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S.E. Cupp spoke up for the “lonely and unseen” majority while addressing the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Cupp joined Van Jones for the latest episode of his podcast Uncommon Ground, in which she lamented the divisive partisan rhetoric that failed to represent views she shared with millions of other Americans.
Cupp, a pro-life conservative, noted that abortion rates “have steadily ticked down” and were “way down” from when Roe was decided in 1973.
“There isn’t this abortionpalooza!” she quipped, hitting at those on her side of the political aisle.
The current political environment left her feeling “like an orphan,” she explained, like she had “no parents on either side of the aisle because I’m insufficiently pro-choice and insufficiently pro-life.”
Pro-life Christian protesters who stood outside abortion clinics yelling “murderer!” at the staff and patients for years did not change any minds, Cupp pointed out.
On the other side, she said, the progressive strategy of “shout your abortion,” treating it “like it’s a milestone, like getting your ears pierced” was also outside the norm of most Americans’ views.
“No one’s representing me,” said Cupp. “But I’m the majority! It has never felt so lonely and unseen to be in a majority, but that’s where the politics are right now.”
She went on to note that neither of these approaches would change hearts and minds, but those “radical fringes” had shaped the debate on both sides of the aisle and led us to today’s divisive atmosphere.
As takes from politicians and media figures have leaned toward the extreme, Cupp set aside her own opinion on abortion to offer a moderate take -- which likely resonated with the majority of her viewers. |
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Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker is getting called out for her drastically wrong prediction on the safety of Roe v. Wade.
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple curated an entertaining collection of takes from the last few years with the same essential gist: Roe v. Wade is not in danger of being overturned. Few high-profile authors in the genre -- including Parker -- were spared.
Of course, those predictions turned out to be wrong, as last week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization -- ending abortion’s 49-year run as a constitutionally protected right.
In 2018, Parker wrote a column in which she blasted CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin. Upon hearing the news that Justice Anthony Kennedy would be retiring, Toobin predicted Roe was doomed.
Responding to Toobin's forecast, Parker wrote in a July 2018 column headlined: “Calm down. Roe v. Wade isn’t going anywhere.”
“If Chicken Little and Cassandra had a baby, they’d name him Jeffrey Toobin,” she wrote, later lamenting the “unloosing of hysteria upon the land."
Parker went on to explicitly argue that "neither Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. nor Neil M. Gorsuch would likely want to wade into that swamp and weigh in on a Roe v. Wade reversal.” (They did.)
Remarkably, Parker still stands by her view. Her reasoning?
If protestors hadn’t gathered outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house after a draft of the Dobbs opinion was leaked to the public, he may have voted not to overturn Roe.
While an incorrect prediction in a column penned four years ago might not make you a loser, doubling down on said take and failing to admit when you're wrong sure does. |
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Those pesky internets
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) debated her four GOP primary opponents as she and the Jan. 6 House Select Committee continue to deliver bombshell revelations from the Trump presidency.
Cheney highlighted former president Donald Trump's baseless election lies throughout the debate, calling out her opponent Harriet Hageman for supporting the fraud allegation.
She later pointed to the hearings, noting that numerous Republican witnesses, including Bill Stepien, have testified that the election was not stolen.
Stepien is now advising Hageman – Cheney’s main opponent who has been leading in the polls and is endorsed by Trump.
“In fact, he wanted to be part of ‘Team Normal,’ that those people who said the election was stolen were not part of team normal. So I’d be interested to know whether or not my opponent, Ms. Hageman, is willing to say here tonight that the election was not stolen?” Cheney questioned.
Cheney continued, “She knows it wasn’t stolen. I think that she can’t say that it wasn’t stolen because she’s completely beholden to Donald Trump. And if she says it wasn’t stolen, he will not support her."
In another debate highlight, GOP candidate and State Sen. Anthony Bouchard declared that “all the major internets” engage in election-related shenanigans.
"What about, uh, uh, uh Facebook, uh, using the system to steer people? Uh, we know for a fact, all the major internets do that," he said.
Seems legit. In Other News...
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White House Press Corps Demands End to Media Restrictions in Letter to Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘Antithetical to the Concept of a Free Press’
RATINGS: Melber Doubles CNN Competition, But Baier Still Wins at 6 P.M. |
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Delivery of a lifetime
The Stanley Cup made its way to Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog’s house after a historic win on Sunday -- or so everyone thought.
The delivery driver ended up reading the wrong house number when transporting the package, instead delivering it to Landeskog’s neighbors, Colorado couple Dmitri Rudenko and Kit Karbler.
A video from inside the couple's home shows them nervously watching the driver before asking, “Is that the Stanley Cup?”
Watch the couple's reaction to the iconic mixup here. |
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