Hoo boy, Young Master Ex-Virgin Ben Shapiro is pitching a hate-tent in his pants because Time magazine is considering Sandra Fluke as a possible Person of the Year, even though she is a woman, so not really a “person” per se:
Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itself, they nominate Sandra Fluke, contraception advocate extraordinaire, as a candidate in their Person of the Year 2012 poll
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Fluke, of course, is the condom rights advocate turned Georgetown Law School martyr who testified before Congress about the hardships encountered by young female law school students who couldn’t afford to pay for their own birth control pills. Rush Limbaugh ripped her, prompting faux outcry from the left, all the way up to President Obama, who seized on the incident as proof that the right was waging some sort of war on women, as opposed to a battle against pathetic dependency on government. Obama called her personally, then used her as a campaign surrogate.
For those who don’t remember, back in February 2012, Sandra Fluke wished to address Darrell Isaa’s (R-Car Thief) hearings on contraception coverage and Issa stone cold cock-blocked her, choosing instead to only invite a bunch of dudes because bros before hos, y’all:
This morning, Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.
Ranking committee member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had asked Issa to include a female witness at the hearing, but the Chairman refused, arguing that “As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”
You see it was actually just a sausagefest with a buncha guys sitting around and shooting the shit about whether Jesus would use a love-glove and not really about real-world lady plumbing health issues because, jeepers creepers, who the hell knows what’s going on down there, amirite? Seriously, it’s like bacon and Play-dohville or something.
Unfortunately for Republicans this non-encounter of the ladyparts kind blew up in their faces when everyone on the conservative side from Rush Limbaugh to George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina started shooting off their mouths about Sandra Fluke and what a slut-whore she was for wanting basic health care services, which in turn reminded America that conservatives have always been at war with South Vagina-stan. And so, lo and behold, it came to pass-that the War on Women was officially on like Donkey Kong (or ‘dong’ as the case may be) and the public face on the ladies side was the very composed and well-spoken Ms. Fluke and on the conservative men’s side was El Rushbo, the piggish Dominican Republic sex tourist. Throw in comments by the Republican Rape Bros, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, later in the campaign and, well, lets just say that conservatives spent the better part of the year working overtime to cede yet another large demographic to the Democrats for the foreseeable future, which is why we are where we are today.
And it all started with Sandra Fluke so, hell yeah: Person of the Year….





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Anything that gets the Virgin Ben’s Underoos in a bunch is good with me…
Implicit in the First Amendment right to “freedom of religion” is the right to be free from religion. The Affordable Care Act does not “hinder” or “chill” anyone’s free exercise of their religion. There is no religious litmus test for coverage. Treatment protocols are determined by their medical efficacy and their cost effectiveness. No one is forcing patients to receive a particular treatment–such as contraception–under the Act. But by the same token, people covered by the Act deserve to have medical care that is not compromised by the religious beliefs of third parties.
Despite the fact that Georgetown Law School must be a non-discriminatory, secular 503(c) educational institution to receive accreditation by the ABA, and despite the fact that it receives generous amounts of federally funded education dollars, it fails to offer contraceptive services at the university medical center because it is a “Roman Catholic institution.” Georgetown is happy to feed at the public trough, and adopt an appearance of secularism for accreditation that will allow them to charge inflated tuition; but then they go all full-metal “churchy” when someone says “vagina” in mixed company. So, yeah, IMHO Fluke would also have made an excellent witness for “freedom of religion” related to the Administration’s decision; because if we had let religion dictate medical care down through the ages, women would still be dying, on average, at age 29 from sepsis during childbirth.
Un-revised that history for ya Ben.
Ben Shapiro is still published?
Wonders never cease.
Would it be unfair to recall the Twitter rampage by a certain gentleman from Greenville, South Carolina against Ms. Fluke?
…Not to mention the ever-classy reactions from “9-11 conservative” Dennis Miller, who refers to her as “Moan of Arc.”
Ms. Fluke has remained calm and intelligent throughout all the poop-flinging; Shapiro and Limbaugh and the gentleman from Greenville, and Miller, and Noonan, and on and on and on, have carried on like the low-performers on an elementary school playground. (It’s not like they really have a choice, is it?)
Stat. Someone give that man some pearls. I do believe he’s got the vapors.
Shapiro writes
Issa says
Well, which is it? Pathetic dependency on government or freedom of religion?
Why can’t they get their stories straight after all this time? Raise your hand if you know the answer.
Why can’t they get their stories straight after all this time?
Because freedom and support the troops and soshulizm and shut up libtards, that’s why. Got it?
Oh wait so they hate Time Magazine because it’s too “liberal”, right?
Just had to stop and try to jam that rhombicosidodecahedron-shaped thought into a round brain hole, or try to anyway. Ouch. Failed again. Okay, carry on.
Rosa Parks…a good analogy and a great idea. If women would start boycotting certain types of men then perhaps we could just Darwin our way out of lizard brained people once and for all. Only because no one ever seems to want to drag them into the streets and kill them like the dogs they are…somehow that makes us as bad as they are while we watch them destroy lives and communities in their quest for wealth and the rest of them stroke themselves as they send others off to fight and kill people who aren’t them.
“conservatives have always been at war with South Vagina-stan.” Oh, my. I’m going to laugh about that for the next five years.
That raises an interesting question – are there any relatively well-adjusted heterosexual men left in the GOP? I concede that essentially all of them are insane to some degree, but even insanity can be well-adjusted, in my humble opinion. You can have lost touch with reality, but still have a relatively “normal” view of women and children, for example. I can’t think of any Republicans offhand who do, but I’m willing to keep an open mind on it.
In a similar vein, you can ask the same question about Republican women.
Oh yes. Tbogg does it again. Plus Ben “…pitching a hate-tent in his pants…”
Well said, Ruthie.
Whatever you do, do NOT get off the boat if you go read Shapiro’s doodlings. Yee-gadz. According to the losers, Fluke was “groomed” for *years* to “play this role” blah blah blah… and now she’s “ascended” into leftwing “royalty” *as was the PLAN.*
Sheesh. What PLANET do these whining losers come from? Rhetorical question; don’t answer.
Just so’s ya know: Fluke & Obummer were BOTH a devious, devilish, twisted PLOT planned out years & years ago to play BOTH of these parts, doncha know. I mean: lookit the “coincidences,” sheeple! Obummer was a “community orgranizer,” and so is Fluke. Need I say more???
Lordy! What a heaping pile of mangos.
IF Daryll Issa’s (R-Car Thief) Hearing was truly “…not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience…” then why shouldn’t the Committee have women on it anyway? Again, rhetorical question; don’t bother to answer.
Shapiro, like all of the rightwing, is butt-hurt that the Kenyan Usurper won again, bursting all their fairy-bubble dreams into a steaming pile of rubbish. So Virgin Ben, like a (cough cough) heat-seeking missle, trots forth to victimize himself over a nasty grrrrl who caused Limbaugh some problems. Schadenfreude is not overrated.
Obummer was a “community orgranizer,” and so is Fluke. Need I say more???
Interesting.
President Obama was a community organizer
Sandra Fluke was a community organizer
Therefore President Obama and Sandra Fluke have been organizing together for years.
Not quite the standard formulation (“Hitler was a vegetarian, liberals are vegetarian, therefore Hitler = Liberals”), but close.
Call it the Goldberg Variation.
So Ben and minions are creating another front by declaring war on Time Magazine so soon after declaring war on the Onion? Not sure that is wise.
May be time to institute the draft over at deadbreitbart. Especially with a war on Highlights Magazine certainly looming. Gallant is such a sissy, metrosexual, stealing every young boy’s masculinity.
Goofus 2016!
This will go down as a TBogg classic.
I’d be ok with Ms. Fluke, but my personal choice for Person of the Year is Pussy Riot.
Because, well, Pussy Riot…
Hitler = Liberals
Well, you know who else was Person of the Year?!
Seems to me like all these Republican manly-man, man’s man type of men know as much about teh wimmens and their associated lady-parts as they do about military service, war, civic duty, democracy, and patriotism.
Maybe it’s why they’re such fans of “legitimate” rape. Because the only way these pathetic, repugnant swine can get laid is via Roofies ‘n’ Rum back at the ol’ frat house. After all, it’s difficult for a woman to laugh at your infantile penis when she’s passed out on someone’s bed.
That would be…Planet Wingnut. Because on Planet Wingnut, this is EXACTLY how things go down – they are indeed “groomed” for years for their roles. Shapiro himself first hopped aboard the wingnut welfare gravy train as an undergrad. Ditto for that other Breittard, James Poulakis or however the hell you spell it. Breitbart protege James O’Keefe was barely out of college when he started his hijinks; his faux ho Hannah what’s-her-name was still in school, IIRC.
And this is nothing new. This goes back decades. Dinesh D’Loser, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and I’m sure many others I’m forgetting (would that forgetting would make them GO AWAY) were recruited onto the wingnut welfare rolls as college students.
Of course it’s incomprehensible to turds like Shapiro that anyone would ever stand up and voice a political opinion without being paid to do so, because he and everyone he knows have been suckling from the teat of Republican grift of the suckers (or “the base” as they call them) from the time they entered their 20′s, if not sooner. That’s how things work in their world, Planet Wingnut, so obviously it cannot be otherwise, anywhere.
Shorter Virgin Ben:
It is totally an outrage that Rush Limbaugh is criticized for slut-shaming while slut slutty slut Sandra Fluke is considered for Person of the Year. How dare she have sex outside the bounds of holy matrimony and, worse yet, enjoy it? I am going to hold my breath until all sluts are publicly shamed.
Perhaps, the uterus and/or the vagina could at least get Miss Congeniality honorable mentions. I have a noncommittal platonic interest in these matters.
You forgot about Benghazi!
And, oddly, they don’t seem to find anything wrong with it, of course, and why should they?
On the other hand, a liberal-leaning person who is genuinely interested in an issue and then takes action is branded as that terrible creature, an ‘activist’ – which immediately damages their credibility. Because, presumably, being interested and informed in an issue due to being personally affected by it is a bad thing.
Very strange. I suppose if Sandra Fluke spent her days being paid to write things by Regnery Press, she’d be more credible to these idiots, but being unpaid and filing lawsuits and volunteering to testify is somehow suspect.
Jeez, didn’t these asshats learn anything from the last election?
Demeaning and vilifying an entire voting demographic is probably, maybe, perhaps, not the best electoral strategy.
That would be cool. She struck me as very brave, and very tough. One of those ‘talk even if your voice shakes’ types who, over time, could become a real leader. Anything poked into the eyes of any of these Judge Dredd types is great with me.
So good, I just wish there were a place where we could vote…Fantastic.
That Chubby Reese Witherspoon sure gets around. She not only permanently turned The Cardinal of Opinion into a clueless asshat, she then apparently headed for Dead Breitbart for a few laughs.
I’m not sure if Breitbart.com counts as publishing or decompensating.
I really totally love it that Rushbo has added to her acclaim. Maybe we should find a way to thank him for all the positive publicity of her courage and brains and poise while he is a malicious….(you say)…twerp, maybe.
I will never forget David Brock’s describing the panic he felt at, upon leaving the sheltered workshop of right-wing non-journalism for legitimate presses, getting his first call from a fact-checker: In his twelve years writing for the right-wing noise machine, his work had never once been fact-checked.
Do they give Pulitzers for writing about the dumbest asshats alive?
ACORN!!!1!
Did I win anything?
Yes, Ruthie is here again with her wisdom
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Ex-Virgin Ben Shapiro…”“one – time sex – haver Ben Shapiro…”
Fixed.
Palate cleanser, Brietbart is still dead.
You know, that one will never get old.
“Call it the Goldberg Variation.”
You are a Bad Person, and your mom dresses you funny. If I had been quicker off the mark, I could have tried to think up something similar (but nowhere near as good) so we could have had bach-to-bach witticisms. Alas, a day late and a dollar short is my life.
“As the hearing is not about reproductive rights and contraception but instead about the Administration’s actions as they relate to freedom of religion and conscience, he believes that Ms. Fluke is not an appropriate witness.”
‘Cause if it isn’t about reproductive rights and contraception, the wimminz should TOTALLY be in there making with the sammich. And, even if it is…
Jonah’s bio could be called Art of Fugue State.
Of course Shapiro is still published.
Fish need wrapping and bird cages need lining.