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Iowa's Republican Senate nominee Joni Ernst told a local news outlet she's "appalled" that her husband once called former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano a "traitorous skank" on Facebook.
As reported by the Des Moines Register, Democrats took a screenshot of Gail Ernst's written comments, which had been up since April 2013, and seized on them. That prompted him to delete that and other inflammatory posts and apologize for them before Ernst denounced them.
"I'm appalled by my husband's remarks," Joni Ernst said, according to the Register. "They are uncalled for and clearly inappropriate. I've addressed this issue with my husband and that's between us."
Gail Ernst also called Hillary Clinton a "hag" in a May 2013 post on Facebook.
The flap is particularly notable because Ernst's allies have been sensitive to sexist attacks on the candidate in her race against Democrat Bruce Braley for Iowa's open Senate seat this November.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joni-ernst-husband-traitorous-skank
Cha
(296,893 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Sounds convenient to me.
Are you sure he was not writing about $arah PayMe?
paleotn
(17,886 posts)...that kind of goes without saying.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Next we will have Cindy McCain saying how shocked she was when little johnny called her a c^^t in front of reporters.
xocet
(3,871 posts)JI7
(89,241 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)madville
(7,404 posts)I can't believe people are dumb enough to leave easy pickings like that hanging out there.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)folks "get"?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)towards the screen.
"Classy" just like her hubby
dballance
(5,756 posts)They seem like peas in a pod in their extreme views, IMHO. I doubt she's honestly and sincerely appalled. Just publicly appalled for the campaign's sake.
If it was sexist to take the "Chick" ad as being demeaning to women, then it was sexist to have an ad where she is proud of cutting the balls out of males. (FYI, I am NOT an MRA person. I know, CLEARLY know that as a white male I've had privilege all my life). When I was busted for DUI and possession of Cocaine in Miami I showed up in court in a nice suit and tie because I could afford to show up that way (white male privilege). The judge mistook me for an attorney since almost every other defendant was of color and certainly not in a suit and tie or even very nice dress. She asked me who I was representing. I got a light fine and probation. The same thing didn't happen for many of the people there who were not privileged white males like me.
I just wish to point out the irony that showing a baby chick is sexist, but figuratively cutting out my balls is not - in her campaign's opinion.
Leith
(7,808 posts)Most men are wonderful people. When I read the OP, I wondered "isn't she the one who said she wanted to castrate members of congress just to make'em squeal?" That sounds a lot worse that "traitorous skank."
It looks like her values, priorities, thought processes, whatever, are really screwed up.
Kaleva
(36,262 posts)Cha
(296,893 posts)Stardust
(3,894 posts)- no abortions for any reason, ever
- ban on birth control
- privatize Social Security
- abolish minimum wage
- amend Constitution to ban same-sex marriage
- abolish the Clean Water Act
- abolish the Farm Bill
- there exists evidence of Sadam Hussein's WMDs
Aye yi yi!
alp227
(32,006 posts)I thought anyone running for statewide office in the agricultural heartland NEEDS to vote in the interests of farmers!
Stardust
(3,894 posts)PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)and get covered with their manure.
(No offense to actual farm animals meant.)
riqster
(13,986 posts)Manure at least helps feed us.
marble falls
(57,015 posts)Justice
(7,185 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)She seems to spend a lot of time in the barn, castrating animals, so maybe the pig was squealing too loud for her to hear what he said.
MADem
(135,425 posts)He should sleep with one eye open--she doesn't play...
"Let's make 'em squeal" -- Really? I think there's PLENTY of sexism to go around in that screwed - up household!!!
I guess that kind of antiquated "gender roles" thing sells in Iowa...?
DFW
(54,302 posts)She certainly didn't seem to have much need to denounce them while he was making them.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)madaboutharry
(40,190 posts)This is obviously the way they talk in their home. Joni Ernst is another fraud and huckster with a crackpot world view.
Maybe she needs to castrate her pig of a husband.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)'Once called' is something you said a decade or two back, not last year.