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AFY_Joe
AFY_JoeWednesday, January 28, 2009 at 12:26:00 PM EST
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Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, has a long, long history of misogynist crap, and this week is no different. Republicans are up in arms over President Obama including $200 million in funding for family planning in his economic stimulus package, even though everyone knows that this will save the government a large sum of money (besides providing innumerable benefits for women's health). And Chris Matthews is laying down all of the false talking points on family planning with typical glee.
Because providing women with access to contraceptives and family planning if they so choose is obviously like.... Red Communist China!
I don’t know. It sounds a little like China. […] I think everybody should have family planning and everybody believes in birth control as a right. I’m for — abortion is a right and all that. It’s all right. But why should the federal government have a policy of reducing the number of births?
Yes, Matthews would like everyone to get the impression that Obama is trying to forcefully sterilize women against their will, because.... well, that's just what he does apparently.
But he wasn't done, as he spewed more garbage last night:
Good evening, I'm Chris Matthews. Leading off tonight: Leave the kids out of this! Barack Obama gets Democrats in Congress to drop contraception from his big stimulus bill. It turns out the idea of getting people to have fewer children didn't sell as national policy. Maybe people don't like Washington, which has done such a bang-up job regulating the sharpies on Wall Street, to decide it's now time to regulate the number of kids people might be in the mood for.
Regulating the number of kids people can have??? Where does he pull this stuff out of?
Maybe one of these days, Chris Matthews will get over whatever his issues are with women, but I'm not holding my breath. Anyways, you can contact him at MSNBC here to let them know that his apology and correction is needed.
(Oh, and the "hope" takes a time out, as President Obama is now caving to Republican pressure and pulling the $200 million for family planning from his stimulus package. You know, since he's post-partisan and all...HOPE FAIL. Contact our new president here)
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by eriauna_stratton
Someone's a little slow on the uptake.
Hey Chris -- your ignorance is showing!