‘Vagina Manger’?
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A “Daily Show” segment that criticized Fox News for ignoring the GOP’s “war on women” while highlighting the left’s “war on Christmas” has drawn the ire of the Catholic League.
“What can women do to generate the same sense of outrage from Fox?” Stewart asked on Monday’s episode. “Maybe women could protect their reproductive organs from unwanted medical intrusions with vagina mangers.”
Cue onscreen photo-illustration of a “vagina manger,” and a pair of statements from Catholic League president Bill Donohue:
“This unprecedented vulgar assault on Christians cannot stand. If Jon Stewart doesn’t apologize, we will mount a boycott of his show’s advertisers. And we will enlist our allies in the Protestant, Jewish, Mormon and Muslim communities…
…The cover-up is revealing. This episode of “The Daily Show” was done to protest Fox’s alleged indifference to the “war on women,” and in doing so Stewart not only made a vulgar attack on Christians, he objectified women.
We are asking Stewart to apologize. If he does not, we will mobilize Protestants, Jews, Mormons and Muslims to join us in a boycott of his sponsors. Moreover, we will not stop with a boycott; there are other things that can be done to register our outrage. We are prepared to spend the money it takes to make this a nationwide issue, and we are prepared to stay the course.
Donohue added that on Thursday the group would “have something definitive to say, one way or the other.”
my opinion of the Catholic League is on par with the Tea Party and other right-wing groups. Is the Daily Show shaking in its boots? Hardly.
Bill Donohue must have taken threatening lessons from the House GOP caucus… neither of them can intimidate worth a damn.
Boycott-schmoycott! Wiki’s blurb on the tawdry bunch: ‘the group issues condemnations, initiates boycotts and protests, defends priests against accusations of child sexual abuse, fights proposed legislation and threatens legal action against what it sees as bigotry against Catholics, irreverence against religious figures, and attacks on Catholic dogma.
Desperation for some attention…don’t they know the ship is sinking?
Thanks Tara & Steve.
I don’t know how I missed Jon Stewart saying this, but I did. Dang. I need to listen more carefully. Vagina mangers! A brilliant idea. I wish all religions were clinging to life rafts in a deluge of their own shit, but so many people still really believe that it’s hard to imagine the religionists not winning the war. They like guns and are glad to spill my blood in the name of their god.