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MSNBC host wears tampon earrings to protest Texas abortion bill
The Daily Caller ^ | 7/21/2013 | Caroline May

Posted on 07/21/2013 6:06:40 PM PDT by markomalley

On her MSNBC show Sunday, Melissa Harris-Perry introduced a new type of jewelry inspired by the recent protests at the Texas Capitol.

Tampon earrings.

“My producer Lorena made for me, last week, some tampon earrings,” Harris-Perry said as she inserted them into her pierced ears.

“Because, of course, you’ll remember the Texas state legislature said you could not bring tampons in when they were going, these women, to in fact stand up for their own reproductive rights. You weren’t allowed to, initially, to bring tampons,” she explained.

During debate this month on abortion restricting legislation in Texas, protestors descended on the Texas Capitol. Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confiscated items that could have been thrown into the gallery, including tampons and pads.

Democratic State Sen. Kirk Watson called the practice “boneheaded” and “crazy,” telling the Associated Press that he was able to secure assurances from the DPS that it would stop.

“So just in case that ever happens again, ladies, you can just bring them on your earrings,” Harris-Perry said, going on to introduce the show’s next segment, donning on her ears what most women wear well out of sight.

During DPS bag inspections officers discovered a number of questionable items, including jars allegedly containing feces and urine, in addition to the feminine hygiene products.

“During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items — as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals — were required to be discarded; otherwise those individuals were denied entry into the gallery,” DPS described in a press release.

Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry signed the abortion bill into law on Thursday.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: msnbc; usefulidiots
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To: markomalley

If she had a tampon on her ear...I wonder where she put her pencil?


41 posted on 07/21/2013 7:12:33 PM PDT by jy8z (From the next to last exit before the end of the internet.)
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To: jy8z

Some things it is best not to know.


42 posted on 07/21/2013 7:15:14 PM PDT by sport
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To: jy8z
"like throwing a hotdog down a hallway"

-Stewie Griffin

43 posted on 07/21/2013 7:16:44 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: markomalley

The stupidity... that’s the wrong word for it, because this woman is not displaying lack of intelligence, she is displaying a brain that has been wired in a completely random pattern. The red wires are attached to the yellow wires, the black to the blue, etc.

As a woman, seeing women like this just makes me cringe. You cannot make a rational argument that women deserve equal rights when so many of them act so illogically. I can’t imagine that women put on displays demonstrating utter lack of thinking ability like this during the women’s suffrage movement... we never would have gotten the right to vote.


44 posted on 07/21/2013 7:29:04 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: PROTESTBYPROXY

They won’t ever wear earrings composed of pills or condoms, though. That would show them the easily had precautions they failed to take! (Not that I’m endorsing these personally versus good old fashioned godly self control, but come ON, after all the militancy for their widespread availability, how many are USING them?)


45 posted on 07/21/2013 7:30:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: HotHunt

Tragically, there are places in the US where you can see such things on the street.


46 posted on 07/21/2013 7:37:37 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)
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To: markomalley

47 posted on 07/21/2013 7:39:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: markomalley

Desperate for attention and at least 4 viewers .

How does this channel stay open
It’s bleeding the NBC financials .


48 posted on 07/21/2013 7:44:28 PM PDT by ncalburt (Amnesty media out in full force)
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To: markomalley

Desperate for attention and at least 4 viewers .

How does this channel stay open
It’s bleeding the NBC financials .


49 posted on 07/21/2013 7:45:03 PM PDT by ncalburt (Amnesty media out in full force)
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To: markomalley

I think her hair is pulled too tight. No slack left for logical thinking.


50 posted on 07/21/2013 7:48:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: markomalley

More people are probably reading about this on FreeRepublic than actually watched it on PMSNBC.


51 posted on 07/21/2013 7:54:19 PM PDT by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: markomalley

She is the type who should be wearing Tampon earrings and a condom over her head.

A sperm receptacle that reads news stories without an original thought in her head.


52 posted on 07/21/2013 7:57:23 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: markomalley

This is why we should NEVER listen to a liberal talk about abortion...just look at the idiots we are talking to.


53 posted on 07/21/2013 8:17:35 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: markomalley

Unless I’m confused, if you have a need for tampons, abortion is not an option.


54 posted on 07/21/2013 8:24:57 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: anton

She probably will when GZ, MOM and The Beasley Group get through
with NUT BALL CORPSE!


55 posted on 07/21/2013 8:31:47 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: markomalley

From Dennis Miller’s Facebook page:

“What’s up with MSNBC? I just saw Sharpton wearing a single tampon on one ear singing, ‘Yo Ho Ho, it’s a pirate’s life for me.’”


56 posted on 07/21/2013 8:43:05 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: markomalley

Be Prepared


57 posted on 07/21/2013 9:06:27 PM PDT by Iron Munro (They Old. That's Old School People. We In A New School, Our Generation)
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To: Sherman Logan

It has zero to do with abortion, it was because they were not allowing those deranged protesters to walk in with jars of feces/urine and tampons that they were leaving laying around. She believes herself to be clever and in reality she is a small minded racist. You already knew that last bit though.


58 posted on 07/21/2013 9:17:59 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 ('Hey citizen, what's in YOUR closet?')
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Yahh. I just being snide.


59 posted on 07/21/2013 9:19:06 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: markomalley

Would it be Racist of me to observe she looks like a Black Forest Coo Coo Clock?


60 posted on 07/22/2013 3:37:34 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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