Surprised the global warming moonbats aren’t also whining.
Via CBS News:
A Cleveland radio station has stopped playing a popular Christmas song that’s been around since the 1940s, CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO reports. Star 102 Cleveland listeners raised concerns about the lyrics of the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” with some saying the words send the wrong message in the era of the #MeToo movement.
Radio host Glenn Anderson wrote about the station’s decision to stop playing the song. “We used to play the song ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside,’ but you’re the Christmas Executive Officer at Star 102 and you told us it’s no longer appropriate,” Anderson wrote on Tuesday. I gotta be honest, I didn’t understand why the lyrics were so bad…Until I read them.”
The song is sung as a duet between a man and a woman. The woman makes it clear she is worried about being with the man late into the night, while he adamantly tells her to say with him because, “Baby, it’s cold outside.”
Anderson shared the song’s lyrics, which include lines like: “Say, what’s in this drink?”, “I really can’t stay / Baby don’t hold out” and “I ought to say no, no, no / Mind if I move in closer?” The woman also wonders aloud what others might think of her if she stays.
Written in 1944, song rose to popularity in the 1949 film “Neptune’s Daughter.” It was sung between Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbán’s characters, and then by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, who reversed the roles.