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GOP goes to extremes to demonize women
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/27/12 | Denny Freidenrich

Posted on 02/27/2012 8:05:02 AM PST by SmithL

I remember the uproar over the first "Girls Gone Wild" videotapes. People really were upset. Times certainly have changed. Witness the cover of the new Sports Illustrated "Swimsuit" issue on stands now at the grocery store. It's revealing enough to make a grown woman blush or angry. Or both.

So are the very public spectacles that have unfolded in the last three weeks. First, one of the most conservative board members of the Susan G. Komen Foundation was wildly applauding the organization for cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood. That was until public opinion swamped Komen and the board member in question resigned.

Then, a Republican lawmaker in Indiana attacked Girl Scouts, claiming that organization is a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood. Wow. I'll bet the millions of former Scouts, many of whom are lifelong Republicans, never dreamed they were doing anyone's political bidding when they were 12.

These are the same mothers who, for the last decade or longer, have encouraged their daughters to play Little League baseball. Should that organization be worried?

These attacks on women are not one-of-a-kind events. They are national in scope. What's clear is this: These chilling offensives are meant to demonize women, . . .

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2012; komen; moralabsolutes; plannedparenthood; sanfranciscovalues; women
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To: andy58-in-nh

Hah. Never mind, the quote doesn’t apply. I was working off memory, but when I read it, it applies to religion.

Well, on second thought, Liberism IS a religion...


21 posted on 02/27/2012 8:47:34 AM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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To: SmithL

This is a corollary to Alinsky’s rule #5 about ridicule being man’s most potent weapon, the corollary being you just make ridiculous stuff up if you don’t have anything else.


22 posted on 02/27/2012 8:50:03 AM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: SmithL
"GOP goes to extremes to demonize women"

Democrats go to extremes to make sure that women aren't born in the first place through contraception, abortion, or partial birth abortion. If they live through a botched abortion the Democrats want a doctor to snuff out her life. As she grows, the Democrats want her indoctrinated into the lesbian life style. If she doesn't become a lesbian, the Democrats want her to use contraceptives so that she can have multiple partners and get STDs, or have abortions so that she can go sterile. The Democrats just LOVE women.

23 posted on 02/27/2012 8:50:15 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: rlmorel
"I will respect the views of others, and demand that they respect mine..."

It doesn't matter whether those "views" involve religion or politics or whatever. I think the point is that you should respect the right of another to hold their own views, without having to agree with them.

But today, some on the Left not only seek to demonize conservative viewpoints, or disparage those who hold them - but actively seek to criminalize ideas they loathe.

24 posted on 02/27/2012 9:04:12 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: SmithL

Their brains work different then most folks..

I could have sworn the babes of distress these days are both spouses of democRats.. Lockyer and Mirkarimi.. but they’re not being demonized, just bruised and battered.. so that’s OK.


25 posted on 02/27/2012 9:09:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: SmithL

Denny Freidenrich

26 posted on 02/27/2012 9:10:14 AM PST by kcvl
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http://twitter.com/#!/freidomreport


27 posted on 02/27/2012 9:10:50 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

We were discussing the Swim Suit issue of SI last week at the barber shop and determined that “some things” are impervious to “the curse”.


28 posted on 02/27/2012 9:12:27 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SmithL

Democrats go to extremes to demonize regular americans.


29 posted on 02/27/2012 9:16:24 AM PST by GraceG
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To: Obadiah
Fear us, rightly.


30 posted on 02/27/2012 9:19:03 AM PST by Salamander (You don't know what's going on inside of me. You don't wanna know what's running through my mind)
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To: SmithL

Two Words: Sarah Palin.

Yeah, the liberals never demonize any woman.


31 posted on 02/27/2012 9:33:17 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: SmithL

The American press is like a getaway car driver for Democrat bank robbers.

“I didn’t kill those people or steal that money, I just helped them get away with it.”


32 posted on 02/27/2012 10:03:15 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SmithL
"Witness the cover of the new Sports Illustrated "Swimsuit" issue on stands now at the grocery store. It's revealing enough to make a grown woman blush or angry. Or both.

Why would a grown woman either blush of be angry over the artistry of the cosmetic surgeon and the PhotoShop expert who produced that photo? More importantly, why is that cover relevant to the right's (strongly supportive) stance on women or the left's anti-everything stance?

33 posted on 02/27/2012 10:14:42 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: kcvl

He lives in Laguna Beach and writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. You do the math.


34 posted on 02/27/2012 10:26:55 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: SmithL
What's clear is this: These chilling offensives are meant to demonize women, . . .

Projection. Every time one of these Alinskyite agitators opens his mouth, his intentions fall out.

35 posted on 02/27/2012 10:27:48 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Pollster1

I would never look at that magazine, well... except to read the articles, but that’s all.


36 posted on 02/27/2012 10:46:15 AM PST by Gator113 (** President Newt Gingrich-"Our beloved republic deserves nothing less." ~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: SmithL

The neuterization brigade in this country is trying its best to turn women into men. Oppose their agenda, and you’re “demonizing” women. I guess I was demonizing my grandmother by appreciating her Christian moral standards and her being a stay-at-home mother.


37 posted on 02/27/2012 10:57:33 AM PST by Socon-Econ (Socon-Econ)
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To: Gator113
I would never look at that magazine, well... except to read the articles, but that’s all.

I won't post their "Athletes in Bodypaint" from the same issue, because there wasn't much to read.

38 posted on 02/27/2012 2:40:31 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: SmithL
Denny, you moron, because you probably spend most of your life with your head up your or Nancy Pelosi’s backside, perhaps you missed the news about ABC's new show called “Fine Christian Bitches”. I can almost guarantee that this show was the creation of a gaggle of 30 something athiests/agnostic progressive DEMOCRATS. ABC (the All Blasphmey Channel) is famous for that sort of crap. Walt Disney's head is surely rolling in his cryothermos.)

Oh wait...they juxtaposed Christian with bitches so it's no big deal.

never mind.

39 posted on 02/27/2012 4:06:49 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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