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Pro-Abort Burleigh Blows Off S. Dakota: "Dirt Vista of the Frozen American Steppe"
Huffington Post/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 03/08/2006 7:31:50 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

by Mark Finkelstein

March 8, 2006

Nina Burleigh burst on the national scene in 1998 when, as reported by MRC here, the former Time reporter famously said of Bill Clinton: "I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal."

Eight years later, Burleigh still has abortion on the brain. Her current column at the Huffington Post takes South Dakota to task for recently adopting legislation that bans most abortions.

But it wasn't enough for Buleigh to criticize S. Dakota's move. She had to denigrate the state's midwestern nature with such breathtaking condescension that you'd almost think it was a parody of East Coast elitism.

Excerpts:

"Is the loneliness of the prairie and the vast dirt emptiness of the Black Hills so profoundly affecting that only the idea of more brand-new babies can relieve it?"

"The land is so ungenerous, the place so jobless, that [S. Dakota] are moving away faster than they can be replaced."

Her ultimate hit on the Mount Rushmore state came in this description of Pat Buchanan supporters she saw during a 1996 campaign stop there:

"American Gothic-styled, grim-faced men in blue overalls flanked by pairs or trios of women in long floral dresses, a local polygamist sect, apparently. These glaze-eyed, pod-women had been allowed to make the trip to the airport that afternoon to see and hear Pat, in what was surely their only voyage off the dirt vista of the frozen American steppe since their last trip to the hospital delivery room."

And they call New Yorkers snobs!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: abortion; huffingtonpost; ninaburleigh; southdakota
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1 posted on 03/08/2006 7:31:55 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Burleigh Blows Off S. Dakota ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 03/08/2006 7:32:41 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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I'd appreciate it if this could be pinged to abortion lists here. Thanks.


3 posted on 03/08/2006 7:33:29 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh my !


4 posted on 03/08/2006 7:33:33 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest


Sounds she likes to blow all sorts of things.


5 posted on 03/08/2006 7:34:11 AM PST by msnimje (SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Like George Clooney, she is proud to be out of the mainstream. The great unwashed majority of Americans are clueless, but a political elite (from the Upper West side) may someday lead us to the promised land of socialism.


6 posted on 03/08/2006 7:36:16 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (E)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why do all pro abortion females have faces that leave them with almost NO chance of getting pregnant in the first place?

Come to think of it... beauty IS only a lightswitch away.


7 posted on 03/08/2006 7:36:31 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Showing off her abysmal ignorance too.

She and her slobbering Pro-death-to-children followers should be on the FBI's Most Wanted posters.

8 posted on 03/08/2006 7:37:09 AM PST by Carolinamom (I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. ---Ronald Reagan)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'm sure she thought she sounded very clever and chic.

What a first-class "c-word."

9 posted on 03/08/2006 7:37:36 AM PST by Malacoda (Islam=insane death cult)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

 

Well, Ol' Nina's got nice lips, now don't she?

 

10 posted on 03/08/2006 7:38:09 AM PST by Fintan (Did you really think I could post such insightful replies if I actually read the article???)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There is nothing nice that can be said about such a hateful person. It must be miserable to be her.


11 posted on 03/08/2006 7:39:26 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nina Burleigh burst on the national scene in 1998 when, as reported by MRC here, the former Time reporter famously said of Bill Clinton: "I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal."

Sounds like she's a Jay Bennish graduate!

So stupid.....even if Clinton had been pro-life he couldn't have changed the law.

12 posted on 03/08/2006 7:40:15 AM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
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13 posted on 03/08/2006 7:40:35 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Woof!


14 posted on 03/08/2006 7:41:06 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm sure she learned her snobbishness from the deva of condescension, Hitlery.


15 posted on 03/08/2006 7:41:11 AM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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####Nina Burleigh burst on the national scene in 1998 when, as reported by MRC here, the former Time reporter famously said of Bill Clinton: "I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal."####


Something tells me that Billy Boy would decline the offer. I'm sure he has enough halfway decent looking bimbos in his stable that he doesn't need to bother with the outright ugly ones.


16 posted on 03/08/2006 7:41:35 AM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
the vast dirt-emptiness of the Black Hills?"


17 posted on 03/08/2006 7:42:01 AM PST by formercalifornian (One nation, under whatever popular fad comes to mind at the moment, indivisible...)
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I'm sure that Nina thinks Rushmore should feature Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Barney Frank.


18 posted on 03/08/2006 7:44:16 AM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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I'll bet her parents are very proud of her.


19 posted on 03/08/2006 7:50:31 AM PST by Ax (balut! balut!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Plain" doesn't even begin to describe her...


20 posted on 03/08/2006 7:51:48 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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