roundup of teh dumb
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veronica_richI like to call this segment "Ted Nugent, Shut The Fuck Up." Just like Toby Keith wouldn't have a career without Dubya, you wouldn't still have one without Obama. (While the right-leaning ones tend to piss me off more anyway, plenty of celebrities need to shut up the fuck up about politics; I'm looking at you, Alec Baldwin and Sean Penn. Then again, the thing all these people have in common is I find them annoying no matter what. I certainly don't want wife-beaters on my side of the aisle.)
This segment is titled "Hilary Rosen, Did You Grow Up In A Cave?" You're either from Mars or, at the very least, a far opposite pole of this planet if you didn't already realize that any attack on stay-at-home-wives is like throwing firebombs at Jesus himself. Were you high last week? I'm a horrible public speaker and even I would have realized that was NOT the way to phrase your objection; hell, I still don't know what your objection WAS. Was it that Ann Romney has no clue about economics because Mitt's family has always been richer than Croesus? You couldn't just say that instead? Or was it that it's because she doesn't have a paid job and might not be as appreciative of the value of a dollar than, say, a woman who has to haul herself out of bed and compete out in the workforce every day (sometimes while also having to be a mother - and if you're going to say a SAHM has a job, then you'd damn well better recognize working moms have TWO JOBS), whose income can be cut off with a no-frills firing rather than an expensive drawn-out divorce? Slightly problematic, sure, but a fairer statement than saying "she's never worked a day in her life." That's a low blow, lady. Raising minor children is a daily pain in the neck; why do you think I don't have any?
And, incidentally, thanks for bringing up this shitstorm again. Then again, as Jon Stewart pointed out, Hilary Rosen might have singlehandedly turned the GOP pro-choice, what with all the whining and bleating by conservative pundits about how woman should be able to choose whether to stay at home or to go out to do a job. Because isn't choice convenient when it works for your argument? Next, someone will have pro-choicers admitting that abortion is killing cells (which, it is - I mean, if I drip raw chicken juice on my kitchen counter and spray 409 to clean it up, I'm killing bacteria, so I have no problem recognizing a kill) and pro-forced-birth women recognizing that their choice to have their babies WAS THEIR OWN CHOICE AND ISN'T IT NICE TO HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE? (And if they weren't a choice, then I don't want to be around when you have to tell them someday how Mommy didn't really want to have to give birth and look at their sorry faces every day, but they're there, and you do what you have to do, and hey, you kids had better be GRATEFUL the condom broke!)
This segment is titled "Hilary Rosen, Did You Grow Up In A Cave?" You're either from Mars or, at the very least, a far opposite pole of this planet if you didn't already realize that any attack on stay-at-home-wives is like throwing firebombs at Jesus himself. Were you high last week? I'm a horrible public speaker and even I would have realized that was NOT the way to phrase your objection; hell, I still don't know what your objection WAS. Was it that Ann Romney has no clue about economics because Mitt's family has always been richer than Croesus? You couldn't just say that instead? Or was it that it's because she doesn't have a paid job and might not be as appreciative of the value of a dollar than, say, a woman who has to haul herself out of bed and compete out in the workforce every day (sometimes while also having to be a mother - and if you're going to say a SAHM has a job, then you'd damn well better recognize working moms have TWO JOBS), whose income can be cut off with a no-frills firing rather than an expensive drawn-out divorce? Slightly problematic, sure, but a fairer statement than saying "she's never worked a day in her life." That's a low blow, lady. Raising minor children is a daily pain in the neck; why do you think I don't have any?
And, incidentally, thanks for bringing up this shitstorm again. Then again, as Jon Stewart pointed out, Hilary Rosen might have singlehandedly turned the GOP pro-choice, what with all the whining and bleating by conservative pundits about how woman should be able to choose whether to stay at home or to go out to do a job. Because isn't choice convenient when it works for your argument? Next, someone will have pro-choicers admitting that abortion is killing cells (which, it is - I mean, if I drip raw chicken juice on my kitchen counter and spray 409 to clean it up, I'm killing bacteria, so I have no problem recognizing a kill) and pro-forced-birth women recognizing that their choice to have their babies WAS THEIR OWN CHOICE AND ISN'T IT NICE TO HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE? (And if they weren't a choice, then I don't want to be around when you have to tell them someday how Mommy didn't really want to have to give birth and look at their sorry faces every day, but they're there, and you do what you have to do, and hey, you kids had better be GRATEFUL the condom broke!)
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