O’Reilly Debate on GOP War on Women [Fox News]
This evening, I joined guest host Laura Ingraham and fellow progressive Tara Dowdell to discuss the fall out from Todd Akin’s extremist anti-choice comments and the fact that the mainstream Republican Party has heartily embraced the ideas behind his remarks.
“They want to tell women who are raped that they have to have the baby of their rapist,” I say in the segment. “That’s not a war on rapists!”
And note the part where I call out Mitt Romney for flip flopping repeatedly on this issue — telling Mike Huckabee in October 2011 that Romney wishes there were no legalized abortions in America and supporting an extremist “personhood” amendment to the Constitution, and now walking back those statements and saying he supports exceptions for rape and incest. This after Romney, as a gubenatorial candidate, said he believes abortion should be safe and legal. He etch-a-sketched Huckabee, he etch-a-sketched Republican primary voters and now he’s trying to etch-a-sketch the American public. How can we ever know for sure what Romney thinks?
Here’s coverage of the segment on Fox News Insider and Mediaite.
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Great job on Fox tonight!!
I _rarely_ watch Fox News, so it was so refreshing to see a smart, articulate, liberal woman on the air — I loved what you had to say.
Laura Ingraham come across as a bully. Her arguments were incredibly weak, and her frustratation was obvious.
–Liz.
there is no war on women .. just a diversion for Obama. No one is going to touch roe vs wade…these are just political views….There are way to many BIG problems with this country then the pretend war on woman and abortion or murder as most call it!
C-
What’s your answer to the numerous – around 150 bills Republicans have introduced around the country criminalizing women from using the choice of abortion ?
As a 60+ woman, it is refreshing to see that some young women do not take for granted the strides made for women to be able to vote, own property, etc. It is now time for women to insist upon equal pay and the right to their own reproductive decisions.
Mike Huckabee would be throwing a fit if someone was trying to mandate Muslim religion or Catholoism but he thinks it if fine for him to do so. If Mike Huckabee thinks abortion is wrong HE SHOULDN’T GET ONE. Unless he is prepared to take on the responsibilities of that child for the next 2 centuries then he doesn’t get a say.
Men are trying to say that a women should have less rights than a fertilized egg. Women to them are nothing more than a life support system for their precious sperm. Carrying on the DNA of a male rapists should trump the life of a stupid women. Right?
I am appalled at the women who are willing to be patted on the head and told that they really care about is the ECONOMY not women’s rights. Like we haven’t already tried Romney’s plan with Geo. W.!!! Look how that turned out.
A fertiized egg? YOU were once a fertilzed egg! If you MOM had been like you, you would not be here!
As an almost 60′s woman, I think you lefties are a bunch of crazy loons! Are the American people better off now than they were 4 years ago?
Women of today are more concerned about jobs, jobs jobs, than they are about Sandra Flunks birth contol, that she wants ME to pay for!
What an amazing “interview”. The “interviewer” Ingraham, spoke for 274 seconds, Tara Dowdell was only allowed to speak for 53 seconds (with interruptions) and Sally Kohn was allowed to speak for 43 seconds (also with interruptions). There was also about 20 seconds when Ingraham was trying to talk over her guests.
This was not an interview. It was Ingraham trying to score political points by using her guests as punching bags. Clearly her aim was to make sure her guests’ points of view were not heard. Hopefully, Sally, your ideas and those of Tara, were well expressed and might make some of the viewers think about the issues.
I never realized Ingraham was such a whiner and twists and dominates the conversation with her contrived propagandistic summarizations !
For her to whine about the media grabbing onto a single comment:
1.) Ingraham clearly feels no self-worth regarding women
2.) Remember what happened with Howard Dean’s single comment
I realize I am mixing apples and oranges with those two points.
Sally, I really wish you’d use the term Anti-Choice instead of the pro term.
I can clearly see that you hate men, that is your choice. You are a spiteful person, that thinks only a liberal should be in charge of things. Most all of your post/articles are more of an opinion than fact. You have a right to your opinion,but there is a big difference from opinion to FACT….oh most girls stop rolling their eyes at around 15/16 years of age…….just saying!
Sally Kohn is a completely unhinged left wing nutcase who does nothing but spew the liberal talking points like a good little drone. Too bad Sally’s mom was not like her and aborted her fetus, regardless of how far along she was, and even if she survived the abortion Sally’s mom, thinking like the twisted, immoral woman that sally is today, should have left her on the curb to starve to death. The liberals love to promote this entirely made up “war on women” when they are truly the ones who are against women. They just want everyone else to pay for their war. Wake up !!
Uh Al…. I think it’s time to hang up the bullwhip and sit down on a porch chair somewhere. People don’t really talk like that anymore. Bob Dylan said it best (that damn hippie!): “Oh the timess, they are a’changing!” On your way now.
Barbara you obviously very much blind or just ignorant. If you can honestly sit there with unemployment at 15 % (or more), median income down more than ever over the past 3 1/2 years, debt sky rocketing to levels we will never be able to pay back and higher prices for gas, food, energy, and all of the staples and say that Obama is good for this country then I feel very sorry for you and America most of all. Liberals are obviously uncapable of seeing the big picture but I guess when you cant run on an economic recovery then you must bait and switch with talking heads like good ole sally here, who bows down to her MEN bosses like George Soros so people cant learn the real truth. So sad !
Just found your website (via a link on facebook). Thank you for the work you do.
Great work Sally. You stayed composed and got some points in there before L. Ingraham starting talking over everything you and Tara said to keep you from getting clear sound bites.
I agree with the earlier comment. Anti-choice or Pro-choice. We’re all for life.
OMG finally someone of Fox that speaks the truth! Some body slap me….
That was an interesting… um… “Interview”
Fox: Hi, were to talk about this “so-called” war on women. Is there a war on women?
Guest 1: yes, here is why and how.
Guest 2: yes, here is why and how.
Fox: Why can’t we talk about something else?
What the hell?
Very informed and factual great job U got that B!
I’ve just recently discovered you through a Facebook link, Sally Kohn. Up until two days ago I had no idea that Fox News had anyone to provide other viewpoints. While an occasional opinion column and 60 seconds of talk time isn’t enough to validate Fox’s “fair and balanced” claim, I’m overjoyed to know that someone is actually paid to present counter discussion there.
That said, I’m disgusted that so many women (including Laura Ingraham and the GOP Women’s Caucus) belittle the idea that the Republican/Tea Party has been voting against women’s rights. Just a few examples:
* Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
* Paycheck Fairness Act
* 1100 provisions introduced and 135 new provisions passed in 2011 related to reproductive rights
* 2012 GOP platform intended to make abortion illegal without exception
* Weakened Violence Against Women Act
* Legislative attempts to redefine rape (and yes, that was Paul Ryan pushing it)
* Bills to cut food and financial aid to low-income mothers
* Eliminating all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, whose services are 97% non-abortion related, but provides health care for low-income women, including women I know who otherwise couldn’t afford things like cancer screenings
* Cutting funding for Head Start, which forces women out of the workforce (i.e. increases unemployment and dependency on govt benefits) in order to care for kids at home
There’s lots more, but even with these few examples from the past two years do not present a woman friendly GOP. To put it bluntly, Laura Ingraham and others who deny that such legislative actions don’t negatively impact women’s rights and freedoms should be ashamed of themselves.
Sally, you know what? You need some good sex. A lot of it.