Posted on 09/08/2012 3:59:14 PM PDT by presidio9
Attorney and womens health advocate Sandra Fluke addressed the Democratic convention on Wednesday, speaking of two profoundly different futures, one in which, she asserted, should Mitt Romney be elected, birth control is controlled by people who will never use it [and] will redefine rape, or the reelection of President Obama, a man who thinks of his daughters, not his delegates. Rachel Maddow on MSNBC said that the Democrats had juggled the convention schedule so that Fluke would appear during the 10 p.m. network-news hour. But, amazingly, ABC and CBS did not carry Flukes speech live.
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Last week, in that misty time of old, when Clint Eastwood conducted a Platonic meditation on the nature of a chair, another odd TV moment occurred. Bill OReilly, co-anchoring Fox News coverage of the Republican convention, said jokingly that he was afraid of balloons, but then went on to ask rhetorically of his co-anchors, When Sandra Fluke speaks next week, I wonder what theyre gonna drop from the ceiling? He continued, Theres only one reason this woman is speaking so if youre gonna drop something , his voice trailed off, leaving the something hanging in the air, as it were. Um, was he implying the Democrats would drop contraceptives? You be the judge:
OReillys co-anchors (John Roberts and James Rosen) picked up on the implication, and sounded a bit taken aback (Oh, goodness! said one; There goes that suggestive OReilly again! said the other).
Its not unreasonable to think that OReilly was suggesting the Dems might, oh, unloose as cascade of birth-control pills on Fluke. I know it doesnt make sense for the Democrats to make fun of their own speaker in this manner, but in the post-Eastwood era of political humor, anything goes, right?
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Ms Flukes face is THE best birth control device I’ve ever seen.
You can mark the thorough degradation of academia when Ivy League schools started handing out degrees for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Or ethnic studies as well. Fluke doesn’t belong anywhere near a law school.
I do not know how anyone can take a political party seriously when their speakers do things like wear condom necklaces on live national TV
Much more like he had inflated condoms in mind than birth-control pills. Inflated condoms would have been really funny.
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