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Scarborough, Geist, Kilmeade and Doocy Caught on Tape in Four Way Tickle Fight

On both Fox News's Fox and Friends and MSNBC's Morning Joe, I was astounded to hear near identical skits from Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, on Fox News, and Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist, on MSNBC, respectively, pertaining to tickle fights, wrestling, and pillow fights. Most disappointingly, besides this sort of talk being incredibly immature and immaterial, was the fact that these homoerotic themes resulted in Kilmeade stating neither he nor Doocy "served in the Navy", while Willie Geist admitted that neither he nor Joe Scarborough served in the Reserves. Absolutely stunning that on two cable shows the conversation devolved in precisely the same way.

This tells us a great deal, I am afraid, about these people. I didn't find it funny. I found it lame. I found it unworthy of those who would "give us the news". What is it about low brow "humor" that is so scintillating? Is this really nothing more than the verbal version of homosexual flirtation? I mean, two guys on two different cable shows going down the same path... apparently to both stereotype Gay Men while concurrently holding hands under the table (or smacking the others' ass in the shower)... in order that their jock-ish, frat boy selves feel reassured about their heterosexuality.

I am no proponent of the Lifestyle. I don't get it at all, in fact. Yet, at the same time, is this sort of juvenile verbal tickle fight really worthy? Does it really serve to promote the meme that somehow men who serve together are no more than cell mate lovers and that Gay Men are somehow nothing but light-slippered, 14 year old pubescent girls??

Just lame.

Enoch_Root

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