"She stuned my beeber!"
Posted on 09/07/2012 1:01:37 PM PDT by NYer
The O’Reilly Factor began last night by broadcasting the convention speech of Caroline Kennedy, who came out and declared “As a Catholic woman,” she supports Obama because “Now isn’t the time to roll back the rights we were winning when my father was president.” As if Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1963?
O’Reilly was blunt. “I have to tell you, I am stunned. I am stunned right now at what she just said as a Catholic woman and then she went on to object to 40 states implementing restrictions on abortion like a 24-hour waiting period.” O’Reilly said it “made my head snap back” when she proclaimed:
KENNEDY: His commitment to women is about even more than economic rights. It's about health care, reproductive rights and our ability to make our own decisions about ourselves, our families, and our future. When it comes to what's best for women, there is only one candidate in this race who is on our side, Barack Obama.
As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously. And today it is under attack. This year alone, more than a dozen states have passed more than 40 restrictions on women's access to reproductive health care. That's not the kind of future I want for my daughters or your daughters. Now isn't the time to roll back the rights we were winning when my father was president. Now is the time to move this country forward.
O’Reilly and Karl Rove discussed the speech further, and Rove found it to be a direct attack on the Catholic church:
O’REILLY: She's evoking her Catholic faith, which clearly condemns abortion, and using that as some kind of spring board into criticizing the restrictions on abortion that many states have passed. And the restrictions aren't you can't have one. It's wait a couple of days and think it over.
So maybe I'm wrong on this, but that made my head snap back. And here to help us analyze Fox News analyst Karl Rove who joins us from Richmond, Virginia. Did you pick that up when she said that? I mean, I'm -- I'm still flabbergasted.
KARL ROVE: Yes. Well, I think it was a direct response -- I mean a direct attack on the church. I mean it's going out of her way to say I disagree with the values of my church.
And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion. What we're talking about is the administration's effort to expand the realm of choice by, for example, requiring churches to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees regardless of the fact that it violates the deeply most-held tenets of that faith.
We have an attack on religious liberty that's masquerading as an expansion of you know, of choice. And you know, Miss Kennedy tonight sort of threw herself on the side of those who -- who would advocate such an attack on religious liberty.
O'REILLY: But not only that, I mean she cited her Catholicism when she didn't have to. This is what -- I don't object to her opinion.
ROVE: Sure.
O'REILLY: She has her opinion and she wants unfettered abortion, that's her opinion. Supreme Court has ruled abortion is legal in the United States. Nobody is denying anybody's rights to anything. But she -- that's a gratuitous comment. She didn't have to inject that she's a Catholic woman and then go and say she wants no restrictions on abortion. She opposes that.
That's -- that's offensive, I believe and I'm -- I'm frankly shocked that -- that she would do that. I don't know whether she is -- wants to attack her own faith or not -- I'm not -- I'd like to ask her about it. But I'm just taken aback.
ROVE: Well, are you surprised? Nancy Pelosi does it routinely.
O'REILLY: Yes I am. I'm sure -- Karl -- Karl --
ROVE: Nancy Pelosi speaking as the Speaker of the House of Representatives --
O'REILLY: Wait, wait. Wait.
ROVE: And now the former speaker, assuming that she can step in and declare what the theology of the Catholic church is.
O'REILLY: Karl, let me be clear on this. Nancy Pelosi all right, is a political animal. All right? Whatever she says doesn't surprise me.
This woman comes out under the heading of the Kennedy name and the Kennedy legacy and directly besmirches her church. I mean that's stunning.
ROVE: Yes well look, she -- she may not be a politician -- she may not be a politician in the way that Nancy Pelosi is, but she comes from a very political family. Her presence there tonight was on behalf of that family. She's been a political figure. She was a key endorsement for Barack Obama in 2008....
It's gratuitous when people of any faith go out of their way to basically say I'm a -- I'm a -- I'm a Catholic and I'm telling you that I disagree deeply with the Catholic Church's opinions and I'm going to do so in a political sphere in order to make it easier for people who share my particular faith to you know disregard the teachings of our church.
Catholic ping!
There are a couple of douchebags for you.
I saw an interview with some guy with an organization of Catholics for Obama on a Catholic station last night. The interviewer asked how as a Catholic he could support a party and president who are so radically pro abortion. And certainly killing a baby that somehow survives an abortion can only be characterized as radical.
They guy’s only response was that Romney would cut medicare and that will lead to more abortions and his Catholic conscience would not let him vote for someone who would do that. And he repeated that response to every question.
What Catholic parish does Caroline Kennedy belong to? When was the last time she was seen at Mass? After all, she is a Catholic woman.
Why should he be stunned? There is no discernible discipline over the issue in the RC Church. There needs to be.
Why doesn’t her Bishop have the guts to excommunicate this toxic witch?
"She stuned my beeber!"
How does cutting funding for senior citizen healthcare lead to more abortions?
?????
That guy must have been dumber than a box of rocks. Medicare only applies to those over 65, and I don't know many women over 65 that are getting pregnant and having abortions...
Caroline Kennedy reminds me of my Catholic senator from Louisiana, Senator Mary Landrieu. Landrieu generates her smoke and mirrors by saying that as a Catholic she is personally opposed to abortion, but she still believes that a woman should have the right to choose. That is like saying that you are opposed to the consumption of alcohol and then attending the next weekly meeting of AA and offering to buy everyone in attendance a round of drinks at the local bar.
Both of these women are Catholic for so long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.
Caroline was so flat I couldn’t decide if it was the Xanax, the Ambien, or the booze talking, or maybe all three.
That's TERRIBLE! Why would anyone want to restrict women's access to "reproductive healthcare"?
what? she just means "abortion"? Oh... nevermind.
The Priest/Bishop/Cardinal in that order, of EVERY one of these ‘Catholics’ that go on media and do this crap, need to smack them down and excom them. The Pope has the responsibility to defend and enforce the tenets of the faith. Period.
ALL OF THEM are ignoring their sworn duty.
So you're admitting your own party's platform isn't "serious," eh, KKKarl?
“As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously.”
I can’t fathom what abortion has to do with “reproductive health”.
“She’s excommunicated herself”
so I don’t have to show any “guts” to do it in a confrontational way.
A Kennedy saying such things? I am not shocked in the least. O’Reilly must be stupid.
I can’t speculate on that, but she was constantly stepping on her own lines, and I take this to mean she’s not used to anyone like the rabble in the crowd, having the audacity to interrupt while she’s speaking.
(That said, I still think she’s kinda hot - remnants of a teen crush on her ;-))
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