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Fox News' Erick Erickson calls Wendy Davis 'Abortion Barbie'

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on August 06, 2013 · Flag

Apparently, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson just can't or won't stop making sexist comments - and Fox News doesn't seem to care. Today's example, Erickson's tweet in which he referred to Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, a heroine to the pro-choice movement for her epic filibuster of a Texas anti-abortion bill, as "abortion Barbie."

Media Matters explains:

During an event at the National Press Club, The Weekly Standard asked Davis to respond to claims that there is no difference between some types of legal abortion and the crimes of convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell. After retweeting a link to the post, Erickson tweeted that it's "a bit embarrassing that Abortion Barbie doesn't even have her facts straight on Kermit Gosnell considering abortion is her issue":

You'd think that after Erickson's offensive comments on the air about breadwinner Moms went viral - and he received an equally viral dressing down from Megyn Kelly - that he would have some qualms about such remarks. But no. Last month, after the Texas legislature passed the anti-abortion bill in a later session, he "joked" in a tweet that liberals should bookmark a coat hangar site. And now this.

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So you have to wonder, is there any sexist comment that Fox will deem too offensive to keep Erickson in its stable of pundits?

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Uno Who commented 2013-08-08 14:59:27 -0400 · Flag
I’m the obsessed jerk who can’t stop talking about NewsHounds, reading News Hounds and tweeting about News Hounds. Pay no attention to anything I say. (edited by moderator for truth and clarity)
scooter commented 2013-08-07 12:49:51 -0400 · Flag
Erickson is stuck in 8th grade. His name calling & insults are just proof of his level of ignorance.
Ellen commented 2013-08-07 12:40:46 -0400 · Flag
Joshua, I mean Mark, I mean ivory tusk, I want to make sure you get this message since you were banned right after I sent it:
Funny how you quack so much like other people who claim to hate us and yet cannot stay away. Plus, you have a yahoo email account, just like those other sock puppets. Since you have made your antagonistic point and on multiple threads, I see no reason for you to stick around.
Sandman2 commented 2013-08-07 09:39:43 -0400 · Flag
I can’t say that I’m offended that he calls her “abortion Barbie” when I regularly call Palin “Caribou Barbie” or worse.
I guess the difference would be that I don’t get paid $ to say provocative things.
He’s said more offensive things in the past and will again…I’ll save my fire for when that happens.
ivory tusk commented 2013-08-07 07:43:44 -0400 · Flag
As a person of sense both common and uncommon I find it easy to hate what FoX stands for. They lie boldly and shamelessly and even fired 2 employees for refusing to lie and cover up. It feels endless the number of falsehoods FoX has been proven to air.

I cannot see a separation from that and calling people pigs over and over though.
Being neutral to politics makes it so much easier to be intelligent when speaking about them.

The stupid nature of the fight between parties breeds this hateful tone that buries any chance of people to reason with one another.

You entrench people by insulting them further in their beliefs and remove all sense from the conversation.

reminds me of the abortion issue. Seems neither party makes much sense regarding it. It seems easy to see how people can be horrified at abortion. It makes rational sense. So if people see it as murder, which is not illogical by any argument ,the other side calls them stupid, which makes the other side act aggressive.

Instead of people coming together and being sensitive of one another ,politics breeds stupidity because everyone involved acts in a way that divides. This continued behavior could not and will never solve any problems ever.

Then you blame the other side. I am very glad my understanding of the bible keeps me from getting involved in politics and I feel sad for people as they blindly and with ever increasing rage march towards certain collapse.

If you could live on another planet while watching humanity you would be so happy you are not there, and you would never hold any hope for man to solve his problems. Human rule, whether you are with the bibles view or not, has failed.
Closing your eyes to that truth and pressing forward with the same process has zero chance of working.

How much less so when you insult the people you disagree with. It should not take much thought to weigh that out.
Aria Prescott commented 2013-08-06 20:46:48 -0400 · Flag
Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin a “Dumb twat,” he’s “Pig Maher” for five years. Fox News and Rush Limbaugh say far worse about single moms, planned parenthood, gender equality activists, and female celebrities they decided they don’t like daily, and that makes them " good Murkans."

I don’t have much nice to say about Maher, but what was his joke- like 30 seconds, and only that because of his speaking style? I could probably pull 30 hours of worse comments from Fox News, and double that from Limbaugh. And that’s before all the other AM radio hosts, and timing how long it takes to say all the viewer comments out loud.

Seriously, you’d think there’d be a point where these people could just, you know… shut up, but IOKIYAR.
doors17 commented 2013-08-06 20:18:35 -0400 · Flag
I’m sure she been called a lot worse by the Texas good ole boy Republicans. After all the nerve of her standing up for the rights of women in Texas.

It’s so enjoyable to watch the right have a meltdown over her. She is a true hero to many.
Joseph West commented 2013-08-06 19:18:48 -0400 · Flag
Maybe when Prick Prickson grows a vagina, a uterus and a pair of ovaries (and finds someone brave enough to get him pregnant), then he can comment on abortion. Oh. Also—he’d have to work a job with almost no kind of health coverage AND live in a state that only has one clinic available AND the state has a mandatory 72-hour waiting period after seeing the doctor before getting the abortion AND being told and shown all sorts of graphic and hyperbolic information that he doesn’t want to see AND he’s subjected to an invasive ultrasound for his “own good.” Of course, since Prick is a man who doesn’t have to endure any of that—and I’m quite sure his wife enjoys his dominating every aspect of her sex life and…..Oh. Waitaminnit. Is he actually married? The Wiki bios on Rush and Seanniepoo and Glenn and even Michael Wein-er, Savage, all list their spouses (whether just one or part of a set) but Prick has no “personal” bio at all. I’ve heard of “penis envy”-maybe Prickson has some twisted form of “uterus/vagina envy” and he’s just mad that modern women want to have as much control over their “naughty bits” (as Monty Python would say) as men do.
Carole S. commented 2013-08-06 18:08:23 -0400 · Flag
I read a report that Wendy Davis announced today that she will either rerun for her TX senate seat or governor. FOX has already rounded up the attack dogs!!! I think she will run for governor.
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How many sexism comments does this guy get to make before Fox has a problem?








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