Eric Bolling Out At Fox. Male Media Tarzans Overpowered By Whip Smart Women Bonobos
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TRUMP CONTENDS WITH, FROM TOP, APRIL RYAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN, JOY-ANN REID, MIKA BRZEZINSKI, AND RACHEL MADDOW. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DARROW; PHOTOGRAPHS, FROM GETTY IMAGES (TRUMP’S HEAD), BY SHANNON FINNEY (BRZEZINSKI’S HEAD), PARAS GRIFFIN (RYAN’S HEAD), FROM NBC NEWSWIRE (REID’S HEAD), BY RAY TAMARRA (MADDOW’S HEAD), ALL FROM GETTY IMAGES.
If you can't live without watching MSNBC's Rachel Maddow -- the most-watched anchor in cable news -- or weekends are not the same without MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid,you are probably thrilled to see a heavy-duty dose of estrogen in major media as we contend with life in Trumplandia.
Writing for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott is far more eloquent in 'Why Women Journalists Are Ascendant In The Age Of Trump': "The me-Tarzan heyday of political broadcast journalism’s “big swinging dicks” (to borrow Michael Lewis’s hallowed term) has entered its twilight phase, a long-overdue development obvious to everyone except those little swinging dicks who keep injuring themselves trying to perpetuate the old swagger."
Large numbers of those "big swinging dicks" congregated at Fox News, who cut its ties with its latest alleged bad boy Eric Bolling on Friday. Bolling was busted in a Huffington Post expose published a month ago by Yashar Ali.
Fourteen sources confirmed allegations that Bolling sent female colleagues at Fox, lewd texts with an image of male genitalia. In filing a lawsuit against Yashar Ali, Bolling turned to Trump's personal lawyer Marc E. Kasowitz.
Wolcott unleashes his commanding vocabulary against Trump's alpha males, writing: "Throughout his entire Fox News career Bolling typified the “gorilla mind-set” espoused by macho paleo blogger Mike Cernovich in his book of the same name, an ode to alpha dominance that found its golden fulfillment in the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump, the gorilla mind-set being the Wagnerian prelude to achieving what Cernovich heralds in his follow-up book as the “MAGA mind-set”—the inner power of Trumpian transformation that elevates the alphas from the also-rans. Thanks to the flubbering failure of Trump himself, the MAGA mind-set now resembles melted cheese, a glop of congealed ego and spilt religion."
Update Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017: In a very sad twist in the Eric Bolling story, his son Eric Chase Bolling Jr. was found dead in Boulder on Friday night in a reported by TMZ, and sourced by People magazine, drug overdose.
