Erickson, RedState editor-in-chief, talk radio host, and CNN political contributor, came under fire for a tweet he sent out last night regarding the Democratic National Convention. His oh-so-horrifying crime? He compared the conference’s first night to a performance of “The Vagina Monologues.” Lefties are blowing it way out of proportion in a fit of faux feminist outrage. We know: Shocker! They are branding Erickson a misogynist and calling for his head. Egads! A conservative man said “vagina.” It’s only edgy and cool when liberals do it!
Shortly after sending the initial tweet, he issued an apology:
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/243154874630557696
But for most of those who were offended by what Erickson had said, the apology didn’t cut it. After all, Erickson didn’t break down into fits of sobbing and fall down at the feet of The Universal Sisterhood.
https://twitter.com/SusieMarDom/status/243444337877331968
https://twitter.com/RepublicanMath/status/243445008856924160
@EWErickson misogynistic jackhole. Oh but I apologize if I offended anyone with my tweet. Wasn't my intention.
— Trisha Dali ? (@trixieone2) September 5, 2012
Media Matters is quite tickled by the whole thing:
CNN's Erick Erickson apologizes for his "Vagina Monologues" tweet: http://t.co/JUwxzcnI #DNC2012
— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 5, 2012
As is Media Matters “research fellow” and professional whiner Oliver Willis:
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/243156172469854208
CNN is apparently receiving its fair share of calls to drop Erickson as a contributor:
@MsTerryMcMillan @Netroots_Nation @Oprah 32,000 (+me!) calling on @CNN to sever ties with @EWErickson – PETITION AT http://t.co/bJ0WqfU1
— ILoveLadybugs (@Sheri_Hill) September 5, 2012
@IowaPeg Exactly! Until @CNN stands up to people like @EWErickson their credibility is gone.
— Reverend Sue (@ReverendSue) September 5, 2012
Just got wind of this tweet. @CNN gotta fire him RT @EWErickson: First night of the Vagina Monologues in Charlotte going as expected.
— Coach Moses (@WordToMoses) September 5, 2012
Waiting for @CNN to suspend @EWErickson for his offensive & sexist remarks. Or will there be a double standard? See @rolandsmartin .
— KanuriYah (@KaNuri) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/JackRabbitCafe/status/243449950057406464
https://twitter.com/JustAnotherRich/status/243452600211619840
.@buncombian here's to hoping that @ewerickson has finally crossed CNN's line…
— Where Y'at? (@YatPundit) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/skellner/status/243466017718804480
@CNN I ask you to drop @EWErickson as a contributor or I'll drop watching CNN. His dismissive, obnoxious views of women belong in the past.
— _emroka_ (@_emroka_) September 5, 2012
Ooo! Ladies and gentlemen, we have a super-celebrity telling CNN to fire Erickson!
What a dick-bag! Strong women leaders = "The Vagina Monologues?" Ridiculous & sexist. CNN: Fire Erick Erickson. http://t.co/a4pr9lLG
— Neko Case (@NekoCase) September 5, 2012
This is how you know you’ve hit the big time.
ThinkProgress can barely contain its excitement. When ThinkProgress writer Annie-Rose Strasser’s not busy denigrating the elderly and female Romney supporters, she’s doing cartwheels over the supposed 32,000-plus signatures on an anti-Erickson petition:
UltraViolet, a women’s advocacy group, launched the petition calling on CNN to “Take him off the air right away” for his sexist line. “Seriously?” the petition reads, “He hears powerful, eloquent women talking about crucial issues and that’s his reaction?”
Among the “Vagina Monologues” that Erickson was referring to were speeches by Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius; Congressional candidate and double-amputee Iraq veteran Tammy Duckworth; and the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama.
Or — and we’re just going out on a limb here, mind you — he may have been referring to the fact that Democratic and leftist women have been calling attention to their vaginas nonstop for months. Remember National #SayVagina Day? Or how about just last week, when Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sandra Fluke engaged in some vaginal monologuing of their own at the RNC? They claim to be concerned about women’s rights, but time and time again, they reduce women to nothing more than the sum of their girly bits. Girly bits like, yes, vaginas. Giant, walking, talking, song-singing, sign-carrying, pink vaginas. But Erick Erickson is a sexist for drawing attention to them.
Got it.
In spite of the fact that genuine, unapologetic sexists like Jason Biggs are being given a free pass by many on the Left, people who proudly proclaim their solidarity with the women of the world, most liberals are wildly brandishing the misogyny card and calling for Erickson to be thrown to the wolves:
hail @EWErickson defender of torture and the rich, writer of misogyny kingmaker of fail, hater of half of all americans. we're gonna miss ya
— favored soul (@bladebarrier) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/SoundsInSilence/status/243458975390109696
https://twitter.com/altadenadad/status/243456977613774848
@EWErickson Wow, such hatred of women. Too bad your father did not feel the same.
— Jerry Stamps (@pixillusionist) September 5, 2012
Thanks to @EWErickson, we can now say what @AnnDRomney was saying to women of America "I love you VAGINAS" Cool, huh? #RNC
— ZsaZsa (@TheOneZsazsa) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/brunchpoems/status/243347581885890560
@EWErickson referring to the speeches by women as vagina monologues is ironic, considering how much of pussy he himself is. #DNC2012 #ows
— Karim Walker #JusticeForAhmaudArbery ??️? (@shift_in2_turbo) September 5, 2012
@EWErickson Heard you called the #DNC "The Vagina Monologues". I guess your show is "The Douche Monologues"
— Chris Andoe (@EmperorAndoe) September 5, 2012
@EWErickson A pygmy dick-head would make such an impotent comment about strong, intelligent and powerful women. Quick transfer to Fox overdu
— JF Guider, MPH, CHES® (@JFaye1) September 5, 2012
Are we really surprised that men like @EWErickson are employed by @cnn? Welcome to our misogynist society, America. The media is complicit
— Angry Black Women (@angryblackwomen) September 5, 2012
@MeraSB @thinkprogress @cnn @womensmediacntr Yes @ewerickson is nasty and pompous believes he is far superior to any and all women
— Judy Golden (@judehere) September 5, 2012
@EWErickson are you always so blatantly mysoginistic?!!
— SusnB ✍️ (@sussrbr) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/TheSlySoul/status/243449305023795200
@EWErickson Do you have even a modicum of decency? Have you never respected a woman in your life?
— Hedge Fund Babe (@hedgefundbabe) September 5, 2012
Erik Erickson @EWErickson Just another "tiny" Right Wing Dick tweeking bout Dems. Vaginas. Cuz he knows Dems need a Meal "NOT" a snack!
— * (@DavidSlwGoliath) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/MissAnthropy/status/243430208638709760
@EWERICKSON Dickhead Diatribes….thats what you spew! Go work for FOX…THATS WHERE YOU BELONG! #CNN#DNC2012#OBAMA2012
— alison wonderland (@Alisonnj) September 5, 2012
Strong #women leaders = "The Vagina Monologues?" Ridiculous & sexist. @CNN: Fire Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) http://t.co/4qeaqX8x #fem2
— Megan Kearns (@OpinionessWorld) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/antisocialwkr/status/243460530252152833
https://twitter.com/altadenadad/status/243458110017110017
@ewerickson glad to know that I am just a vagina with a person attached to it
— Lindsay Porter (@LindsayPorter5) September 5, 2012
That’s what Code Pink will tell you, Lindsay.
Where was all the outrage when GOP women were attacked during the RNC? Where were the demands for “civility” when they had actual vile misogyny hurled at them? Some reminders, for the comprehension-challenged:
Paging Chris Matthews: Left hurls sickening hate, Right makes Mia Love’s money bomb a huge success
Sick: Wikipedia entry calls Mia Love ‘dirty, worthless whore’ and ‘House Nigger’
Tolerant libs give Condoleezza Rice the ‘Mia Love’ treatment
Or before the convention.
New Tone alert: Libs attack Ann Romney as ‘cunt,’ ‘bitch,’ ‘whore’
Liberals to Ann Romney: Happy Birthday, bitch. Hope you die.
Stop whining, wing nuts! Governor Nikki Haley totally had a beating coming
That’s totally hunky-dory. Because conservative women aren’t “real women.” They don’t prance around in vagina costumes and all.
@EWErickson
Twitter hates you and ball cancer
From this voodoo curse I incanted upon your spawn for 100 years,is too good…Fucktard:)— Matthew J Hearn (@Fireflysghost) September 5, 2012
Too bad this cunt couldn't be with us last night RT @EWErickson First night of the Vagina Monologues in Charlotte going as expected.
— Jenna Hall (@jenna_hall) September 5, 2012
@EWErickson The reason you hate women so much is you are so fucking ignorant and ugly, your right hand won't even fuck you, never mind women
— J C (@puunjab) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/MKivland/status/243450182396682240
Charming.
Naturally, notable self-proclaimed “women’s rights advocates” are piling on Erickson:
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/243332082753994754
Marcotte, if you’ll recall, gleefully slammed Ann Romney and other stay-at-home moms. The faux feminist also referred to Michelle Malkin as “brutish and stupid.” But remember, folks: it’s Erick Erickson who thinks women should walk in good little submissive lockstep.
And let’s not forget about noted feminist thinker David Shuster:
Anybody know if @EWErickson is still employed @cnn following his sexist/mysognistic tweet last night and non-apology apology? #DNC2012
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) September 5, 2012
For those of you who have lost count of his many heroic defenses of women, here are a few reminders:
Breaking: David Shuster is a tool
Lefty feminists on Twitter spinning for Hilary Rosen, attacking Ann Romney
Reductio ad Vaginum: David Shuster hearts Obama’s latest attack ad
Conservatives stuck up for Erickson:
@thinkprogress 32,000 want what little truth there is 2 be removed from @CNN. @EWErickson
— (((WitCoHE))) (@E__Strobel) September 5, 2012
@thinkprogress Bullying @cnn to axe @ewerickson over that tweet is desperate hypocrisy. Outside your bubble, you're a sad caricature ?
— Ed Shahzade (@Ed) September 5, 2012
Why are @markos & other liberals dumping on the Vagina monologues? http://t.co/6VWHhttS
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) September 5, 2012
If you've seen Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" like I have, you'd understand the context of @EWErickson's tweet.
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/LifeOfJuIia/status/243472127674687488
@delrayser You must not be watching. Vagina monologues is an understatement.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 5, 2012
Democrats do this http://t.co/7aUbTfJD but if a conservative says the word http://t.co/gyKOis4R they act all shocked http://t.co/FBBm2Kru
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) September 5, 2012
@DavidShuster Hey mister reporter. Are you creating some outrage at Harpootlian comparing N.Haley to Eva Braun? Thought so. #Left #MSM
— Brent (@brento76) September 5, 2012
@DavidShuster Maybe if you throw a big baby fit about it?
— China is lying (@jtLOL) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/nolibsinheaven/status/243415069701050368
https://twitter.com/AndrewHoppes/status/243410099916382208
https://twitter.com/skifei/status/243400268979515394
https://twitter.com/MarkImpomeni/status/243487151361253376
https://twitter.com/brady_cremeens/status/243358923736899585
And fortunately, there are still a few liberals with their heads screwed on straight:
@JuddLegum @EWErickson I thought it was funny – and I have a vagina!
— Colleen (@YoursAlwys) September 5, 2012
https://twitter.com/superbus/status/243453930636447745
I can't stand that guy but don't u think ppl r overreacting? RT @thinkprogress 32,000 people calling on @CNN to sever ties w/ @EWErickson
— Nicholas Soto (@nekosoto) September 5, 2012
Yes, @EWErickson is a complete jerk, but since when are we against freedom of speech? It was not hate-filled bigotry, or inciting mobs.
— Margaret Heilbrun (@Magsthebookie) September 5, 2012
@EWErickson You did not have to apoligize. You're joke tweet about the DNC was in context, I'm a progressive man who still believe in humor
— Guida © (@humbertoguida) September 5, 2012
Sadly, common sense is in short supply on the Left. Let’s hope CNN exercises a bit of common sense of its own amid all of this absurdity and keeps Erickson around.
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