Fox News' Megyn Kelly calls pepper spray a 'food product'

[The Baconator]

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[QUOTE]The students had been sitting peacefully, arms intertwined, as officers marched up to the protest line brandishing military-grade pepper spray.
The now-infamous Lt. John Pike walked casually down the line, spraying the nonviolent protestors in the face three times. One student, blasted right in the mouth, vomited profusely. Others said it felt like acid was being poured on their faces. Two were hospitalized. The entire incident got caught on video.
Yet last night, the pundits on Fox News were quick to dismiss any criticism of the pepper spray attack at University of California, Davis.
Here was Bill O'Reilly's defense of the university cops:
"I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," he said, "particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus."
O'Reilly didn't bother to elaborate on why abusing violent force against liberal students might be more justifiable. But he did ask anchor Megyn Kelly, the show's legal expert, if pepper spray "just burns your eyes, right?"
"It's like a derivative of actual pepper," she replied dismissively, in lieu of any actual scientific knowledge. "It's a food product, essentially."
So Kelly shouldn't think twice before putting it on her salad.

In fact, commercial pepper spray is at least 1,000 times "hotter" than a jalapeño pepper, Scientific American points out. And police use high-grade sprays that are even more intense. Just because it's called "pepper spray" doesn't make it a home kitchen product -- this potent chemical has been linked to cardiac, respiratory and neurological problems and sudden death.
That's why, unlike these talking heads on Fox News, the public was outraged by the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying incident. The overwhelming backlash prompted UC system president Mark Yudof to order a review of police procedures at all UC campuses. The campus police chief and two cops, including Pike, were placed on leave.
Yet meanwhile, Fox News viewers are being told there's no reason to question police actions. Which leaves us little cause to question, either, why a recent study found this network's audience so uninformed on major news events.[/QUOTE]

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[kmathis]

I'd still hit it

[Rexen]

[QUOTE=kmathis;33391310]I'd still hit it[/QUOTE]

With a brick.

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=Rexen;33391500]With a brick.[/QUOTE]

On a stick.
The swing gets you more force.

[mankind_me]

She says pepper spray is food.

I say she is intelligent.

Common thing about these two statements? They're both so fucking wrong.

[Van-man]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33391568]On a stick.
The swing gets you more force.[/QUOTE]

I prefer using a piece of rope instead of a stick, but that's just me.

[cecilbdemodded]

I guess she wouldn't say no to a hot beef injection, beef is essentially food.

[sir whoopsalot]

[QUOTE=Van-man;33391734]I prefer using a piece of rope instead of a stick, but that's just me.[/QUOTE]

I like your train of thought.

[Gotnoodles]

A brick and rope is not enough, we need a wrecking ball

[LucanC]

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And here's what I like to call an afternoon snack!

[Spybreak]

I can't take anyone named "Megyn" seriously.

[No_0ne]

There should be a minimum IQ requirement before being let on TV.

[Dr. Fishtastic]

[QUOTE=No_0ne;33392113]There should be a minimum IQ requirement before being let on TV.[/QUOTE]

There is one for Fox News

except it's a maximum

[barttool]

I wanna see her getting a load of this pepper spray in her fucking salad. It's a food product after all isn't it?

[ChilColdCoolaid]

I don't see why you guys are making such a big deal out of this.

I mean if pizza can be a vegetable then why can't pepper spray be food?

[[Seed Eater]]

Here's an idea!

Let's try to disperse protesters with pizza now! Another healthy food option!

[Killer900]

I seriously want this idiot to know how it feels to have pepperspray sprayed in your face, because she is so oblivious and ignorant to how bad of a thing it really is to have happen that I feel she's basically insulting the students who had been sprayed.

[Ray-The-Sun]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;33391568]On a stick.
The swing gets you more force.[/QUOTE]
Rrrebar club!

[Dacheet]

That's like saying rape is okey-dokey because it's essentially sex.

[Charlievrw]

Does this mean mustard-gas is a condiment?

[DoomsDayDan]

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[PunchedFace1337]

[QUOTE=No_0ne;33392113]There should be a minimum IQ requirement before being let on TV.[/QUOTE]

Then all the shows about Kimmy the kardashian with a set of earings worth 5x the price of my house would not be able to play anymore :suicide:

[luck_or_loss]

[QUOTE=PunchedFace1337;33410230]Then all the shows about Kimmy the kardashian with a set of earings worth 5x the price of my house would not be able to play anymore :suicide:[/QUOTE]

Fucking hate that bitch too. That bitch made 7 million dollars by having a marriage for like 3 and a half months that everyone wanted to see for the bullshit drama that doesn't fucking matter.

[john_pelphre]

I put pepper spray on my eggs because of her, thinking it was essentially the same and would be delicious.

Oh boy how fucking wrong I was, why would Fox News, who is so trust worthy and reliable, lie to me like this!