Mainstream Media Scream: Newsweek scribe's sex-slam over Indiana religion law
This week's mainstream media scream features one of the more sexually-tinged attacks on Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for signing the controversial "Religious Freedom Law" and the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates who supported him.
It comes from Newsweek national political correspondent Nina Burleigh, formerly a Time magazine reporter, on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell," April 1:
"Well, what I find astonishing about it is the way the presidential candidates jumped onto the Pence side immediately: Jindal, Carson, Cruz, and Bush, the front-runner. It was like a premature intolerance ejaculation and, you know, there are pills for that at Walmart and you can get them over the counter and you don't have to have a prescription."
Burleigh made headlines years ago when she wrote about being flattered when Bill Clinton stared at her legs, even telling the Washington Post, "I would be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs."
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Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Burleigh processes politics through sexual imagery: Offering years ago to perform oral sex on Bill Clinton to thank him for keeping abortion legal and delivering an insult about male sexual function to show her disdain for a view with which she disagrees. Nothing premature about her own intolerance."
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.Donald Trump: U.S. needs a president with a 'nasty tone'
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