Margaret Cho Complains GOP is 'Against Our Rights,' Palin Tries to 'Beat Feminism Down'
Appearing as a panel member on Sunday's Melissa Harris-Perry show, comedienne Margaret Cho wondered why some women are Republicans as she asserted that the GOP is "a party that's so against our rights, our reproductive rights, so many rights in so many ways."
Cho also complained that Sarah Palin tries to "beat feminism down," claiming that "Sarah Palin wouldn't exist without feminism."
After host Melissa Harris-Perry recounted a GOP drive to appeal to women, Cho wondered:
What are women getting out of the GOP? That's, I always question that. I always wonder. This is a party that's so against our rights, our reproductive rights, so many rights in so many ways. What do we get from them? What do women get from them?
A bit later, after Harris-Perry brought up moderate Republican women like Olympia Snowe who are getting out of politics, Cho brought up Sarah Palin as she responded:
I think they've disappeared just because of social issues and women are such a huge thing. I mean, women, I think, in the GOP are looking for an identity, and I think that's why Sarah Palin's, you know, her appearance was so exciting for them because here is somebody who is really kind of like a showpiece for all of our conservative views and somebody who legitimizes what I think is backward really about, you know, women's rights because, you know, these women wouldn't exist, Sarah Palin wouldn't exist without feminism. Yet, she tries to beat feminism down every chance she gets.
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Cho
Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:55pm.
Oh, the stupidity.
Stupidity piled so high, you
Submitted by winston smith on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:22pm.
Stupidity piled so high, you don't even know where to begin. She's probably too deeply steeped in her partisan ignorance and hatred to realize that most of the early feminists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were Republicans. Probably the more truthful thing to say is that feminism wouldn't exist without the Republican party.
Margy Cho and her sistahs...
Submitted by neutron on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:16pm.
Stupidity piled so high, Margy Cho and her sistahs can see Russia from the top of their pile of ignorance. What she and her "feminists" believe is feminism is a diluted facsimile of the original brew. Women's Suffrage was won. Equal rights were won for all.
Sure, there are inequalities that need to be worked out, but things like equal pay for equal work ignores excelling / excellence in your job.
It's "equal opportunity" not "equal outcomes" regardless of effort.
Today's Marxists (progressives and "feminists") can see Russia and China from their ivory towers, and want to be there.
It's another attempt to revive a dead showbiz career
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:08pm.
like Roseanne and Ashley Judd...go on NBC and tell them what they want to hear.
Yeah, but...
Submitted by Anon150 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 7:49pm.
....She's still just as witty as she ever was!
I imagine that what some women want out of the GOP . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:11pm.
. . . is an opportunity environment in which they are not like the Dems' fictional "Julia," living a life of continual reliance on the government dole.
Hey, Sewer Mouth....
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:31pm.
Instead of just talking out your...whatever.... why don't you provide some examples of the "so many rights in so many ways" that Republicans are against for women??
And while you're at it, how about ONE example of Sarah Palin "beating down" feminism?
Liberals are expert ranters, as long as no one actually asks them to clarify what they are ranting about.
And Cho is now a political commentator?
Move over, Bill Maher.....Margaret Cho's gunniing for your spot, and she's dirtier than you are!
Now lets hear from janeane
Submitted by redfish on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:27pm.
Now lets hear from janeane garofalo and sarah silverman.
The left-wing media certainly
Submitted by Outback Jon on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:49pm.
The left-wing media certainly does seem to have a reliance on the opinions of comediennes, doesn't it? Janeane Garafalo, Margaret Cho, Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr...
Damien
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:12pm.
Even though it's too horrible to imagine but suppose Cho and Maher were to produce a child. That would open the gate to the underworld and allow the demons of Hell to bring forth the AntiChrist.
Please, oh please, let it be
Submitted by Outback Jon on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:18pm.
Please, oh please, let it be conceived in a test tube.
You owe me some MindBleach for the mental image of the other possibility.
LOL
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:41pm.
.
Jon Stewart
Submitted by redfish on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:43pm.
Jon Stewart
Where HAS Janeane
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:37pm.
been recently? She's very quiet as of late. I'm surprised she hasn't been all over blubbering about Obama's coming out.
Janeane Garofalo is
Submitted by TempusFugit on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:40pm.
most likely preparing for her exit from this world. I'm expecting the "found dead of(fill in blank) at age (fill in blank)" headline any day now. She looks like a crack ho, rambles like a crack ho and most likely smells like one
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:35pm.
another nobody idiot speaks, the media swoon....
And now
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:46pm.
let's bring on Debbie Shultz of the Wasserman crime family for her insight. Welcome. Republicans yada, yada, yada, War on women yada, yada, yada. It is the old BS they all spout. We should be albe to know what they are going to say before they say it. I do a pretty good impression of Little Debs.
Ha ha imagine their desperation...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 2:57pm.
They are now trolling up comedians to discuss politics.
You are free to exercise any and all of your rights to free speech, to keep and bear arms, to assemble, to practice any religion you like, etc. etc. In short you are free to live your life in liberty and the pursuit of your happiness. What I am against is you, or anyone (it's not personal) doing any of that with MY money against MY will.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Cho is useless
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:06pm.
She is stupid AND ugly....
the world has no use for her.
Another lesbo worried about
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:08pm.
Another lesbo worried about unreproductive rights? Spare me.
Another obese lesbian has-been comedienne whining
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:14pm.
that her relevance was gone over a decade ago and now is trying desperately to get it back.
Margaret, it's over. You are over. Rosie O'Donnell bombed on OWN, the only network that would even consider putting that warthog on a regular program. Roseanne's show on Lifetime bombed. You have only live comedy left, and that reduces you to the level of the Rotary Club luncheon circuit or blabbing on MSNBC because Megyn Kelly or Laura Ingraham would slice and dice you on Fox News. The other alphabet networks don't want you because you have all the audience draw of a test pattern.
Take the hint, Maggie. Your career is about as relevant as a buggy whip.
WTF?
Submitted by goon on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 3:53pm.
What the heck was that? That was Incoherent...
Reproductive rights?
Submitted by QueenMum on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 4:05pm.
I'm sick to death of hearing the liberal harpies whine about "reproductive rights". What the heck are they talking about? Every woman in America has the right to reproduce or not reproduce as they see fit. Seems to me it's the Obama Julias that want the government involved.
“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." - Mark Twain
Especially lesbians
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:40pm.
Who cant produce little lesbians anyway.
Its not about their ability..
Submitted by Scrap Iron in Texas on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 3:20pm.
It has EVERYTHING to do with who has to PAY for their choices.
Making someone pay for their personal decisions (in the world of the progressive) means you are against their right to make that decision.
Yeah, I know, it makes no sense to me, either, but that's what it looks like.
Very funny, Margaret
Submitted by jpwcpa on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 4:43pm.
As hilarious as it is for MSNBC to bring you on as a supposed pundit on current events, the absurdity of your viewpoints is even more hilarious. Much more so than any lines you have delivered in your career.
I wonder if Margaret goes to the same tattoo artist as Janeane Garofalo. That would just be yet another thing they have in common.
Cho No
Submitted by rammingspeed on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 4:58pm.
Just one little forkful from the big Hollywood sh*tpie.
I wouldnt want
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:43pm.
to get close enough to Cho to put a tattoo on her. She might bite and she might have rabies too.
No one is stopping this idiot
Submitted by rbosque on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:05pm.
No one is stopping this idiot from buying a pack of condoms or pills. Just another lying hysterical sock puppet for the left's talking points.
You'd think at some point they'd change their game-plan a little, these fools are so predictable.
are you serious??!!
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 5:30pm.
Another comic heard from...are we so desparate that we listen to comics as guides and aids to decision-making? We credit them with insights and intelligence they simply do not have...but, the media loves them. Why? Thay are all of a stripe...left and liberal; witness Cho, Roseanne, Stewart, Colbert and probably 50 more. Lest I forget, include also hip-hop/rappers and their political views, such a Kim's new squeeze, Kanye
It's the libs that are
Submitted by Dan Diego on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 7:10pm.
It's the libs that are desperate. When they have to dredge the bottom of the barrel to appeal to their base, I expect to see Paul Reubens shortly.
Alright, I admit that as a
Submitted by LinTaylor on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:13pm.
Alright, I admit that as a man I might not understand the thinking behind this...
But overall, the way liberal dumbasses like Cho invoke the phrase "reproductive rights" really bugs me. They believe that a developing baby is something akin to a cancerous tumor, and if you don't want it you should be able to go to a doctor, spread your legs (which is what got them into this problem in the first place) get it vacuumed out, and then throw it into the garbage can as they go off and party and probably get knocked up again.
This kind of disgustingly selfish attitude rubs me the wrong way. It's exactly like the people who tie kittens or puppies up in a sack and throw them into a river, thinking "I don't want them, so they're gone." (And as someone who works with the Humane Society in both Georgia and Alabama, I see that a lot.) The only life they care about is their own, and if something gets in the way of their pleasure, it needs to be eliminated.
And it's also the complete and total abandonment of responsibility, embodied by that brain-dead hag Joy Behar saying "When a woman decides she doesn't want a baby, that's it, end of discussion." It's just like their attitude for pretty much everything else. Criminals shouldn't have to suffer the consequences for their actions and Conservatives are horrid monsters for daring to suggest they go to jail or get the death penalty. Illegals don't have to go through the proper channels to become US citizens; things like immigration laws are just a bother and can be ignored. And if a woman wants to run around town getting plowed by any man she thinks is moderately handsome, she shouldn't have to deal with the completely expected after-effect of developing a new human being within her.
Then there's the "Republicans hate women because they don't want drive-thru abortions" attitude. Or alternately, Maggie, Conservatives don't believe it's needed because unlike you, we actually value life. Because unlike you, we recognize that there are physical and emotional consequences to the procedure. Because unlike you, we recognize that there are plenty of people out there (including gay couples, cough) who would love to adopt the baby you just want to chuck into the nearest dumpster. Because unlike you, Conservative women have standards and intelligence and don't whore themselves out.
Because, unlike you, we believe in taking responsibility for our actions and not just running away from anything we consider mildly unpleasant. That's what adults do, Margaret. When you're ready to stop crying, put down the rattle and act like an adult, you'll be treated as one, but until then, I think you should just shut up and take a nap.
I've noticed they
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:46pm.
cant bring themselves to say "abortion." That's because they know it's wrong.
Blinding Ignorance
Submitted by Kuso Jiji on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:23pm.
ms cho is just another lazy liberal comedian on a very crowded turnip truck.
Margaret Cho...
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:24pm.
Another... Bitter... Angry... OLD... Lesbian.
Margaret Cho, Joy Behar,
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:42pm.
Janeane Garafalo, Roseanne Barr, Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Rachael Maddow, just to name a few of them. Then we have Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, Megyn Kelly, S.E. Cupp. I think the differences between our team, and theirs are glaring. And our lovely gals actually have something to say worth hearing. Wouldn't you just love to take the 2 teams above, and put them in a Family Feud type setting? Hilarity would surely ensue.
I don't think it'd be all
Submitted by LinTaylor on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 8:36pm.
I don't think it'd be all that funny, bobsmom. The liberal side would very quickly descend into vitriolic, ad hominem attacks against the other and wouldn't let them get a word in edgewise. The only way it would work is if you had a moderator who could shut off the libs' mics (or, God willing, their mouths) before they took up the entire debate.
➚ Funny, ain't it?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 6:47pm.
Never see any of our resident liberals (not talking about trolls here) who would deign to speak well of the more outspoken females of the liberal species.
Here they come now with a few words about Nancy Pelosi.
NOT!
How many, oh God how many
Submitted by richflanj on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 8:14pm.
"D listers, "E listers", "has-been", "never were's", and "wanna be's" will they try to force into our homes to put forth lie after lie about conservatives ?
And why would anyone considers these useless idiots any sort of an expert on anything?
Paris Hilton on modesty, and then Charlie Sheen
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 9:38pm.
on sobriety.
If you took "you know" out of her vocabulary
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 9:58pm.
she wouldn't be able to speak.
However, I have news for Cho. Although I'm a woman, being a woman doesn't define my political views any more than being black should define someone's views. My concerns are much broader than "reproductive health". I'll take care of that on my own and in private. I vote Republican because in an ideal world the GOP would represent the ability for me to be able to earn and spend my money in the way of my choosing, instead of taking it from me and telling me how it should be spent.
The Revolutionary!
Submitted by LaVallette on Tue, 05/29/2012 - 6:05am.
The freedom cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" has now been reduced to "Give me the right to reproductive choice, including the right kill my own child, or give me death". It sounds so stupid when put that way does it not? Are some women really so one dimensional?