As Oprah Slaps Bush; With 30 states poised to smack down women's ...

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October 15th, 2004 6:02 pm

As Oprah Slaps Bush; With 30 states poised to smack down women's rights again, the one true savior emerges


By Mark Morford / SF Gate

"So there she was, the nation's most powerful and popular public female, kicking butt on a recent installment of her insanely beloved TV show with the help of celeb guests (Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, P. Diddy, Christina Aguilera) and galvanizing stunned women across the nation to participate in this election, or else.

There was Oprah, doing what she does so freakishly well, cheerleading and extolling and impressing upon, getting women up and getting them angry and demanding that they exercise their hard-won right to vote and demanding that they quit dissing their feminist ancestors, the ones who worked so damn hard for suffrage and for freedom of choice and for the right to tell powerful sexist Republican men where they can shove their repressive sexist antichoice bigotry.

This was her fabulous, much-needed message: Take your rights for granted at your peril, ladies. Move, or else. Choose how you want the laws to treat and respect you and your body -- or someone else, someone who hasn't touched a vagina for 30 years and who thinks sex is only tolerable in the dark, fully clothed and with a respectable prostitute, will choose for you." <more>

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[glitch]

1. I love Morford - thanks for posting this - had to post the ending though

"Because as Oprah knows, there are powerful men who get it and who love women and who understand their issues and who have cool articulate daughters and opinionated self-defined multilingual firebrand wives (Hi, Teresa), and there are aww-shucks antichoice Texans with lifeless token wives who think your body is government property and you should just pipe down and keep your damn legs closed and go pray to an angry Republican God to forgive your plentiful vagina-induced sins."

[AlinPA]

2. re: .."much-needed message"- Did Oprah say that? Wouldn't it be

all over the news?

[Catt03]

3. I read this also

It makes me angry as my observation is that few pay attention to it.

[George_S]

4. fully clothed and with a respectable prostitute

LOL. Good stuff.