Tagged: sexist

Posted: February 21, 2012 at 10:33 pm

Sexism’s Sugar Daddy Says Rehberg’s a Favorite

Foster Friess, the Wall Street billionaire bankrolling Rick Santorum, outraged millions for saying basically that women wouldn’t need contraception if we would just keep our slutty legs closed.

“Back in my days, [women] used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives; the gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”

Now, this gem of humanity has announced his intent to spend big bucks to support Dennis Rehberg.

The latest (subscription only) edition of The New Republic profiles Friess, an “eccentric Republican billionaire,” and his support for Rick Santorum. Very notably, Friess said Denny Rehberg is one of his favorite candidates. The Montana Lowdown has more.

It’s easy to understand why a Santorum sugar daddy would be backing Rehberg, too. The two have much in common.

Santorum is the Republican Presidential Candidate that said rape victims should suck it up and accept “the gift” God has given to you.” Here’s Rick Santorum on rape:

I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you. As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life. We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.

Rehberg is the TEA Party Congressman who cosponsored and voted for H.R.358, the “Let Women Die” bill. Shockingly, H.R.358 would force doctors to let women die rather than provide abortion care. Rehberg also tried more than once last year to completely eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood.

Posted: June 28, 2011 at 7:42 am

Worst Political Ad of the Week

This ad against CA Congressional candidate Janice Hahn is being called the most racist, sexist political ad in history. But this is bad on so many levels. See for yourself. Youtube pulled the ad, but it is available on the video podcast below by The Young Turks.

The video was found to be produced by Ladd Ehlinger for a conservative political group called Turn Right USA, the same people who made this ad.

Posted: February 14, 2011 at 9:38 pm

One Man + One Woman + 150 Tea-Baggers and Politicians

It appears the GOP has revamped their marriage mantra from one man + one women, to one man + one women + 150 amateur legislators and teabaggers.

Teabagger Tom McGilvray would insert the government into your marriage with House Bill 438, a bill that will require anyone seeking a divorce to first go through two months of compulsory counseling. The bill contains an exception for marriages in which there is physical abuse, but many other types of abusive situations are not excepted. Thus under McGilvray’s law, a woman would be required to remain married to drug addicts, those who have gambled away their life savings, drug dealers, criminals, and general bad spouses, and undergo ten hours of mandatory counseling over eight weeks.

Today could have easily been dubbed anti-woman day in the Montana Legislature, and the hypocrisy from the party that pretends to oppose government interference was thick. The hearing on House Bill 438 was fraught with misinformation (and absent information) along with anecdotes from the internet which were presented as if they were scientific facts. A slate of backwoods-ers appears to have been flown in from out of state to support the bill.