CNN’s poor choice of song (’Stupid Girls’) introducing Sarah Palin & Chick-fil-A controversy
Sarah Palin visited a Chick-Fil-A recently to support the Atlanta-based chain. CREDIT: AP
CNN apologized for playing Pink’s song “Stupid Girls” as an intro Sunday into a segment about Sarah Palin visiting a Chick-fil-A outside Houston.
“The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story,” a CNN spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. “We regret any perception that they were planned together.”
According to Politico, she told a crowd: “We drive by a Chick-fil-A. We don’t have that in Alaska. Love me some Chick-fil-A. So we’ll go there, Jason, on the way, OK?” (She was referencing an aide Jason Recher.)
Later, she Tweeted a photo of her and her husband Todd with some Chick-fil-A sandwiches, noting: “Stopped by Chick-fil-A in the Woodlands to support a great business.”
The Atlanta-based restaurant chain after Chik-fil-A president Dan Cathy made comments a few weeks back construed by gay rights activists as anti-gay marriage by saying he supports the “biblical definition of the family unit… We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.”
This led to a maelstrom of controversy for and against the chain. Supporters are pushing an appreciation day on Wednesday while opponents are promoting a “kiss in” Friday.
Here’s the 2006 hit song by Pink, in case you don’t recall:
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216 comments Add your comment
Tom T
July 30th, 2012
10:10 pm
Does anyone still believe that CNN is actually a news channel? They make their own news. How pathetic, Ted should be embarrassed of what they have turned into. SNL / CNN, is the really a difference?
R.I.P. Mr. Don Perry
July 30th, 2012
10:14 pm
Rest in peace Don.
crabapplejoe
July 30th, 2012
10:16 pm
I wonder if CNN ever played that song as an intro to a story on CongressCritter Sheila Jackson Lee……..I’m pretty sure Sarah Palin’s got about 50 IQ points on her…..maybe more.
Kujohn
July 30th, 2012
10:17 pm
Perfect song by CNN for palin Low class religious freak palin an fast food. A perfect match. CNN ROCKS
Chris from Dacula
July 30th, 2012
10:19 pm
Obnoxious on both ends… Palin was out looking for attention… And some smug low life at CNN thought they could sneak in a jab…
Get rid of Obama
July 30th, 2012
10:20 pm
CNN…the Communist News Network. They suck!
Caleb Boone
July 30th, 2012
10:35 pm
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:
After reading what Dan Cathy said about God’s “judgment,” I am moved to rectify the resulting confusion.
I have quoted below the twelfth through the eighteenth verses of James 1:
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
And, now, let me entertain you with a little humorous song I have written:
Dashing Through The Snow!
Or:
Scriptures He Don’t Know!
A Hillbilly Carol
By Caleb Boone
To be sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells.”
We’ll call him “Chicken Dan,”
He talked all night and day,
To boost his master plan,
Confusing all the way.
Bells on churchtops ring,
That Dan is wrong, not right.
How sad it is to say and sing,
Dan’s half-baked thoughts tonight.
Oh, Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
Let’s send Dan back to school!
He needs to learn some Scriptures,
In a one horse open sleigh!
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
How dumb can Danny be?
Oh what fun we’ll have when he
Is well out of the way!
A day or two ago
Dan said God would kill us,
Blow us to kingdom-come,
Without too much fuss.
He said we’d be struck down,
That God would be real mad,
He’d blow us all to smithereens,
And hurt us very bad!
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
Your food is not that good!
You’ll never beat Kentucky Fried,
With sandwiches made of wood!
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
The Colonel will survive!
We’ll run you out of town real fast,
In a one-horse open sleigh!
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
Go back to Sunday School!
You need to learn to read and write,
Not sit on a Dunce Stool!
Chick-fil-A, Chick-fil-A,
God is Love, not hate!
But, bless my heart, you’ll never know,
Unless you study and stay up late!
Hays, Kansas
July 30, 2012.
Have a Dovely.
Sincerely yours,
Caleb Boone,
Hays, Kansas.
mike
July 30th, 2012
10:52 pm
Typical CNN garbage, they continue to lose viewers with their left leaning bias news reporting. Our Cou.ntry is center/right and most are not so stupid that they would be fooled by these bush league antics
Clewis564
July 30th, 2012
10:57 pm
Sometimes people are “discriminated” (and I use the term loosely) against for dragging their private business out into the streets for public view. You don’t want people to comment on it then keep it to yourself. Why would anyone want to known for and identified by a sex act and nothing else as who you are? This is a private business and man who is a Christian and believes in shod and runs his company as such. You don’t like it? Don’t eat there? No one is making you. As said before its interesting how intolerant liberals are to views that defy their own. As a Christian the man has convictions and beliefs he’s standing by as he should. He was asked a question and answered it as he should with the truth. God made men and women and only men and women can produce life. Anything else in unnatural and a perversion of what God made. That’s what the devil does though, he can’t create his own but only try and twist what God has made and ordained.
More Christians have been killed since 1960 than the previous 2,000 years. Why aren’t Christians being lifted as a “protected class”? Hmmm….And for those who don’t believe all it takes is one day, one hour, one minute, for everything to change when Jesus does show himself in the sky. Those who accuse Christians of being fanatical are just as fanatical and more than anyone they accuse of it. Even moreso cause they will pass laws to force you to think and act as they do. Liberals and the gay agenda aren’t interested in freedom only others mental compliance.
Blinded by the Poutrage
July 31st, 2012
12:34 am
For those cons unable to look below surface and form an independent thought, it’s not about what Mr. Cathy said. He is every right to believe what he wants. But, when he and CFA is donating money to “pray-away-the-gay” groups, and other organizations intent on outlawing homosexuality, that is when it becomes problematic and endorsing hate. Sounds like an extremist Muslim country’s ideals to me…..
dmr
July 31st, 2012
1:05 am
If they had played “Promiscuous Girl” or “The Bitch is Back” and introduced a story about Michelle Obama, you can bet your ass the whole world would have been in an uproar.
Hugh Jassperson
July 31st, 2012
6:48 am
CNN or the contrived news network panders to the lowest common denominator and strives to bludgeon it lower! Having said that, its pretty clever to play the song….Palin is a nut, but refreshingly plain spoken….kind of a like a reliable bench player, good for a few points.
B-Bro
July 31st, 2012
6:58 am
It appears all you have your opinions and lifestyes so I guess Mr. Cathy & Sarah Palin has a right to theirs.
Larry
July 31st, 2012
7:14 am
This is why no one watches CNN. It is a FRAUDULENT organization. The only reason anyone knows this story is that is has been bandied about the media.
Sue
July 31st, 2012
6:15 pm
Why is Sarah Palin even considered important enough for us to care about? Even more so why is her unwed, uneducated fame seeking daughter who exploits her toddler for fame noteworthy! I just don’t get why people care anything about this family or their lives! I think that there are people doing way more important things in this world and they do not need a camera in their face to perform.
Braves #17 Fan
August 1st, 2012
7:49 am
The vast and overwhelming majority agrees with Cathy’s statement with only .01% of the population making 99.99% of the noise against Chick-Fil-A.