Pig Slop
by digby
Shakespeare’s Sister and Punkass Blog riff on an ignorant little screed by Baby Ben Shapiro in which he says:
Nancy Pelosi, however, could breastfeed on the speaker’s podium and receive the plaudits of the mainstream media.
and
No woman in the history of politics has used her womb like Nancy Pelosi.
Think Progress picked it up, too.
It should be noted that Baby Ben didn’t come up with this puerile sexist drivel all by himself. There are millions of people all over the country chuckling about Pelosi “breastfeeding” on the speaker’s podium because one very highly paid and influential sack of moronic nonsense said this:
PELOSI : I want to thank Paul and our five children, Nancy Korynn, Christine, Jacquelyn, Paul Jr. and Alexandra, and our magnificent grandchildren for their love, for their support, and the confidence they gave me to go from the kitchen to the Congress.
LIMBAUGH: Yes, you see, ladies and gentlemen, this is a triumph of feminism and estrogen, as Wes Puden says today. And ladies, the long 200-year national nightmare without a woman at the top is now over.
PELOSI : We have waited over 200 years. Never losing faith, we waited through the many years of struggle to achieve our rights. But women weren’t just waiting; women were working.
LIMBAUGH: Yeah.
PELOSI : Never losing faith.
LIMBAUGH: Right.
PELOSI : We worked to redeem the promise of America —
LIMBAUGH: Right.
PELOSI : — that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.
LIMBAUGH: No, you have cracked it, but you have not broken it. I wonder when she loses next if she’ll go back to the kitchen. If her kids and family allowed her to go from the — what do you bet she hasn’t been in the kitchen in a long time anyway?
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RUSH: One of the latest Democrat — one of the new freshman, Heath Shuler, not the sharpest knife in the drawer to begin with — I have a story in which he says his 2-year-old daughter, who he named Island, his 2-year-old daughter is inspired by Nancy Pelosi’s ascension to the speakership. Now Heath — I don’t have — what? What do you mean — oh, come on, of course it can’t be. His 2-year-old can’t possibly know who Pelosi is other than as a cartoon figure on television. Maybe Pelosi breastfed him, I don’t know, when the kid was pregnant. Who knows? She’s capable of doing everything else.
[…]
LIMBAUGH: And we’re being told by her and the “drive-by media” that this is something brand new and revolutionary, and better than we have ever, ever had. Note — we’ve never had old Grandpa Newt [Gingrich] up there with the kids on his lap, because he didn’t care about kids. That’s the assumption. Men don’t just care — ’cause look, kids are fine just as long as they’re at home and the woman is raising them. But don’t bring them to the office, I want nothing to do with — that’s the image that is portrayed. But look at Ms. Pelosi. Why, she can multitask. She can breastfeed, she can clip her toenails, she can direct the House, all while the kids are sitting on her lap at the same time. Take care of the children, take care of the country at the same time. Never, ever been done before. It’s all about the feminization of culture, and if you think I’m going overboard on this, stay tuned for the next story.
The president of the United States appeared with this gelatinous pile of fetid sewage just days before the election and treated him with the utmost respect.
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