“Abortion Barbie” is just good fun but “General Betrayus” is heresy
by digby
Texas gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday morning for a fundraiser to spot multiple posters portraying her as an “abortion barbie,” the Huffington Post reported.
The signs, titled “Hollywood welcomes Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis,” depict the candidate as a Barbie with a plastic “fetus” in her abdomen. In the poster she is holding another plastic “fetus” below a pair of giant scissors.
It could be anyone who did this but my money’s on the Breitbart gang. It’s their speed.
Just remember this the next time some right winger gets all self-righteous about how crude and disrespectful liberals are:
RedState’s Erick Erickson referred to Davis as an “abortion barbie”, and is apparently quite proud that the nickname stuck around.
“I have helped define Wendy Davis by a moniker that sticks, describes, and makes her the butt of jokes, while drawing out the shrill hysterics of her supporters.”
Rude nicknames have always been part of politics. But from now on when the right wing calls for the smelling salts over someone like, say, “General Betrayus” I suggest that progressives simply respond by blithely explaining:
We have helped define [insert wingnut here] by a moniker that sticks, describes, and makes him the butt of jokes, while drawing out the shrill hysterics of his supporters.
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