Best moment of the Sunday Shows
by digby
Liberal radio host Stephanie Miller on Sunday explained to former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina that her study of medieval history would “come in handy” after the Supreme Court ruled that corporations like Hobby Lobby could deny birth control coverage to women for religious reasons.
“A lot women including me are sick of the ‘war on women’, and we saw it in spades on Monday after the Hobby Lobby case,” Fiorina told a CNN panel. “Somehow this is the long arm of business and the Republican Party reaching into the body of women. It’s ridiculous.”
“The war on women is shameless, baseless propaganda, there’s no fact to it, and it’s worked because it’s scared women to death,” she insisted. “Enough. Enough.”
“I respect you very much as a woman for your accomplishments,” Miller snarked in response. “I even read that you studied medieval history, which I think will come in handy with trying to defend the Republican war on women.”
Miller noted that every woman she knew was “furious about he Hobby Lobby decision.”
“This is not just a war against women, this is a war against science, Carly,” the radio host explained.
“Oh, for heaven sakes,” Fiorina gasped.
Fiorina went on to babble incoherently about 20 different kinds of birth control being mandated as if that had anything to do with it and basically sounded like a terrible crank. Which she is.
I have to say that watching modern Republican women who so obviously know this is utter nonsense go on television and pander on behalf of these neanderthals is depressing. But then, these TV celebrities are all wealthy so it’s not a problem for them or their daughters, so who cares, right?
That’s one of the characteristics that makes one a Republican. Just as some of them are simply misinformed and superstitious and others are believers in throwback patriarchal hierarchies, the wealthy Republican believes that everyone is entitled to all the freedom they can buy. If you don’t have the cash,well, who’s fault is that?
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