What surprised me most about this story—and the scandal Wu endured after being accused of “ungratefulness” following an infamous tweet—is how easily the media engaged with the narrative. As the entertainment press, we field emails from executives and publicists daily. Everyone wants top billing and a slightly larger…

As the entertainment press, we field emails from executives and publicists daily. Everyone wants top billing and a slightly larger spotlight. There are even stars this year alone with higher demands than anything detailed by the disgruntled Page Six sources.

363,000 pennies. That is the approximate number of pennies in a ton.

You’re right. How dare that anti-FGM activist ask Omar to speak out to the Muslim population in Detroit in an effort to help these little girls.

What this says to me is that the hosts of Fox & Friends tip exactly as much at nice restaurants as they do at McDonalds: NOTHING.

She’s being asked for help from a Muslim activist.

He’s not asking her position. He’s asking her to help speak directly to his community. 

Kilmeade nailed it. I remember when I was working at Burger King in high school and earned Employee of the Month, I got so many calls from Wendy’s and McDonald’s trying to recruit me that I practically had to change my number! Eventually I worked my way up to Team Leader at BK, but since I couldn’t figure out what to…

I’m adding this reply to myself in the hopes that maybe even one of you in the grays who keep saying the same wrong thing over and over again will see it:

Co-host Brian Kilmeade then adds that “other restaurants can hear about you, and then they want you.”

That Ronald McDonald House charity jar? That’s the tip jar. All McDonald’s employees live in the Ronald McDonald House. You are helping them pay rent.

i would not change my position if it was a random person on the street asking her to do the same thing, or in any forum your little heart desires.

Denying the importance of context you did not initially understand to justify holding fast to your initial is the rationalization. Trust me, there’s no need to explain your interpretation to me. I understood that interpretation prior to you voicing it. As I’ve stated, I believe it’s an understandable but ultimately…

That’s a rationalization. The truth is that context matters, and in the context of this event, she wasn’t implicitly being asked to prove that she doesn’t support female genital mutilation. She was being asked to devote her amplified voice to an advocacy issue that affects girls who may look to her as hero or…

If you have to resort to debating semantics, then you probably don’t have much of an argumentative leg to stand on, eh?

Once you allow a movement to become inextricably attached to a person or personality, the movement becomes only as strong as that person or personality, so it becomes essential that you deify them. Nobody ever decides that it’s a mistake to let the movement become linked to the person until it’s too late.

I’d agree it’s an overreaction. If she gets asked this question all the time, then she should have a ready response: “Thank you for the question, but I am already on the record, and have always been on the record, as opposing this [vile, awful, horrible, choose adjective here] practice. Next question, please.”

Oh, bullshit. “Notably and repeatedly?” The article cites two votes that she made. Nothing more. This is a community activist asking their representative to speak directly to their community about mutilating children, because there is no single person more equipped to help. If she has already done that, then that is…

She already has a record on FGM, and has done exactly what this reporter was asking her to do on multiple occasions.

She’s treating the question as though it’s analogous to being sought out to specifically condemn 9/11 or any other terrorist attack committed somewhere in the world by one or more Muslims (and the related implication that its her responsibility to affirm her American-ness every time a Muslim somewhere does something…