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Title: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Freeper on April 14, 2012, 03:31:31 PM
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Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out of the house to work"

Maher on Rosengate: "I Think What She Meant Was That Romney's Never Gotten Her A** Out of the House to Work"
By Lauren Kelley
April 14, 2012

On last night's episode of Real Time, Bill Maher took on Hilary Rosengate -- the ongoing saga over Rosen's comment that Ann Romney had "never worked a day in her life," Romney's subsequent baiting of stay at home moms, and the ensuing national discourse over what constitutes "work" for a mother. Everything about the kerfuffle is unfortunate.

Maher starts the conversation off by talking about candidate Romney's massive women voter problem -- his favorability rating among women is a scant 30%, compared to 47% for John McCain. "Why don't girls like Mitt Romney?" asks Maher, semi-sarcastically. The answer, of course, is that Romney supports rolling back women's and reproductive rights. For help understanding women's issues, he's turned to his wife.

Maher's panelists -- former Canadian PM Kim Campbell, Reagan-era budget director David Stockman, and conservative journalist Matthew Continetti -- discuss Romney's backwards views for a while before they get around to Rosengate. Quote Maher, "No one's denying that being a mother is a tough job...but there is a big difference between being a mother in that rough job, and getting your ass out the door at 7am when it's cold, having to deal with a boss, being unhappy at a workplace where even if you're unhappy you can't show it for 8 hours." Indeed, but even more important here is the class issue:

Ann Romney doesn't understand "work," as defined by lower income of American women, because she is not impacted the same way by the costs of healthcare, childcare, unpaid time spent on maternity leave, and food, to name just a few things.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/880921/maher_on_rosengate%3A_%22i_think_what_she_meant_was_that_romney%27s_never_gotten_her_a%2A%2A_out_of_the_house_to_work%22/#paragraph3
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I was wondering when Bill Maher would open his trap on this.
I want to know Bill, when is the last time you did anything that resembles work? When is the last time you got home from work and had to shower for at least half an hour to clean all the mud, grease, gasoline, sweat, and Lord knows what else you got on you while working? I do know you recently wrote a check for a million dollars to Barry's campaign. Yeah you really know what life is like for the rest of us.  :whatever:

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JohnnyRingo
1. I wish Rosen used this as a clarification

...Instead of profusely apologizing.

She could have contrasted Ann Romney's life with that of 90% of women who are forced to work at least part time while they raise children, often with the help of grandparents.. Ann Romney is not devoted, she's privileged.

Once again it boils down to that you can't stand that someone has more than you do if they are Republicans. None of you goons whine and cry about all the good times that the 0bamas get to have on the taxpayer dime.


Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: debk on April 14, 2012, 03:48:27 PM
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JohnnyRingo
1. I wish Rosen used this as a clarification

...Instead of profusely apologizing.

She could have contrasted Ann Romney's life with that of 90% of women who are forced to work at least part time while they raise children, often with the help of grandparents.. Ann Romney is not devoted, she's privileged.

 


Yep, she's sooooo priviledged...she's had to deal with having had breast cancer and having MS.

I bet 90% of women haven't had to deal with those circumstances either.

I was a stay at home mom for until my oldest was in high school. I can't imagine being a SAHM with 5 BOYS!!! Leaving the house and going to a paying job would be a priviledge!!
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 14, 2012, 03:59:35 PM

Yep, she's sooooo priviledged...she's had to deal with having had breast cancer and having MS.

I bet 90% of women haven't had to deal with those circumstances either.

I was a stay at home mom for until my oldest was in high school. I can't imagine being a SAHM with 5 BOYS!!! Leaving the house and going to a paying job would be a priviledge!!

Not to mention a relief . . .

IIRC, Ann Romney was diagnosed with breast cancer and MS in the same year.  I've heard that somewhere north of 95% of women who get those two diagnoses in the same year don't make it two years.  Yet, Ann Romney did . . . and does.  Maybe that is why the Dems attack her--because they know she's going to be very nearly impossible to beat.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: BEG on April 14, 2012, 04:01:31 PM
Go with this DUmmies, tell everyone that Mahar speaks for you. Scream it from the mountaintops. DO IT!
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: jukin on April 14, 2012, 05:00:11 PM
I am so happy that the most smartest people in history never learned the rule of holes. 

Go BILL!!!  Keep it up!!
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: zeitgeist on April 14, 2012, 05:44:51 PM
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JohnnyRingo
1. I wish Rosen used this as a clarification

...Instead of profusely apologizing.

She could have contrasted Ann Romney's life with that of 90% of women who are forced to work at least part time while they raise children, often with the help of grandparents.. Ann Romney is not devoted, she's privileged.

Just another disgruntled loser in the lucky sperm contest.    Probably wishes his mom knew his dad's name too. :fuelfire: 

Amazing how they can hate someone like that.  And Rosen, what experience does she have? Basting the turkey with someone else jerky? :hammer:
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: formerlurker on April 14, 2012, 05:47:15 PM
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/16/fashion/16romney650.2.jpg)

She finished college while taking care of her babies, raised five boys (and watched her friends' children), taught bible classes, cooked their meals, and took care of their home.  

I have three boys, and am a stay at home mom.   Three boys is hard work, I can only imagine what five is like.   The entire left can collectively kiss my ass.  

Oh and jackasses -- she was a Governor's wife, and all the fun that goes along with that.    Unless of course you think that the wives of politicians of this level do nothing outside the home.....   Deval Patrick's manic depressant wife comes to mind, and she has secretaries...

Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: formerlurker on April 14, 2012, 05:51:09 PM
One more thing -- I watched Romney's entire family (including grandchildren) waiting for primary results to come in (forget which state).    They adore their father/grandfather and are clearly a very close family. 

Ann has many reasons to be extremely proud. 
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: obumazombie on April 14, 2012, 05:54:38 PM
She was first lady while her husband was governor. Do Maher, and Rosen know how hard it is to be a first lady ? Ask Moochelle. Criticize Moochelle for the same thing, libs.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Kyle Ricky on April 14, 2012, 06:04:50 PM
Bill Maher is a washed up comedian who thinks he knows about politics. He is nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: BEG on April 14, 2012, 06:15:21 PM
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/16/fashion/16romney650.2.jpg)

She finished college while taking care of her babies, raised five boys (and watched her friends' children), taught bible classes, cooked their meals, and took care of their home.  

I have three boys, and am a stay at home mom.   Three boys is hard work, I can only imagine what five is like.   The entire left can collectively kiss my ass.  

Oh and jackasses -- she was a Governor's wife, and all the fun that goes along with that.    Unless of course you think that the wives of politicians of this level do nothing outside the home.....   Deval Patrick's manic depressant wife comes to mind, and she has secretaries...



A large happy family is the antithesis of what DUmmies think is a good thing.  Don't several DUmmies have kids in prison?
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Kyle Ricky on April 14, 2012, 06:17:16 PM
A large happy family is the antithesis of what DUmmies think is a good thing.  Don't several DUmmies have kids in prison?

Do you mean the dummies who decide to have their kids, rather than abort them?
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: miskie on April 14, 2012, 06:47:16 PM
Erik Estrada Needs to pay Bill Maher a visit...

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Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: beefeater on April 14, 2012, 10:01:27 PM
This photo reminds me of possibly the strangest post I've seen at the DUmp for awhile


(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/16/fashion/16romney650.2.jpg)

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Response to FarLeftFist (Original post)Wed Apr 11, 2012, 10:28 PM
 Bucky (37,516 posts)
6. I'm gonna confess somthing here...

I've never met an ugly Mormon and I've never met an ugly Venezuelan. I live in a big city and I've run into plenty of both in my life. No, forget ugly, I've never met either a Mormon nor a Venezuelan who was even slightly homely. I don't know what it is, but both populations just seem to be really attractive people. They should all be barred from beauty contests just for skewing the average.

So maybe Ann Romney had troubles raising her boys. What mom didn't? But damn that brood is easy on the eyes. It couldn't have been that hard. Not as hard as raising five ugly sons. Say Trig Romney mouthed off to mom one day. What do you think she said? "Fuel up the Lear, Jenkins! I need you fly Trig back to his room without supper!" That's tough love there.

On consideration, I think Venezuelans are just slightly prettier than Mormons, but not by much. I've give half a year's salary for a shot at Marie Osmond. Damn.

Bucky gushes (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002551452#post6)

I really don't know who "Bucky" is, but for the most part I have to agree with him.

Well, 1 notable exception...

(http://educationviews.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/harryreidap.jpg)

And even at that it's pretty much only on the inside.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: GOBUCKS on April 15, 2012, 12:50:05 AM
DUmpmonkey Buckey makes a valid point. I haven't been to Utah, but I've been in Venezuela a lot.

Venezuelan women may live in refrigerator cartons on a sheer mountainside, but they're eye-popping gorgeous.

I don't recall ever seeing a homely one, or one bearing any resemblance to Yugo.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: vesta111 on April 15, 2012, 07:27:59 AM
DUmpmonkey Buckey makes a valid point. I haven't been to Utah, but I've been in Venezuela a lot.

Venezuelan women may live in refrigerator cartons on a sheer mountainside, but they're eye-popping gorgeous.

I don't recall ever seeing a homely one, or one bearing any resemblance to Yugo.

AH up to the democrats and Kennedy it was a a world where men left home to support his family, woman had the hard part, raised the kids, cooked, cleaned and was as a grandma revered for her Work to insure the family managed to survive when the men were at war or working in the fields.

A man may work from sun to sun but a woman's work is never done.  Something happend in these years, we had an undeclared war that took the men and boys off to war, the woman then had to do double duty, work outside the home and still do the duty of raising kids, cooking and cleaning and raising the kids.    

Came a time when the woman had to allow strangers to raise their kids so the could work, strange ideas in the school system that they had not been raised with.

Any woman that could afford to stay home and do their job raising kids and volunteering for Church work or in the schools was now considered a lazy broad, ----a non worker and to their dismay found when they reached their 60's could not collect any social security as they had never ---Worked for a wage.  

New laws came in here, men could not live with a wife and children to get government aid to allow the woman to stay at home and work to make a home for her children,  put the kids in  the hands of strangers and no husband around, no one objected to a number of boyfriends moving in and living off her and children's benefits.  

The Democrats Destroyed the very core of 10,000 years of survival of family's, Woman were better off with raising their children without a father of the child to be in the picture.

Check out the difference in the value to the country between a woman that stays at home, keeps an eye on her kids and provides for them.   Then head out to hire someone or 2 or 3 to do her job at home.   What is the difference between future adults that have a parent on hand at all times and kids that seldom see either of their parents, and are raised by strangers ???

I am not a fan of Mitts, but his wife, who never worked for money, left the kids to be raised by strangers and managed to in her spar time be a First Lady and attend to her husbands carear is a Super Woman.

I feel this way about the Military wives that are left for months at time to raise kids, juggle the finances, tend to the children AND when need comes work outside the house.   How the Hell they do this this with pre school children is a testament to the strength of woman, for another woman to attack any woman who devotes their life to their family is nasty, dirty and they will get theirs down the road. ----  

Grumble grumble, We woman need to stick together and understand each other and the cards we all have been dealt, we all get the luck of the draw, for good or bad, some bluff, some fold and at times getting a good hand we find some one else has a better hand.  

 


Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2012, 10:58:54 AM
I keep telling these idiots to run with this. Come on DUmbasses, put it on bumper stickers that moms who stay home to raise families aren't really working. Don't be cowards, do it. I dare you. Meanwhile, the Kenyan has NEVER had a job. He was a guest lecturer at law school and ONLY on his warped definition of the 14th amendment. Other than that, he was nothing but a ***** community "activist".
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: obumazombie on April 15, 2012, 11:09:51 AM
And to think, we have a President who's best qualification was as a "community organizer", and who wants to "spread the wealth around".
How do you "spread the wealth around" exactly ?
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: AprilRazz on April 15, 2012, 11:34:48 AM
DUmpmonkey Buckey makes a valid point. I haven't been to Utah, but I've been in Venezuela a lot.

Venezuelan women may live in refrigerator cartons on a sheer mountainside, but they're eye-popping gorgeous.

I don't recall ever seeing a homely one, or one bearing any resemblance to Yugo.
Israel has the hottest armed services in the world! :naughty:
(http://www.snegidhi.com/2009/5-3/Women_in_Israel_Army_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: BlueStateSaint on April 15, 2012, 12:33:47 PM
Israel has the hottest armed services in the world! :naughty:
(http://www.snegidhi.com/2009/5-3/Women_in_Israel_Army_1.jpg)

Damn!  :naughty: :hot: :hitit:
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: debk on April 15, 2012, 12:45:55 PM
Just the ability to manage a household of 5 kids, let alone 5 boys, should give her CEO qualifications for a small business.

I remember the days of having to get 2 kids to dance class 3 days a week, and the other one to soccer/baseball practice/games, in opposite directions at the same time or within a half hour or so!!! To do it with 5?  :panic:

Grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, LAUNDRY!!! for 7 people!  :panic: :panic: :panic:

She might have had help in later years, but she didn't have it in the beginning.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: movie buff on April 15, 2012, 02:23:59 PM
Bill Maher is a washed up comedian who thinks he knows about politics. He is nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
I wouldn't say he's nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
You're forgetting, he's also a hatemonger, a Christophobic bigot, a heartless and insensitive prick who likes insulting the recently deceased (i.e. his comments about Steve Irwin and Pope John Paul II shortly after their respective deaths), a gutless coward, a hypocrite, a misogynist, and a general scumbag.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: GOBUCKS on April 15, 2012, 02:34:53 PM
I wouldn't say he's nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
No, that would be nadin.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: obumazombie on April 15, 2012, 03:46:58 PM
I wouldn't say he's nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
You're forgetting, he's also a hatemonger, a Christophobic bigot, a heartless and insensitive prick who likes insulting the recently deceased (i.e. his comments about Steve Irwin and Pope John Paul II shortly after their respective deaths), a gutless coward, a hypocrite, a misogynist, and a general scumbag.
He's just "keeping it real".
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Kyle Ricky on April 15, 2012, 04:41:04 PM
Israel has the hottest armed services in the world! :naughty:
(http://www.snegidhi.com/2009/5-3/Women_in_Israel_Army_1.jpg)

Oh My God!  :hitit: :hot: Wow!
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Kyle Ricky on April 15, 2012, 04:43:56 PM
I wouldn't say he's nothing but an arrogant douchebag.
You're forgetting, he's also a hatemonger, a Christophobic bigot, a heartless and insensitive prick who likes insulting the recently deceased (i.e. his comments about Steve Irwin and Pope John Paul II shortly after their respective deaths), a gutless coward, a hypocrite, a misogynist, and a general scumbag.

 :agree:
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: GOBUCKS on April 15, 2012, 09:31:51 PM
Israel has the hottest armed services in the world! :naughty:
(http://www.snegidhi.com/2009/5-3/Women_in_Israel_Army_1.jpg)
nadin is Jewish.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: thundley4 on April 15, 2012, 09:38:35 PM
nadin is Jewish.

I thought she was Polish, but grew up in Mexico?
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: GOBUCKS on April 15, 2012, 10:18:46 PM
I thought she was Polish, but grew up in Mexico?
I think she claims her grandparents escaped Poland before WWII.

They apparently carried the dominant gene for condescending assholishness, so were refused entry into the United States and ended up in the shithole south of the border.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2012, 11:08:49 PM
I thought she was Perasijapanesorean?
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Rebel on April 15, 2012, 11:09:59 PM
Nadin's race is skank liberal. Sadly, they're not on the endangered species list.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Elspeth on April 15, 2012, 11:50:16 PM

Oh and jackasses -- she was a Governor's wife, and all the fun that goes along with that.    Unless of course you think that the wives of politicians of this level do nothing outside the home.....   Deval Patrick's manic depressant wife comes to mind, and she has secretaries...


I can't believe it took THIS LONG in the thread to get to the reality that Ann Romney does, in fact, have a job, albeit an unpaid one.  She is a political wife.  She campaigns, knocks on doors, talks to constituents, stuffs envelopes, gives speeches, does interviews, does community and charity work, and in general does everything possible to advance her husband's candidacy.  Anyone who has seriously worked on a political campaign knows how much work it is, and the political wife usually puts in more hours than the most devoted professional campaign staff.  Once in office, the political wife must play a role of public service and be available for speeches, interviews, appearances, and charity functions, while stifling her own wants, desires, needs and (often) political opinions. 

It's a real job.  Just unpaid.

(And this is not to mention all of Ann Romney's other unpaid work raising her many children and managing her household.  You can also throw in her cancer and MS for good measure.)

Maybe the reasons that the DUmmies and Bill Maher don't realize that Ann Romney's work as a political wife IS a job is because they are looking only at Michelle Obama's version of the job:  making lackluster public appearances, pretending to care about the health of people way below her tax bracket, making speeches in which she criticizes America, and getting her ugly face photographed for articles she didn't write in women's magazines. 

But just because Michelle's lousy at it doesn't mean it isn't a job.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Wineslob on April 16, 2012, 09:48:40 AM
Go with this DUmmies, tell everyone that Mahar speaks for you. Scream it from the mountaintops. DO IT!


+1  I REALLY want to see the DUmbshites use this meme.

Oh, by the way DUmmies, our household get by just fine on an annual income that's under 50K a year................in California.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: Ptarmigan on April 16, 2012, 10:08:44 AM
Bill Maher is a washed up comedian who thinks he knows about politics. He is nothing but an arrogant douchebag.

And a whiny crybaby.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: movie buff on April 16, 2012, 10:18:42 AM
A large happy family is the antithesis of what DUmmies think is a good thing.  Don't several DUmmies have kids in prison?
Indeed.
You know, there just might be a reason why so many DUmmies, based on their posts, have children who turn out to be criminals/ drug addicts and are severely estranged from the rest of their families.
Title: Re: Bill Maher: "I think Rosen meant that Ann Romney's never gotten her ass out o
Post by: AllosaursRus on April 16, 2012, 03:46:09 PM
Israel has the hottest armed services in the world! :naughty:
(http://www.snegidhi.com/2009/5-3/Women_in_Israel_Army_1.jpg)

Where the hell do I sign up?? I can say that right now as "Toots" is at work! heh!

I will have to hide the post however!