Monday, June 14, 2010
Politics Sontany Issues Non-Apology Apology in Skirtgate
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- How would Marilyn Monroe vote on family issues?
At a Democratic gathering over the weekend, Sontany said of women Republican state lawmakers: "You have to lift their skirts to find out if they are women. You sure can't find out by how they vote!" State GOP chairman Chris Devaney quickly issued a press release calling her comment "inappropriate and disrespectful" and demanding that various Democrats denounce Sontany.
In her office down the hall from the gritty Legislative Plaza press room, we found Sontany sitting glumly at her desk and wishing we wouldn't ask her about any of this. "I would just as soon see this not have all the legs that apparently it's going to take," she says. "I guess it's a slow news day."
She says she made her wiseacre remark about Rep. Debra Maggart because the Democrats were talking about how one of Maggart's counties, Sumner, is the only one in the state without pre-kindergarten classes.
"I think they think it's glorified daycare," Sontany tells Pith. "I would think that women should care at least as much [as men] about family issues, and I would consider that a family issue."
But Sontany adds: "That was a glib, off-the-cuff remark that I made that I really wish I had not done. It was not one of my better thought-out statements and I did not mean it to offend. If I have offended anyone, I'm certainly sorry that I did."
OK, but what do we do about the horrifying images that Sontany has implanted in our brains of Republican women in the legislature hiking up their skirts?
Update: Michelle Malkin is outraged. "When liberals can’t handle GOP women, they infantilize, sexualize, demonize, and dehumanize them." Also at RedState: "Democrats hate women."
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Devaney forgot to play the race card. Sontany obviously only meant this about white women because Democrats hate white people these days.
Come on, Devaney, stick to the conservative PC talking points - White people are opressed in Obama's America.
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If she got a pass, all these conservative men wouldn't be commenting all over the local blogoshere with their panties in a wad about it, now would they?
ah, JohnnyC - the GENDERCARD!!
the game plays are predictable, but still amusing.
I have been saying FOR YEARs that the Dem/Liberals are soooo ugly you need STRIP THEM to see if they are even humans!
With a dem politician saying what she said, I think she is just showing how JEALOUS libs are that most of the Conservatives are HOT while they are stuck with homely Uggs! and I don't mean the boots!
thank you!
monique
If anyone lifts Malkin's skirt please warn me in advance. That I NEVER want to see!
Word is Phil Valentine is a lesbian, Fred Thompson is a transvestite, Marsha Blackburn has a huge set of kahoona's, Ramsey has a clit. Sounds to me the republicans are all messed up. I wouldn't know this because I can't bring myself to vote sissy I mean republican. I hear things and this is stuff said. One thing I know for sure They vote like inbreds.
Michelle Malkin is a gorgeous babe......and she's a Conservative Republican!!!!
And in a skirt she looks incredible, and is stunning woman.... :)
Glad we Conservatives have a so many beauties on our side...:)
Conservative PC rants are sooooo 1995. The little masochists desperately want to be victims.
Glad I didn't vote for Janis Sontany, and wouldn't, She wishes she could be half the woman that SARAH PALIN and JAN BREWER are. You don't hear the republican women going around publicly bashing The Democratic women for what went on under the desk in the Presidential office.
Please, this is a non-issue that is being stirred up. Being accused of being a man isn't the worst thing that can happen, is it? I like men! It isn't half as bad as that nitwit Palin accusing everyone who disagrees with her as not being "the real America." Go Janis!
Anybody got the stomach to check up under Sontany's skirt? cringe at the thought. May find a 1-eared elephant under there, Yikes!!!
tbf, most of the most visible women in the GOP these days (Palin, Bachmann, etc.) are doing a damn fine job of infantilizing themselves.
classey lady Sontany ran unopposed last time.So my wife and I wrote my name in.It made us feel so good that we did not waste our votes.
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