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Santorum’s Super PAC Backer Makes a Sexist Gaffe, Walks It Back

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Posted on Feb 17, 2012
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Foster Friess addresses an audience in Phoenix last year.

Entirely missing from Foster Friess’ old-timey zinger about how the ladies did the contraception back when he was a lad, other than class, was any sense of male accountability in the procreation process. But Rick Santorum’s moneybags super PAC funder attempted to clear his name—which does sound a lot like a soft-serve frozen dessert, but we digress—by apologizing and admitting on his website that the joke didn’t work. No kidding.  —KA

“Political Hotsheet” on CBS News:

“Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives,” Friess said on MSNBC on Thursday, adding: “The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”

The implication was that women held the aspirin between their legs, which left them unable to open them.

In a statement on his website, Friess said the “joke bombed,” writing that “many didn’t recognize it as a joke but thought it was my prescription for today’s birth control practices.”

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By berniem, February 19, 2012 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment

The fact that someone becomes wealthy as a BUSINESSMAN(huckster) doesn’t necessarily include them into the ranks of the “best and brightest”. The fallacy of electing successful BUSINESSMEN to public office because they know how to “manage” things is clearly demonstrated by vacuous dim-bulbs such as Friess and others of his ilk who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the the right time, and so on, as well as being born of the “right” race, the “right” family, the “right” faith”, or the “right” gender, among other “rights”! And if one considers ol’ Foster to be a job creator in that he’s pimping for Lil Ricky, I can only say that these parasites should be taxed back up to the level of the ‘50s with all of that extra money accumulated kept here at home to rebuild and undo what they’ve done TO this nation and not for it! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!

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By Rodney, February 18, 2012 at 3:51 pm Link to this comment
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Tell both Foster Freiss and Rick Santorum to stick
aspirin up their asses and maybe neither of them will
be able to reproduce. That could be great for America

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By Marian Griffith, February 18, 2012 at 2:39 am Link to this comment
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Of course Santorum would not endorse the use of asperine as anti-conceptive. That would be use of godless science instead of trusting on the bible.

Besides, he would use a rope to tie the woman’s legs together. Which not only points out the underlying mysogeny of his beliefs but also his utter lack of understandng of female anatomy. Mr.Friess, Mr.Santorum, in the wise words of the tvtrope.com: You Fail Biology Forever!

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