Fox News Regular Bo Dietl: ‘10 Years Ago, [Katie Couric] Looked American. Today, She Looks Oriental'

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:



Fox News Regular Bo Dietl: ‘Ten Years Ago, Looked American. Today, She Looks Oriental’

On Monday during an appearance on Don Imus’ radio show, which is simulcast on the Fox Business Network, former Bush appointee and Fox News regular Bo Dietl used sexist and racist language to attack CBS News anchor Katie Couric. “Katie Couric, the cougar,” said Dietl. “If she gets her eyes done anymore, she’s going to look like a split face.” As Imus meekly attempted to defend Couric, saying “she’s fine,” Dietl unleashed a derogatory rant about Couric:

DIETL: She looks like a Halloween cartoon. She’s got her eyes pulled so far, she’s starting to look Chinese herself. Enough with these face lifts, alright Kate. And enough with the young guys Katie. You’re over the top baby. You’re over fifty. Start going out with guys your own age. This cougar stuff don’t work.

After some cross talk, Imus tried to get Dietl to “leave Katie Couric alone.” But as Dietl approached the end of his rant, Imus offhandedly called Couric “a rodent” as he tried to end the conversation:

IMUS: I’m just saying that if she wants — leave Katie Couric alone. She’s fine.

DIETL: Oh no no no. You like her eyes the way they look?

IMUS: She looks fine to me.

DIETL: They’re getting smaller and smaller.

IMUS: She looks fine.

DIETL: Ten years ago, she looked American. Today she is an oriental.

IMUS: She is a rodent. Leave her alone.

DIETL: She doesn’t like you either pal. She never stuck up for you.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/11/dietl-couric-imus/


This isn’t the first time that Dietl and Imus have had a racially-charged discussion live on the air. In May 2008, after Dietl said that then-President Bush should fly to Saudi Arabia to talk to “those little hamel humpers over there,” Imus replied, “It’s, uh, ‘camel humpers.’” An advocate of having law enforcement “go out to the Muslim communities,” Dietl, who is a birther, has referred to Muslims as “Aba Dabba Doos.”

Dietl has appeared on Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Neil Cavuto’s Fox News shows and is someone for whom Fox News CEO Roger Ailes personally vouches. “I have known Bo Dietl both personally and professionally for many years,” says Ailes in an endorsement letter posted on Dietl’s website. “He does excellent work and personally is a man I trust.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/11/dietl-couric-imus/

[countingbluecars]

1. Pigs. Both of them. n/t

[cynatnite]

2. Ten seconds of my life wasted by reading this garbage. n/t

[trumad]

3. Oh wait....that's not Katie.

[jaysunb]

4. What's an "Oriental?"

:shrug:

[virgogal]

8. A very nice rug.

[tularetom]

5. I'm not a fan of Katie Couric but these two pieces of shit should not be talking

While one of them sits there in that ridiculous cowboy hat and a heavy jacket in a TV studio.

Anus is so past his sell by date he can't remember it.

And Doh Beetle is just plain not entertaining.

[rd_kent]

6. As my ex-wife, a chinese-american, would say..."I'm Asian! Not FOOD!"

She did not like to be called "oriental"

[Raschel]

11. Ha! I mentioned the same thing on another thread! (but not about your ex)

:hi:

[BunkerHill24]

7. "DIETL: Ten years ago, she looked American. Today she is an oriental."

What an idiot!

[zbdent]

9. hamel humpers?

There's more than one humping Dorothy Hamel?

oh, wait ... Hamill ...

[classysassy]

10. Don and Bo

or the ho down show.Those two racist mfs,should never be allowed to use the airways to vent their hate.