Walgreens Corrects Fox & Friends: We Don't Offer Pap Smears

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Walgreens Corrects Fox & Friends: We Don't Offer Pap Smears

April 11, 2011 11:09 am ET by Eric Hananoki

On Saturday's Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade attempted to dismiss the importance of Planned Parenthood funding by claiming that services like pap smears are available "at Walgreens." In response to an email about the segment, a Walgreens spokesperson told Media Matters that they do not offer such services.

The Fox News hosts' remarks came during a discussion of the debate over federal funding to Planned Parenthood. During the budget showdown, Republicans attempted to remove federal funding for the women's health group. Planned Parenthood defenders, such as Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, have argued that the funding is necessary because it goes to "clinics that provide services like cancers tests that save women's lives and save money down the road by catching diseases that are expensive to treat."

On April 9, Doocy and Kilmeade responded to Reid by dismissing Planned Parenthood services:

STEVE DOOCY: And the thing about it that was audacious was the fact that he was talking about Planned Parenthood being this great provider where women can get blood pressure checks, and pap smears, and breast --

BRIAN KILMEADE: Which you can get at Walgreens.

DOOCY: --examinations. Exactly right.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201104110009?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4da319cb52b2f374,0


Sadly, Walgreens also does not offer brain transplants.

[gratuitous]

1. Nuh uh!

Walgreen's is where Doocy and Kilmeade always go for their pap smears!

[PeaceNikki]

2. K&R

lolz on your last line. :D

[liberal N proud]

3. Do they think women pull into Walgreens and spread em?

You would think the dimwit women on that show would know what it takes for such procedure. I am a man and know enough to understand it isn't done in a drugstore clinic.

:shrug:

[CantAffordBootstraps]

4. sorry, but that vision made me laugh!

Pull up to the drive thru, honk your horn and two stirrups come sliding out of the counter below the sliding window. Just open the car door and slide your feet in. Alrighty now.

[tammywammy]

6. I guess those men don't have any idea of what a pap smear is

And really, even breast exam...at a Walgreens? I don't think so.

[rubberducky]

20. + 1

:rofl: How absolutely stupid can you be?

[JuniperLea]

43. PUT 'EM ON THE GLASS!

At the pharmacy counter? Sure...

Boy these idiots get more ridiculous as time goes on. They have nothing, really.

[safeinOhio]

5. This could be fun.

Everyone call Walgreens today and ask to schedule your pap smear. Then don't forget to tell them you heard it on FOX news.

[CantAffordBootstraps]

11. I just called both in town and no answer at either

Maybe they got the word. I WILL keep trying! One on my cell is still ringing

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. Love it!

[Botany]

7. R you kidding me?

Stop in and get some VO 5 shampoo, a jumbo box of milk duds,
and jump up into the stirrups so the stock clerk / Ob Gyn can do a
pap smear.

[Melinda]

8. Buffoons

(bə-fūn') noun:

1. A clown; a jester: a court buffoon (See Kilmeade, Brian) :dunce:
2. A ludicrous or bumbling person; a fool (See Doocy, Steve) :silly:

[okieinpain]

9. it won't matter unless walgreens makes a big stink out of it. n/t.

[blondeatlast]

25. I think contacting Media Matters is making a SUBTLE, but important,

huge stink.

[Johonny]

10. I'm imaging the Daily show segment already

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. ..

:thumbsup:

[JohnnyRingo]

12. Actually, they do offer breast exams at our WalGreens

They're gonna catch that guy one of these days though.

How can anyone watch this show and expect any credibility? That was the main focus of the SNL skit this weekend when Fred Amisted parodied their hapless and disinterested fact checker.

How often do viewers get fired up about something they saw on F&F, then later learned it was nonsense? After a while I'd think they'd find another source, even if it's on the same network.

[rl6214]

13. That was awefully stupid

how could a pharmacy offer these services.

[n2doc]

14. I think their brains just responded to the blood pressure item

Hey, I can check my blood pressure at my grocery store (they have a machine you can pay to use). The other tests, not so much!

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Exactly how many pairs of stirrups have they spotted at their local drug store?

Idiots

[CBGLuthier]

16. I think Fox employs those men so your average Fox viewer can feel smart

Because those two idiots are stupid even by Fox standards.

[lukasahero]

19. Good fucking god do they even know what a pap smear is?

These people are morons.

[Bunny]

21. I wonder if they were thinking about those walk-in clinics that Walgreen's has?

You can get treated for colds, flu, and other minor ailments. But they sure as hell don't do pap smears, breast exams, and etc. and even if they did it is NOT cheap.

FOX news makes a point to hire the dumbest people available, don't they?

[heppcatt]

22. Fox is amusing...

They have these folks on there who say what most of the ignorant people are out there thinking, almost like an affirmation of the viewers ignorance.

[CantAffordBootstraps]

23. I called again and got thru...

I told them I heard on tv that you do pap smears and I'd like to make an appointment. A few hems and haws and one or two uhs, She told they did not have that can't of facility there. I said, I just heard on Fox News that Walgreens does pap smears and I don't have insurance and need a place like that. Se referred me to their Illinois stores, where I found this:

http://www.takecarehealth.com/what-we-treat.aspx

[CantAffordBootstraps]

24. Sorry for the typos. Trying to hurry...

and getting used to a new laptop.

[lukasahero]

26. Please don't harass the poor Walgreens employees

Call Fox or send them a link to the page the Walgreens employee directed you to but it's not her fault Fox hires morons.

[CantAffordBootstraps]

28. I don't harass...

One phone call, nice as pie, got my answer and hung up. And, I did put my link up on my answer.

Not too sure I'd like to be your neighbor if you consider THAT harassment.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. So you bothered the Walgreens employees?

[CantAffordBootstraps]

34. And who do you think Fox will listen to?

My email or Walgreens being interrupted over and over with these calls and complaining to Fox? Sit back and complain when people take action that you don't agree with. If you'd like I'l check with you before I take any personal actions on things in case you don't agree with it.

I talked to ONE employee!!!! one one one
Please tell me you are not defending Fox News

And at the very least, at least one employee (one other U.S. worker) knows that Fox is saying this. Getting the message out any way you can is what I've been reading here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. Well if you read the OP, Walgreens knows about this

Media Matters has contacted them.

I worked retail for years. Those employees have enough to do without having to take silly phone calls. That's not activism. Call Fox and waste THEIR time if you want to do something that matters.

[blondeatlast]

36. + elevnty-thousand. I react the same when DUers change the

RW book covers or move the books at libraries and bookstores.

[CantAffordBootstraps]

37. About that in the OP, you are right...

I stand corrected; but I will never believe, for one millisecond, that Fox gives a shit about anyone's little e-mail from someone who doesn't agree with them. They're still here.

I need more coffee...

[lukasahero]

41. That was the whole point of the OP

Walgreens already told Fox to knock it off.

[lukasahero]

40. Thank you

That was the point I was trying to make (apparently badly.)

[KamaAina]

27. Brian Kilmeade:

[KamaAina]

29. You mean the guy who offered to do one there for $4.99 was an impostor?????

:wtf:

[David__77]

30. Good comment re: the brain transplants!

They probably know exactly what they are saying, what is accurate, and what is not. For them, the point is to develop popular narrative, not scrupulous fact checking and reporting.

[NickB79]

31. Christ, Kilmeade doesn't even know what a pap smear is, does he? nt

[Vinca]

32. I think flu shot is as far as I'll let the Walgreen pharmacist go. LOL.

[Bozita]

38. And now, the SNL spoof of FoxNews no longer appears to be "over the top"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

39. My friend Dr. merritt has a chance!

Dr. Merritt of OKC, OB-GYN said he wanted to open up a drive-through pap smear clinic.

If Walgreen's won't, then he can!! :rofl:

The guy has a wicked sense of humor.

[Motown_Johnny]

42. they must have meant Pabst Blue Ribbon, easy mistake to make

[Kablooie]

44. They didn't offer a pap smear but they said they could kill a rabbits for us.

BTW: I don't really know what a pap smear is either and I don't really want to know. Thank you.