S.E. Cupp can’t believe Mike Huckabee’s ‘Uncle Sugar’ comments were misunderstood

[DonViejo]

By Arturo Garcia
Friday, January 24, 2014 22:33 EST

CNN Crossfire co-host S.E. Cupp was seemingly agog on Friday that people took offense to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) remarks regarding “Uncle Sugar” and womens’ libidos.

“On this particular incident, I gotta tell you, I feel like I’m in The Twilight Zone,” Cupp told colleagues Stephanie Cutter and Wolf Blitzer. “It is so 100 percent clear to me that Mike Huckabee was talking about the Democratic treatment toward women and not his own feeling, or the Republican Party’s feeling about women. I have never seen lazier, more intellectually dishonest analysis of this moment than I have today.”

Huckabee was roundly criticized for the way he challenged GOP members on Thursday to reject the “War on Women” label attached to their policies regarding reproductive health, saying Democrats had made women believe that “they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government.”

“I don’t understand where Republicans come into this,” Cupp insisted on Friday.

“The facts of the policy are that 98 percent of women have used contraception,” Cutter responded. “The majority of women actually use it for non-contraceptive purposes like preventing cancer, endometriosis or basic health care needs. And Republicans are against the contraception benefit in the Affordable Care Act.”

Huckabee’s remarks, Cutter said, did not help Republicans’ standing on the issue, with the debate surrounding them stretching into two days.

“This is not an isolated incident,” Cutter told Blitzer, as Cupp interrupted. “There’s a long history of these comments.”

“Because Republicans are even going along with this made-up media narrative,” said Cupp, who was not present on Thursday when Rick Santorum discussed the remarks on her show. “I cannot believe even Republicans are allowing and accepting this narrative to go on.”

Watch the discussion, as aired Friday on CNN, below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/24/s-e-cupp-cant-believe-mike-huckabees-uncle-sugar-comments-were-misunderstood/

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[Justice]

1. To quote a republican, Cupp's retorts are illogical!

[One of the 99]

2. As my grandmother use to say

Thanks god she's pretty.

[Gothmog]

3. Soppy Cuppa is an idiot

She works for Beck

[Blue Idaho]

4. Off to Fox News with you Sippy...

Circling the drain and on her way to national obscurity.

[Jamaal510]

13. That was where

she was before getting a gig with MSNBC for a few years. I doubt they'd want Sarah Elizabeth's bad self back.

[Blue Idaho]

17. Next stop the Weather Channel then?

Poor dear thing is working her way out of the broadcast news business...

tisk tisk...

[Jamaal510]

19. There's still 60 minutes

if Crossfire becomes a failure for her. She could be the next Lara Logan.

[avebury]

5. She has never been the brightest bulb in the room. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. She tries to paint herself as a "libertarian," just like all the Ron/Rand-bots running around.

She is not. They are not. They are fascists on social issues. And they are barbaric and evil when it comes to social justice and economic fairness issues. These people are sick.

[Jamaal510]

12. Outside of her supporting

marriage equality on one episode of The Cycle, I haven't really heard Sarah Elizabeth explicitly claim to being a libertarian. But you're right--even if she were to proclaim herself as such, she wouldn't make a very good defender of freedoms, as she opposes women's right to choose.

[hrmjustin]

7. She leaves a lot to be desired.

[Aristus]

8. No. Just brains and a heart.

Everything else she's got is fairly desirable...

[Arkana]

9. Of course it's clear to you, Sippy Cup. You're a moron.

Mike Huckabee was speaking Moron.

[Yavin4]

10. "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good"

"Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."

[yortsed snacilbuper]

11. She's trying to please her,

oppressors!

[yellowcanine]

14. "Uncle Sugar" and women. "Sugar Daddy" and women. No, I can't see the "misunderstanding."

Of course there was no misunderstanding. Chuckles had the idea of "sugar daddy" in mind when he said it, whether he was conscious of it or not - it fits with his world view of the relationships of women and men.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Will Sippy ever find her Sugar Daddy she's trolling for?

....so she'll leave the airwaves and we never have to hear her obnoxious voice again?

[bigdarryl]

18. If that was a democrat female posing like that the

Right wing would be all over her.Thats not a professional look in my opinion showing all her legs in a skirt

[bemildred]

16. Huckabes's comments were understood perfectly. nt