The corrupt media and a joke Rick Santorum did not tell.

Island Turtle ^ | February 17, 2012 | Corky Boyd

[Corky Boyd]

For anyone who doubts the legacy media are the handmaidens or the Democratic Party and its propaganda arm, Media Matters, has only to follow the story of the aspirin joke. In some convoluted logic, a joke told by a campaign contributor has become the responsibility of Rick Santorum. In typical fashion the multiple voices of the three legacy networks and major papers including the New York Times and the Washington Post are parroting in unison the identical message. It is shoddy journalism to the extreme.

The joke, poorly told by Foster Friess, is most decidedly not anti contraception. Quite to the contrary the joke pokes fun at the ill conceived anti-birth control law in effect in New York in the 1930s and 40s. This law prevented birth control devices from being sold and prohibited doctors from dispensing advice on the subject. Here’s the joke as I heard it in the 1950s.

A lady goes into the doctor’s office as asks how to prevent pregnancy. The doctor responds that he is not allowed to give such advice. But he hesitates and says there is a way: Aspirin. The lady asks how it should be taken (the unstated choices presumably being orally or vaginally). To which the doctor responds, hold it between your knees.

The joke was slightly off color for the 50s, but certainly not offensive in today’s more liberated atmosphere. It is not anti-female. It is, as I have said, a knock on the idiotic anti-contraception legislation at the time.

But this is nothing new. A year ago Sarah Palin was viciously attacked by Democrats and the media (is there a difference?) first as the murderer of Gabby Giffords, and then when she defended herself against these utter falsehoods, for using the term “blood libel”....

[Notwithstanding]

http://contraception.about.com/b/2010/05/20/myth-busters-aspirin-as-a-birth-control-method.htm Dawn Stacey, About.com's Guide to Contraception, is a published author and a former family planning specialist, health educator, and pregnancy options counselor for Planned Parenthood: "Going back to the aspirin belief, if you are determined to use it as a form of birth control, I will leave you with the following suggestion: the only way that an aspirin can prevent pregnancy is for a woman to carefully place it between her knees and HOLD it there (by keeping her knees and therefore her legs) closed. ☺"

[struggle]

Um, I made this joke with my students about a year ago, and the media didn’t paratroop in with microphones.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

3 words reverend wright hypocrisy

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Don’t just them back Rick, break their jaw

[Anima Mundi]

This could easily be turned the other way by telling the press that women don’t get the “vapours” any more and probably can take a joke with the best of them in the modern era. Does anybody recall if there was much upset when Clinton’s MAIN spokesman said that “drag a dollar through a trail park” comment? Basically calling women sluts? THAT was offensive. Oh, but okay because a DEMOCRAT said it. Yeah.

[redhead]

"Um, I made this joke with my students about a year ago, and the media didn’t paratroop in with microphones."

My old country doctor made the joke to me in the early sixties. "They already have a pill that will prevent pregnancy!" he said. When I expressed my surprise, he said, "Yep. It's an aspirin. You just put it between your knees, and you keep it there all night!"

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Corky Boyd.

...a joke told by a campaign contributor has become the responsibility of Rick Santorum. In typical fashion the multiple voices of the three legacy networks and major papers including the New York Times and the Washington Post are parroting in unison the identical message.

Partisan Media Shill ping.