On Friday, Louis C.K. dropped out of hosting the 68th annual Radio & Television Congressional Correspondents Dinner, to be held on June 8, with many speculating that his decision was based on a blog post written by Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. (His agent’s response: “He just didn’t want to do it anymore.”) Under the headline of “I refuse to go to the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner – no one should go,” she wrote:
Another pig…and a media association has hired the pig, Louis C.K., to be their headliner for the big media dinner? Really? I am not going. I refuse to go. Everyone in the media should join me in this boycott.
The headliner of this year’s Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner is “comedian” Louis C.K. Comedian? I don’t think so. Pig? yes.
He uses filthy language about women…yes, the C word…and yes, even to describe a woman candidate for Vice President of the United States. It isn’t just Governor Palin he denigrates. He denigrates all women and looks to the crowd to laugh.
I refuse to show any support for this guy or for the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner Committee who hired him. I think the organization that hired him is just as bad as he is. It is no secret that he denigrates women.
She has a way with words, doesn’t she? Van Susteren also quoted C.K.’s Twitter: “I want to rub my father’s co*k all over Sarah Palin’s fat tits” (which, he’ll admit, isn’t funny — he later told GQ, “God, what a mess. I really shouldn’t have done that. I regret it a lot. I wish I hadn’t done that…I’m not a political comedian. That’s just not what I do.”) I’ll keep this simple: she’s wrong. Her reasoning feels like a more extreme, gender-based version of the argument made against “The Simpsons” in the early 1990s, when (mostly) Conservatives called it detrimental to society. They totally missed the point, because they heard only what they wanted to hear — anyone who thinks Louis C.K. is sexist clearly hasn’t seen 98% of his work. It’s called “context.” Plus: Van Susteren, remember when Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut,” and you never called him a swine? Um, yeah. Lastly, Van Susteren’s a Scientologist, so her point is invalid.
“Boys fu*k things up. Girls are fu*ked up.”
