MSNBC Guest Calls Ann Romney 'Insufferable', Her Mother's Day Op-Ed 'Creepy'
Snark on, Michelle! On the MSNBC show "Up With Chris Hayes" this morning, feminist author Michelle Goldberg attacked Ann Romney as "insufferable" and derided a phrase in Ann's op-ed on the subject of motherhood as "creepy."
Goldberg's "insufferable" shot drew approving laughter from the all-feminist panel. And surely the attacks on the Romneys for their traditional family values will play well with a certain segment of the electorate. The problem for President Obama: that segment is one that is already almost entirely in his camp. But these sort of mean-spirited attacks are likely to alienate the very voters in the middle that PBO needs to persuade. Video after the jump.
Watch Goldberg unwittingly play into Republican hands by exemplifying how the most enthusiastic Obama backers are fundamentally unsympathetic to the kind of woman, in the person of Ann Romney, that the great majority of Americans surely find admirable.
Note: not to be out-snarked by Goldberg, Hayes himself said of Ann Romney's op-ed "I don't want to say it reads a bit like a hostage video, but . . . " Happy Mother's Day to you too, Chris!
MICHELLE GOLDBERG: I wonder: I mean, it can't only be me that maybe inititally saw Ann Romney as maybe a sympathetic or neutral figure but who is increasingly seeing her as someone who is kind of insufferable because of the way she's milking this thing. And, you know, in a lot of ways the op-ed was totally anodyne, right? You know, yes, motherhood is beautiful. I find that phrase, "the crown of motherhood" really kind of creepy. Not just because of its, like, somewhat, you know, I mean it's kind of usually really authoritarian societies that give out, like, the Cross of Motherhood.
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Creepy
Submitted by allouchsit on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:46am.
I can recognize creepy when I see it. In this case I know who is the creepy one, and it is NOT Ann Romney.
Democrats are really creepy. They claim to support women -- but only if they are liberals. They say they are all for civil rights -- but only if they are liberal. They scream racial discrimination when blacks are beaten, but remain entirely silent when whites are beaten.
Now THAT is creepy.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:46am.
Another liberal reveals herself...
More like The Daily Bitch.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:48am.
And check out the bright red wattle on that other thing. She's either signaling she's ready to mate or is very upset.
Did she think this was creepy?
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:52am.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f2j_a_7XkE
I'm thinking not.
We know what this fool said What does God say?
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:58am.
Proverbs 31: 10-31 Creepy?
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates
I find this show quite the car wreck
Submitted by Texndoc on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:02am.
You have the rather dorky looking ultra-liberal host Chris Hayes who isn't fit to lick a Marine's boots and wouldn't know which part of a gun your finger goes into, and his coffee-rountable of Manhattan ultraliberal idiots who hate any institution which made this country great. Does anyone even have to look up whether those two women there have ever given birth once, let alone five times?
I usually tune in now and then on weekends to laugh - when the Zuccotti Park occupiers were in full force once, the enitre show was just a planning session for them.
Not fit to lick a Marine's
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:58am.
Not fit to lick a Marine's boot. That is good but it could be said about everybody at MESSNBC.
Ann Romney's piece is beautiful
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:02am.
....as she is. As her mother said, both inside and out.
Methinks these two have been overcome by the Green Eyed Goddess. All you need to do is look at them.
How utterly typical of MSNBC.....to have on two nasty women who despise and denigrate a woman who has done ONLY what today celebrates....being a mother.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
You can bet your last dime
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:32am.
You can bet your last dime that if Michelle Obama wrote a piece on motherhood, they would be singing her praises.
Oh, wait! She doesn't have to! Sally Quinn did it for her two years ago!!
Have your barf-bag handy:
Today is Mother's Day. Today we should celebrate Michelle Obama's arms as the arms of a mother. [ ]
They are toned and muscular, burnished and beautiful.
It was admirable to Quinn, that Michelle wasn't working full-time!!
Nothing could be more empowering than to see a woman with all of the attributes of Michelle Obama, embrace her children the way she does. She loves those girls and she is giving them a role model for the kind of strong woman that she wants them to be. A woman should have the right to choose. In every respect. Having a great education, a job, a career is fulfilling. She has a Harvard Law degree and had a powerful job herself. She will take on projects in the White House that will prove to be transformational ultimately. And she will return one day to her career when her children are older.
For now, though, she has looked at her job as making sure that the trust and the responsibility she has taken on as a parent is where her focus lies. [ ]
When I look at Michelle Obama with her daughters, I see someone who really loves her children. I see a swing set and a dog and a vegetable garden and sleepovers and redecorating the White House so that the furniture is "fort worthy."
So I guess it depends on which mother is being crowned.
Oh, and keep in mind that this paean to Michelle appeared on the WaPo's "On Faith" page.
Liberal Saintmotherhood, anyone?
Thanks for the warning....
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:47am.
That is truly gag-worthy.
Where's the mention of Michelle's live-in nanny? Her own mother. She goes flying around and leaves her young daughters in the care of her mother and the Secret Service. You can see it in the poor little Wee Wons faces when they are dragged out in public, they are hating life. I truly feel sorry for those two daughters of Michelle & Barry.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I'm beginning to think
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 6:07pm.
With everything else in BO and MO's life pretty much being a sham I'm beginning to think those two girls are just rentals used for when BO and MO need the right "optics."
She wasn't...
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:55am.
"It was admirable to Quinn, that Michelle wasn't working full-time!!" She wasn't working full time even when she was being paid for a full time job. Her $300,000 dollar a year job was a payoff to her Commie husband for securing a multi-million dollar grant from our wallets. She rarely even reported to work!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Yes,
Submitted by nolefan2 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 11:03am.
and like any good professional athlete, they "retired" her job when she left. I guess it was just too important a job for a common person to perform.
"Up Chris Hayes...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:07am.
...With a Red-Hot Poker" is one of the strangest names for a show on MESSDNC.
Have you ever noticed, you never see Chris Hayes and Ralph Madcow on at the same time....Hmmmm, Strange!!!
I was thinking the same thing bigdaddy..
Submitted by Paul G on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:26pm.
and I couldn't figure out if it was a diss to him or 'her'
But I watched this 'show'...(I was surfing), I COULD NOT believe what these 'women' were spewing! AND They believed it! Liberals.......
Are wives fair game?
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:26am.
I'd say they absolutely are IF the campaign decides to put them out there and have them stump, make speeches, etc for the candidate.
See Michelle Obama touring the country in 08, making one "bad America" speech and interview after another, and twice in one day in two separate cities, delivering the despicable line "For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country" (slightly modifying it the second time to "really proud"). Staggering that this miserable B$(*$# is allowed to set foot in the white house, let alone live there.
So sure, by all means, lets compare Ann Romney's statements to those of Obama stumper Michelle.
Only white wives are fair game.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:35am.
Otherwise it would be... well, you know...
It would be....what?
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:49am.
WHAT?
This?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Good Lord...that idiot Goldberg talks like a fourth grader!
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:36am.
"you know...like....totally....you know...like"
Anodyne? You can tell the dimwitted, jealous nobody checked an online dictionary for hours before uttering that line.
Braindead liberals like her are rarely capable of using any complex words unless they received them by text message an hour before taping.
The meshuggah yenta probably had to have somebody read the word to her over and over again to get the correct pronunciation.
Good morning Doc
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:52am.
Fourth grade? You are way too kind. I can't figure out why liberals feel it necessary to insult my momma, my late wife, and every woman i hold dear (including those that post here). This should be used by Romney as campaign material.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
I have to ask a question for
Submitted by ohio granny on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:48am.
Michelle Goldberg, what on earth did your mother do to you to make you hate motherhood? Obviously something bad must have happened during your childhood for you to be so bitter that you attack a mother that you don't even know.
Why do liberals hate mothers? Especially mothers who stay home to raise their children???????????
I am guessing these creeps dont have any kids,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:06pm.
Speaking of creepy, just look at em.
I was hoping those "creeps"...
Submitted by Paul G on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:38pm.
DIDN'T have kids....
Happy Mothers Day
Submitted by cocodrie on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:11pm.
Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful ladies here. We love and appreciate all of you even though we don't tell you often enough.
God bless you all,
Alton
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Jeez
Submitted by Servo1969 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:27pm.
Who the hell did these women's hair? Let me guess... a gay man, right?
Feminist Mothers?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:30pm.
Isn't that an accident of birth?
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Moo
Submitted by mmilesll on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:34pm.
Another fat liberal cow. It is a wonder she is able to walk with all that make-up on. Poor thing never gets any sleep, she is always talking. Jew women like this are the reason Jew men die so young.
Wow, takes exception to the term "Crown of Motherhood"
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:42pm.
Yeah that's, really, really, "creepy."
And, for some reason, Ann Romney is now "insufferable."
Good grief.
And my guess is, in the past, they've all fawned over Michelle Obama's arms and incredible "beauty."
I wonder what these imbeciles would be doing if they weren't involved in some liberal circle jerk gab-fest on a third rate network bashing a decent woman . Seriously, what exactly would their marketable skills be? I wonder what their degrees are in.
~Having read the article..
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:57pm.
..can anyone imagine MO writing anything like it?
Newsbusters Made Me Read Ann Romney's OP Ed
Submitted by merr4402 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 4:47pm.
After seeing this feminist make such a fuss, I wanted to see what it was all about and what was so creepy. So I clicked "Op-Ed" and read Ann's article on Motherhood.
Everything was normal, nothing creepy about it. She described her own terrors of raising a child and how her mother helped and now she passes on that help to her many grandchildren. What the heck is creepy about that?
I think this reflects the topsy-turvey world of Michelle Goldberg where motherhood and being a wife is bad and being selfish and focusing on the flesh is good.
Click the "Op-Ed" link in this article and you will see what I mean.
SR
These women (?) are just
Submitted by truckinmann on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:37pm.
These women (?) are just jealous because they could never get a man to sleep with them. Even if they could, they would feel compelled by their peers to have the child aborted by any ensuing pregnancy.
I've always said if you want to know what a Liberal is really...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 2:32am.
like, all you have to do is listen to how they describe Conservatives. Insufferable and creepy describes Goldberg to a "T" and all I know about her is what she says about Conservatives.
There is
Submitted by nolefan2 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 11:07am.
nothing whatsoever "feminine" about either one of these feminazis.