Yes, Guilfoyle, you DID say it!

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Fox News Panelist Says She Didn't Say Women Shouldn't Vote

She only said young women should be excused from juries, which is apparently much better.

By Jill Filipovic, October 24, 2014

Earlier this week, in a segment about voting, Fox News panelist Greg Gutfeld made the point that young people lack the wisdom of older voters and indicated that's why young folks may be more liberal in their voting patterns. Commentator Kimberly Guilfoyle followed that up by lamenting the lack of wisdom of young female jurors, saying, "They don't get it" because young women apparently don't understand what it's like to pay bills or worry about health care or crime. "They're, like, healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world," she said, and so they should be excused from jury duty "so they can go back on Tinder or Match.com."

Media outlets, including Cosmopolitan.com, picked up the story and took Guilfoyle's comments in context — she was on a segment where the panelists were talking about young voters, and by adding that young women were too inexperienced and unwise to be good jurors, the implication was that they're also too unwise to vote. Yesterday, Guilfoyle said that's not what she meant at all, and she was simply trying to say that "it's also important to educate yourself on the issues before making decisions that will directly impact the country."



"Making smart decisions on who to vote for is difficult," Guilfoyle said. "Especially if all you see are ads like this."

Then, a video played of women across the country lip-syncing to Leslie Gore's "You Don't Own Me," encouraging women to vote and including a series of statements about women's rights and the elections, including that some people want to overturn Roe v. Wade and defund Planned Parenthood (initiatives many in Republican Party have supported).

Guilfoyle says it is difficult to be a smart voter if the ads you see are, like the one she showed, targeted to young women — although the only ad she played is one supporting reproductive choice, and not, for example, the much-maligned "say yes to the candidate" ad where Republican politicians were portrayed as "perfect" wedding dresses in an effort to appeal to young female voters.

Guilfoyle's "The Five" team was incensed that Guilfoyle's earlier words were taken, as Fiver Dana Perino said, "completely out of context."

"She was talking about, if you're a prosecutor, and you're prosecuting a case, and you have to pick a jury, you typically do not pick the young woman because she won't be the person you want on that jury," Perino said.

Guilfoyle interjected, "Or the young man."

Perino continued, "That's true across the board for any sort of prosecutor."

When Gutfeld joked, "So you're saying to get out of jury duty I should cross-dress?" Perino responded, "No, you also have to be young."

Though it seems unlikely that prosecutors "across the board" excuse young women from juries simply for being young women, even Guilfoyle's Fox co-host seems to believe that it's understandable that prosecutors might believe women are inadequate jurors. Yet the Fox panelists say it's out of bounds to conclude that such a dim view of young women extends to young women in the voting booth.

"My point is you've been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury so come equipped," Guilfoyle said. "Come prepared because you don't want to dilute the votes out there because you are uninformed and you're spoon-fed something that's inaccurate, or you don't even bother to equip yourself with the facts — anybody out there, this goes for everyone."

She did not clarify why, if her initial point "goes for everyone," she specifically targeted young women on juries in the earlier segment or why, in this segment, the evidence she chose to illustrate why some voters find it "difficult" to make "smart decisions" was an ad featuring young woman after young woman.
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