive–people threatened my life.”

    “Even if my intent wasn’t obvious from that, the fact that Red Eye is a satirical talk show should have been a crucial clue,” Katherine Timpf continued in Tuesday’s essay. “I was clearly playing a character, and anyone who would have bothered to google the show before saying I should be raped would have realized that.”

    On Wednesday, in spite of the death threats, Katherine Timpf took to Twitter to share her thoughts.

    What’s your take on Katherine Timpf’s comments on political correctness? She really makes an excellent point. Surely there are some lines that should never be crossed, with regard to people’s color, religious beliefs, or origin. However comments about topics like Star Wars–it’s not real, people–shouldn’t stir up anger to the point of threatening death and/or rape.

  • Chris Rock Says Political Correctness Has Gone Too Far

    Chris Rock has never been afraid to put it all out there. And almost everyone agrees with him at one time or another, but not usually all the time.

    Chris Rock can talk about the differences between “black people” and “ni**ers” and the most staunch redneck will applaud. But his next bit is about white people “marrying their cousins, eating mayonnaise sandwiches, listening to John Cougar Mellencamp records.” And the white guy just checked out.

    Rock’s recent hosting appearance on SNL raised some eyebrows when he joked that he would not go into the newly-opened One World Trade center tower. He caught some flak the next day in the media for that. But Rock told New York Magazine recently:

    “[I]t’s not that people were offended by what I said. They get offended by how much fun I appear to be having while saying it. You could literally take everything I said on Saturday night and say it on Meet the Press, and it would be a general debate, and it would go away.”

    That kind of political correctness is the reason Rock quit playing colleges. He says everyone is so easily offended and in a rush to silence anything that might sound off-color.

    “I stopped playing colleges, and the reason is because they’re way too conservative. … Not in their political views — not like they’re voting Republican — but in their social views and their willingness not to offend anybody. Kids raised on a culture of ‘We’re not going to keep score in the game because we don’t want anybody to lose.’ Or just ignoring race to a fault. You can’t say ‘the black kid over there.’ No, it’s ‘the guy with the red shoes.’ You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.”

    Rock says that, for all its efforts to be inoffensive, most of America has no idea how the “other half” — which is actually far, far smaller than half — lives.

    “If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets. If the average person could see the Virgin Airlines first-class lounge, they’d go, ‘What? What? This is food, and it’s free, and they … what? Massage? Are you kidding me?’”

  • Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher Sexist Comments Are Different Says Axelrod

    In an interview to air on CNN’s “Out Front with Erin Burnett,” David Axelrod the senior adviser to President Barack Obama makes the arguement that the sexist comments made by radio host Rush Limbaugh and comedian Bill Maher are both distasteful but should be understood differently. That because Rush is the “Political Figure” of the Republican party, and Bill Maher is a comedian. He goes on to say that he in no way endorses the words of either man, but that when you look at the context of the words what Rush said was worse. Others have siad that is debateable because a lot of people feel that Rush was speaking from a political and religious point of view, but Maher was just being vile and mean.

    The debate rages on about Rush Limbaugh being fired, or if the Democratic SuperPac should give Maher his 1 million dollar contribution back.

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