Covens and ISIS? Here Are This Week’s Stupidest Statements

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Covens and ISIS? Here Are This Week’s Stupidest Statements
Robin Marty

It’s been a long, long week. Republicans continue to threaten to shut down Homeland Security, a judge has ruled President Obama’s immigration plans unconstitutional, states led by GOP legislatures appear to be gunning for honors programs in schools and a river in West Virginia is on fire.

You would think that with so much mayhem already brewing in the country, the last thing we need is for a bunch of made up controversies. Yet that’s just what a number of lawmakers and political operatives have unleashed. Here are the top four stupidest statements made by conservatives just this week.

1) Planned Parenthood is “beheading” babies in South Dakota. ISIS is the new GOP boogeyman, so it’s no wonder that one state representative in South Dakota is using it as a comparison for the greatest threat to attack our nation: Planned Parenthood. As lawmakers in the state introduced a ban on “beheading” abortions — an even more medically inaccurate, hyperbolic description of a D&E abortion than the currently en vogue “dismemberment” term used by other abortion opponents — Rep. Isaac Latterell has upped the ante on faux outrage. “Planned Parenthood abortionists in Sioux Falls are similarly beheading unborn children during dismemberment abortions,” claims Latterell on his personal website. He then accuses Planned Parenthood of lying about not doing D&E’s in the state, saying, “South Dakota’s Department of Health’s website shows at least 7 such extreme and dangerous abortions have been done since 2008. There are probably many more where the method used was unstated or stated incorrectly. Considering Planned Parenthood is the only clinic that does abortions, it is clear that they are lying either to the media or to the department of health.”

A rational person would note that those 7 abortions average out to one per year, and are probably occurring in an actual hospital rather than at Planned Parenthood, especially if one looks closely at the full reports and sees the number of abortions per year cited as being done because of fetal anomaly and by a doctor of “maternal/fetal medicine.” But obviously those facts would get in the way of a good political screed.

2) Witches are cursing your baby through Facebook when you post ultrasound pictures. Pat Robertson has a hard time topping statements like “gays at Disney World will make God smite Florida with hurricanes.” But he may have managed to do it this week, when he claimed “covens” are watching Facebook to look for unborn babies to curse. “There are demons and there are evil people in the world,” he said on a recent episode of his show. “You post a picture like that and some cultist gets hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child. This business of posting the most intimate parts of your body on Facebook, I just can’t see it. To me, it’s abhorrent. It ain’t necessarily unbiblical, it’s just abhorrent.”

3) This lawmaker isn’t racist, he was just sleepy. In the case of Mississippi State Rep. Gene Alday, this lawmaker wasn’t trying to create a controversy originally, but has come up with the worst excuse for accidentally causing one: the reporter called too late at night. While in mid interview, Alday made some extremely racist comments about blacks receiving “welfare crazy checks” and taking up too much time in emergency rooms with their “gunshot wounds.” Alday said the problem was that the reporter didn’t know that part of the conversation was supposed to be off the record.

“But the former mayor, former police chief and current first-term legislator said he had no idea his remarks would appear in a story and, if he had, he wouldn’t have made them,” reports the Clarion Ledger. “‘It was late at night and he called me,’ Alday said of his earlier interview with Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. ‘He asked me a question back to when I was in law enforcement … I have a way of talking and saying, ‘take this off the record.’”

4) Giving “hot little girls” on campus guns will stop rape. What happens when gun rights advocates really, really want to pass a law letting students be armed on college campuses? They start looking for any way to justify their actions, including calling them a “rape prevention” measure. That was the argument that Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore used this week, when she said, “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.”

Because apparently the only thing that might stop a person from sexually assaulting another person is the assaulter’s death? Once upon a time, lethal force was a last resort, not a campus wide prevention policy.

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[LiberalEsto]

1. Pat Robertson and his ilk desperately need psychiatric care and possibly medications

Unfortunately, they won't get the help they so obviously need.

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2. I normally wouldn't recommend this,

but in Pat's case, I think an exorcism might also be called for.

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3. Who would have thought a return to the Dark Ages in the 21st Century?

They may even want to return to the Crusades to protect pilgrims. At least that is what I expect when Bibi speaks to Sir Boner and the loyal Knights of Right.