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Megyn Kelly Grills Wasserman Schultz, Then Catholic League President On Birth Control

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On Thursday’s edition of America Live, host Megyn Kelly invited DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Catholic League president Bill Donohue to discuss the ongoing debate surrounding a birth control mandate for religious institutions and their businesses.

Wasserman Schultz noted that, last Friday, President Obama made certain compromises to “ensure a balance between religious liberty and making sure that women don’t have to choose between holding their job and being able to plan their family.” Kelly, playing advocate on Donohue’s behalf, noted that many religious institutions — such as those run by the archdiocese of Washington, DC — are self-insured and, as such, would still have to pay for their employees’ birth control under the revised mandate. Wasserman Schultz responded by saying that the need to address such details is precisely why a one-year “grace period” was put in place.

RELATED: Mika Brzezinski: ‘A Lot Of Risky Behavior’ Happens ‘To Be Connected To Birth Control’

Kelly then brought up that a woman (or any other employee) has a choice to work or not work for a religious institution. “That’s really not a choice those women should be forced into making,” Wasserman Schultz responded, noting that the nation’s Catholic hospitals, for instance, employee “hundreds of thousands” of Americans.

“The flip-side of this,” Wasserman Schultz continued, “is that religious institutions shouldn’t be imposing their values, necessarily, on their employees who don’t necessarily subscribe to those values. So there needs to be a balance.”

Donohue, meanwhile, isn’t pleased with the changes, nor with the so-called “grace period” being offered. He pointed viewers towards a New York Times article that “indicates the Obama administration didn’t even consider this whole question about self-insurance.” [I think this might be the article to which Donohue refer.]

Donohue also denounced all the attention being paid to “secondary and tertiary” issues, like women’s rights or health care, when, as he sees it, this is primarily a discussion about the First Amendment.

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  • Anonymous

    If I close my eyes real tight and pray real hard, do you think I could make Donahue disappear?

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Little Deb. When will you encourage Harry Reid to bring up Obama’s budget for a vote?

    What are you waiting for ?

    Obama has decreed that insurance companies will provide free contraceptives for women.

    When will Obama mandate free gasoline for women to get to work? Why or why not?

  • Anonymous

    Corporations: People
    Embryos: People
    Women: Objects

    Good luck with that GOP…

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Absolutely. Do it while walking across a busy highway.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt’s not doing very well in Michigan.  

  • Anonymous

    that’s not devil’s advocate she played, it was the republican advocacy that fox news of the world plays every day.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t actually think it was possible for the Republicans to lose bigger than they did in 2008, but I’m rethinking that now. They’re on a trajectory to lose every significant voting block except these:

    - people flying stars and bars on the backs of their pick-ups
    - people who get paid to come here and spam for Breitbart
    - people named Orly Taitz

  • Anonymous

    It’s 2012 and they are having a hearing about contraception. Unbelievable!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News and the Republicans are trying as much as they can to distract people from the economy because of the good news lately.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    I like how they couldn’t have them debating each other, due to the fact Donahue would start blustering and babbling over his opponent. I think he is at the bottom of the Catholic League and is likely to get relegated.

  • Anonymous

    “walking across a busy highway”? Is that a republican birth control method?

  • DoNotMindMe

    She played devil’s advocate when she had the other guest on. Why don’t you watch and pay attention

  • http://www.facebook.com/kevgib Kevin Gibbons

    Wow….you’re an idiot.

  • DoNotMindMe

    A fair and balanced segment from FOX!

  • DoNotMindMe

    A fair and balanced segment from FOX!

  • Anonymous

    There is no “playing” devils advocate on fox news, they are it.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO!!! .. ok..

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    And block women from giving testimony.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Women vote. Someone forgot to tell the Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Dear Mediaite,

    I watched the clip above, and I heard a single comment from Megyn on the issue.  I don’t think you can call that playing “devil’s advocate”…seriously guys, did you get a new Conservative sponsor or something?  This is getting just plain silly.

    Please Mediaite, go back to what you were 8 months ago.  This is horribly idiotic.

  • Anonymous

    What if Romney is elected president and he wants to repeal the polygamy law because it violates the Mormon religion?

  • Anonymous

    Obummer’s grand ”compromise” is a sham.  The idea that it’s not the Catholic hospital or university that pays for contraceptives, it’s the insurance company (to which the hospital or university pays premiums) that provides the contraceptives for “free” is laughable.  It appeals to people who believe in one-cent sales (and the Tooth Fairy).

  • Anonymous

     Good Question!… wow.

  • DoNotMindMe

    She played the devil’s advocate when the religious person came on after DWS. Your point is invalid… I know you just can’t believe that FOX was actually ‘fair and balanced’ 

  • DoNotMindMe

    DWS had time to speak, Megyn Kelly challenged her. Then the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue came on and Kelly also challenged him. Did you even watch the clip? 

  • Anonymous

    That’s Gloves Teabagger Donahue for ya! “Conservative” scum bag extraordinaire!!

  • Anonymous

    For “conservatives” women, nudity is more likely to be their preferred type of birth control. Or at least, that’s what I heard! Just sayin’, ya’ll…..

  • Anonymous

    It also appeals to people who have sex. You should try it sometime.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, congrats. Most news outlets can do that on a regular basis.

  • Anonymous

    You seem a bit too excited about someone playing devil’s advocate on television. Must be nice for someone to take your side for once.

  • DoNotMindMe

    And certain liberal robots complain about ‘FAUX’ News on a regular basis… and when they firsthand witness a truly fair and balanced segment from FOX, they laugh and refuse to believe what is in front of their very own eyes. (See mr.PorkChops)

  • Anonymous

    What a pathetic response….but oh so typical of the left.

  • DoNotMindMe

    Nice comment Hamster. Did you use all 3 of your brain cells to type that out? 

  • Anonymous

    GOP slogan for 2012: “WE HATE OBAMA, DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS, WOMEN, MINORITIES, NON-CHRISTIANS, SOME CHRISTIANS, THE 99%, THE 1%, TEACHERS, AND EVEN OURSELVES…BUT WE LOVE OIL COMPANIES, INSURANCE COMPANIES, & WAR…PLEASE VOTE US”

  • Anonymous

    Obama claims he cares about women’s health, While at the same time forcing them to serve in combat now.

  • Anonymous

    Do Republicans realize that Catholics only make up 30% of the population & more than half of them are with Obama on the issue? Women make up 50.4% of the country & virtually all of them are with Obama on the issue. Republicans need to do some demographic research, their strategy is putting them in position to lose to Obama the same way Mondale lost to Reagan.

  • Anonymous

    There you go proving how “pro-life” Republicans are.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I wouldn’t call him conservative.

  • Anonymous

     Nice to see you hippies have to defend your hilarious lefty ideas and get it handed to you.  You’re all very clueless.  But hey those liberal arts degrees look nice in the frame with your six figure student loan debt.  Keep clinging to your last couple months of fame fools.

  • david r

    He should start on the roof.

  • david r

     Come back after you’ve been laid.

  • Anonymous

    Nice comment dontmindme, you type well for someone with 0 brain cells.

  • david r

    If get another wife, I’m all for it.  

  • Anonymous

    Tina, you mad the government won’t pay for your tampons? You seem like you could some right now.

  • Anonymous

    You conservatives really get a bit too excited about Fox. I guess that’s all you got when you hate everyone else in the world.

  • david r

    This corporations are people stuff pisses me off.  There is always some scumbag (see there baby libs, that’s how you use the word) setting up a cab company under an empty corporation and trying to screw the people they run over by just setting up another corporation.  People can’t do this.  What do you mean, corporations are people?  Anyway, didn’t that genius Romney blurt that out?  I haven’t read Citizens United, but I understand they got off on this idea of corporate free speech rights.  Why do they need to talk about anything other than promoting their business?  

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     http://www.theblaze.com/stories/there-is-no-truth-except-allah-colorado-student-quits-high-school-choir-over-islamic-song/

    Click above to see how the Democrats WAR is not on every religion!

  • david r

    I don’t know if this is rah-rah stuff, or if you truly believe it, but there is still a lot of time until the election.  There will be chickens coming home to roost in the wake of Obamacare.  And the economy might collapse again if the European economy craters like everyone predicts.  But right now it looks bleak for the elephants.

     (Before any of you foul-mouthed children call me a scumbag and accuse me of hoping the economy collapses, just chill.  I’m independent and undecided.  I hope the economy recovers so my 401K retirement account shows some growth before I’m too old to work.  And there will be degradation to my social security benefits as a result of excessive government spending. )

  • Anonymous

    The issue of his putting Shemus in the crate and strapping it on to the top of his car must be catching up with him! 

  • Anonymous

    Has your wife seen your comment?

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    Thanks. I just Danny Thomased my keyboard.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully, it would mean that I could court Sandra Bullock to be one of my “sister wives.”

  • david r

    No offense, RCs but this strikes me as a lot of religious dogma not much different from all the other religions.  I didn’t fit in in church.  I always felt closer to God surfing. Nowadays it is fishing.

  • Verreauxii

    This is indeed true. I guarantee you that if the economy had shed 200k jobs last month, we would not be talking about this. The WH should be happy. There’s nothing alienating to Indies like culture wars being pushed by the RW.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    ““That’s really not a choice those women should be forced into making,”
    ——————————————————————————————————–
    But it is a choice the Church must be FORCED into making? – by King Obama?
    Is that what DNC Shultz had to say?

    The Democrats War On Religion!

  • david r

    I don’t think anyone is with the church on this issue.  Notice how DWS said she was sure Megyn (a Catholic) was aware of the cost of birth control.  (Did you ever see Justin Timberwolf and Andy Samberg do “It’s not gay if it is a three way”?  That’s what I kept thinking looking at Debbie and Megyn.  A couple of hotties.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    You see here’s another example of abject ineptitude on the part of Republicans.

    They should be doing e-mailers and snail mail galore with nothing written; just a picture of Wasserman Shultz, in all her fiery glory, and a donation envelope!

  • Anonymous

    I would be willing to tell Megyn Kelly between sips of wine by candlelight!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Love,
     Media Matters.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Oh, speaking of which, Mediaite Staff,

    Have any of you been solicited by Media Matters to place or run a particular story or perspective on a story?
    Tommy?

  • Anonymous

    That’s great.  Awesome.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously?  I thought whiny bitch Conservatives only blamed Soros nowadays?

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    I’ve been a member of the Church of 18 Holes for a long time now, myself.

  • Anonymous

    You think Debbie is a hottie?  I can’t agree with you on that one, dude. 

  • Anonymous

    Did you here the ”good” news that was posted just a short while ago?  The Congressional Budget Office says that real unemployment is closer to 15% and that Obama is overstating the progress being “made.”  I’m sure you won’t take my word for it, so you can go to CBO.gov to see the PDF file.  By the way, the CBO is not Fox News–it is Obama’s CBO.  Yeah, boy…  is that the good news you are referring to?

  • Anonymous

    Give us an example, “satanic hamster.”  Bet you can’t.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah hamster, could you take that used tampon out of your mouth, it’s kinda garbled. Your mom is still pissed she couldn’t find the abortion clinic when she was preggers with you, a$$hole. But obviously the enema worked, your still here.

  • Anonymous

    Tina, you’ll have to excuse “satanic hamster.”  He’s an idiot.  I’m not sure his parents allow to play on the computer, anyway.  He’s hopeless, as illustrated by his response to you rmessage above. 

  • Anonymous

    So much for the “war on religion”.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not a war on religion. Most Catholics agree with Obama on this.

  • Anonymous

    That would be a better message than what Republicans are spewing right now.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    YES!
    House debate right now is calling the President’s actions a DIRECT ATTACK on Religious Freedoms!

    Today, clergy of almost every denomination testified at Issa’s hearing, with passion, against the Obama-led Democratic WAR ON RELIGION!

    This issue is PURE GOLD to the NEW GOP!
    There’s already at least two ads out there warning people of faith that their religion is under attack by Obama and the Democrats!

  • Anonymous

    So Wasserman-Schultz is hotter than Megyn Kelly? You’re joking right?

  • Anonymous

    MrPorkChops: Strawman….

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     That’s not the point; the Church tenets don’t, so what comes next? – mandated abortions?

    It’s just More Government OPPRESSION>

    Obama IS Big Brother!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Selective indignation, that’s what a Marxist State is all about; and that’s what today’s Democrats are all about.
    Watch the ACTIONS, not the LIES!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t worry bro, I got the used tampon in your mom’s mouth now. Only reason she didn’t abort you is because I told her we should keep our baby. You’re welcome. BTW, that’s no way to talk to your dad, so have some respect. I brought you into this world & I could take you out of it as well.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Soros is the Sugar daddy to Media Matters, msnbc, OWS…and Obama!

  • Anonymous

    ZOMG Obama is going to mandate abortions!!! The sky is falling the sky is falling!!!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Did CBS, NBC, ABC, AP, the NY Times, etc. report this yet?

    Oh wait, I think Media Matters censored it on them, so they’re not allowed to report it.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha!!!!!!

    A Conservative conspiracy theorist?  No way?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Not to mention the beating they took in 2010!

    Then again, there is that Democratic WAR ON RELIGION I think you’re woefully underestimating.

  • Anonymous

    So first Obama was a liberal, then a socialist, then a communist, and now a Marxist. LOL can you guys get anymore archaic with your terms?

  • Anonymous

    It’s on Drudgereport.com.  Funny that I can’t find it on any other news outlet.  Hey liberals, this news originated on the Congressional Budget Office site (CBO.org).  Norbit, I’m surprised some of the liberals on this post haven’t discounted the CBO by now!

  • david r

    I meant additional wife.  (No, she doesn’t read my b.s.  I’d be in big trouble.)

  • Anonymous

    x2

  • david r

    You wish.  We saw her at the movies once here in Austin, and a buddy was behind her in the checkout line at Central Market recently.  She owns a restaurant here that we frequent.  Sandy’s a babe, and seems like a really great person.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Leave it to FOX to present Bill Donohue and his hackneyed, rightwing Catholic League politcal action group as someone who speaks for all Catholics.

  • Anonymous

    Well, what do you know?…  Someone other than Fox News has reported something that contradicts Obama’s own numbers.   And, it happens to be from Obama’s own CBO!  I guess the CBO people had better watch out–the Media Matters hit-men will be on the case now.   

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    You’ve been sleeping -  or otherwise you would have noticed that America now hates the teabagger House. It currently holds the lowest approval ratings on record for the chamber.

  • Anonymous

    Nope. Here’s one for starts http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72968.html   Let me know if you want me to keep going since Bush left.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     When are they going to decide that obese people shouldn’t be covered by insurance? With 33% of Americans being Obese they are going to be costing the insurance company’s much more than the birth control costs. With their Doctor’s office visits running into the upper hundreds and their medications running into the thousands.

     When are we going to decide that Viagra shouldn’t be covered? The cost of about 35 Viagra pills is about $770.  Should men be told that since their “members” no longer “rise to the occasion”  that God has seen fit that they shouldn’t be given a medication for them to have sex? Since I don’t feel that it is right that Viagra should be paid for by my insurance company for men to have sex. If they want to have sex let them pay for it out of their own pockets. It looks as if this should be the case.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     Think you might like this..

    And the devil took him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it shall all be yours.”

    And then the Devil approached the Evangelical Conservatives with the same proposition and they said”
    HELL YES!!

  • david r

    people flying stars and bars on the backs of their pick-ups

    Right there you showed you are not from the South, where everywhere but Mississippi regards the stars and bars with contempt.  I grew up listening to WW-I stories on my great uncle’s front porch.  I’ve had other ancestors who fought in WW-II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Bush adventures, too.  They risked their lives for the Stars and Stripes.  I think it dishonors their service the country and in some cases, their memory, to display the stars and bars.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I watched it live this morning because, well, Kelly is too hot to miss. Both of them got their 3 minutes and both of them tried to bait Meyn to take their side and failed.

    Both of them got to make their points and IMO it was the most honesty I have ever heard from wasserman-schultz. I didnt watch the video but I saw the whole thing and thats what happenned.

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    I heard foreclosures are up quite a bit since the latest bailout and its only been a week.

  • Anonymous

    I went to the site you linked, but there was nothing there.  Did you try looking at the information I offered on CBO.org?  I really don’t see how you can refute it.  I am just the messenger.  And, what the hell are you talking about with the “Let me know if you want me to keep going since Bush left” comment?  What does that have to do with the new REAL unemployment numbers.  I send you factual information (proof), and you immediately offer something else to look at. Don’t you libs always tell us that we’re the ones trying to distract?  It’s called hypocricy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    There is no one left to lay off?

  • Anonymous

    That seems to describe evangelical conservatives quite well actually.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    See and for just the tiniest fraction of a page, we actually were debating facts. Oh well, at least we are down to one libtard on this thread.

  • Anonymous

    Both sides were not evenly presented.  One side presented their side, the other side was sold passionately by both host and guest.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     Next time give a better link. The link you have tells us the unemployment rate is 8%

    Also..I guess it needs to be pointed out to you since you must not understand the acronym CBO is Congressional Budget Office.. Unless Obama has taken over the House Of Reps…It’s not Obama’s Budget Office.

  • Anonymous

    No, we were not debating. You were trying to claim that it’s not racist to accuse an African American of smoking crack. After that I stopped taking you seriously.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     Semantics won’t change the reality of his actions – not the LIES in his speeches, his actions!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Don’t you know we don’t have the draft? And that the women volunteered to enter in the Armed Forces.
    How is Obama forcing them into Combat? Most of the have probably wanted to be equal to their male counterparts but haven’t been able to because of the previous regulations.

  • Anonymous

    Well, Andy48, here is a cut and paste of the article that you neglected to read fully. 

    CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression
    CBO: U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression
    By Alex M. Parker
    February 16, 2012 RSS Feed Print
    After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today.[Dems Tout GOP Payroll Tax Plan as Political Victory.]And, despite some recent good news on the economic front, the CBO is still predicting that unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The report also notes that, including those who haven’t sought work in the past four weeks and those who are working part-time but seeking full-time employment, the unemployment rate would be 15 percent.

  • Anonymous

    I went ot both sites, and got the same message–that it cannot be found.  Why don’t you summarize.  Also, shatever it is, is it as new as this info I gave to you, out this afternoon?  Here is a cut and paste of the news I offered:

    CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression
    CBO: U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression
    By Alex M. Parker
    February 16, 2012 RSS Feed Print
    After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today.[Dems Tout GOP Payroll Tax Plan as Political Victory.]And, despite some recent good news on the economic front, the CBO is still predicting that unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The report also notes that, including those who haven’t sought work in the past four weeks and those who are working part-time but seeking full-time employment, the unemployment rate would be 15 percent.

  • Anonymous

            http://daytonos.com/?p=11089                           This speaks for itself.  I know it makes all you patriotic American loving conservatives mad that the economy is improving and people are getting back to work but… hey, I’m just the messenger

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     It’s not a conspiracy if it’s happening.

    Remember the $1 Billion to Brazil to Drill-Baby-Drill (I guess their environment doesn’t count)?
    Soros invested in the Brazilian company two weeks before Obama made the announcement.
    That’s crony-capialism, and you’d be screaming if it were Bush!

  • Anonymous

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz is nature cure for concupiscence!  Boy those lib broads have no redeeming features either interior or exterior.

  • Anonymous

    How about the 54% of Catholics that agree with Obama over their own church?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

    Now wait…There is no truth but God.  I would think that the Religious Right would be behind this song.
    Perhaps you should learn the names of God in other languages.

    And it was Pope John Paul II that said “The God of the Christians, Is the God of the Muslims, is the God of the Jews”. They are all the same “being”.

    Also..The song I thought was damn good. But I am sure you didn’t read all of the story, they choir was also going to sing a Christian song. So, if the Muslims in that crowd who were going to attend the performance could listen to a Christian song, the least the Christians could do is listen to a good Muslim song.

     

  • Anonymous

    Donahue is a pedophile. He rapes children.

  • Anonymous

    You know, it takes real ass to make those kinds of comments.  I’m actually looking for work myself.  I’m not a rich man who doesn’t want the economy get better.  Why you libs say that, I’ll never know.  I lost my job and I’d like to get back to work.  by the way, two things about your link:  it was written by a guy who is a very left-leaning liberal, and, your information is almost six months old.  The info I offered up is not even 6 hours old. 

  • Anonymous

    This link involves a story “blogged” by a huge left winger, and it is 6 month old information.  The information I provided is by the Congressional Budget Office, and it was reported this afternoon.

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     jefwel, good posts.

    And give it time. It’s still early in the evening.

    Wait ’till word of it starts to spread, and I’m pretty sure you can count on one or two of those CBO people to have some RACIST intent!
    (It’s their default smear.)

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

     But that was when America was listening to the news through the eyes of Media Matters; that’s over.

    Now and until 11-06-12, it’ll be a fight for their souls battling the Democrats WAR ON RELIGION.

    “First they came for your taxes; Now They’ve Come For Your Souls”
    - great mantra. That should make people feel really comfortable about voting Democratic!
    LOL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I see you got the whine about Media Matters memo for the week. Four legs good, two legs bad, eh?

    BTW, You might want to check the polls. This “War on Religion” TM nonsense from the right isn’t playing to anyone outside the GOP base.

  • corri anderson

    How about the Catholic church gives back the billions of dollars they have received from the Federal Governmen over the years, and refuse their tax-exempt status, and then they can do whatever they want.  I’m sure the millions of Catholic women who use birth control would agree?  I know the hippies do!

  • Anonymous

    No, but if you closed your eyes and prayed real hard, your liberal utopia might appear…..

  • corri anderson

    If you believe that you’re a putz.  More Catholic women at childbearing age use contraceptives than not.  It’s hardly a war on religion.

  • Anonymous

    you first media matters…

  • Anonymous

    Stop making logical sense please…..    Women can’t control themselves sexually according to democrats, and their first choice afforded to them happens after conception.  

    But as a seatbelt for their lack of self control or self reliance…we must provide birth control to protect them from themselves..

  • corri anderson

    Well said.

  • deewicket

     He’d just sharing some of that xtian love, don’t ya know.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I’m sorry for the situation you are in. I really am.  The rightwing hero Rush Limbaugh is the one who wants the economy to fail……Clearly progress is being made but it is very hard for a President to get people back to work when the other side doesn’t want that because it will make his chances of re-election better.  You know that is true, I know that is true and it is sad.

  • deewicket

     Are all your decisions based on who is more f***able?
    And you don’t think you’re related to monkeys??

  • Anonymous
  • deewicket

     Ah, so full of that old time religion, I see.

  • deewicket

     Does it make you feel like a great big man when you insult Congresswoman Wasserman?
    Such a delicate little thing, aren’t you.

  • deewicket

     I’ll get six husbands if he does.  Electrician, plumber, gardener, mechanic, chef and decorator. 

  • Anonymous
  • deewicket

     Well said!

  • Anonymous

    There’s an even better example of the Catholic Church’s hypocrisy then your “Viagra” example. Health insurance plans already cover vasectomies. They are a form of birth control covered by insurance. Why didn’t the Catholic Church scream from the hilltops for years at this “infringement on their long held beliefs”? Vasectomies covered-good, contraception-bad-the very definition of hypocrisy!

    Let’s hear from all those “Obama is forcing me to support something against my will” people. Defend this one-why is vasectomy coverage been okay with you but now contraception is out of bounds-both are forms of birth control, but you only want one of them covered? Close your robes, your sexism is showing!

  • Anonymous

    I appreciate the sentiment, but I obviously run in conservative circels and have lots of friends who are republicans, and I don’t hear–at all–any talk about wanting the economy to fail.  There are lots of things we see in Obama that we do not like but projecting that onto all conservatives is just a lie that the media seems to be trying to sell. 

  • Anonymous

    CNN vs. the CBO?  Which one do you think has a better idea, since CNN simply reports on numbers derived by agencies such as the CBO?

  • Anonymous

    Really…what do women know about complex issues…like…birth control. These issues are clearly best left in the hands of unmarried priests and Sean Hannity. Celibate priests are clearly the authority on these issues…didn’t you get the memo?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    What does a speech by Obama give me other than propaganda?  The information I gave is from the CBO (www.CBO.gov), supposedly nonpartisan. 

  • Anonymous

    Look on the bright side-as far as I’m concerned, thanks to Citizens United I’ll never pay a fine again. Give me a parking ticket and I’ll now take that to the Supreme Court. If the court decided “money is speech” then they can’t fine me anymore! That would be “taking my speech from me.” It would be such a small victory for the destruction of the country-but if the court can destroy us like this-I might as well save some money on parking tickets!

  • Anonymous

    you’re right, that was a mistake on my part.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t speak for Rush Limbaugh, nor do condone everything he says.  I think he is extrememly arrogant, but I have heard things from him that make sense.  I have heard him talk about this point, and I do see his point.  His assertion is that Obama is actively doing things to make the economy worse in the long run.  For example, Obama is trying to raise taxes on the wealthy, who are already paying most of the taxes in this country.  It makes sense to me that this is not the way to get business to start hiring again–by taking moeny away from them.  By no means am I a fan of big corporations, but right now, I don’t think we need to rasie taxes.  So if Rush(or anyone) believes that Obama is doing something that will be counter-productive, it would be fair to say that you want them to fail, thereby not making things worse.  I mean, if someone came into your house to “repair” something that was broken, but you believed they were going about it all wrong, wouldn’t want them to fail at their plight, thereby not “injuring” your house any further?  Rush seems to be very inflammatory in many of his remarks, but I understand what he is saying here.  

  • Anonymous

    Hey Stylin, thanks for a reasonable “conversation.”  Your information sent to me did not go unnoticed. 

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you in principle. Things can still go wrong and Europe could collapse or there could be events in the middle east that make the game board get reshuffled. But I just don’t see the GOP putting up anyone even halfway credible as a candidate right now. If they nominated a Huntsman I might be nervous, but he didn’t stand a chance in the primary. (Just the fact that he spoke Mandarin and served in the administration was being used against him.)

    So while some of that is definitely rah-rah, I will say that the possibility of a significant electoral victory is seeming less remote to me.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you too. There are not too many people in opposite parties that can agree to disagree.
    Best.

  • Anonymous

    And best of luck on finding employment somewhere you like. :)

  • Anonymous

    We’re not so bad, you know?  I’ma a conservative that is supposed to “hate the poor, women, the underprivelidged, etc.”, but I have taught my boys to respect women and treat them kindly.  My wife and I have given a lot of money to charity (every year), and we don’t have a lot of money.  My wife and I have taken my boys to help prepare food for homeless folks that have it worse off than we do.  We not only prepared the food, but we sat down and had fellowship with them to let them know that we are no better than they are–we are equal.  I teach my boys that how you treat people is more important than your school grades.  I’m not trying to float my own boat here, but I just want to show that conservatives aren’t bad.  There are many folks on this post that think we’re bad people who don’t care about others.  It’s a lie that is propagated by the media.   

  • Anonymous

    Thanks!  It’s not quite as bad as it could be.  There a lots of folks worse off than I am.  I’m truly blessed to have health and family.  Actually, I’m an artist for a living.  It pays the bill (most of the time), but “starving artist” is true a lot of the time!

    Have a good evening.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    What’s really fascinating is that taking this stance (set of stances really) against women’s health will completely undo the Republican Parties chances for the fall. They have driven themselves into a defensive position with zero provocation and are spraying at the crowd like they imagine themselves as outmatched and overwhelmed riot cops. This can mean only one thing. The life of the party really is on the line…and they know it. If we enter with a contested nomination going into the convention then the likelyhood of only one party coming out the other end approaches zero.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The whole thing strikes me as a way to occupy the attention of the evangelicals while the establishment in the GOP puts the finishing touches on a Romney Nomination. A diversion that will hopely regain the narrative in general but is designed mainly with the evangelicals in mind. Contraception coverage hasn’t been a problem with the same general outlines for quite some time. The outrage no doubt coordinated and planned… But such is politics.

  • Anonymous

    so are you comparing Media Matters to the Church? Also please show me where it says MM got govt money?  your attempt at a comparison failed miserably. 
    you are such a hot mess @IHL! i almost feel sorry for you, but then I remember how hateful you guys are, so it passes.

  • Anonymous

    or as Yoda would say : “Doing Very Well Mitt is Not, Michigan in”

  • Anonymous

    I don’t agree regarding the chickens coming home to roost in wake of Obamacare, any major political fallout from that for Dems was incurred in 2010 . But I totally agree Nov is a long time away., and with Europe/Greece, etc looming over us, a lot can happen from now till then. I will say this, the GOP is making it much easier for Dems/Obama to win and/or take seats, the way they are driving themselves off a cliff is insane.! It is almost like they are playing chicken with each other to see who can go the furthest right, the fastest, each one upping the next. by the time Nov rolls around, I can’t imagine what they will be saying to give the GOP the red meat the so desire.

  • Anonymous

    Norby, do you mean the fabricated one, yeah I hear there trying to push that narrative on the hate stream media. aka FOX, GBTV, Rush and the rest of the purveyors of foulness. Good try! 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I wish!  However, since you live near her, I will be contacting you as soon as polygamy is legalized.  Leave word at her restaurant, the movie theater and the Central Market that she played a “Tennessee houswife” in “The Blind Side” and I would love to make her role in that movie her reality!

  • http://www.facebook.com/chasrmartin Charlie Martin

    If you could, you’d have been gone long ago.

  • Anonymous

    It is very hard not to conclude that Obama and his minions deliberately provoked this conflict knowing that the Catholic Church could not concede and knowing that, nonetheless, they were on a winner if it can be framed a the ‘right to contraception’ or ‘women’s health’.  So Obama’s strategy has added starting a religious war to class war to race war.  This must be the most divisive President in American history.  he is also the most dishonest–a stranger to truth.

  • Anonymous

    Score another one for Fox!

    Both sides on this issue were represented.  With all the left and their pudits (Media Matters, etc.) criticism directed at Fox, you don’t see the two sides presented on MSNBC, or very often even on CNN. 

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    WSJ: Obama Advisers Have Had to Tell Debbie Wasserman Schultz to ‘Tone It Down’
    The Wall Street Journal published a fascinating profile on DNC
    Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Thursday, the fiery Florida Rep.
    known for her strict adherence to Democratic talking points and
    dismissive attitude. Among the fascinating nuggets in the article is the
    revelation that some from Obama’s camp have had to tell her to “tone it
    down.”
    Here are some of the snippets (courtesy of the blog Cracker Squire):
    While
    she revs up the Democratic base, she enrages the Republican opposition.
    She once suggested Republicans pushing voter-ID measures “literally
    want to drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.” At a New Hampshire
    forum last month, she raised the issue of her close friend Rep. Gabby
    Giffords’ shooting by a deranged man in the context of the changing
    “discourse in America” based on the “precipitous turn towards edginess
    and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.”

    CONTINUE READING: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wsj-obama-advisers-have-had-to-tell-debbie-wasserman-schultz-to-tone-it-down/

  • Joan Kelly

     LOL!  Thank you!  Oh God – would that be wonderful or what?  How does that idiot think any woman can just pick and choose her employer in today’s world???  Ye Gods and little fishes, as my Grandaddy used to say.

    I’m old but here’s my story:  had my first period at 18.  Never regular.  Miscarried five times due to lack of progesterone production.  Dr. prescribed the “Pill” and I produced two beautiful full term kids.  Where would my 54 yr. old son and my 46 year old daughter be without birth control pills?  Not here, that’s for sure.

    So, you people need to get a grip …Let go and Let God!!!

  • Joan Kelly

     Gee, you do so well at generalization….

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