The Republican cabal just went to war against the
top-paid actress in Hollywood, the star of the Hunger Games trilogy as Katniss Everdeen, Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence told
Vogue in an interview published Wednesday that she was brought up as a Republican but that the GOP’s treatment of women was difficult for her:
“I was raised a Republican but I just can’t imagine supporting a cabal that doesn’t support women’s basic rights.”
At this point you can say good for her! She called out the Republican cabal for its War on Women.
Women’s Reproductive Rights are under attack everywhere Republicans
hold sway, not only abortion rights, but the right to contraceptives and
even to health care through attacks on Planned Parenthood.
She told the magazine,
“It’s 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we’ve
come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don’t want to stay quiet about
that stuff.”
Lawrence has a reputation for speaking what’s on her mind, and she
did not hold back, and cemented her place as a tough, intelligent young
woman, going after both Trump and Kim Davis:
“My view on the election is pretty cut-and-dried,” she told the
magazine. “If Trump is president of the United States, it will be
the end of the world. And he’s also the best thing to happen to the
Democrats ever.”
And Kentucky clerk Kim Davis?
“Kim Davis? Don’t even say her name in this house.”
“[She is a] lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky. All
those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks,
thinking they’re fighting the good fight.”
“I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are.”
Needless to say, Republicans are not amused at being called out for their medieval attitudes. The crew at Fox News’
Outnumbered for example, had their usual idiotic pablum to say.
Tantaros
reacted to Lawrence’s words
by saying, “Wow, I’m embarrassed for Jennifer Lawrence, I’m embarrassed
to be a woman, Harris, to listen to a female spout some idiocy.”
Seeing his cue, Harris Faulkner spouted, “I just — I don’t believe
it’s reality.” This is the network, mind, that hosts the Republican cabal’s
completely invented reality.
Tantaros answered, “These are pretty dumb remarks.” She then went on to question Lawrence’s First Amendment rights:
“She insulted quite a few people in that rant that she did,
Stephen. I just want to know what rights does Jennifer Lawrence not
have?”
Stephen Hayes allowed that she had the right to say what she wanted,
but said, “If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, you’re better
off remaining quiet.”
If Fox News took his advice, you would hear
nothing but silence on
that channel. Certainly, Andrea Tantaros would be easier to watch. The
same holds true over at Red State, which characterized Lawrence’s fight
for equal pay for women as a “bratty display from a wealthy youngster.”
Right. Because if you’re a woman and you want to get paid the same as
a man for doing the same job, you’re a brat. At every opportunity
Republicans seem eager to prove Lawrence’s point, don’t they?
Hilariously – since we say the exact same thing about Tantaros and
her crew here at PoliticusUSA, Tantaros concluded that “as long as
liberals keep saying dumb stuff, we’re gonna cover it right here on this
program.”
Dumb stuff – as in facts. CNS News predictably rant
with the headline “Jennifer Lawrence attacks 'christians',”
which she did not. She attacked medieval attitudes. There are plenty of
christians – most in fact – who agree with Lawrence, as polls
demonstrate.
That doesn’t stop the misinformed and vile haters who read this stuff from coming to the fore:
electric123 •
What
this Hollywood Slit says, doesn’t hold a pile of beans to the working
class, and she will find out on her own judgment day.
RM •
Ah yes, another actress who’s whored herself to the devil for the fame
and pleasures of this world. Hollyweird is full of those who have sold
their souls for this earths fame and pleasures. What a shallow/vapid
person, who threw her immortal soul away for a bowl of gruel.
The fact is that Tantaros and the rest of her ilk at Fox News
lie regularly as part of their jobs at Fox News, making being offensive a
career. They regularly say dumb things yet call Jennifer Lawrence
stupid for telling the simple, undeniable truth that the Republican cabal does not
support women’s basic rights.
Tantaros, for example, is the one who, apparently eager to vie with the vapid intellect of Hasselbeck asked
during the Rachel Dolezal imbroglio, “If I self-identify as a cat, a
feline, do I have to pay income taxes? I mean, I’m just wondering.”
Even Trump has admitted Kim Davis has to obey the law of the
land, and recognized that the law of the land happens to be the United
States Constitution, not the bible.
Facts, Tantaros. In response to facts, all Fox News has are
insults. Tantaros made no attempt to prove Lawrence was wrong in any
particular. She couldn’t. So she mocked her instead.
Jennifer Lawrence is right. The Republican cabal doesn’t respect
women’s basic rights. And how could they when they don’t respect women?
