7 Vilest Right-wing Statements this Week—Laura Ingraham Hates Immigrants More than O'Reilly Does
And Hobby Lobby decision leads to series of absurd and hateful comments about women.
1. Laura Ingraham: Mass deportation is the way and the light.
Laura
Ingraham did the impossible this week. She managed to make Bill
O’Reilly seem like an alomst reasonable man. Her anti-immigration fervor
is surpassed by no one. She was right there in spirit with the
anti-immigration protesters who turned up in Murietta, California with
hateful signs and slogans and spit to turn back busloads of undocumented
women and children on buses. For some reason, many of these people have
no idea that they look exactly like the white protesters in Selma,
Alabama in blocking school segregation, with their faces contorted in
hatred, screaming vile things at children. But Laura Ingraham knows it.
She’s an educated woman. She just does not care. Spitefulness towards
immigrants is her brand.
Her
solution: mass deportation: “By the thousands,” she says. But by all
means keep the families together, by deporting entire families.
O’Reilly
was worried. Might not play well on TV. Might hurt the Republicans.
It’s not that he likes immigrants. He likes Republicans.
Screw
them too, Ingraham said. She will stop at nothing to get rid of those
immigrants. That is her brand. O’Reilly is too soft. Ingraham needs new
friends. Those sign-wielding hate spewers are her new besties. And she
is defending them.
“I
think what you saw in Murietta, California, was not something that we
should say should not happen in the United States,” Ingraham said. “No
one wants people to spit on each other, I don’t agree with that, but the
people saying ‘Oh no, you won’t do this to our community, you won’t do
this to our wages, you won’t do this to our public schools,’ where do
the people get satisfaction? Where do they go?”
2.
Rush Limbaugh expresses totally incoherent hatefulness towards women in
wake of Hobby Lobby decision, and his meaning is clear.
Rush
Limbaugh does not even need to speak in sentences any more. His hatred,
especially towards women, just oozes right out of him, without needing
to be shaped by actual words or coherence. In the wake of the Supreme
Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., he said
something, sort of. He said:
“Pregnancy is something that you have to do to cause. It doesn’t just happen to you while you’re walking down the street.”
So just to be clear, people, pregnancy is something that you have to do to cause.
If you don’t want to get pregnant, don’t do the thing to cause.
There you have it. The new sex ed. Got it kids?
So, since women do the thing to cause pregnancy, they should have their birth control options controlled by their employer.
Makes perfect sense, right?
Women, says Limbaugh, the world’s foremost expert on women, treat
pregnancy "like a disease" even though it is the consequence of their
actions. "And yet, they wouldn't have the problem if they didn't do a
certain thing," he said. "It's that simple."
Very
simple. Women do something to cause pregnancy, and they do it all alone
and are alone responsible for that thing that happened that they did
the thing to cause. And women, like Sandra Fluke, who do that thing, are
something that starts with an s- and ends with -luts.
And for his next act, Rush’s head will spin around and spew some more viscous green venom.
3.
Fox’s Jesse Watters also says some remarkably stupid things about Hobby
Lobby, women and birth control and calls single women “Beyonce voters.”
What
is it with Fox News and Beyonce? Bill O’Reilly seems to think the pop
star is solely responsible for every non-white teen pregnancy, because
she is a role model, and what does she model? Being married and
attracted to your husband. That’s what. No, wait.
Fox News host Jesse Watters calls
single ladies (the same ones that everyone wants to keep birth control
out of the hands of) “Beyonce voters” because she wrote a song about
single ladies 10 or 15 years ago. That was a very morally degenerate
song because it celebrates singlehood for ladies, which is no good. For
one thing, single ladies tend to vote Democrat. For another, they rely
on the government instead of their husbands for their birth control.
Oddly,
he was surrounded by Fox News women when he divided women into the two
camps of either husband-dependers or government-dependers, and not one
of these working women pointed out that some women actually work for a
living and get insurance from their jobs which covers their healthcare.
4. Ben Carson: Abortion is human sacrifice.
It’s hard to keep upping the ante about just how terrible abortion is.
It’s been called murder and compared to the Holocaust, for example. But
its opponents must soldier on and find new forms of hyperbole to
describe a woman’s private decision not to become a mother.
Ben Carson to the rescue:
“It’s interesting,” Carson said this week, “that we sit around and call
other ancient civilizations ‘heathen’ because of human sacrifice, but
aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?”
Hmmm. Yes, Ben, Sure wish we thought of that. Abortion is very much like
an ancient religious ritual designed to appease an angry god in order
to ensure a good harvest, or stop the volcano from erupting or whatever.
5. Fox News Business host concerned that the new jobs numbers are “too good.”
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June jobs report,
and it seemed like good news. 288,000 new non-farm payroll jobs were
added in June, and unemployment fell to 6.1 percent, the lowest it has
been in years. Imagine the distress this caused at Fox News, which makes
it a policy to ignore any positive news during the Obama
administration. But one brave Fox newsian did not ignore the news.
Business host Charles Payne bit the bullet, acknowledged the report
existed and tried his best to put a negative spin on it. The jobs news
might be "too good for the stock market," he tweeted, adding “. . .
equity and futures are drifting lower not sure how to react.”
We
understand that good economic news under Obama causes a certain amount
of cognitive dissonance at Fox. God forbid, employment goes even lower
than the now fairly low 6.1 percent. (Have no fear Mr. Payne, a lot of
those new jobs are really crummy.) Oh, and just for some perspective on
that stock market thing, note that the Dow Jones Industrial Average,
which reached a new high near 17,000 last week. It was at 8,279 when
Obama took office in January of 2009.
There’s got to be some negative spin to be put on that as well.
6. Texas official: Rick Perry dresses like a metro sexual.
It’s
always fun, or maybe it’s deeply troubling, when it turns out that
someone who you consider to be very right-wing turns out to have a
critic to the right of them. (Kind of the way Laura Ingraham managed to
make O’Reilly seem half human.)
Departing Texas Land Commissioner and former GOP candidate for lieutenant governor Jerry Patterson recently shared some of his thoughts on the way Gov. Rick Perry (R) dresses.
In particular, he does not care for the fact that Perry does not wear cowboy boots, which are more-or-less mandatory in Texas.
“I
lament the fact that our governor could now pass for a West Coast
metrosexual and has embarrassed us all with his sartorial change of
direction,” Patterson wrote to a local magazine.
It’s
not just a sartorial problem for Patterson, who has said he keeps a
.22-caliber Magnum in his boot whenever he leaves home. He’s really not
fond of the coastal states, and the people who dress like they live in
them. He has also joked that California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York should get axed from the union.
Then again, maybe he’s not kidding.
7. GOP Lawmaker calls climate control biggest deception in history of mankind.
Similar to abortion foes, climate denialists are in competition for who
can be more hyperbolic about the threat that real science poses to
mankind. Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney (R) threw her hat in the
climate denial ring this week when she released a campaign video accusing
liberals, such as former Vice President Al Gore, of advancing "the
greatest deception in the history of mankind" -- man-made climate change
-- in a fiendish scheme to empower the executive branch and increase
taxes.
Brilliant! Wish we had thought of that.
“A specter is haunting America,” Whitney warns ominously in the video.
She goes on to claim, entirely inaccurately, that the planet "has done
nothing but get colder each year” since the release of Al Gore’s “An
Inconvenient Truth” in 2006.
“Quite
inconveniently for Al Gore, and for the rest of the politicians who
continue to advance this delusion, any 10-year-old can invalidate their
thesis with one of the simplest scientific devices known to man: a
thermometer,” Whitney said, citing record sea ice in the Antarctic sector.
Yes,
her argument is very much like that of a ten-year-old, who decides that
because today is chilly, or it snowed last month, climate change is a
big hoax, scientists be damned.
As Huffpo points out, “Whitney’s own state is one of the most vulnerable
regions in the country to climate change, with rising coastal sea
levels estimated to submerge the Louisiana coastline by 2100.”
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