This blog's name comes from former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan's off-camera description of the process that John McCain employed in choosing little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign.
"We've had two tax cuts that weren't paid for, two wars that weren't paid for,
we've got a population that's getting older, we're all demanding
services, but our taxes have actually, substantially, gone down. And so
the challenge, I think, for the tea-party movement, is to identify
specifically, 'What would you do?'" — Barack Obama in a town hall meeting telecast on CNBC, Sept. 20, 2010
Image via WikipediaBy Rachel Slajda
September 19, 2010
During one of her many appearances on Politically Incorrect with Bill
Maher in the '90s, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell (R-DE) sparred
with now-Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) over sex, condoms and hypocrisy.
The first topic: A provision in then-President Bill Clinton's welfare
reform bill that would fund sex ed, but only if the curriculum taught
that extra-marital sex "will have harmful physical and psychological
effects."
O'Donnell, who in May 1997 was the director of pro-abstinence SALT,
argues that abstinence-only education was the only way to protect kids
from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, because "condoms don't
work. Condoms fail."
Franken responds, "I think hypocrisy will have harmful psychological and physical effects. Don't you?"
And don't miss Star Parker asking, "Where's the condom for your heart?"
The spot will air during Tuesday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” according to Media Matters.
Fox had initially refused
to run the ad because of objections to language -- specifically, that
News Corp. had refused to disclose the donation to Fox viewers.
The edited version (above) states introduces the ad is “about a story that's not yet been covered on Fox News primetime.”
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
