>> “obviously a lot of people who are younger than 71 didn’t get the context of that
joke.”<<

Good point.  In order to "get" right-wingers it helps to be old with an antiquated way of thinking.

His remark was “controversial ” only to the clueless lefties who don’t understand the metaphor of a young  lady keeping her legs closed. You see James, the women back then were not humping everything in sight like stray dogs.
I do not have to explain it further do I….?

Way to focus on the real issues. Like the ObamaEconomy and the new CBO numbers. 

Foster Friess: you guys, let me clear up everything by rambling about Muslims.

Lawrence is a terrible interviewer

 Gunsel was commenting on the blog post.  Your real beef is with state level republican legislators and social conservatives.  Take it up with ‘em.

Hey! I’m not a right-winger but I am younger than 71 and I got the joke.

Clearly you didn’t see him on Homeland!

 >>>You see James, the women back then were not humping everything in sight like stray dogs.<<<

Further evidence that it's not really contraception, or even abortion, that right-wingers have a problem with, it's sex.

It's dirty and it's bad.

Why is Foster Friess still doing interviews? Every single time he does an interview he gets destroyed. Is he trying to sabotage Santorum’s campaign? This guy must enjoy wasting money.

LOL!  Santorum Splat!  Should have stayed home Mr. Friess.

Why is Santorum okay with our government funding contraceptive use in Africa but against contraceptive use in America?

You sound like someone who is very bitter about women not giving you the time of day.

First you alienate Women, now Muslims, who is next?  Blacks? 

Maybe Foster could fill in for Cobert tonight.

So is Foster Fries.

I try and stay on topic out of respect for the site and also because I’m not a douche and this isn’t my first day on the internet.

But you go ahead and talk about whatever you want.  

 how do u know what ‘gunsel’ the likebot was talking about?

Ever heard of the 60s? 

LOL

They alienated blacks after 1964.

 I read his comment.

What are you doing boy…? Are you trying to pull my strings?
I have been reading your dumbass comments all day like you think you are brilliant or something and when you were joking about Friess you had no damn clue as to what he was talking about.

I make jokes.
We all make jokes but once in a while I mix in a relevant and coherent comment that moves the discussion forward.
Do you have one to offer today or are you only here to delight us with your razor sharp wit…?

Because unlike you JEFF, we have functioning brains.

 lol

Ok, let’s talk about the economy,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204792404577226893403244350.html

Ok, back to birth control.

 
“I have been reading your dumbass comments all day . . .”

I think you may have just validated SatanicHanster’s comment on your person, sir.

lmao!

Like how you can’t seem to grasp an old joke? And how you think this is antiquated:

“I have been blessed by contraceptives,” Friess continued. “It’s an important thing for many women. it’s allowed them to advance their careers and make their own choices. That’s what’s special about America. People can choose.

What’s hip and fresh is bashing people for what you want to pretend they said instead of what they actually did say.

Here’s some advice. Stop obsessing about my posts, work on your hygiene, start working out, & get a job instead. Then maybe women will give you the time of day & you won’t hate them so much. BTW I showed my GF your post & she thinks you’re a virgin.

Let’s talk about debt!

http://blog.american.com/2012/02/this-is-the-debt-chart-obama-and-geithner-should-be-ashamed-of/

OK, back to bashing Catholics.

Foster Friess seems to have outlived his usefulness to the Santorum campaign and now become a liability and a distraction. When your surrogates become the story instead of the candidate your campaign has a problem.

To be more specific, it’s non-Republican sex they take issue with.

[See:  2012 South Carolina primary]

Without any insult to you intended, if your IQ is above room temperature, you get the joke, unless you’re determined not to.

Yes, the debt, that strategy worked out so well for Walter Mondale.

 If Obama said what Foster Friess said republicans would be calling for his impeachment.

>>>”What’s hip and fresh is bashing people for what you want to pretend they said instead of what they actually did say. “<<>”Told a bad off-color joke and he shouldn’t have done it.” said Santorum<<

This is going to be a better country when contraceptives are banned in a Santorum Administration. A more moral, Christian nation that our founding fathers envisioned. Can’t wait, 11 months can’t come soon enough.

No, it’s awesome. But it causes pregnancy. I can see how you’d think that, being the sort that considers pregnancy a disease or even a punishment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzcCE4c2yww

 I don’t remember Debt being a problem when W was searching for invisible WMD’s 

Don’t forget “deficits don’t matter” – Dick Cheney

 Damage control after an extremely poor choice of metaphor.

And any partisan worth his salt could totally destroy him over the “I (notice he said “I”) have been blessed by contraceptives” quote.  Five to one Christopher will put 500 words down on it tomorrow.

Nah, this joke doesn’t compare to Obama’s ‘southern people cling to guns and religion’ comment. 

Way to hold his feet to the fire, Lawrence. He just hemmed and hawed all the way through the interview, comparing contraceptives to taboo food items multiple times, failing to explain his support for Santorum, and you kept it genial.
wth, Lawrence.

Don’t forget Obama’s college transcripts!

>>”No, it’s awesome. But it causes pregnancy.”<<

Thanks for the tip.

The debt never mattered. Walter Mondale thought he could get Reagan on doubling the debt & he lost worse than anyone in history. Only ideologues care about the debt. Fact is that it doesn’t have anything to do with anyone’s day to day lives.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204740904577195352148844134.html

Well, for me and my girlfriend it’s too late now – we tried it with an aspirin!

Naa, just kiddin’ …

this guy is trying to spin what he said and what he meant… and the comment about contraceptives to prevent aids … jesus christ, the sooner these old farts die out the better.

“Muslims ought to get behind them because they don’t want to serve pork at their soup kitchens do they?”

This guy is just clueless and a product of his time and environment­. The fact that he’s saying insensitive­ things just go over his head.
 

Uh hoh my god..HHhHAhaaHAHhaa
Are you seriously trying to tell me you get laid on the internet?
What are you…twelve ?
Are you gonna’ brag about your baseball card collection too?

GF…?
What is that ?
Your guy friend or gay friend…?

P.S.
Don’t use the same joke twice in a row either.
It was barely funny the first time so why don’t you go make yourself some nice hot cocoa and paint your toe nails or something.

no u stupid freak, he was commenting on what this thread is refering to…you’re just angry the economy is recovering and no matter how fast it recovers from the catastrophe republicans left itin the previous 8 yrs, that Obama WILL BE RE ELECTED.

 You might want to work on your reading comprehension and reactionary bigotry, sir.

apparently none of u got what he said and in his interview above, he conveniently left out the part he said to andrea mitchell about what women are supposed to do with the aspirin….

if u think ur so clever and ” got the joke” maybe u should tell us what u (think) u got…

there was no joke intended on hs part,,, it was a denegration of women and any sane person knows that.

I’m no spring chicken and that joke was old when I was a teenager.  That being said, who is this guy and why the heck does anyone care what he thinks?

 Impeach Foster Freiss now!

No, I’m not talking about Santorum. Try to keep up.

Fact is that it doesn’t have anything to do with anyone’s day to day lives.

Millions of Greeks will be thrilled to hear that.

Right, because if women aren’t putting out, they’re being demeaned!

Someone had to tell you.

 you clearly have no girlfriend

 can u elaborate?

I do JEFF, you might too one day when you move out of your parents basement.

It’s not a joke, I have a GF & get laid quite often. You should try it sometime (if you could). Maybe then you wouldn’t hate women so much.

So…..you ignore the original comment about improving jobless #’s and respond with a post about debt which cites a right wing think tank. Then you ignore the fact there was no organized opposition to the debt or deficits under the past Republican administration.

Might want to call it a night.

 he may have seen this and it messed him up http://www.gloria.tv/?media=256764

 wanna laugh see this http://www.gloria.tv/?media=256764

Yes, no contraceptives no sex, America will be grand.

He’s the single biggest donor to Rick Santorum’s campaign. Clearly a clown campaign & a clown contributed to the clown campaign.

 here be clueless with thishttp://www.gloria.tv/?media=256764

All of a sudden, Rick Santorum’s Google problem isn’t his biggest problem. He & his supporters are bat sh*t crazy.

I believe him. She obviously likes guys who cannot come up with a fresh joke after three tries and brags about his sex life to strangers on the internet.

That’s right! They weren’t out “humping everything in sight like stray dogs” at all. NOOOoooo sir! They were in the kitchen making you a god damn sandwich like they should!!!

Why would he elaborate? Your low IQ wouldn’t be able to comprehend it anyway, JEFF.

 Comprehension is the key that unlocks all doors.

I like it when they toast the bread first.

” I believe him. She obviously likes guys who cannot come up with a fresh
joke after three tries and brags about his sex life to strangers on the
internet”

–At least he’s gettin’ laid.

 Ha, I just got the joke about the Muslim soup kitchen.

There is no such thing as a Muslim soup kitchen.

Well … he could have just said “aspirin” – but he said “Bayer aspirin”**; & not just to Andrea Mitchell, but again in this session on The Last Word.  

**I realize this is just, uh, silly, but … in my official unpublished version of the Middle-Aged White Rich Guy Politicians Who Say “Blah” & Old White Filthy Rich Guys Who Tell Truly Offensive Jokes, if you actually say the words “Bayer aspirin” several times, really quickly … 

That stupid joke has been around since I was little kid, from when I was too young to even understand it, – over a half century, to my CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE. And this old 30 watt incandescent bulb Foster Freiss sure didn’t invent it.  

And to be really … painfully … clear: just take out the last 5 letters of the second word. That doesn’t just make clear the pun Freiss was making: it’s makes TWO MORE contextual jokes, based simply on his appearances being as a supporter of Santorum.  IOW – it’s a FOUR-WAY! 

You know, old guys can go a little funny, in the head, sometimes; and having mounds of money doesn’t operate as any sort of a prophylatic against that. They hear these jokes from their friends, other old rich dudes, & laugh & laugh, & they somehow think that makes it witty.

It wasn’t damage control. This guy doesn’t have that level of p.r. savvy. 

I’m not saying he didn’t know something had gone wrong, but just by the fact that he agreed to go on msnbc, & not once but TWICE in one day, including against someone as determined & quick & on-his-sleeve liberal as O’Donnell, is more than enough to show that P.R. is not exactly this old white rich Wisconsin dude’s strength. The reach for “blessed by contraceptives”, that’s a sure sign of a neuron meltdown. 

I’m telling you: Foster Freiss is into that phase of his life anyone who’s had to take care of their aging parents or other relatives, where old dudes say – & do – some awfully silly things. This guy’s a year or two, at most, from walking around at his company Christmas party with his tighty whitey’s on his head & a lampshade perched on his third arm. 

Ill advised joke aside, Mr. Friess has to be among the top GOP people to ever grace my TV screen.

A perfect gentleman with a personality free of rancor and free of the mean-spirited demeanor you see far too often on cable news.

With his good natured attitude I see no reason why he shouldn’t be around 20 more years.

It was a joke. Not a good joke. But a joke nonetheless.  Lighten up

I prefer the old “She practices Birth Control simply by leaving the lights on”
That would work for most of the skanks I continue to see on MSNBC!

faux controversy. 

I understand the sarcastic point you are trying to make here, but although his comment is crude and rude,it is basically true. His comment is germane to what this 71 year old geezer is talking about. Unfortunately this senior citizen failed miserably in trying to make his point. What you have to remember here, we are talking about “back then”. It was a whole different life for women back then. There was no contraception (except abstinence) and no abortion (except illegal). It was considered unseemly for a unwed girl to get pregnant. If she did, the man did the “right” thing and married her, or in some cases, a “shotgun wedding” was in order. Women also were expected to have dinner on the table when the man got home from work. Alot of women didn’t work back then, didn’t drive back then, didn’t wear slacks back then, didn’t vote back then. The list goes on and on.

It was a different era, a different way of life. One that many of us don’t understand and find appalling compared to todays way of life. The point is we don’t live like that anymore. I guess many on this thread would argue that Santorum would have us go back to that way of life, and that many on the right still cling to that way of thinking. I will leave that for the rest of you to debate, but I would suggest that contraception is here to stay as is abortion and women will not have the “clock” turned back on their way of life they have today. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE6iAjEv9dQ

How is that insensitive? You can’t mention anyone’s religious practices anymore?

They need something new to be OUTRAGED!!!! about. Two more days and they’ll move on to a new OUTRAGE!!!!!

What do MSNBC Hosts use for Birth Control?
A. Their personalities.

Add age bigot to gunsels profile. The thing is, some of us are not as sexist as the dems, who think women are like animals who couldn’t possibly ever control their sexual urges, so the rest of us must be forced, by the feds, to pay through over taxation, for everybody’s contraception devices, pills and abortions. Gunsel, sexist, bigot, hater of those who survive to maturity, and a very unhappy miserable boy in general.  Peace

Like gunsel, larry o has no lips. none. dems are freaks. : )

I can’t believe what frauds you people on the left are.
You could say that joke at any family outing or at the thanksgiving table and it wouldn’t offend anybody compared to the shit they even show on daytime TV.
It was a harmless grandfartherly joke.
I’m glad foster was right back out there because he handled himself quite well with Lawrence O’Donnell.Not that anyone was watching in the first place.

 ”It’s irresponsible! It’s unpatriotic!” – Barack Obama

We are OUTRAGED at the blaten Biggotry, Racism, and Discrimination of Santorum. We know you HATE Romney but Dang!! Santorum?? Really. Why not just have him wave a confederate flag around while your at it>?

You are anti-christian!

while the economy is one of the most important issues, I do feel like hearing the candidates thoughts on all issues are important. The President is a policy recommender and maker. I do not wish to wait until someone is in office to find out that they believe women should be governed over and controlled via male dominated policies. This is something we need to know now. This man may be 71 years old and have antiquated ideas of women but Santorum does as well and he is not 71 years old. Sorry if all the men find this topic unimportant but then again they want us to stay at home and be pregnant all the time!

0bama, like his acolytes, has no sense of humor, so he would never say something like what Foster Friess said.

To Democrats it is only a joke if it is spiked through and through with crudity, profanity and loud obscenities, a la Jon Stewart. Or Bill Maher.

If Foster Freiss had said that a woman placing a contraceptive pill between her knees, would be effective, the willfully obtuse would still be too dumb to understand and appreciate the humor. 

Wow. Just wow. I’m going to have to show that to my kids!

What a substantive contribution you’ve made, thanks! Go ahead and obsess on lips, bonehead… I’ll take brains over lips any day.

And maybe we should also revisit why Women have the right to vote or hold public office.  Back in the day if you wanted to hear a women’s opinion you’d give it to her right across the face with the back of your hand.

Lets see… you post a “reference” FROM A RIGHT-WING THINK TANK in support of your right-wing stance and SatanicHamster posted a real reference FROM A RIGHT-WING PUBLICATION in support of his left-wing stance. Hmmm, which has more substance? Which should be more convincing? Idiot!

charming what a snarky jerk you are.  You probably WEREN’T watching but by GOD, you’ll comment.  First off, O’Donnell DID NOT ‘grill’ Freiss no matter what the headline said.  He was in fact very gentle.  He gave Freiss a chance to tell us why he said it.  Anybody that was WATCHING when he talked to Andrea Mitchell KNEW it was a ‘joke’.  BUT it was a joke that your’e crotchety old Uncle said in the privacy of your home.  THE PROBLEM with Friess is that he does not think contraception or the debate is important and that’s what hacked women off.  People like YOU will try to turn the debate to something else.  That’s how you roll.

Yeah, we all “got” the joke, except it wasn’t at all funny and it was highly inappropriate.

Yes, our founding fathers surely must have envisioned and planned a Christian nation. It’s so obvious! That’s why they put the words “God” and “Christian” in the Constitution so many times, lets see… oh, ZERO times! Well, surely they wanted us to be good Christians, right? Hmmm… “religion” IS mentioned once, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, that doesn’t help your case at all! They used the word “religious” once, maybe that’s the one, “…but no religious test shall ever be required”. Damn! Still no help!

Well, there is absolutely no evidence of your claim. I guess we have to take your word for it, since you obviously know so much more about it than the rest of us.

OKAY!  That was funny!!!

Actually, yesterday(aspirin) and today it is in most men’s minds that women need to take responsibility for whatever…..and men are not held responsible.  Men/boys who have sex outside of marriage are seen by the male population as just men being men/boys being boys…a “natural” part of being male.  Since many who believe this also believe that homosexuality is a sin, it should mean common sense of self protection by women AND men against STDs and unwanted pregnancy.

The same people who object to taxpayer paid birth control should be out there hunting down the “dead beat dads”.  Hundreds of millions of dollars are paid by taxpayers every year because those dead beat dads are not living up to their obligations.  Oh!  Wait a moment…..men do not feel men should be responsible for birth control or financial obligation to the eggs they seed.  It doesn’t matter that there are aprox 500,000 children in our fostercare system, most from very poor families who probably have no political affiliation.  Lets take away government funded birthcontrol and make the problem worse. 

It was a joke….like immigrants being electrocuted all over the desert and poor kids scrubbing toilets for a living…just a joke.    Or, how about this one, “LET THEM EAT CAKE.” (that was the biggest joke comment of all time…but the people weren’t amused).   Just a joke that certain people try to slip by to whistle blow a certain segment of society…..until they’re called on it…then it’s, “I misspoke.”

You should have left it at the first four words of your post. once you went to analogy you lost. it’s called false equivalency