Here’s Sen. Feinstein’s Curt Response to Schweitzer Likening Her to a Streetwalker

Brian Schweitzer, the former Democratic governor of Montana and aspiring 2016 presidential candidate, made some rather off-color remarks in a National Journal profile, musing that Eric Cantor is very effeminate, like most Southern men, and sets off Schweitzer’s gaydar. But there was another comment getting attention when the piece came out: Schweitzer going after Senator Dianne Feinstein on surveillance issues by likening her to a prostitute on a street corner.

Schweitzer found it amusing how Feinstein has been a champion of the intelligence community, and has now turned on the CIA for spying on congressional staffers. He said, “She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees, and now she says, ‘I’m a nun,’ when it comes to this spying!… I mean, maybe that’s the wrong metaphor—but she was all in!”

Yeah, probably the wrong metaphor.

Today reporters asked Feinstein for her reaction to Schweitzer’s comments. And according to POLITICO, she kept her comments brief.

Her reaction: “You better keep him away from my husband.”

Feinstein then made a hand gesture indicating that Schweitzer’s remarks were not mentally balanced. “That’s all I’m going to say,” she added.

[image via Yuri Gripas/Reuters]

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