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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum: Abortion Cooties!
I think one of my all time favorite rhetorical tics of conservative politicians is trying to convey crap they picked up in Christian right propaganda mills without really spelling out what theyre talking about or where they got itfor fear of the media following up, no doubtand inevitably coughing up something that causes observers to scratch their heads and ask what the fuck theyre talking about. (Todd Akins legitimate rape comments being a perfect example: It took thousands of words from multiple journalists digging around in his past to finally explicate what the hell he was stabbing at.) Rick Santorum coughed up a real gem in this genre the other day, where he accusedat a Students for Life event, no lessthe pro-choice side of being obsessed. To be fair, he sees this as a virtue, but its also utterly laughable to think that right wingers suffer from a lack of obsession with women are having unauthorized sex.
But whats hilarious about this is that he coughs up some garbled, unintelligible nonsense about showers:
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...As anyone who knows the Christian right can attest, its really, really common for them to run around being aggressive, harassing and provocative, and when they are held accountable, to preen about how theyre being oppressed for their faith and isnt this a free country and wah wah wah? One reason they do this is because they believe thats what liberals dothat we routinely make up claims of sexism and racism so that we get our sexism/racism checks in the mail or somethingand that justifies this blatantly dishonest behavior in their minds. Its super ugly, and one reason that one should be wary of the both sides mentality in the media, because the behaviors in this case are absolutely not parallel. Thats why, when I read this, I immediately thought that what likely happened was that they went into the showers and started proselytizing, and when people understandably argued with them or asked them to take it elsewhere, they responded in an ugly fashion. We are, after all, talking about high school and college age conservativesthink James OKeefe during his pimp videos and plotting to kidnap journalists daysso not exactly the most evenly tempered crowd.
...Instead, it seems more like the Y, who I may remind you believes their mission is to put Christian Principles into practice, simply believed that the admission price to use the showers should be that Students for Life not use their facilities to try to provoke debate over the issue of abortion rights. It seems that if the anti-choicers could have shown up and taken a shower without picking fights over this, it probably would have been just fine. Instead, Santorum is basically telling them that they need to be more aggressive about picking fights in inappropriate situations, becausehe claimsthe other side is doing it. That we are notpersonally speaking, I have been in many a gym and community center in my life and so far have started zero fights over abortion rights in that timedoesnt matter. Its the pretext to do what they wanted to do anyway, which is pick fights and then preen like theyre victims when theyre held accountable for it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/abortion-cooties/
But whats hilarious about this is that he coughs up some garbled, unintelligible nonsense about showers:
They make it uncomfortable for students who come to Austin to shower at a Young Mens Christian Association, YMCA, gym, because they live it, he said. Because they live it. Theyre passionate, theyre willing to do and say uncomfortable things in mixed company. Theyre willing to make the sacrifice at their business because they care enough.
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...As anyone who knows the Christian right can attest, its really, really common for them to run around being aggressive, harassing and provocative, and when they are held accountable, to preen about how theyre being oppressed for their faith and isnt this a free country and wah wah wah? One reason they do this is because they believe thats what liberals dothat we routinely make up claims of sexism and racism so that we get our sexism/racism checks in the mail or somethingand that justifies this blatantly dishonest behavior in their minds. Its super ugly, and one reason that one should be wary of the both sides mentality in the media, because the behaviors in this case are absolutely not parallel. Thats why, when I read this, I immediately thought that what likely happened was that they went into the showers and started proselytizing, and when people understandably argued with them or asked them to take it elsewhere, they responded in an ugly fashion. We are, after all, talking about high school and college age conservativesthink James OKeefe during his pimp videos and plotting to kidnap journalists daysso not exactly the most evenly tempered crowd.
...Instead, it seems more like the Y, who I may remind you believes their mission is to put Christian Principles into practice, simply believed that the admission price to use the showers should be that Students for Life not use their facilities to try to provoke debate over the issue of abortion rights. It seems that if the anti-choicers could have shown up and taken a shower without picking fights over this, it probably would have been just fine. Instead, Santorum is basically telling them that they need to be more aggressive about picking fights in inappropriate situations, becausehe claimsthe other side is doing it. That we are notpersonally speaking, I have been in many a gym and community center in my life and so far have started zero fights over abortion rights in that timedoesnt matter. Its the pretext to do what they wanted to do anyway, which is pick fights and then preen like theyre victims when theyre held accountable for it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/abortion-cooties/
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