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CNN contributor Erick Erickson: "Ugly feminists return to their kitchens" after Tebow Super Bowl ad

February 08, 2010 10:50 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Erick Erickson's Twitter feed:

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    • Author by MickD (February 08, 2010 10:53 am ET)
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      Tweet on you twits. Press send at all hours and states of drunkeness/medication. No ramifications at all. </sarcasm>.
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    • Author by DAWUSS (February 08, 2010 10:55 am ET)
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      Now THIS is sexism
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    • Author by mustardman (February 08, 2010 11:03 am ET)
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      This clown is affiliated with CNN? Why has he not been fired yet?
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      • Author by DAWUSS (February 08, 2010 11:06 am ET)
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        Look at how long they kept Lou Dobbs
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      • Author by hopeless (February 08, 2010 2:39 pm ET)
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        Because he's right.
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        • Author by loonz (February 09, 2010 6:09 am ET)
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          You're as brain dead as him.
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        • Author by achrispage6992 (February 09, 2010 7:37 am ET)
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          Right about what? The correct spelling of Oligarchy really being "Oligarhy?" I seriously believe you people who follow Beck have lost all objective reasoning capability. You function on the subjective only. I'm fairly positive that if Beck came out tomorrow and told you that: progressives have fooled the entire world for thousands of years and as such- 1+1 does not equal 2 it actually equals three and the sky is really orange not blue; you would faithfully believe him. There is not doubt you would be going around telling people the liberals have caused the world to believe orange is really blue. It is stunning how mindless one must be to follow that little Hitler like punk called Glenn Beck.
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      • Author by Tangaroa (February 08, 2010 9:23 pm ET)
           
        Not been fired? This sort of thing is exactly why they hired him in the first place. Someone at corporate agrees with his views which are well known beforehand and wants to promote them.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (February 08, 2010 11:29 am ET)
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      I'm a feminist. I had a single pregnancy and raised a set of twins to adulthood. One of them had solvable health issues as a child, and has continuing, but unrelated, health issues now. I still think that women should have the choice to decide about their own pregnancies. He must be easily convinced, because all it convinced me about it that mothers love their children.....well duh.
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      • Author by HeeNow (February 08, 2010 9:54 pm ET)
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        That doesn't really state your position. Like you, we had issues with pregnancy (who wouldn't).

        I am so torn...

        In late 1998, my granddaughter was newly in the womb. Her mother had six abortions as a teenager, and her doctor told her it was no longer an option.

        Bottom line: I now have the love of my life. She is a witty, sarcastic, guitar-playing, viola-bowing, soccer star, composer, poet, writer, ham, artist, cheerleader, and gorgeous 10-year-old who gives her granddad no slack.

        In return I spoil her rotten (my job). Her mom and dad chastise me regularly.

        This debate is so difficult...

        Love (seriously),

        HN

        P.S. For those who care, she is bi-racial. That's why I tell her every time we're together that there is a precedent to her becoming president. Study hard, child.
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        • Author by mikerattlesnake (February 09, 2010 9:27 am ET)
             
          This is going to seem like an insensitive question, but would you have rather had your daughter get those 6 abortions (if she lasted that long) in a back alley or through dangerous home methods? Countries in which abortion is illegal do not have lower rates of abortion, they just have higher rates of permanent injury and death in the mothers.
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        • Author by epkklk851 (February 09, 2010 6:19 pm ET)
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          I've never had an abortion, I've never considered an abortion, my choices have always left me in a place where I didn't need to make that decision. I raised my children to make choices where they would not have to consider abortions, too. However, my position is that I am only responsible for my own choices and consequences. I can't raise other people's children or make other women's decisions. I find the idea of abortion appalling, but I have known a lot of women who have had them. They are good women, and many of them are still ambivilent about their abortion, they believe they did the right thing, but they know it came at a cost. My opinions about abortion haven't caused a woman to have an abortion nor have they stopped a woman from having one. I do believe if a woman can make the choice, she should have a safe, legal option.
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    • Author by rusty hinges (February 08, 2010 11:49 am ET)
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      "Ugly" CNN newsmen go to twitter when they can't get a date.
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    • Author by gr8shoes (February 08, 2010 12:24 pm ET)
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      As always the anti-choice advocates completely miss the point; Mrs. Tebow made a choice and now she wants to deny that option to all other women because they may disagree with her choice. I just don't get it. I know many people have said the ad was 'tame' but the underlying message is not.
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      • Author by skeeterman (February 09, 2010 8:41 am ET)
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        That is an unjustified statement. Mrs. Tebow is not trying to deny you or anyone else a choice. She is meerly showing women that they do have a
        choice. Abortion or not. Abortion as a whole would not be quite so newsworthy if millions were not using it for birth control. Hee Now
        even stated that his granddaughters mother had 6 abortions prior to
        her birth. Are you trying to say that you agree with that?
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    • Author by Gustaf (February 08, 2010 1:35 pm ET)
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      Erickson can say that because he's such a fine looking man.
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    • Author by mattcable250650 (February 08, 2010 1:53 pm ET)
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      Oh man-n-n, that bit about "You're a feminist because you couldn't get a date" is an old, old, OLD calumny. That goes back all the way to the days of the first wave of feminists back in the late 1800s.
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    • Author by DellDolly (February 08, 2010 1:56 pm ET)
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      So, it's our fault that we were misled about what the commercial would be about?

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    • Author by thebewilderness (February 08, 2010 2:05 pm ET)
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      Could it be that sexist journamalists like this are the reason that sexist journamalists like this don't know what the objections were to CBS changing their policy on issue ads in order to pretend that not having an abortion, in a country where it is a crime to have an abortion for any reason, constitutes a choice?

      Srsly? The women who object to forced pregnancy are women who can't get a date? He doesn't have to make sense, he's a journamalist.
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    • Author by nerzog (February 08, 2010 2:27 pm ET)
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      Apparently, the ad turned out not to be all that controversial. I saw it and thought it was kind of pointless.

      The larger question: Why did Dobson's Cult spend over a million dollars for that? What was the point... to create a phony controversy? To flaunt their money? To give the Troglodyte bloggers some red meat by baiting the feminists?

      How many little blue-haired ladies sent in their Social Security money to pay for that stupid ad?
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 08, 2010 3:13 pm ET)
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        Gloria Allred had a lot of influence in getting the ad modified. She had threatened to file a lawsuit with the FCC if the ad presented misleading information since abortion is currently illegal in the Philippines and was also illegal at the time when Tebow was born. Erickson probably hates Allred, too. Heck, he probably hates any woman who questions him about anything, except keep house and raising kids.
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        • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 08, 2010 3:15 pm ET)
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          ***keeping house and raising kids***
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        • Author by DellDolly (February 08, 2010 4:20 pm ET)
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          I don't think her actions changed the ad. I believe that CBS never intended to air an ad that was rumored to include the info that we thought it might. I think their plan was always to direct people the Focus on the Family website to push their 'no abortion, even if the pregnancy risks the life of the mother' belief!!!
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      • Author by DellDolly (February 08, 2010 4:18 pm ET)
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        If you go to their site, you get the version CBS would never have allowed to air. That's the point - the ad directed people to their website for the whole story.

        It turns out that the pregnancy likely threatened her life, but she got lucky.

        And so, despite the fact that she might have lost her life, she would have refused an abortion. And, they're lying anyway - abortion wasn't allowed in the Philippines.

        It's all propaganda. The ad was just a teaser.
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      • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (February 08, 2010 4:26 pm ET)
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        More attn for Focus on The Family! And they got it! they are a very powerful right wing christian organization. Ugly feminists, that's all that ugly chubby little man has got, an old and tired insult. Thanks CNN for hiring another idiot!
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      • Author by viagraspamhere5591 (February 08, 2010 6:54 pm ET)
           
        It's not the ad itself that's controversial. It's the fact that CBS changed its policy on issue ads to air it and turned down an ad for a dating site that matches gay partners because that might upset viewers. Plus the ad directs viewers to the FotF website, where things get a lot crazier.
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      • Author by skeeterman (February 09, 2010 8:50 am ET)
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        It would seem that the only persons that are trying to create a phoney controversy are pro-abortion backers.

        It is their money to spend as they see fit and everyone has a right to their opinion. Do you not know that there are persons that do not believe in abortion? Do you think that since you are a pro-abortionist that all pregnant women have to agree with you? Get a grip Nerzog. Abortion and the right to kill unborn babies will always be allowed. The laws will not change so why bother to debase and degrade organinzations that do not believe in it? You want to bill an unborn baby more power to you but if some other person wants to keep their child that is really none of your business anyway.
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    • Author by Mah (February 08, 2010 4:09 pm ET)
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      i dont even know where to begin...wow this is deplorable
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    • Author by highlyunlikely (February 08, 2010 6:44 pm ET)
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      and the feminists, realizing their defeat, resignedly returned to the kitchen where they proceeded to cook Mr. Sexism until he was well done.
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    • Author by viagraspamhere5591 (February 08, 2010 7:05 pm ET)
         
      He should be fired.
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    • Author by only_myschly3567 (February 09, 2010 8:34 am ET)
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      You know, I think Twitter might be the best thing to happen to mainstream media in years! All these idiots who repeatedly spread falsehoods feel comfortable on Twitter, saying what's actually on their mind without thinking twice. Hopefully this is nowhere near the last moron to actually speak his mind!
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