Fox Business Refuses To Air Ultraviolet Ad Slamming Pundits For Sexist Comments

[marmar]

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Fox Business Network has rejected a television ad created by a women's rights group that calls for pundits Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson and Juan Williams to be fired for negative remarks they made on the network last week about women who work outside the home.

UltraViolet, an online community that advocates for women's equality, created the ad using Fox Business' own footage of Dobbs, Williams and Erickson complaining that the rise of female breadwinners in families could ruin society, hurt children and "undermine our social order."

"Lou Dobbs has a problem," a voiceover says in the ad. "Women are winning the bread. Even his own network isn't safe from this source of lady breadwinners. Tell Fox to retire Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson, and Juan Williams and spare them the pain of equality." ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/fox-news-ultraviolet-ad_n_3380824.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037&ir=Politics

[msanthrope]

1. Juan Williams couldn't keep his job at the WaPo because of his sexist behavior.

No wonder he found a home at Fox.

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. Why waste the time on the pundits for who anyone who would care already knows

they are full of hot air and shit, it's not like it was politicians for whose comments may actually matter if given greater public exposure.