Twitterers lash out against Monica Crowley's lesbian "joke"
Fox News's Monica Crowley is under fire for joking that beleaguered birth-control advocate Sandra Fluke is a lesbian. Curated by Kevin Collier (@KevinCollier) for @DailyDot
- It started off when Crowley joked for some reason that Fluke might be lesbian. At first, the anchor defended it as a "straightforward question."
Didja all hear the one where @MonicaCrowley insinuated that Sandra Fluke was gay? Knee-slapping hilarity. #IsThatYouRush?- Many learned about Crowley's initial tweet from Rob Delaney's response to her. One of the most popular comedians on Twitter—his 385,000 followers dwarfs Crowley's 29,000—Delaney almost never breaks his comedic schtick.
- That opened the floodgates for criticism of Crowley. She retweeted twitterers who were outraged:
Would it be fair to call @MonicaCrowley a sellout since she's simply for attacking women?
@MonicaCrowley You're a disgusting liar. Atleast her tits and ass isn't being used to sell false news, you stupid, imperialistic fuck.- But she was unrepentant about her joke:
- Of course, that wasn't the extent of people who Crowley pissed off. A sampling of some others:
I'm intrigued tha you think that's what you're doing. RT @MonicaCrowley I love exposing the Left's total lack of a sense of humor.
Yes, because homophobia is ALWAYS a laugh riot! RT @MonicaCrowley I love exposing the Left's total lack of a sense of humor.
Just to clarify: When @MonicaCrowley joked that a straight woman who got engaged is gay, she was demonstrating how unfunny everyone else is.
@MonicaCrowley Seriously, which one of you geniuses decided that relentlessly attacking a random woman was a winning strategy?
Sad thing is, I'm sure @monicacrowley has been called a bitch or a lesbian or whatever for being a powerful, forceful woman. Bonus shame.- Some users even started the hashtag #CrowleyJokes, where they try to match the anchor's sense of humor.
@owillis I just flew in and boy are my arms lesbians! #CrowleyJokes #idontunderstandwhynooneislaughing
Horse walks into a bar and the bartender says "why the long face"? And either the horse or the bartender was gay. Or the bar. #CrowleyJokes
Knock, knock. Who's there? Interrupting hack pundit. Interrup- LESBIANS!!!!!!! hahhahahahaa #CrowleyJokes
Three guys walk into a bar. All of them saw "ow", because it was an actual iron bar, put there by a gay. #CrowleyJokes
I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How it got into my pajamas -- and turned super gay -- I'll never know #CrowleyJokes
