Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council joins his fellow wingnuts in getting a terrible case of the vapors over a web ad that features Lena Dunham talking to people who are voting for the first time and comparing it to losing their virginity. Why, it’s just disgusting and it’s a new low in politics:
So you’re going to say the same thing about Ronald Reagan, who made the same analogy, right? Right? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
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Ellie
November 2, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
IOKIYAR
And anyway, I’m sure St. Ronald never did any such thing….oh wait…
Bronze Dog
November 2, 2012 at 2:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sexuality is only vulgar when non-wingnuts demonstrate anything less than Victorian prudishness. And when they do demonstrate Victorian prudishness, you know it’s just a cover for sending out subliminal gay signals.
holytape
November 2, 2012 at 3:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
but who will think of the children!!1!!11?
eric
November 2, 2012 at 3:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Maybe he’s afraid conservative 18-year-olds WILL treat it as seriously as they treated their first time, and hit buttons/punch chads at random.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
November 2, 2012 at 3:55 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Won’t somebody please think of the virgins?
Tualha
November 2, 2012 at 4:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Can’t wait to hear what they say when a divorced Democrat runs for President.
Randomfactor
November 2, 2012 at 4:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
but who will think of the children!!1!!11?
Plenty of Republicans, alas.
http://armchairsubversive.blogspot.com/
hunter
November 2, 2012 at 4:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, Perkins should know about new lows in politics — he spends his time down in the muck.
Abby Normal
November 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Randomfactor, it doesn’t help that the government encourages such behavior with all those damn, Watch Children signs they post. Then they destroy the kids’ self-esteem with Slow Children at Play signs, making them easy targets for manipulation.
thalwen
November 2, 2012 at 6:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Disgusting, demeaning to women? Hmm.. I’m thinking “legitimate rape,” “rape babies are gifts from God,” and “binders full of women” is a lot more disgusting and demeaning.
And he’s one to talk about treating women as sex objects. In the fundie mindset women are objects (though not just for sex, also for babies and dinner). I guess the main problem that they’re getting the vapours over is the idea of someone’s first time being with a black man.
grumpyoldfart
November 2, 2012 at 9:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There wouldn’t have been any “clutching of pearls”. When they heard that advertisement they would have cheered and cheered:
“Hoo-fucking-ray. At last we’ve got something we can broadcast. I was getting worried for while. I thought we might have to broadcast the same drivel we gave ‘em yesterday – but now we’ve got this. Virgins for Christ’s sake! How lucky is that? Shit, we could push this story for the rest of the week if we had to. God bless the Democrats, they’re gonna make us all rich – I love ‘em.”
Zeno
November 2, 2012 at 10:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Everyone is forgetting that Obama’s (alleged) mother was named Dunham! It’s a conspiracy! (I’m surprised the nutbags haven’t brought it up.)
d.c.wilson
November 2, 2012 at 11:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
But St. Ron was a man. Not just a man, but a man’s man! So, it’s ok for him to make a few ribald jokes.
But Dunham is a woman, so when she makes allusions to sex, it’s proof she’s a slutty-slut who wants to have slutty sex with everyone she meets.
And she probably uses birth control, too.
And that’s today’s look into the wingnut mind.
Amphiox
November 3, 2012 at 12:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What’s disgusting is Romney’s various auto adds filled with lies.
StevoR
November 3, 2012 at 5:19 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@5. Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant) says:
Call Richard Branson maybe?
dingojack
November 3, 2012 at 5:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Stevoooo – If he isn’t talking bollocks in a courtroom, that is! :)
Dingo