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Foster Friess Apologizes For Aspirin Comment: ‘My Wife Constantly Tells Me I Need New Material’

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Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess raised more than a few eyebrows yesterday when he told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that, back in his day, “they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptions. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”

RELATED: Santorum Supporter Stuns Andrea Mitchell With Memories Of How ‘The Gals’ Used Bayer Aspirin As Contraception

Now — as Santorum tries to distance himself from Friess’ comment — the businessman has taken to his blog in order to explain that had been joking, as well as to apologize to anyone who may have been offended:

After listening to the segment tonight, I can understand how I confused people with the way I worded the joke and their taking offense is very understandable. To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife constantly tells me I need new material—she understood the joke but didn’t like it anyway—so I will keep that old one in the past where it belongs.

He also took the opportunity to discuss Santorum’s policies concerning contraception — policies people may have misunderstood thanks to the aspirin kerfuffle:

He publicly stated he would not ban contraception; he has said if he were a member of a state legislature which introduced such a bill, he would vote against it; and he has incurred the wrath of his more conservative friends for voting to fund contraception to fight AIDS in Africa.

His 75% favorables include a lot of women who appreciate his clear stance on contraception that they favor. His strong personal convictions on the subject are well-known and he has never attempted to turn his personal preference into public policy unlike the stand President Obama has taken in forcing Catholic institutions to embrace his world view.

h/t FosterFriess.com

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  • Anonymous

    Why even bother going on MSNBC dude?  Its like getting in front of the court at the salem witch trials. 

    No matter what you say, they’re opinion has already been formulated….your just showing up so they can get on with your execution.

    Ignore them….their viewership is irrelevant anyway.

  • Anonymous

    One could say the same about Fox. In tthis person’s opinion you need to watch both if you’re really interested in digging out the facts. If you already have a one sided opinion right or left plant your butt in front one of these two channels. Fox or MSNBC respectfully

    Only the ignorant draw from on source.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the public service message.

  • Anonymous

     Ouch! Epic fail on the witty reply to your ridiculous post.

  • Anonymous

    Apology accepted. Let’s all move on. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    Awwww, shucks!

    Dang it, Foster!  You were supposed to double down on stupidity and let this  outrage foster, er, fester over the weekend!

  • Anonymous

    Just curious, do you understand the expression, hoist with his own petard?

    Frankly, your (oops! I mean “you’re”) demonstrating it in your own highly revealing reply.

    By the way, your viewership argument is pretty irrelevant. When someone says something, um, stupid AND insulting (i.e. making a joke out of women’s need for contraception)  it soon makes the rounds of ALL the news media. (Well, maybe not Fox News, I wouldn’t know – their “fair and balanced”[TM] charter probably prevents them from airing anything that might make Santorum look bad… )

  • val smith

    It seems like foster knows when to cut and run unlike every stupid conservative on this board who are giving this post a wide birth.

    “Its an old joke.”

    It must hurt to be so ignorant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    The current GOP is full of bigots, rednecks and all kinds of crackpots. It will be impossible to keep all the yahoos quiet.

  • Anonymous

    Right-wingers are hard-wired without an actual sense of humor.

    The right thinks Dennis Miller, America’s most unfunny funnyman and “An American Carol” (with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 13% percent) are a laugh riot.

    And of course there was the Fox New’s comedy disaster, “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” which lasted all of 15 episodes and  had to be laugh-tracked to let the audience in on the joke.

    They can’t help it, it’s like being born gay.

  • Anonymous

    Friess did make a stab at humor.

    Okay, now you’re suppose to add the punchline.

  • NDanielson

    Wow the way that the leftnuts go after this guy , and associate him directly to Santorum, you’d think he was Jeremiah Wright hating on America or something…oh, wait. That would be an enhancement. I wonder if Santorum’s wife has ever been proud of America…

    Well you’d at least think that this guy was well liked enough by Santorum to have married Santorum to his wife and baptized his kids and that Santorum had sat in his church for 20 years or something!? Of course, they would know that Santorum didn’t hear any of his lunacy for that 20 years. Right?

    Isn’t it amazing what sheep will ignore to destroy the country? What lengths they will go to to support their America loathing first family?

    Then again, it’s always nice to have the media in your back pocket in Barry’s White House. And vice-versa, apparently. LOL.

    Record 19 reporters, media execs join Team Obama
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/record-19-reporters-media-execs-join-team-obama/380971

  • NDanielson

    The American economy is in ruins and the only solution leftnuts have is to tax the rich more. And when they are not concerning themselves with demonizing the rich, and calling everyone racists, they turn to America’s bigger problems, gay marriage and more “free” programs for free votes. Amazing.

  • Anonymous

    This guy bothers me as much as the Rev. Wright dustup did……which is to say not at all.

    Rev. Wright is an angry, black preacher?!?! GTFO! Foster Friess is 71 year old man that makes inappropriate jokes about women? OMG!!! Because obviously anything these guys say is EXACTLY what the candidates believe!!

    Although the selective outrage and mental pretzels are pretty amusing. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

     Go to the ol’ wingnut fart’s web page and you will find NOTHING other than his apology.

    NOTHING.

    Heck, it even looks like he doesn’t support Santorum. But the stupid ol’ phuck forgot to scrub his you tube vids.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HptokYsitY&list=UU4opp6u9IyIekcGwOCioYiA&index=5&feature=plcp

    Foster Friess Endorses Rick Santorum

    Yes. How hard it is going to be trying to connect Foster Friess to Santorum…!

  • NDanielson

    I give up. But, apparently much harder than liberals were able to tie Barry to Jeremiah? Hell, they don’t even tie Barry to his un-proud wife.

  • NDanielson

    I find my above post pretty funny, don’t you? Hell, this one has a tinge of humor in it too, don’t it? LOL. Clowwwwwwwn. Dennis Miller is way over the head of most sheep, yourself included. Is it because you were you born gay?

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    davemartin7777
    Right-wingers are hard-wired without an actual sense of humor.

    The right thinks Dennis Miller, America’s most unfunny funnyman and “An American Carol” (with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 13% percent) are a laugh riot.

    And of course there was the Fox New’s comedy disaster, “The 1/2 Hour News Hour” which lasted all of 15 episodes and had to be laugh-tracked to let the audience in on the joke.

    They can’t help it, it’s like being born gay.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

     We liberals care about what some morons, like you, say then pretend didn’t say it.

    I’ve just showed you that Foster Friess endorsed and supports Santorum.

    You could do the same whiny NDanielson. Go back and erase your stupid post.

  • Centrist79

    You have the best comment today.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, he’s a true 1950s guy, I know because I’m married to one.  Not one who would back Santorum but one who is oblivious to lots of changes in what’s funny and what isn’t.  Actually, he seems like a nice guy thinking he was funny just a little too conservative for me.

  • Anonymous

    These are the type of people that back Santorum.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

    Yes, the type of people who apologize for offending you.

  • bsorin1

    Let her by the spokesperson. She has got to be better at it than he is. 

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    OK…  Aspirin works as birth control for men, too.
    Put 3 tablets in their left shoe and it makes them limp.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Over at Question of the Day on wsj.com, Obama is beating Santorum by more than 2:1.

  • Anonymous

    Oh thank heavens Freiss apologized as the fragile sensibilities of some Americans should be our primary concern, especially poor Andrea Mitchell’s.  Dearest Andrea, I am sure she has been traumatized?  (For some reason Helen Thomas just came to mind?)

    Why is it I always get the subtle, or not so subtle hint that media types are waiting, not for news, but for a presumed gaffe that can be exploited?  Such an honorable occupation!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    I run a Christian all volunteer-run ministry that drills clean water in third-world countries where people are dying simply because there is no access to clean water.  Mr. Friess and his wife have been INCREDIBLY generous to this cause, and literally hundreds of other charities who do all kinds of work for the hurting and dying.  Possibly you should take a moment to actually learn a little bit about him instead of automatically assuming he’s a “stupid ‘ol phuck”.  It’s always easy to paint people into the corner into which you want them to fit, but much more challenging and humbling to actually see them as people just like yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah all their all crack pots like Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews Martin Bashir and Barack Obama. Those are the sane of the sane, right on bro.

  • Anonymous

    How about…He missed and hit his knees.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Friess in my opinion owed an apology to NO ONE! He was repeating an old ‘joke’. It pales in comparison to the filth you can hear any night of the week during The Family Hour.

    It had been so long since I have heard The Aspirin Joke I had forgotten it. As far as I am concerned it is still FUNNY!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimholiway Jim Holiway

    Does Foster Friess remind you of comedian Foster Brooks?  Brooks was the best at playing a drunk.  See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYusPRre07k – just hilarious

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