{"id":26749,"date":"2012-03-08T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T13:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26749"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:19","slug":"the-real-war-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26749","title":{"rendered":"The Real War Against Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Rep, Mary Franson released a video response to constituent questions. \u00a0One of the questions was about welfare.<\/p>\n

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In the video (since removed, unfortunately), Franson compared welfare to treating people like <\/em>animals – by creating dependence, making it impossible for them to live without help. \u00a0In other words, government <\/em>treats them like pets, zoo creatures, livestock – creatures of whom they are the master.<\/p>\n

Now, food stamp recipients aren’t animals – but the DFL chanting point machine, Carrie Lucking and Denise Cardinal of “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”, Greta Bergstrom of “Take Action Minnesota” and most of Minnesota’s lumpen gray mass of leftybloggers – are certainly a bunch of rhetorical hyenas. \u00a0They took Franson’s statement, water-boarded it until all the context went away, and put it out there<\/a> as ‘Mary Franson Compares People On Food Stamps To Animals<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

And that’s how the media – in the bag for the DFL as they almost universally are – ran with it.<\/p>\n

It was a lie, of couse; the DFL, being intellectually and morally bankrupt, has had nothing but <\/em>lies for the past 30 years.<\/p>\n

But since misogyny – Rush’s misguided statement about Sandra Fluke, not Bill Maher saying Sarah Palin would diddle Rick Perry if he were black<\/a>, or Ed Schultz calling Laura Ingraham a “slut”<\/a>, or Maher calling Palin a “c*nt”, naturally – is in the news, let’s look at the biggest case of misogyny going on in Minnesota right now.<\/p>\n

Because lies have consequences.<\/p>\n

Franson has been a lighting rod for Minnesota’s demented left for a long time now. \u00a0A Central Minnesota teacher and leftyblogger apparently expressly condoned some of the local droogs-in-the-making in bullying one of Franson’s children in school<\/a> because, in his role as moral judge, jury and executioner, he figured it served her right, having a parent who opposed gay marriage (LL has the audio; it’s a fairly searing indictment of the “Clockwork Orange”-y inner id <\/em>of way too much of public education today, not to mention the dingo-like morality of a good 80% of Minnesota leftybloggers). \u00a0By extension, it served her right, being a conservative woman.<\/p>\n

Because women, <\/em>like blacks and latinos and gays, are supposed to be liberals<\/em>. \u00a0And if they wander off the reservation, there need to be consequences.<\/p>\n

And DFLers are promising consequences for Franson’s latest remark (as filtered through the Hyenas and the media). \u00a0Franson has received death threats, crude-to-the-point-of-prehensile<\/a> attacks, and giggly snarks from the loathsome Paul Thissen<\/a>, and, Saturday morning, a protest on her front lawn<\/a>\u00a0– prompting even some of the less-depraved leftybloggers to urge juuuust a smidge of caution<\/a>. \u00a0 (Can you imagine the furor if someone like this <\/a>– who does, by the way, represent the DFL – turned up at a Tea Party?) \u00a0Incredibly, House Minority leader Paul Thissen disavowed any knowledge of the threats of violence, and tried to turn it into another snark<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So the story is this: \u00a0the hyenas of the Ministry of Truth twist Franson’s statement far out of context to whip up hysteria – part of a long-running campaign to harass Franson and, indeed, all conservative women, to make being involved in politics too emotionally draining for all but the supernaturally-toughest conservative women (and by God, your leading conservative women could make a Navy SEAL cry uncle). \u00a0Hysteria duly ensues, with less-mentally-gifted DFLers promising one of their made-to-order mini-riots on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The media wants to know…<\/p>\n

…if Franson really thinks food stamp recipients are reeeeealy animals?<\/p>\n

Franson, fortunately, responded:<\/p>\n

The real news story is the death threats and vicious, sexual, misogynist emails I have received in connection with the video that has been taken down and for\u00a0which I have apologized. I’ve never compared people with animals as I think too\u00a0highly of the human person. This is why it’s immoral for government to enable\u00a0dependency, a subject my critics are fierce to avoid. Democrats are content with<\/p>\n

the poverty status quo; republicans are not.<\/p>\n

I’d be happy to forward to you some of the emails if you are interested. Otherwise,\u00a0the subject that I understand you wish to interview me about is both stale & dated and<\/p>\n

has been eclipsed by violence from the left. I think your viewers would be more interested\u00a0in the latter than the former.<\/p>\n

Best regards,<\/p>\n

Mary Franson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s more than a little tempting to drive to Alex this weekend with a camera. \u00a0Indeed, if there are any conservative activists in the neighborhood, it’d be good to get the festivities on tape. \u00a0This blog will run your footage for you.<\/p>\n

And I have a feeling I won’t have to shave any context to make it shame the DFL.<\/p>\n

PS: \u00a0I implied above that there is a concerted rhetorical campaign to so intensely harass conservative women, blacks, latinos and gays to the point that they stay out of politics. \u00a0I’m wondering – can you imagine how some DFL hamster like Betty McCollum or Sandy Pappas would melt down if they were the target of the constant misogynistic hatred that the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Laura Ingraham, Mary Franson or any other conservative women are?<\/p>\n

Imagining is all we can do, of course. \u00a0Because it just. \u00a0Doesn’t. \u00a0Happen. \u00a0 Not like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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