Fox host Neil Cavuto called out RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson for his sexist tweets on-air on Monday.
Erickson, a Fox News contributor, had uninvited Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from speaking at his influential RedState Gathering this past weekend after the real estate mogul’s comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who helped moderate last week’s GOP debate. Trump attacked Kelly the day after the debate for asking him tough questions, saying she had “blood coming out of her wherever.”
The comments sparked a major backlash among Republicans, and Erickson said Trump had crossed a line.
But during “Your World With Neil Cavuto” on Monday, Cavuto questioned Erickson’s standing on the matter, pointing out that the pundit had made some remarks of his own that many saw as sexist.
Among them, Cavuto noted, was referring to the National Association of Women as the “National Association of Gals.” The host asked Erickson if he regretted that.
“I have apologized for a lot of things. I don’t regret that,” Erickson said. “I think a lot of feminist groups tend to prove they’re humorless. And I don’t regret some of the statements Donald Trump has pulled out.”
Cavuto went on to read some of Erickson’s more infamous tweets, including these:
All these angry feminists in my timeline today. I thought Sam Alito ordered them all home to make sandwiches this morning.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 30, 2014
After all those years of feminists saying we need girls running foreign policy to make the world safer, we get Obama and now look at us.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 18, 2014
“What is your needling? How does it differentiate from Donald Trump’s needling?” Cavuto asked Erickson. “How is that different, and who are you to judge?”
Erickson said the difference was that Trump was a candidate for President.
“If Donald Trump can’t take a tough question from Megan Kelly, without insulting her, how is he going to take a tough question from Vladmir Putin? I’ll never be in that position, someone running for President may be,” Erickson said.
Erickson said he had wanted a clarification from Trump’s campaign about the “blood” comments. When the campaign did not provide an adequate answer, Erickson uninvited him from the event.
Watch the exchange:
Each is scummier than the other, but I’m glad to see Doughboy Erick-Son-Of-Erick get called even a little bit on his bullshit. I notice that Cavuto avoided the most offensive E-S-O-E tweets–letting him off easy.
I endorse Cavuto’s words (as slimy as that makes me feel) - but I really doubt that his motives come from a strong desire to support women’s issues.
“If Donald Trump can’t take a tough question from Megan Kelly, without insulting her, how is he going to take a tough question from Vladmir Putin?”
Wow. The exact same canned line Kelly said.
Good boy.
(tosses Erick son of Erick a doggy biscuit)
There is no such verb as “uninvite.” Uninvited is an adjective, meaning unwelcome or unwarranted. But the action that Erickson took regarding Trump was to “disinvite” him. This is an example of Facebook’s influence on the English language. On Facebook, people speak of “unliking” someone they had previously “liked” (meaning acknowledged as a friend). But reporters, Sara, should know better.
Of course Erickson is in no position to field questions from Putin. His position with respect to Putin would be , as the Aussies say: “On his knees with a smile like a donut”