End women’s right to vote, Nevada’s largest newspaper says

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0419/womens-vote-nevadas-largest-newspaper/

By Daniel Tencer
Monday, April 19th, 2010 -- 4:26 pm

The editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal says he was kidding when he penned an editorial calling for women's right to vote to be repealed, but plenty of people aren't laughing.

Thomas Mitchell has found himself defending his "satirical" look at the differences in the voting patterns of men and women after receiving a "swift and voluble" public reaction to his column on Friday, which was entitled "Time to repeal the 19th amendment?"

"People and candidates for public office should be judged on the basis of their ideas, stance on the issues, character, experience and integrity, not on the basis of age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion or disability," Mitchell wrote. "Therefore, we must repeal the 19th Amendment. Yes, the one granting suffrage to women. Because? Well, women are biased."

[CTyankee]

1. Now, that's a winner! Geez, why didn't I think of THAT...?

I love it...let's run against this guy, OK? How can we lose?...

[Warpy]

2. If you read the author's comments (in yellow)

you'll discover he meant the piece as satire.

Unfortunately, satire doesn't work in a paper with a looneytarian bias. It's too firmly within the realm of possibility.

If he'd written that in The Onion, maybe people would have gotten it.

[The_Commonist]

3. Actually, we should repeal men's right to vote.

I would miss going into the booth to do my civic duty, but I have a feeling that we'd all be better off in the long run.

[Fumesucker]

4. Reminds me of when the Man Show put up a booth at some farmer's market

With a petition to "End Women's Suffrage"..

They got a bunch of women to sign the petition.

[GodlessBiker]

5. The scary thing is that there are plenty of Freepers who believe women shouldn't have the vote.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. He's not good enough at the satire element

to make it work at all.

This is a country today where half the people at least are, quite frankly, too damn dumb to appreciate or even understand anything resembling intellectual satire.

[paulsby]

7. ah,. the "dumb merkuns" post

how many can you count in one day?

darn this country and its dumb inhabitants!

[chollybocker]

8. Counting yours?

:evilgrin:

[paulsby]

9. lol. nice one. nt