by LauraLoo
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is relentlessly shredded by Anderson Cooper over the group’s false claims about Mitt Romney’s abortion position:
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That Debbie Wasserman Schultz is quite the piece of work.
“Tampa has been such a wonderful and hospitable city to us,” Huckabee said in his speech to the convention. “The only hitch in an otherwise perfect week was the awful noise coming from the hotel room next door to mine. Turns out it was just Debbie Wasserman Schultz practicing her speech for the DNC in Charlotte next week. Bless her heart.”
Hah! Extreme! You know what is extreme? Supporting allowing the survivors of abortions to DIE.
Jeff Jacoby exposed the real extremists.
In the South, the rule is, you can say whatever you want about someone elese, as long as you follow it up with, “Bless her heart.”
Love Mike.
I hate the “[mean comment] bless her heart” thing. Not so much in Huckabee’s quote, because they are obviously established political opponents so some ribbing is all in good fun, and expected – but in general.
Alex, here in Tennessee, “bless your heart” serves a very important social and linguistic function. It encapsulates so much, so tenaciously, and so economically.
So much spin, I don’t even know where to start:
– The president doesn’t play any direct role in amending the constitution. Any claim that someone shouldn’t be president because of their position on a certain constitutional amendment is dubious from the start.
– A party platform is mostly a broad statement of values. Candidates, including the nominee for president, do not always support everything in the platform.
– Constitutional amendments are extremely rare. Only one has been added in my lifetime. This is because the bar is set so high: A two-thirds supermajority of both houses of congress must vote in favour and a three-quarters “super-supermajority” of states must ratify it.
– The language in the platform is ambiguous as to which version of the amendment should be adopted. The only one that ever made it out of committee (the 1983 Hatch-Eagleton amendment) simply stated that “A right to abortion is not secured by this Constitution.” This would simply have the effect of returning the issue to the states. Later proposals have explicitly included exceptions for rape and incest. Given that the party platform is a broad statement of values (see above), it makes logical sense that a “Big Tent” party would avoid precisely describing the text of the amendment (though it’s commonly understood that it will at least involve overturning Roe). So it cannot be inferred that the GOP platform does or does not exclude exceptions for rape.
It seems trading in dishonesty is quite the fashionable trend with the progressives. I think there is a friendly competition among the Dems: who can stretch the truth the farthest, who can tell the biggest lie and get away with it, or, to use their favorite word, who can create the narrative that creates the biggest plus for the President.
Alexandra, “Bless your/her/his heart” can be used in so many ways, not just in a derogatory way. It’s a Southern thing. I say it all the time in so many different instances. ;)
Courtnay,
Sarah Palin says, “Bless her heart” a lot too. But of course she’s from south Alaska. :)
Ms. “I see nothiingg!” Schultz reminds me of that blinky-eyed O.J. Simpson juror who was interviewed on Oprah. I was afraid her head would wobble off her shoulders too.
No, I get that, Courtney. I know what the phrase means and how it functions, having spent a lot of time in Kentucky. I just don’t like it.
LibertyBelle, I definitely know of non-derogatory ways in which “bless her heart” is used! That’s why I specified that I don’t really like the “[mean comment] bless her heart” use.
That was a beautiful thing. Her whole point is you can lie as long as abortion stays legal.
She keeps talking about how women need to be informed. That’s laughable.
Could we please get like 100 prolife clones of Debbie? That woman is a freaking bulldog. She never backs down.
You’ve met X, right??? 99 more to go.
Just as long as she doesn’t go with the “angry perm”. ;)
Wait, she did that on purpose??????
Oh goodness, no. My mom tried to give me a perm when I was a kid. While it was still fresh, I looked in the mirror, cried because I looked like Michael Jackson, and jumped in the bath before it could set.
But, I will cop to the “bulldog” part. >:)
“Just as long as she doesn’t go with the “angry perm”
Wasserman Schultz is a Jewish woman. I realize that most of you don’t mix in circles with Jews as they are, for the most part, liberal, Democratic, and pro-choice. But FYI, many women of Jewish heritage have very curly hair. But it’s nice to see that all of you pro-life types mock Ms. Wasserman Schultz for her hair. But I suppose it’s better than your spiritual antecedents who burned Jewish women at the stake. But yeah, mock her looks while you bray about the sexism of Bill Maher if he mocks Sarah Palin. Got hypocrisy?
n so doing it just underscores how the “pro-life” movement is really about how looks matter - because it’s all about good “breeders.” But in mocking the appearance of a pro-choice woman, you just underscore how, in the pro-life movement, appearance is important as it signifies good breeding stock. Funny, you talk about how sex education and the availability of birth control sexualizes women; but in reality, your comments about the “ugliness” of Wasserman Schultz (evil Jewess?) is all about how you really view women. In other words – pro-life women are so hot while pro-choice women are not.
If anything demonstrates the innate sexism of your movement (we want to hot for our men to impregnate us) it’s the content of this thread.
The edit function doesn’t appear to working well.
After “got hypocrisy” - Should be “And in so doing…”
After “movement” – Should be “we want to be hot for our men to impregnate us…”
And the “angry perm” reference? Was coined, on Fox News, by the right wing Monica Crowley – another aging Catholic virgin queen. (Whose brother in law is the liberal Jew Alan Colmes!)
August 29, 2012, 10:14 PM Abortion Will Stay Legal, Romney’s Sister Predicts By MICHAEL BARBARO TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney’s sister promised that a ban on abortion was “never going to happen” under her brother’s presidency, a reassurance to women that is at odds with the nominee’s stated position on the issue…
Uh, oh.
For what its worth, I didn’t think anything one way or the other about DWS’s appearance. I just don’t understand what America’s other women and preborn children have done to her that she is so committed to their continued exploitation and destruction. The hate speech she was spewing against them, cloaking it as “rights”, was sickening. For that she should be at least in serious counseling, not on national tv.
As for the Nazi Holocaust, for the record, there were units that operated 24/7 aborting unborn Jewish babies…after all, quoth the anti-semites running them, “nits make lice.” I would expect more solidarity with the preborn from those seriously committed to “NEVER AGAIN” just out of basic decency, Jewish or not.
Oh, it is great to be PRO-LIFE and we just love making “Dead Babies R Us” trolls crazy don’t we prolifers? Hahaha. Carry on.
FWIW I like Debbie’s hair.
Nothing depicts the innate sexism of people like CC’s movement like the endorsement of gender select abortions.
The real war on woman.
CC,
To borrow a little Yiddish flavor, I kid because I mildly tolerate. Actually the joke about the angry perm was from Ann Coulter. Who knew that would be considered as bad as what her friend Bill Maher says?
Wait, you’re right, it might have been Monica Crowley first. And what’s the deal with your obsession with Jewish people? Is it the higher percentage of seculars? What a dumb question.
Hey CC — for my part, all I can say is that not all blondes are blonde.
DWS is a caricature of a lampoon of a satire of a cliche blonde.
Ooooh! I must be a Jew-hating Nazi! LOL
Seriously, CC, you parody yourself.
we want to be hot for our men to impregnate us
Seriously, what in the heck are you talking about? Some people like her hair and some people don’t. Get over it.
Sounds like you want to be hot for the abortionist, CC. Dance in your vagina costume for him, pay him big money and cheer him on as he kills another Jewish mother’s child.
He’ll think you’re hot for sure.
Ms. Schultz doesn’t let the truth get in the way of her point.
I don’t get it. We Christians, largely, consider ourselves as grafted into Judaism. We study and strive to live by the Bible, which we conceive as a – as the -singular, thoroughly coherent piece of God’s word to us humans, provided out of extreme, unfathomable, unshakable, forgiving love.
Trying to paint us Christians as Jew-haters is ridiculous.
Have Jew-haters tried to use the mantel of Christianity to support their Jew-hate? Yes. Christianity has been used to support all kinds of offensive things. There was even the short-lived Jesus was a vegetarian movement.
Open the Book, or come visit us at our church, and let actual theology be presented. Jew-hate is not in there.
Show me Jew-hating in the New Testament from a Believer.
My heart breaks for DWS. She is totally deceived. As hippie pointed out her tenacity would be admirable if it wasn’t misdirected to murder innocent children in the womb.
satan is a great deceiver. Jesus said that ”broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Mt 7.13-14
I pray she opens her heart to the truth and repents before she is lost for eternity.
My generation was quite perm-crazy in the early 80’s. Today hair irons outnumber perm kits at the store! I’d say Wasserman, because she’s EXTREMELY anti-woman and anti-baby, would LOOK unpleasant no matter what her hairdo (which I deem “child of the woman Glenn Close played in Fatal Attraction”).
Oh, Hans. Everyone knows that a silly nickname based on a politician’s hairdo is sexist and anti-Semitic but calling someone an “aging Catholic virgin queen” is perfectly fine. You need to join the reality-based community.
CC, due to the Nuremberg laws in 1930s Germany, Jews weren’t legally persons. Therefore, by your own logic, German people weren’t anti-Semitic – they were merely pro-choice. Who are you to force your beliefs regarding the personhood of Jews on other people, especially when the choice to kill Jews was legal?
Yeah. I guess I shouldn’t have participated in mocking her hair (my babydoll actually has tightly-curled hair that I tease him about sometimes…I think it’s cute).
But yeah. I guess I should’ve just called her a “left-wing slut” a la Ed Schultz, since that seems to be what passes for acceptable discourse these days.
Just for the record, I like a lot of people with curly hair. I’ll be watching a favorite character with it on a Doctor Who marathon this weekend. :)
Bless her heart…. For lying.
Just want to be the one who adds how great Anderson Cooper is as a journalist. Love how honest he is compared to 99% of the rest. Another fabulous job here.