I don't have anything personal against Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
I really don't. I'm not sure what it is, exactly, that she has to offer
the world, but I also wondered that about Star Jones, so whatever. So I
generally don't pay much attention to the crap that she spews. It's not
crap on a level with the fecal spewage that escapes the likes of Ann
Coulter, so it's pretty easy to ignore.
But then she had to go and start spouting nonsense - apropos of
nothing at all - about the reasons that women get abortions, and as
much as I tried to plug my ears and chant LA LA LA LA LA LA to block the grating din of her asshat opinion, I just couldn't STOP. THE. NOISE.
According to Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
it should be difficult for women to get abortions. Women, she says, get
abortions for superficial reasons. If abortions were harder to come by,
then women wouldn't just, you know, kill babies for no good reason.
As Whoopi Goldberg so astutely pointed out in response to
Hasselbeck's nonsense, unless girlfriend has been in a position where
she's had to contemplate such a decision - because of poverty, because
of social sanction, because of sexual assualt, because of lack of
support, because of fear, because of any one of the innumerable,
painful reasons that pushes women and girls to make such a terrible
decision - she can just shut her mouth. It is the very, very rare woman
who makes that decision lightly, and it is the very, very rare woman
who leaves that decision lightly: most women go into it gripped with sadness, and come out of it the same way,
save for whatever measure of relief has been afforded them for being
able to escape circumstances that they feared would be far worse.
Nobody wants to get an abortion, Hasselcrack. It's not a weekend in Vegas. Oh, hey, I think I'll go get an abortion this weekend - I could use a coupla days of rest, and I didn't want this baby anyway!
It's one thing to be 'against' abortion (which is fine, but isn't
everybody 'against' abortion in the sense that we all wish that it
didn't have to happen? Nobody is FOR abortion; they're for the
right of women to access it if they need it); it's quite another to
suggest that women who get abortions are vapid, self-absorbed twits.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a vapid, self-absorbed twit. Whether she's
an evil one, or a stupid one, I haven't quite figured out yet. I'll
keep you posted.
More celebrity bad behavior today at Famecrawler:
