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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/19/2010 : 17:50:20
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Well, this went over like a rat turd in the sugar bowl:
End women’s right to vote, Nevada’s largest newspaper says
By Daniel Tencer
Monday, April 19th, 2010 -- 4:26 pm
The editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal says he was kidding when he penned an editorial calling for women's right to vote to be repealed, but plenty of people aren't laughing.
Thomas Mitchell has found himself defending his "satirical" look at the differences in the voting patterns of men and women after receiving a "swift and voluble" public reaction to his column on Friday, which was entitled "Time to repeal the 19th amendment?"
"People and candidates for public office should be judged on the basis of their ideas, stance on the issues, character, experience and integrity, not on the basis of age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion or disability," Mitchell wrote. "Therefore, we must repeal the 19th Amendment. Yes, the one granting suffrage to women. Because? Well, women are biased."
Mitchell argued that recent polling showed a "bias" among women towards Democrats and against female candidates. In this year's Nevada race for US Senate, "men favored the attractive former beauty queen Sue Lowden over the graying Harry Reid by 22 points, while women shunned their gender mate, choosing Reid by a 2-point margin," Mitchell wrote. "Which proves women favor Democrats."
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I didn't know that verlch was the editor of a major newspaper.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 04/19/2010 : 18:05:03 [Permalink]
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| Sounds like that editor is using Limbaugh's trick of taking a political stance a little right of Attila the Hun, then saying "it was a joke" when/if he gets called on it. Meantime, he's stirred up reactionary nutcases all over the place, just as he'd intended. My advice: Treat these statements literally, don't accept "it was a joke" as an excuse, and expose the trickery. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2010 : 10:19:11 [Permalink]
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| The easiest way to expose it is to notice that the stat he gives shows Men have a much larger bias than women, whos to say reid wouldnt have a 2 point lead in the mens vote if his opponent wasnt a beauty queen. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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REPEAL THE NINETEENTH ADMENDMENT!
