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“Oopsy Daisy”: Fox & Friends Have A Laugh At Napolitano’s “24/7, 364″ Slip

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The fight to defend the Homeland may only be a 364-day-a-year job, but cracking on gaffes–especially when they slip from the tongues of members of the Obama Administration–well the gang at Fox & Friends don’t take days off–ever.

Last night on ABC’s World News, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano tried to ease the fears of terror-weary Americans who’ve heard all about the heightened concern over a holiday attack. And she came so close to getting it right:

“What I say to the American people is that… thousands of people are working 24/7, 364 days a year to keep the American people safe.”

Ubercool Diane Sawyer gracefully opted to move right along and not draw attention to the gaffe. But perhaps she knew F&F would cover her on that, and so they did Tuesday morning:

CARLSON: Oopsy daisy.

DOOCY: 364 days a year!

CARLSON: See, even with a leap year, that increases the day, right? I’m trying to come up with how you get to 364. I mean sometimes you might have 366, right, but not 364.

DOOCY: So the key is, what day, Madame Secretary, does the Department of Homeland Security take off?

KILMEADE: Spin the wheel. Let’s hope it’s not today and tomorrow, and they don’t tell anybody. We’ll find out.

CARLSON: Maybe it could be Christmas Day, because that’s kind of what happened last year when that almost Christmas bomber was able to pull of a major stunt on an airplane.

Zing! Take that!

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  • Atticus Draco


    but cracking on gaffes–especially when they slip from the tongues of members of the Obama Administration–well the gang at Fox & Friends don’t take days off–ever.

    That’s a “good” thing right Mark?

  • skyfet

    These dummies/clowns are the las people to make fun of Napolitano’s slip.

  • dhg

    This reminds me of a towing company operator I knew that had “23 1/2 hour emergency service” on his trucks.The joke was you never knew what half hour he wasn’t working.

    In this case it’s still a joke but of a very different type,including that it was unintentional,and once again made this woman look stupid.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 Greg Palmer

    What day are they taking off? I am glad they can have some rest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Diane Sawyer is ubercool?

  • tatboy

    Well I guess since saying “North” Korea instead of south made Palin a moron, the same can be said about Janet. Fair is fair…

  • Penguin60

    Mistakes are just that. True, what would have been happening if Palin said this? But this crew making fun of anybody is comical.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    tatboy said:
    Well I guess since saying “North” Korea instead of south made Palin a moron, the same can be said about Janet. Fair is fair…

    100% agreed.

    But again these are the people who got angry about LAPD jetpacks and the 120% of Respondents poll amongst many other gaffes. Douchy and The Princess are not the ones to be poking fun at anyone else.

  • skyfet

    Gretchen didn’t know what ignoramus was? she grabbed a dictionary, but still didn’t get it right. Last person on earth to be making fun of someone else’s slip. For these clowns, it’s a daily occurrence.

  • tatboy

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    100% agreed. But again these are the people who got angry about LAPD jetpacks and the 120% of Respondents poll amongst many other gaffes. Douchy and The Princess are not the ones to be poking fun at anyone else.

    100% agreed.

    And let’s not forget Maddow telling her audience that a Republican house member recieved a fax about the OK City bombing BEFORE the bombing. Opps… Or Olbermann telling his followers that a condom breaking in Sweden in rape. Opps…

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    tatboy said:
    100% agreed.

    And let’s not forget Maddow telling her audience that a Republican house member recieved a fax about the OK City bombing BEFORE the bombing. Opps… Or Olbermann telling his followers that a condom breaking in Sweden in rape. Opps…

    Why cable news is the downfall of America….

  • TangledThorns

    If Palin said this… Mediaite would be all over it for a week! Zing take that!!

  • Magister

    @TangledThorns: This is the second story in two days. I’d say the site has it covered.

  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    Gretchen didn’t know what ignoramus was? she grabbed a dictionary, but still didn’t get it right. Last person on earth to be making fun of someone else’s slip. For these clowns, it’s a daily occurrence.

    Do you remember when Il Douchey was without electricity at home due to some summer storm and O’Van Karlsen said, “I guess it’s a microwave dinner, tonight!”

  • TfT

    Here Mark, let me finish this sentence for you:

    “Ubercool Diane Sawyer gracefully opted to move right along and not draw attention to the gaffe…..because Janet is part of team Obama; had this gaffe been from any republican/conservative, Sawyer would have lost her ubercoolness and broken out into hysteria claiming the republican/conservative was dumber than dirt or a white sock or something/anything”

    Just more liberal bias BS from the lamestreamers.

    Ubercool? LOL; uberdem would have been a better word.

  • felixw

    Once again the HOLIDAY THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED causes confusion for a Democrat.

  • The Real Royal King

    felixw said:
    Once again the HOLIDAY THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED causes confusion for a Democrat.

    Not really. When I am speaking with a fellow Christian in the US, I say “Merry Christmas”; in the UK, “Happy Christmas”; in Mexico, Latin America and Spain, “Feliz Navidad”; in France, “Joyeux Noël”; in Germany, “Fröhliche Weihnachten”. What’s so difficult about that. For non-Christians, I usually say, “Happy Holiday”. That’s no a difficult concept for anyone put the tiniest pea brain. I’d explain further, but you’re already lost.

  • zombietimeshare

    It’s hard work protecting Obama’s 57 states.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Sorry, but I am not the least bit outraged. If it had been Sarah or Michele Bachmann who had said this (or ANY other conservative), they would be pilloried in the press and it would be top-of-the-hour news on every other channel. Not to mention, it would be a new hobby horse for that seacow, Joy Behar, to ride every day… .”Sarah is so dumb she thinks there are 364 days in a year…. ” ad infinitum… We’d never hear the end of it from her, that’s for sure. Heck, she’s still on the “I’m not a witch” deal. Joy has made The View highly unwatchable, and she used to be able to get away with saying “…well I am a comic.” But lately, especially since the Nov. 2nd elections, her “jokes” come off more as pure anger and hatred than anything else. She’s such a moron.

  • notsofast

    skyfet said:
    These dummies/clowns are the las people to make fun of Napolitano’s slip.

    No- you are.

    Hey Janet, are you protecting all 57 states?

  • notsofast

    zombietimeshare said:
    It’s hard work protecting Obama’s 57 states.

    Sorry- you beat me to it!

  • ititiiti

    in grade school, we made fun of people’s verbal slips, which most of us out grew; so when adults do it, particularly if they happen to be news people doing it over the airways, they are a bigger gaffe then the one they’re laughing at.

    the second biggest gaffe are all join in the “fun” with them.

    http://innergnat.com

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    Do you remember when Il Douchey was without electricity at home due to some summer storm and O’Van Karlsen said, “I guess it’s a microwave dinner, tonight!”

    lol, these jokers provide countless materials for Stewart on Olbermann on a daily basis. They need to start charging MSNBC and Comedy central for their efforts.

  • fanofamerica

    skyfet said:
    lol, these jokers provide countless materials for Stewart on Olbermann on a daily basis. They need to start charging MSNBC and Comedy central for their efforts.

    And weren’t they the ones along with so many others making fun of Palin for saying Republicans should be sure to not ‘party like it’s 1773′ yet? Gees, you’d think they’d at least know elementary level American History. /sarc

  • Nacho

    Real classy for these three to anticipate a terror attack because of this gaffe.

    Watch out Fox viewers, it could be today, tomorrow, or Christmas. “I guess we’ll find out.”

  • disgusted

    So..??.. What do you have – IF “they” merge HS (Homeland Sekurity) with HHS (first word “HAPPY”).??

  • Bids

    As with the 57 state comment—it’s a joke.

  • http://none pyrope

    “Oopsy Daisy”: Fox & Friends Have A Laugh At Napolitano’s “24/7, 364″ Slip

    Fox may have had a laugh but I cringed when I heard Ms. Napolitano’s gaffe.

  • http://none pyrope

    Greg Palmer said:
    What day are they taking off? I am glad they can have some rest.

    The day that the terrorists hit us again.

  • http://none pyrope

    dhg said:
    In this case it’s still a joke but of a very different type,including that it was unintentional,and once again made this woman look stupid.

    Stupid is as stupid does.

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