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Fox News guest says allowing women to vote was a "mistake"
By EJ DicksonMay 10th, 2012, 1:30 amComments (29)
Hey, ladies! Are you planning on exercising your constitutional right to vote in the upcoming presidential election? Well, before you tire out your poor lady brains trying to figure out the polling machine, or accidentally cast a vote for Ryan Gosling, you better think again, says Tea Party supporter/frequent Fox News guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. The founder of the conservative group the Brotherhood Organization for a New Destiny (BOND), who is also buds with Sean Hannity, recently gave a sermon in which he claimed that allowing women to vote was "one of the greatest mistakes that America made." How delightfully retro! Except he forgot to mention that those of us who can swim are probably witches, and that our periods attract bears.
If you didn't get your morning coffee with a shot o' crazy today, you can watch Peterson's ten-minute rant above. But here's a sampling of some of the pearls of wisdom that the Good Reverend showered upon his congregation:
“I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should have never turned that over to women. It was a big mistake…these women are voting in the wrong people. They’re voting in people who are evil, who agree with them…Men in the good old days understood the nature of the women, they were not afraid to deal with them. Wherever women are taking over, evil reigns."
He's right, you know. Allowing women the opportunity to vote was one of the greatest mistakes this country ever made. Not slavery. Not the genocide of the Native American people. Not Jeff Foxworthy. Giving women the right to vote. Because bitches be totally crazy and stuff. And you know how I know this? I saw that movie Swimfan once, and the blond girl in it was a total nut job. Would I let her within a few yards of a polling station? Would I want her to have any say in our great nation's electoral process? No, I most certainly would not. And we all know that Erika Christensen's character in Swimfan is representative of the behavior of all American women, everywhere. Great. Good. I'm glad we settled this.
Hey, Sean Hannity? I just made a really great argument. Can I have a BFF bracelet and a guest appearance on your TV show now?
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Why did you feel the need the emphasize Fox News and Tea Party here? Neither has anything to do with this wackaloon's views on women's rights. MSNBC has tons of complete crazies as guests, but I don't see you making those associations.
But your one-sided, narrow-focused readers are gonna eat that up, yes they are. "Fox News hates women!" "The Tea Party wants to take away your right to vote!"
Nerve, your journalism ethics are deplorable. As usual, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You still haven't apologized for saying that anyone who is not in an interracial relationship is a racist.
Maybe, because the story that the relied on reported it this way. You seem to forget, the people at Nerve are not writing this material. They are plagerizing, I mean, sampling, this material from other sources. Now, if you don't like their editorial slant, you do have other choices.
A quick Google search of "Jesse Lee Peterson" turns up multiple references to his being a guest on Fox News, and then there's also this (http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=174), the headline of which is, for the record, reads "Tea Party Stands With Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson."
If those are the venues through which he chooses to express his views, then he's going to be associated with those views. Simple as that.
@Alex: flimsy rationalization for your shoddy journalism, as usual. And you STILL haven't apologized for saying that anyone who is not in an interracial relationship (or would want to be in one) is a racist.
Where are you getting that interracial relationship thing? Something I wrote, or a different blogger? And again, it's not "our" shoddy journalism. If you're taking issue with Peterson being associated with Fox News in the press, there's a long list of more "respectable" news outlets that used the same descriptors we did.
Are you people being purposefully obtuse? Or are you truly just unable to process information? It's Fox News who gave him a platform to speak his ridiculous opinions and therefore he will be associated with them. And as for the comment about msnbc's having "tons of complete crazies" as guests, I challenge you to name one that's said anything even close to this guy's crazy bile.
That being said, let me make a point that should be obvious but somehow you trolls keep missing: This is not the NY Times, they have not stated objectivity as a goal. If you want to see your beloved Fox News and Tea Party praised and respected, go to a neo-conservative site.
This guy is right about one thing for sure... Men and women need to finally come forward about being on opposing teams so that we can really fight it out. World war style.
My money is on the dudes!
Re bears and menses: I grew up surrounded by bear habitat, and we were always told that bears were attracted to menstrual blood, and I held it to be a truism. Thanks, NERVE, for clearing this up--although it was interesting to learn that while black and grizzly bears in studies showed no predilection, polar bears do seem to exhibit an attraction to it. See http://www.yellowstone-natl-park.com/bearsmen.pdf
FYI, black bears do have a special fondness for yogurt, though, and one time one broke in and drank a whole bottle of massage oil--probably worked as a great laxative.
Polar bears will eat anything that moves, and have a sense of smell good enough to seek out a seal under several feet of snow. If they don't track you down because you're on your period, any other scent you happen to be giving off will do.
I bet there are a lot of Tea Baggers who feel the same way about the 15th Amendment. This guy has no self-awareness at all, does he?
I doubt that any statistically significant percentage of any group feels that women shouldn't have the right to vote. This guy is a radical fringe wacko, nothing more.
Robert - you're bigotry is getting annoying. Can you point at a single example of a "Tea Bagger" who is opposed to the 15th Amendment?
You're an ass, robert, a bigoted, annoying ass. It's your brand of ugly bigotry that's destroying discourse in this country.
Again, normally I don't engage with trolls, but for anyone else who might wonder, it is well documented that so-called "voter ID" laws are being supported and enacted by Tea Party-supported Republican legislatures in an effort to disenfranchise black voters. Type in "Voter ID" in Google News if you want examples. Add to that the effort by Tea Party-supported Republicans in Congress to water down the Voting Rights Act -- enacted pursuant to the 15th Amendment -- and you have a full-fledged assault on the voting rights of blacks. Those people would be very happy if the 15th Amendment simply disappeared. What's shocking about Peterson is that he apparently doesn't get that if anyone's right to vote is going to be taken away, it'll be African Americans' (and Hispanics' and other minorities').
I think you're fabulous, profrobert. Whenever I see your name on a post I go to it immediately, knowing it will be extremely smart and well-balanced. I've thought about posting this to you in the past but never did. Seeing you attacked by our nonsensical troll spurred me to finally give you the thanks you deserve on here.
Thank you for your kind words, LT. (Though even I have to admit that sometimes I'll just go for the snarky one-liner.)
You're very welcome. And sometimes a well-placed snarky one-liner is very appropriate.
Allowing men to cook will be the downfall of America.
He said not all women are bad decision makers. Plus he's talking like one of them there retardos. So if a man with the downs is making you upsetting you nerve.com, than you hate special needs people. Becuase he is clearly, with a doubt, a feeb.
Needless to say, I am not opposed to woman suffrage on the conventional ground that she is not equal to it. I see neither physical, psychological, nor mental reasons why woman should not have the equal right to vote with man. But that can not possibly blind me to the absurd notion that woman will accomplish that wherein man has failed. If she would not make things worse, she certainly could not make them better. To assume, therefore, that she would succeed in purifying something which is not susceptible of purification, is to credit her with supernatural powers. Since woman’s greatest misfortune has been that she was looked upon as either angel or devil, her true salvation lies in being placed on earth; namely, in being considered human, and therefore subject to all human follies and mistakes. Are we, then, to believe that two errors will make a right? Are we to assume that the poison already inherent in politics will be decreased, if women were to enter the political arena? The most ardent suffragists would hardly maintain such a folly. - Emma Goldman
Allowing anyone to vote is a mistake.
I wonder how he feels about the 26th amendment? Does he think an 18-year-old male can make better choices than a 48-year-0ld female?
@Alex:
Here you go:
http://www.nerve.com/news/love-sex/gay-people-are-likely-less-homophobic...
I'm sorry, but how is "anyone who is not in an interracial relationship (or would want to be in one) is a racist" extrapolated from a study showing that more gay people are in interracial relationships than straight people?
He is described in the article as a "Fox News Guest." This is simply a fact. He is credited with the opinion that "allowing women to vote" was a mistake. This also (based on the clip) appears to be a fact. If you find this article slanted, you just think that reporting facts is slanted.
In which case you probably believe that John ("not intended to be a factual statement") Kyl is an honest man.
No, I'm arguing that Nerve is unfairly and unnecessarily implying that Fox News and the Tea Party endorse his views, which is quite different than simply having him as a guest / speaker. Typical Nerve conservabashing by skewing the perspective of the story as per their agenda. Fucking Limbaugh and Hannity pull this crap all the time, and it's just fucking shitty.
Two opinions. Our Constitution guarantees the right to free speech and a right to a free press. It does not say that the free press has a right to lie or make up opinions that they can pass of as facts the way Fox news does. As for this reverend whatever his name is. He does not know the history of America and what white people have done to his people, African Americans. We used to live african americans in this country that we don't like. Not a very nice thing to do to anybody, but if I was a woman black white or other I would hang this guy
Oh wait, 'cause MSNBC and CNN and the NYT don't lie and make up opinions that they pass as facts either... I'm not taking either side, I think it's incredibly stupid to trust and rely on any of our mass media outlets. They ALL have an agenda, you just might not realize it if you happen to agree with their slant. But keep in mind that if you only listen to those you already agree with, you never learn anything new.
This guy is disgusting.