Joy Behar and Panel Discuss Michigan GOP’s ‘Vagina’ Censorship Controversy

Joy Behar introduced her new show on Current TV last night with a round-table discussion of the decision last week by Republicans who control Michigan’s legislature to censor two state representatives who used the word “vagina” during debate over anti-abortion legislation:

Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) was silenced on the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives by a Republican colleague last Wednesday after using the word “vagina” in a speech denouncing proposed anti-abortion legislation, yet another flare-up in the GOP war on women.

Current TV host Joy Behar checks in with Rep. Brown, Erica Jong, author of “Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex,” and Michelle Goldberg, senior contributing writer for The Daily Beast/Newsweek and author of “The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World,” to hear their reaction to the incident and the ongoing debate over women’s rights.

“The Republicans have no economic plan, so they’re going to get people all excited about the word ‘vagina,’” observes Jong.

Behar’s show does not officially launch until the fall, which is too bad since it immediately became the most engaging and entertaining show in the network’s primetime lineup.

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3 thoughts on “Joy Behar and Panel Discuss Michigan GOP’s ‘Vagina’ Censorship Controversy”

  1. Like a bunch of adolescent pre-teens the D’s love the bad words. What is it about the femmie hags that drive them to expose their friggin vava’s and tata’s in public?

    1. Only pre-teens and half-wits think “vagina” is a “bad word.” But it’s the leaders of the mouth-breathing right who are obsessed with sex talk — like their drug-addicted intellectual leader Rush Limbaugh who constantly talks about sodomy:

      “But the slobbering, the slobbering – this guy, folks I’m telling you – if he keeps this up throughout the G20, Gordon Brown will come down with anal poisoning and may die from it.”

      “I may be wrong … Lindsey Graham is certainly close enough to [McCain] to die of anal poisoning.”

      “We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president.”

      “[Troopergte] is pure sexism in Alaska on the part of these old boys trying to get rid of Sarah Palin, and she didn’t put up with it, and she didn’t bend over and let them have their way. ”

      “You want to know why the Republicans are willing to say, ‘Screw you,’ to 30 percent or more of their voters and yet Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, ‘Have your way with me,’ for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population?”

      …Which is interesting when you consider that Limbaugh dodged the Vietnam draft by claiming he had cysts on his ass.

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