Posted on 06/22/2011 3:55:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Stephanie Miller loathes Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann and one of the ways she expresses her contempt is through ludicrous speculation.
On her radio show last week, for example, Miller and her producer, Chris Lavoie, along with actor Hal Sparks, took a gratuitous whack at Palin and Bachmann (audio after page break, courtesy of The Radio Equalizer) --
MILLER: Speaking of crazy right-wing newspaper columns, in the Washington Examiner a syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas, claimed that Palin along with Bachmann get a lot of media attention because they represent everything the liberal media hate. They're attractive women who are married to the same men they started with. He went onto write, in Palin's case she and her husband have a Down syndrome child who she refused to abort. Right there you have to offend pro-choice feminists who treat abortion as a sacrament.
LAVOIE: Oh! There are so many things wrong with that piece.
MILLER: Yeah, where do you even start there? We hate them because they haven't been divorced or had abortions, which apparently ...
SPARKS: No, that's actually why Newt Gingrich hates them.
LAVOIE: Yeah, Michelle Obama hasn't been divorced and hasn't had an abortion. As far as we know.
MILLER: Yeah, yeah. I don't, hmm ...
LAVOIE: And how do we know that Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann have never had an abortion?
MILLER: Yes!
LAVOIE: Do we know that?! I think Cal Thomas is making a giant assumption there.
How do we know Palin hasn't had an abortion? Because when she was pregnant with her fifth child and he was diagnosed with Down syndrome, Palin took the road far less traveled. In this circumstance, more than 90 percent of expectant mothers undergo an abortion. If Palin were inclined to have done so, this would have been when, and none of us would have ever heard of Trig Palin.
In an Oct. 27, 2008 article for The Weekly Standard titled "Loathing Sarah Palin: The Two Months Hate of feminists," Joseph Epstein wrote --
Strongly liberal women get most agitated over the issue -- though of course to them it is no issue but a long since resolved matter -- of abortion. Abortion, to be sure, is the great third-rail subject in American politics. But when a male politician is against abortion, these women can write that off as the ignorance of a standard politician, if not himself a Christian fundamentalist, then another Republican cynically going after the fundamentalist vote. A woman not in favor of abortion is something quite different.
And it is all the more strikingly different when the same woman not only holds this opinion on abortion but acts on it and knowingly bears a child with Down syndrome, a child that most liberal women would have thought reason required aborting. What else, after all, is abortion for? (emphasis added)
... (The) rage in their reaction to Governor Palin is emphatically what I do sense on the part of liberal women -- that and delight in any attempt to humiliate her. (Tina Fey, take a bow, and hey, let's watch that Katie Couric YouTube interview one more time!) I wonder if the women who loathe Sarah Palin with such intensity oughtn't perhaps to reexamine the source of their strongly illiberal feelings.
How do we know Bachmann hasn't had an abortion? In addition to being a mother of five, "she and her husband helped raise 23 teenage foster children in their home, as many as four at a time," wrote Stephen Moore in a June 11-12 profile for the Wall Street Journal. "They succeeded in getting all 23 through high school and later founded a charter school."
Palin and Bachmann have raised 10 children between them -- with Bachmann also adopting -- while each woman is still married to the man she married decades ago.
I'll stick my neck out and venture to suggest that abortion leads to fewer children, not an abundance of them.
“Stephanie Miller and Her Producer Ponder: How Do We Know Palin and Bachmann Have Not Had Abortions?”
How do we know Stephanie Miller isn’t one?
Why is it that the lovers of abortion have themselves never been aborted.
We just keep spiraling down as a society...
Steph, Steph, you just can’t STAND the fact the she didn’t kill poor little Trig!
the part of liberal women — that and delight in any attempt to humiliate her
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So true, not realizing how they humiliate themselves. It’s fine to not like her, to not like the stands that she takes, but everyone who dislikes her tends to make it so personal. I just don’t get it!
Ah yes, they are for freedom of choice, unless the choice violates their beliefs.
the better question would be michelle 0. barack mentioned how much of a burden a baby can be.
Impossible question. How does anyone prove a negative?
Theory:
The libs have so poisoned the waters that they are terrified that Palin or another strong conservative will get elected. They also fear a repeat of 2010.
They know that once back at the wheel, we will force this crap to end. There will be prosecutions over slander/libel. There will be prison for those who pull Wisc. union style crap. The ‘free speech’ that they have so thoroughly abused without repercussions will suddenly have many.
And that’s when they are going to get really violent. There will be CW2 and the libs will start it if their fearless reader doesn’t beat them to it through his policies, first.
I wonder...How do we know Miller didn’t shag a goat.
Stephanie, how do we know you are not a part-time crack whore?
Miller and Lavoie do not know a pro-choice woman or a woman that has never had an abortion. I know this for a fact. How else can you ask this question with any seriousness? It’s like a cheater always accusing his or her spouse of cheating.
Miller and Lavoie have had abortions; take it to the bank.
I'm sure that's true sometimes, but in other cases, repentance leads a person to embrace having many children, adopting children, or accepting handicapped children.
I agree that it is not very likely that Mrs. Palin or Rep. Bachmann has had an abortion, but the author's reasoning is weak.
Maybe a blind goat.
Impossible question. How does anyone prove a negative?
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actually, i’m very confident they haven’t.
for a specific reason.
the liberals have proved again and again,
they have no ethics, and no limits on what they would do, to hurt someone like Palin.
including lie, and invent things, as they done repeatedly.
they have LITERALLY dug through trash !
if either lady HAD had an abortion, i guarantee, some lib somewhere, would have leaked it.
(ESPECIALLY since they totally control Planned Parenthood, etc., that does 99% of them.)
How do we know Stephanie Miller doesn’t boink Saint Bernards...?
It is none of their d@mn business & these are evil scummers. I don’t understand why they even think it is their business either. Bunch of gossiping scummers IMHO!
Saint Bernards and all dogs have higher standards.
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