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Second round: The GOP's "war on caterpillars".
Now this is clearly making a mountain out of a speck of dust, and I'm not afraid to say it. The insane leftists who are pitching a fit about this are making actual, extremely important violations of womens' rights that much easier to dismiss on the grounds of "fuck, you guys ALWAYS complain about pointless bullshit."
See, here's what I read about it, on the
Washington Post:
PRIEBUS: Well, for one thing, if the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, and mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we have problems with caterpillars. The fact of the matter is it’s a fiction and this started a war against the Vatican that this president pursued. He still hasn’t answered Archbishop Dolan’s issues with Obama world and Obamacare, so I think that’s the first issue.
Democrats immediately jumped on Priebus’s comments, accusing him of comparing women to caterpillars.
“Reince Priebus’ comparison of Republican attempts to limit women’s access to mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, and contraception to a ‘war on caterpillars’ shows how little regard leading Republicans, including Mitt Romney, have for women’s health,” said Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter.
Except that she doesn't seem to be saying the thing the writer is accusing her of saying.
She's NOT actually accusing him of comparing women to caterpillars.
She's accusing him of belittling a serious problem.
Which is exactly the fucking thing he was in fact doing.
Now, it could be that, somewhere outside of the quoted context, she said something much stupider. And it's almost a certainty that some liberal blogger somewhere has said something stupider. But I don't see a damn thing wrong with the actual quoted comment.
The GOP is mounting a serious campaign against women's rights and Priebus dismissed it as made-up nonsense. That's what Cutter was calling him out on -- not in comparing women to caterpillars, but in comparing something serious to something stupid.
EDIT TO ADD: Yeah, here's a bit more in the way of shenanigans:
Other examples of this push by Democrats: White House press secretary Jay Carney said today that President Obama wants women to be allowed into Augusta National Golf Club, site of this weekend’s “The Masters” golf tournament.
Yeah, okay. 'Cept that what neither that article nor the link mentions is that somebody ASKED Carney that question.
I mean, okay, if you think the reporter asking the question was a plant, just fucking say so -- it's not like that sort of thing is
unprecedented.
But the Post doesn't say that -- it doesn't even MENTION that this was a response to a question (and indeed the only fucking sane response to that question), it implies through omission that it was a planned announcement.
And tomorrow, the White House will hold an event on women and the economy.
Well, that may be fortuitously timed, but funny fucking story, Aaron:
they did the same fucking thing this time last year.