Fox News Compares Helping Battered Women To Getting a Manicure

[Maine-ah]

In a move that surprised exactly no one, Fox News has launched a shrill protest against the Obama administrations’ decision to have health insurance companies provide counseling for abused women with no co-pays (among several other benefits for women).

While it has always been clear that reason and compassion are not Fox’s strong points, one would hope that battered women would be a subject they might tread lightly around. Then I remembered that, on Fox, a rape/murder is the fault of the victim for dressing sexy.

Whatever was I thinking?

From Family PAC Federal Vice President Sandy Rios on Fox:

“Is the White House out of their mind? Does the West Wing not know what the left wing is doing? We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, and counseling for abuse? Are we going to do pedicures and manicures as well?”

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/08/03/fox-news-compares-helping-battered-women-to-getting-a-manicure/

[ejpoeta]

1. well, if they are covering breast pumps then that means they are helping women who HAVE kids too.

and damn straight they should cover some manicures!! i haven't had a manicure since MOPS had a mother's day thing several years ago. I friggin can't afford manicures. And they oppose counseling for abuse? really? Oh yeah, women are just supposed to just shut up and take it.

[dtexdem]

2. I'm sure that Faux News would consider the manicures more important.

[LiberalLoner]

3. If you understand that the right wing has a very deep misogyny, it all makes sense. For

instance, my father, a right-winger, has beaten his wives and children and raped his daughters. He loves FOX news.

Fox news knows exactly who their viewers are and exactly how they view women.

[nashville_brook]

4. k and r