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Bill Maher: Ann Romney Has "Never Gotten Her A** Out of the House to Work"
Townhall.com ^ | April 14, 2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 04/14/2012 7:35:52 PM PDT by Kaslin

The conservative outrage machine is going to churn on all cylinders over this one, I think -- and rightly so. Not necessarily because Maher said something unusually contemptible here, but for reasons we'll discuss in a moment. The infamous misogynist's shot at Ann Romney comes right around the 4:30 mark, as he ridicules Rosengate as a "meaningless controversy:"

 

Bill Maher on Hilary Rosen: Just Meaningless Controversies  

“But what [Hilary Rosen] meant to say, I think, was that Ann Romney has never gotten her ass out of the house to work.”

Maher did go on to qualify his remark, acknowledging that being a full-time mother can be arduous, but quickly added that holding a "real" job is "a different kind of tough thing:"
 

“No one’s denying that being a mother is a tough job — I remember that I was a handful. OK, but there is a big difference in being a mother in that tough job, andgetting your ass out of the door at 7 a.m. when it’s cold, having to deal with the boss, being in a workplace, and even if you’re unhappy you can’t show it for eight hours, that is a different kind of tough thing, isn’t it?”

Yes, because mothers never have to get up at all hours to feed their infants, drive kids to swim practice, and make sure everyone is bathed, clothed and fed before heading to school every single day. And they never have to suppress unhappiness or mask certain emotions for the sake of their children. That inanity aside, let's cut Maher a little slack. Working outside of the home is a different beast than being a full-time parent. That's obvious. What's obnoxious when some on the Left either imply or openly state that the latter option is somehow more worthwhile. Plus, if Maher hadn't turned his phrase so crassly -- vulgarity is his default setting, it seems -- no one would have batted an eye. But he said what he said, and how he said it. Lest we forget, he also happens to be a million-dollar donor to President Obama's SuperPAC. When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a "slut," the collective Left went ballistic. The media covered it incessantly. Republicans were asked to denounce the comments. Advertisers dropped Rush. Obama phoned Fluke to offer support and express solidarity. The "war on women" meme shifted into top gear. Now we have a prominent, big-dollar Obama donor dropping an offensive statement on Mitt Romney's wife, a cancer survivor who has battled multiple sclerosis. It seems like a good time to check in with The One and recall what he said just this past week about attacking politicians' families:

"My general rule is you don’t talk about the spouses of elected officials because they have a really tough job. They’re out there supporting their husband or wife who has chosen to serve in the public eye. I think they’re off limits.”


Team Obama immediately congratulated itself for this bold statement, crowing that Obama had proven that he could honorably "stand up to his friends" or whatever by scolding an ally. Ok, champ. If your own standard is that spouses are "off limits," how do you keep a million bucks from a major donor who spouts off and says your opponent's wife never bothered to "get her ass out of the house to work?" While Obama can't legally direct his affiliated outside group to return the money, he can make his preference very clear. So Obamaland has three choices, as I see it:(1) Pretend there's nothing to see here, as they did when Maher faced scrutiny during the Fluke flap. (2) Issue a half-baked statement disapproving of the comment, but keep the cash because the SuperPAC the president flip-flopped to endorse needs every cent it can get. (3) Return the cool mil, demonstrating that Obama's "rules" of political civility actually mean something. My best guess is that the White House tries the first option initially, then transitions into step two. But that pile of money isn't going anywhere. (If I'm wrong about that, I'll be the first to issue credit where it's due). Meanwhile, the Romney camp is taking full advantage of this flare-up. They're fundraising off of it, producing "moms drive the economy" bumper stickers, and promoting Ann Romney to surrogate-in-chief status. Byron York worries that Republicans are playing the Democrats' game by extending the "war on women" nonsense, but I think this is a slam dunk. Obama's built a substantial gender advantage with women thanks to a unrelenting campaign of demagoguery and false statements from his supporters. The GOP has finally thrown Democrats back on their heels regarding women issues. I see no reason to relent, especially considering their string of unforced errors. Obama's SuperPAC accepted seven figures from Bill Maher, knowing full well that he peddles in crudity and nastiness. Now that he's violated one of Obama's high-minded "principles," Republicans would be committing political malpractice if they didn't beat the drums on this to inflict maximum Democratic discomfort. A manufactured Democrat narrative is blowing up in their faces; Republicans are right to force their opponents to wear it.


UPDATE - Mediaite's Tommy Christopher says because the Romney's could afford nannies, Ann's decision to raise her children amounted to pursuing "a hobby." Keep digging, guys.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: annromney; romney2012; womensvote
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Let’s not be too hard on Bill, after all Bill has a big mouth and....

you wouldn’t want to interfere with his sex life.


41 posted on 04/14/2012 10:12:47 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: Kaslin

Little, prissy socialist wants the gubmint to raise the children. This jackass is probably awaiting the next generation of little perverts to take advantage of in his old age.

Let’s not forget; Bath-House Barry’s choice for “Safe School Czar” was the pervert Kevin Jennings, who supported “teaching” the children how to “fist” each other, using the tax payer dime.


42 posted on 04/14/2012 10:38:59 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Kaslin

Maher will be out of work soon ala KO. Both are delusional psychopaths.

43 posted on 04/14/2012 10:41:39 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: Kaslin

Did he say this to an audience? Did his shallow followers laugh?


44 posted on 04/14/2012 10:45:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: Kaslin

One thing we can thank Bill Maher for is that this subhuman vermin has never spawned.


45 posted on 04/14/2012 10:46:50 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: Kaslin

Bill Maher has never gotten out of his a**.


46 posted on 04/14/2012 10:48:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Kaslin

Ann Romney is attractive, eloquent, intelligent, and scariest of all to a liberal, a likable, Republican woman. She will indeed make a gracious First Lady of the land. Therefore the left will loathes her more than anyone else at the moment. She better grow a very thick skin until we take the White House back.


47 posted on 04/14/2012 11:02:53 PM PDT by parisa
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To: Kaslin

Gee, you can see why Ann Coulter likes the guy, huh?


48 posted on 04/14/2012 11:30:20 PM PDT by Rashputin (Only Newt can defeat both the Fascist democrats and the Vichy GOP)
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To: Red Badger

He’s as snarky and sophomoric as they are.


49 posted on 04/15/2012 12:04:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: GeronL
Remember that Ann Romney is a liberal, she is pro-choice, her friends are all Democrats. This is the company she keeps.

Alternative: The Media and Romney are co-operating in the Romney/LSM hustle of GOP'ers past the remaining primaries to their "now is the main event joined" fraudmeme. (With over 1000 GOP delegates still unallocated and Romney still stoppable.)

I think they both know that it might not be over, and that it would be more convenient for their purposes if it were over, so the 'Rats start up this "Hey, how about that lousy Ann Romney?" meme to hook the conservatives into defending Ann and blasting easy, cheap targets like Maher .... and walking right past the ball, which is all the unfinished business in the primaries.

As for Maher ..... he probably couldn't prove he *had* a mother.

50 posted on 04/15/2012 1:50:33 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: hapnHal
Let’s not be too hard on Bill, after all Bill has a big mouth and.... you wouldn’t want to interfere with his sex life.

Are you kidding? Half of L.A. has probably tripped over him in the bushes.

51 posted on 04/15/2012 1:51:58 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: gusty
This whole episode shows the narcissism that permeates the Left. In my family, my wife does the heavy lifting in raising our three children. All I do is make the money. When put on the scales of importance, the kids win. I never understood the notion that working for strangers was more important than working for your own flesh and blood. If both parents have to work out of the home out of necessity, than it must be done. But to do it just for careerism is truly selfish, unless your childless or your kids are no longer kids.

100% correct. That's how it should be. The man's goal should be to make enough money so his wife can be a full time mother to his children. Not always achievable but you shoot for this. Only deranged libs go out and insult stay at home moms. At the same time some mothers feel compelled (its in their mental makeup) to get the heck out of the house. They feel trapped. So they go to work even though the husband is making enough for her to be at home with the children.

52 posted on 04/15/2012 2:20:43 AM PDT by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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To: Kaslin

when is this ugly asshole going to go away ....... he’s like a POS that gets caught on your shoe.....he needs to be scraped off.....


53 posted on 04/15/2012 2:32:02 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now and in the future)
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To: Kaslin

So. Her ass stayed home and raised kids. Billie’s ass is prominently displayed on the end of his neck and what he says with it stinks with evil.


54 posted on 04/15/2012 3:18:32 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Kaslin

Did Mr. Maher launch similar attacks against Tereza Heinz-Kerry? No.


55 posted on 04/15/2012 4:42:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Kaslin

The arrogance on the left has always been the most obnoxious arrogance that has ever tainted the earth.

IMHO


56 posted on 04/15/2012 4:43:16 AM PDT by ripley
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To: RC one

Maher is an idiot. Getting kids on field trips or trained includes work outside the house. Are they attacking homeschooling?


57 posted on 04/15/2012 5:29:30 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: dennisw

When it is a pedophile school teacher, it is a noble homosexual worker with them. But when it is a mother, it’s not home schooling or working outside the “husband plantation” or whatever else they are insinuating, according to them.

The Gulag, only if they do it, it is ok. Maher needs to return to his homo plantation and go back to his own liberal “home kitchen”.


58 posted on 04/15/2012 5:32:27 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: ripley

The arrogance is similar with Bin Laden and Al Qaida, because theirs is not an insurgency, but a quelling of rebellious US soldier who will not go to Islam. Let us not forget that. They come in with imagined authority over us. Obama just talks like that.


59 posted on 04/15/2012 5:34:36 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: JudgemAll
Maher needs to return to his homo plantation.

Homo plantation - made possible by HoMitt's gay advocacy.

Is Maher a d%#chebag? Absolutely. Will I defend Romney? Hell no.

That being said - women should stay home and raise the kids. Call me a paleocon, or just a plain neanderthal, but women should either have kids and keep the home OR do the career, or hold off on the career until the kids are old enough to make their own sammiches.

60 posted on 04/15/2012 5:44:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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