CNN's Gergen: GOP Candidates Sound Like 'Four White Guys' Telling Women 'We're Going to Control Your Lives'
David Gergen had some harsh criticism for the remaining Republican candidates for president Wednesday.
Appearing on CNN's post-debate show, Gergen said, "For a lot of women it sounds like four white guys who are out there telling them, 'Here’s how we’re going to control your lives'” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAVID GERGEN: There’s been a gender gap now for some years as you well know, and that’s because many women have moved into a position of thinking, as Donna [Brazile] is arguing, that this is about their reproductive rights. And I thought when this argument first started about the Church that the Republicans were in a very strong position, because it did look like the Obama administration was forcing the Catholic Church into taking positions that were really contrarian to their beliefs.
But then it has now sort of morphed out of that. Once Obama found his compromise, it’s morphed out of that. It’s part of a more general conversation about contraception, and even tonight about culture when Rick Santorum got into what’s happening to families. And for a lot of women it sounds like four white guys who are out there telling them, “Here’s how we’re going to control your lives.”
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And the racist commentary from the left continues to go on
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:39am.
and I'm not a white guy!
are any of us?
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:47am.
For anybody thinking they are "white," then hold a piece of white paper up by your face.
It's the endless marginalization of the ethnic melting pot of America.
Really, I have practiced medicine alot of years, and never met a truly white person
nor a truly back person, but the white/black talk does really help divide this country
along ethnic lines. I mean Owebama is the perfect example, caucasian mom and
African dad. He is neither black nor white, but then again, who is in America?
Okay, since we're going into semantics and biology
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:30pm.
we are many different shades but in the real world, people look at me as not white by race. Superficial as it may be that's a fact. I live in Florida and there are many "white" people that are much darker than me. So if that's your argument I can only add that word "white" in this case is more of a conundrum or a liberal pun against conservatives.
Oh yes, right you are
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 11:56am.
If any commentator says, for example, five black musicians are in favor of abortion under any circumstances, then the MSM would be in high dudgeon calling for the broadcaster to fire the "racist" pundit.
"Old white men" is now an official term for the oppressors, and no further discussion is required. It's a variation and inversion of Godwin's law—the first person to use a Hitler analogy loses the argument—but in this case, the first person to declare that "old white men" did something makes the argument immune from proof.
The 2012 campaign is going to use a lot of racial scary-otyping.
The liberals have nothing but identity politics...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 5:15pm.
that's their survival mechanism.
Better than seven people
Submitted by cocodrie on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:43am.
Better than seven people in back robes telling America we're going to kill your babies.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Don't ya just hate that?
Submitted by ThePickle on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:44am.
Yeah, its kinda like having some "old white guy" lecture you about how he thinks "women" feel about the GOP candidates and the policies.
Thank you White Guilt Liberal Gergen.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:07am.
To paraphrase Hermione Granger, he is a "foul, loathsome gargoyle".
Does he not realize the sublime irony of being a rich old white guy complaining about rich old white guys like himself? Probably not.
David G
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:15am.
I don't think that Progressive/Liberals have a sence of irony. To understand irony and humor requires intelligence.
But Obama can tell us how we
Submitted by rbosque on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:07am.
But Obama can tell us how we can apply our faith? Moochelle can tell us what to eat? The left can tell us who to give donations to?
Yes
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:38am.
The liberals always cry about Republicans wanting to tell us what to do in our bedrooms. Liberals and Democrats want to control every other room, the garage and the entire outdoors.
David Gergen?
Submitted by jdripper on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:17am.
He is still amongst the living? I never get my birthday wishes.
Jack
Well
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:31am.
let's hope these "four white guys" treat women better then your slime BJ clinton treated women, Gergan
"a lot of women".. is that
Submitted by redfish on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:22am.
"a lot of women".. is that anything like "some women"?
???
Submitted by Fredy on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:43am.
Does anyone know when Gergen started channelling Roseanna Roseannadanna?
Got bigot?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 3:23am.
What does White have to do with contraception?
Yeah I know, White Conservatives cannot speak an opinion on anything.
But a White Liberal like Gurgleman can spout any racist comment he chooses.
David Friggin' Gergen??? Who
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 3:38am.
David Friggin' Gergen??? Who the hell is HE??? Somebody takes this guy seriously???? Hey, David - you're so out of touch with reality that if it showed up on your dinner plate, you'd throw it in the trash............................jeez, these self-appointed psuedo-experts are really 'on their game' - as long as they are living in their delusional inside-the -beltway mentality!!! They have no CLUE as to what goes on in the rest of the country.
And, hey, David.................have you looked in the mirror lately (ooooooooooowwww.........an ugly sight!!!)??? You're a friggin' white guy too!!! And on top of that, you're a delusional brainwashed lib/progo/StateRun Media white guy!!! Do you actually think that ANYONE - with any common sense or IQ - would take you seriously???
It's ALWAYS about skin color
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:37am.
It's ALWAYS about skin color for libs. ALWAYS. It's impossible for them to say anything without dragging skin color into it.
Really, David?? Really????
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:48am.
Anyone else remember when David Gergen was being pushed on us as a conservative?
David Brooks, David Gergen....what's the difference?
If the conversation's "morphed" into something else, it's because liberals decided to change the argument, like they always do when they lose.
No David, you are wrong again.
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:21am.
It's all about who pays for stuff. It is ALWAYS about who pays for stuff with the left.
Here is my response that I wish the conservatives would find a way to enunciate:
I don't give a friggin' bleep what you do with or to your body, as long as it does not affect anybody else without their consent. But I am damn well not going to be forced to pay for it!
You want to use contraception so you can have sex anytime you want? Fine with me, but do not expect that contraception to be "free", meaning paid for in part by me. Buy your own!
Did your contraception fail and now you are pregnant and want to abort the baby because you didn't schedule time for it on your Google calander? Do not expect me to pay any of that bill because I concider abortion to be murder and I WILL NOT BE FORCED TO BE AN ACOMPLICE TO MURDER!!!!
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Wait I am confused
Submitted by octavioj on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:38am.
Did not these peope say we have to give ever increasing powers to government? Now tey complain politicians will tell people what to do, including women? I am shocked! Now the race part of the comment is just ridiculous. We had one woman and one black guy in the race and these media guys did was to deride them, was it not? Not that them dropping out made much of a difference to the derision.
Amen the LSM made the two
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:24pm.
Amen the LSM made the two drop out. The sad part is we did not fight for them.
CNN Racist commentator Gergen
Submitted by MisterMoney on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 9:54am.
When I heard this last night I almost fell out of my chair. This was simply raw undisguised bias commentary. It has no place in a news program. CNN must take appropriate action, this comment far surpasses the ESPN LIn gaffe. I have written to CNN and I expect a reply.
“Control Your Lives”?!
Submitted by needle on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:07am.
“Control Your Lives”?! Hey Jerkin, I’ll show you “Control Your Lives”
How about ObamaCare? With its battalions of bureaucrats deciding what ailments you are to receive treatment for, and what ailments you have to suffer with, and what treatments you can receive, and what treatment you are not allowed, all predicated on the person’s net worth to the STATE, of course. (A perfect sidebar story for 1984.) Your fellow elitist leftist totalitarian law writers removed the formal and actual death panels from ObamaCare because they made the real purpose of ObamaCare embarrassingly obvious, but still the overriding theme running throughout the thousands of pages of ObamaCare is: Big Brother Government Controls your life, and your death.
So remind us, Jerkin, how many times and how much you have decried, over the last three years, the government’s thrust to “control your lives.” Zip, zilch, nada, right?
Oh, yeah, this issue IS about “control your lives.” Indeed it is; but it is not about 'Four White Guys;' it is, yet again, about the GOVERNMENT, via ObamaCare, controlling all our lives in every imaginable and unimaginable detail.
But don’t feign disdain; you thrive on controlling lives like Dracula thrives on blood.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Yes, Mr. Gergen it was kinda
Submitted by John21 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:10am.
Yes, Mr. Gergen it was kinda of like having an "old white liberal moron" explain to you what was just said on the stage in his very small mind with a great deal of bias and propaganda.
Was that you point?
Typical liberal if you can not win the argument with fact try and control the direction of the conversation.
David, is this coded to mean something?
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:20am.
What does their skin tone have to do with anything?
Imagine Hannity stating ANYTHING about Obysmals skin tone to make a
"point" of some kind?
Again, what is the point of color here?
The Obysmal machine did this purposely to get us talking about social bullshit instead of the economy and he of course waited for Bacchman to be out and Cain so these frauds could frame it as "four WHITE GUYS".
In Arizona we get NO MENTION of Fast and furious and no mention of GAS prices etc, etc.
Social bullshit that is so far down in the list of stuff we care about.
...the code is obvious in "four WHITE GUYS".
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:04pm.
four - he's able to count
WHITE - obama and his minions know they, for the most part, have the non-white vote locked up: "I voted for him because he was black" - famous black person reported by Drudge yeasterday
GUYS - "For a lot of women it sounds like four white guys who are out there telling them, 'Here’s how we’re going to control your lives'”
obama and his minions are going after the 'woman' vote
- they dissed the Catholics (calculated risk) to firm up the 'woman' vote
- they are doing everything they can to get Rmoney nominated so they can tear him apart by exposing his faith's position on women, thus gaining the 'woman' vote away from 'tall, dark, and handsome' (call it the Ann Coulter syndrome)
Do the math:
- 50% of the voters are woman
- non-white is about 10%
...looks like enough for re-election to me
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
By not wanting to pay for it, we're "controlling" it?
Submitted by pockets64 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:29am.
We had the same game when W said the Fed would not pay for embryonic stem cell research. He didn't ban it. He just said no federal $$ for it.
Now we don't want to have to pay for everyone else's contraception and abortion and we don't want to be put into a position to be forced to provide something to which we are morally apposed, we are again "controlling" people?
Uhh!
Submitted by dliston on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:29am.
I understand the Ad Hominem attack he is making about 4 guys but what does the white part have to do with anything?? I really don't understand these white people who are always throwing race in a debate when the issue has nothing to do with race. And it's always the whitest people in the room doing it too. Is it self-hate? Are they trying to ingratiate themselves with Black Americans. I am probably more embarrassed for them than offended about their moronic antics.
By not wanting to pay for it, we're "controlling" it?
Submitted by pockets64 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 10:31am.
We had the same game when W said the Fed would not pay for embryonic stem cell research. He didn't ban it. He just said no federal $$ for it.
Now we don't want to have to pay for everyone else's contraception and abortion and we don't want to be put into a position to be forced to provide something to which we are morally apposed, we are again "controlling" people?
David Gergen
Submitted by Edward Cropper on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 11:02am.
There are only about 25 people in the country who even know who David Gergen is ,and 26 of them think he is a liberal sloth.
When I heard this last night
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:22pm.
When I heard this last night I almost fell out of my chair. This was simply raw undisguised bias commentary. It has no place in a news program. CNN must take appropriate action, this comment far surpasses the ESPN LIn gaffe. I have written to CNN and I expect a reply.
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So did I, but I don't expect a reply.
are always throwing race in a
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:31pm.
are always throwing race in a debate when the issue has nothing to do with race. And it's always the whitest people in the room doing it too. Is it self-hate? Are they trying to ingratiate themselves with Black Americans.
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Yes to both questions. And they are the type of whites that will, when first meeting a black person, will immediately say,,,"I watched Roots" to try to impress them.
4 white guys?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 12:42pm.
Did he forget about other two who dropped out?
I forget - I think it was Sherman Crain and Michael Bachus?
SickoLibs - good point on four WHITE GUYS...
Submitted by vrwc13 on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 1:09pm.
Cain and Bachmann were 'forced' out more by the liberal media than attrition from GOP process. How soon they conveniently forget...
v
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne
Gergen's Worst Moment
Submitted by 76United on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 2:29pm.
There was something Gergen said last night that totally irked me. After the debate, he said (paraphrasing), "Some women on twitter say that these candidates are medieval when it comes to women's issues".
Let's dissect his comment.
"Some women on twitter"...like, who? Gergen's wife and Rosie O'Donnell?! When you say "some women on twitter", give us their names! Say, "Roseanne Barr thinks the GOP are cavemen" or Gloria Steinem or Barbara Streisand. Don't give me this generic, "some women". That way your accusation will be shown to be as hollow as it actually is.
Using his from of reporting, I can read the twitter accounts of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and say, during an actual newscast, "Some people on twitter are calling Obama a socialist".
Gergen, stop "reporting" and start fixing that god awful comb over! You ain't foolin' anybody pal! You look like a fat Stretch Cunningham from "All in the Family".
What a bunch of shit....
Submitted by Colt on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:02pm.
If you've ever noticed,...oblamus never 'picks a fight', unless it's with a 'straw-man', of his own manufacture. Because,..it can't take a swing back at him.
This whole contraception..thing (..a non-existent issue) was fabricated out of thin air by MMFA, and wholeheartedly endorsed by the WH.
George Snufalufagus was more than happy to debut the newly hatched concept, in the form of a sucker punch directed at Mitt Romney,..in a recent debate.
It is clear, to almost any half-wit out there, that their current strategy is to equate, and transform the GOP into the Vatican, so oblamus can run against a fictional 'creation' . Which, happens to be a democrat generated, 'urban myth'. You could even call it a "Pope - a - dope" scheme....
David Gurgle,
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 7:56pm.
is just like that one creepy white guy - kinda like the disheveled high school janitor you told your daughter to stay away from.
And that my friends is code for: this guy is a loserette.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"