News Every Child Needs a Mother and a Father
posted by on October 10 at 8:18 AM
Mom decides to knock sense into boyfriend, grabs nearest blunt object…
A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said. The boy was in serious but stable condition Monday, police said.
I first heard this story yesterday on KUOW. Local “Morning Edition” host Deborah Brandt giggled her way through the report—because, you know, this sort of thing hilarious so long as the baby’s isn’t dead or anything, just seriously injured—before she tossed it over to the hosts of KUOW’s pledge drive. Was I the only one listening who thought Brandt sounded, oh, just a bit callous? Anyone care to dig up the recording?
To her credit, the pledge drive host—I think it was Marci Sillman—sounded horrified by the story and Brandt’s giggly take on it.
Yuh, I heard Deborah Brandt's moment of levity yesterday. Jesus, enough DB already. She can't keep her shit straight, and she's not funny -- I've endured a million of her retarded quips to calculate this. The darkest of ironies was her dusting off this 'nutty story' and touting it as something that only public radio can bring you...during the pledge drive! Oh, sympathy barf. Her subsequent, on-air apology was even more uncomfortable.
Doesn't the burr-free Bill O'Grady get a crack at hosting at some point? Something.
The darkest of ironies was her dusting off this 'nutty story' and touting it as something that only public radio can bring you...
She'd be wrong in this instance, because CNN Headline Prime referenced this exact story yesterday... without the anchor giggling about it. The CNN anchor seemed rather serious, to be honest.
I heard her giggle over this story too. I just hope she doesn't have children of her own if she finds something like this funny. I was so disgusted that I immediately switched the station to KPLU. Too bad I missed her apology. Now that would have been something to hear. Did she giggle through that too? Idiot.
okay, i'm a really bad person. isn't it possible to think this was a really horrible thing, and yet laugh. maybe it's because i deal with this stuff all day at work.
I had a hard time not laughing when I first read the story. It's horrifying, but also unbelievably absurd.
Dan, your "Every Child Needs a Mother and Father" line is getting irritating. And I'm a gay man fully supportive, naturally, of gay adoption and parenting.
Why am I irriated? Because no sexual orientation holds the copyright on child abuse. Most heterosexual parents don't beat their kids, and most homosexual parents don't beat their kids. I realize your line is from that judge or someone in the recent WA state gay marriage decision - but everybody now knows the point you were making and now its time to move on.
Stop slighting heteros Dan!
Since she finds the idea of using a human projectile to batter someone with so amusing, can we use her to whack someone loathsome like "Anal-Cyst" Limbaugh, or "Screaming Whack-Job Harpy" Coulter? Or maybe "Giant-Head" Matthews?
Dan will stop slighting heteros when so-called heteros quit persecuting homos.
Oh, christ. People, it's funny. Fucking hilarious, in fact. Many, many things in life are both tragic and hilarious. Huge overlap there.
I too found this moment very disturbing. I didn't understand at all why she needed to bring this up in a light-hearted, anecdote-y way.
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