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Someone will have to explain to me why talk-radio blowhards — mainly on the right, of course — keep getting so much attention for the preposterous things they say.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it: Why am I even commenting on this?<\/p>\n

I guess I have to get something off my chest.<\/p>\n

Mike Gallagher is one of those blowhards who appears on Fox News on occasion to spout off on things of which he knows nothing.<\/p>\n

Such as how women think about getting catcalls from men on the street.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2014\/10\/31\/foxs-mike-gallagher-only-unhappy-women-complain\/201399<\/p>\n

Gallagher, of course, is not a woman. I’ll assume he’s never been one. Then again, you know what they say about those who assume. Whatever.<\/p>\n

He dismisses the concerns that women have about men who shout out catcalls at them. He wishes women would do the same thing to him.<\/p>\n

He says “there’s nothing sexually harassing” about a guy calling out to a woman and telling her “she’s good-looking.”<\/p>\n

OK, dude. You know not a single thing of which you speak. Looking at these matters from your perspective might play well in the men’s locker room, but in the whole rest of the world that includes women — who have their own world view on how they should be treated — it comes off in in an entirely different light.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gallagher, I shall now quote a high-profile Republican governor, Chris Christie, who recently got a heckling from a non-fan: Sit down … and shut up!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Someone will have to explain to me why talk-radio blowhards — mainly on the right, of course — keep getting so much attention for the preposterous things they say. Come to think of it: Why am I even commenting on this? I guess I have to get something off my chest. Mike Gallagher is one … Continue reading Why give air time to these gasbags?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[965,1788,3061,4237,4502],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-chris-christie","tag-fox-news","tag-mike-gallagher","tag-sexual-harassment","tag-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}