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Santorum Responds To Foster Friess Birth Control Comment: I’m Not Responsible For Bad Jokes

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Rick Santorum responded to supporter Foster Freiss’s controversial birth control comments, telling BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray, “I’m not responsible for every bad joke one of my supporters makes.”

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

Earlier Thursday, Freiss had told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “Back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives…The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”

(h/t BuzzFeed)

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  • Anonymous

    But Obama is responsible for what his pastor said when Obama wasn’t even around.

  • Centrist79

    Actually, this was the smart thing to say.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ketan-Pattani/100000305045290 Ketan Pattani

    Bad joke?  Do you not want to criticize him for his demeaning view of women? Oh! I forgot, you want raped teenage girls to bear children.

  • Anonymous

    Foster Friess might try holding an aspirin between his lips while he’s on TV talk shows.

  • Anonymous

    Are Republicans going to call Santorum a “RINO” now?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1252130808 Paige Cohen

    We’ll see.  Maybe Mr. Santorum you should have put an aspirin between YOUR lips before you started to express your opinion of contraception.   http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1252130808#!/pages/Anybody-But-Santorum/107269866066108

  • teri bear

    I am not sure Freiss stated it as a joke.  That’s what is really scary about these statements.  I think statements like this cause a lot of women to lean liberal on women’s issues. Santorum should know women have looooooooong memmories.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S65PYPM74ZLPG6XRBAJMO2VGJQ lightoftruth3

    Santorum didn’t say it. What part of that did you not get?

  • Anonymous

    What the hell is wrong with you people….?
    The man was using a metaphor.
    Pinching an aspirin between your knees means ” Keep your friggin’ legs closed sweetheart ”
    It’s no different than telling two teenagers who were slow dancing to “Leave some room for the Holy Ghost”.
    That is also a MET-A-PHOR.  It meant to not dance too close and has nothing to do with spirits or the dead.

    For all you funny boys who are laughing at the old fossil Republican maybe you can tell us since they were so clueless in the old days about contraception then how come the out of wedlock birth rate has quadrupled in the forty years since he was a young man.
    Back then they had a little thing called shame and modesty.

  • Anonymous

     Obama didn’t say many things Rev Wright said but you guys sure went after Obama for it.

  • Anonymous

    What bad joke is he referring to, that a man who is synonymous with anal sex is running for President or that his campaign is being funded by a chauvinistic sugar daddy?  I would say both are pretty funny.  Keep the clown show going!

  • Anonymous

    Too bad republicans don’t have shame and modesty today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000241613698 Robert Finne

    The joke itself isn’t so bad.

    Given that it was said while Republicans attempt to trample women’s rights only highlights what regard these folks have for women.

  • Anonymous

    I guess the Democrat base has those qualities all locked up.

  • Anonymous

    Poor choice of metaphor . . .

  • Anonymous

    Context is everything.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/T7NCJGPGASVTGWWXRKUFRESXVM BlkGrl

    Foster fansies himself a comedian …….not funny! By the way,all you smart guys talking about old Republicans knowing about shame and modesty…they also knew about whores and mistresses,cuz proper wives weren’t puttin out!

  • Anonymous

    You just poured salt in the wound. Bravisimo!

  • Anonymous

    LOL thanks

  • Pablo

    Wake me up when we find that Santorum worshiped in Friess’ church for 20 years, married him and his wife, baptized his children, was his acknowledged mentor and was the inspiration for one of his books.

  • Pablo

    If you’re not sure he was joking, you’re stupid. I’m sure of that.

  • Pablo

    Let me know when Freiss moves on from corny jokes to “God Damn America”, k?

  • Pablo

    Trample womens’ right to have free contraception paid for by the Catholic Church? Uh huh.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    You sound confused at how health insurance works.  

  • http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler

    Had Sick RECTorUM not entered politics, this papist married-to-the-Virgin-Mary most-Catholic-of-Roman-Catholics would have been the classic pedophilic priest.

    Even conservative Pennsylvania threw this kook RECTorUM out of office by a wide margin, apparently realizing their mistake in having him in the U.S. Senate. Look at the laughing stock (a dairy queen named Foster Freeze) that he attracts.

    That RECTorUM now leads the Republican Party polls says more about how far the party has gone off the deep end than it does about RECTorUM who, to his credit, has pretty much remained consistent in his completely insane religious principles, right down to the fetal necrophilia.

    Of course, Democrats hope this whackjob is his party’s nominee, knowing that the nation is not so apathetic or even intellectually bankrupt ever to put this lunatic in the White House.

  • Anonymous

    Why would I wake you up? You’re more useful sleeping.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JDHKH7MZQ6EDHTXZWPCBUVQ77E Debz

    No, back then that statistic was not very accurate because “gals” hid their out-of-wedlock pregnancies.

    When a girl found herself “in trouble,” the girl left school and “went to live with her old grandma, to help her out” for a year.

    She came back to school the next year. By then she was no longer pregnant, the baby had been adopted, she had her “girlish figure” back and nobody was the wiser.

    *wink – wink*

    And yes, back then (to a much greater degree than now) sex was seen as “dirty” and “shameful.” It was not spoken of, even as something married couples did. On television, married folks slept in seperate beds.

    What a crock.

    The problem here is that Mr. Friess is not the only unrealistic ignoramus who believe abstinence should be the only means of practicing birth control. Friess supports Santorum because Mr. Santorum touts the same ridiculous belief system.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1596545978 Jaye Wright

    Oh yeah, I forgot….this is all about women not keeping their legs crossed. Metaphor??? Who are you kidding? You need to wake up. This is not 50 years ago, nor was anything that simplistic “back then.” 50 years ago would have been, hmmmm, oh, about the time us Baby Boomers hit our teenage years. “Back then” we were just as careless about using contraceptives as girls are today. “Back then” we were sent to ‘special places’ to have babies out of wedlock, sweep the whole thing under the rug, and come home from “staying at our aunt’s house” for the school year. There was shame all right….it was heaped on women for letting the guy “have his way” with you. There was modesty, too. Heaped on women so no one knew we were sleeping with our boyfriends. I spent my young adult life campaigning for both men and women to take responsibility for sexual conduct, women’s health, and a woman’s right to her own body. You must’ve missed those years. It’s all the fault of you immoral heterosexuals having indiscriminate sex with each other all over the place and producing a bajilion kids out of wedlock. See? That doesn’t make sense either, so let’s not pretend he didn’t mean exactly what he said about blaming it on women. Keep aspirin between my knees, indeed. You dweebie little twit. Grow up. It’s 2012 and we have some issues we need to address realistically. 

  • Anonymous

    Rimshot!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Sorry Rick, He funded your entire campaign and the fact that you have to defend is a problem. But, I do remember chastity belts and in the early 60s my date’s old man threatening to put an Aspirin in a certain spot between her knees where only he would know when it had been moved.   

  • Anonymous

    But – you are a bad joke Rick.

  • Anonymous

    Sober up yet….?

    Gimme a break will ya’..?
    12 hours ago you thought he was talking about putting aspirin in a woman’s vagina so spare me the rant on how you are in the middle of the issue and save your sob stories for somebody else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1834622310 Debbie Unlisted

     As “dumb” as Foster Friess’ statement was… lets be honest…
    he said “In my day” and the fact is, that was the thinking in
    his day. We may not wish that was the thinking, and it was a stupid
    thing to say but he was telling the truth. This is why he should not
    apologize either! Why should Foster Friess apologize for speaking
    truth? If some old guy said this on some sitcom everyone would be
    laughing! So lets all relax and use our heads and start holding our
    politicians accountable for the lies they tell; ask them to apologize
    for those!Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/rick-santorum-donor-foster-freiss-controversial-comments-contraception-responsible-article-1.1024367#ixzz1mehWYID6

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Well actually, you are responsible Rick.  You take his money and you are beholden to the twisted skewed personal views of those you take money from.  But, you are a bad joke Rick.

  • Mr. Awesome!

    Insert something witty in the space provided:

    Rick Santorum is like a……………in a ol’ ladies………..! Which is why I wont vote at all!!!

    Do your part America! Blog endlessly about stupid……….rather than being………..and forcing the parties to……………..real questions!

    Oh no I was blogging and I missed Spongebob! I blame the LIBERALS and that goddamn Nacy Pelosi!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/HECSCXSL2E5FH4LGOFTM6XTAG4 Merrill

    Exactly right, NewKong!  Mr. Friess comment was an obvious reference to abstinence.  He was saying the cheapest and best contraceptive is for people to stop sleeping around. It was not demeaning to women at all.  If anything, it was a call for women to return to a standard of morality that was more common in out country in the past.  The real question here is why so many people, particularly liberals, are so repulsed by abstinence and high moral conduct. 

  • teri bear

    What part did you not understand.  Santorum said Freiss said it as a joke. Freiss is a campaign contributor and supporter of Santorum.  Stuff  Freiss says sticks to Santorum. You should know that. Review history.  Obama got all kinds of hell for stuff supporters said.  Look at journalist today, they all report things so and so said and he or she is connected to a politicians bid for election. Whether it is right or wrong is not the point.  The Media plays a big part in how some American citizens form their political beliefs. I am still not sure Freiss said it as a joke, please re-read the article.

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