Patricia Heaton — most famous for playing Ray Romano’s wife on Everybody Loves Raymond — is a rare bird: a right-leaning actress in Hollywood. By my count, there’s her and Victoria Jackson. If there are others, and I’m sure there are, then they are in the closet about it or I’m forgetting about them.
Heaton, though not near as vocal and clearly retarded as Jackson, has been known to occasionally open her mouth about politics and make an ass of herself, most famously on celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire when she stated that people in real Amurka are smarter than people on the East and West coasts — and then proceeded to flub a softball question that involved 2nd grade level math.
And now she’s gone and done it again, this time taking to Twitter to not only side with Rush Limbaugh, but to also take shots at Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student Limbaugh charged with being a “slut” and a “prostitute” — in addition to wanting her to post videos of herself having sex online so he could watch — because Fluke wants health insurance plans to pay for birth control.
Here’s a sampling of her idiotic tweets, via Huffington Post…
“Hey G-Town Gal: Plz let us also pay for your Starbucks, movie theater tickets and your favorite hot wings combo deal at KFC! Anything else?”
“Hey G-Town Gal: If your parents have to pay for your birth control, maybe they should get a say in who you sleep with!” Instant birth control!”
“If every Tweaton sent Georgetown Gal one condom, her parents would have to cancel basic cable, & she would never reproduce — sound good?”
“Hey GTown Gal: How about only having sex on Wednesday? (Hump day!).”
“Hey G-Town Gal: turn your underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every 2 weeks—saves on detergent & trips to Laundromat!”
“G-Gal: you’ve given yer folks great gift for Mother’s/Father’s Day! Got up in front of whole world & said I’m having tons of sex- pay 4 it!”
“If your parents have to pay for your birth control, maybe they should get a say in who u sleep with! Instant birth control!”
When she started catching heat from followers, Heaton shut down her Twitter account, and then brought it back to life with the offending tweets deleted.
With all that out of the way, can I just say that this whole “controversy” will never stop boggling my mind. Fluke wasn’t, after all, calling for the government to pay for birth control. She was lobbying for health insurance companies to be forced to cover the cost of it. So I fail to see why people like Limbaugh and Heaton should feel entitled to compensation for “our money being used to pay women to have sex” any more than I should feel entitled to compensation from some guy who gets his pain meds paid for by the same health insurance provider as I do.
“Why should the hard earned dollars that I pay in premiums go to pay for your Oxycontin, you pu$$y. You look just fine to me…WAH WAH WAH!”
When you get past the outrageous, hateful comments, nothing about this makes sense (then again few things involving right-wingers do these days). Are people like Limbaugh and Heaton being secretly paid as lobbyists by the health insurance companies? I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!
Now enjoy the clip below of Patricia Heaton getting paid to look like a slut on television for middle America’s entertainment. I PAY FOR CABLE TELEVISION…WHY SHOULD MY MONEY GO TO PAY FOR PATRICIA HEATON TO DRESS AND ACT LIKE A SLUT?!?!
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you’re gonna lose readers if you keep this polarizing lib rhetoric up. maybe that’s what you want. but i would prefer it if you kept this site to kate upton’s tits, nut shots, and corgis or at least bark at both sides. there must be a bonanza of info between all the fools in hollywood and DC.
As a man named Mick once said, you can’t always get what you want.
It’s the ignorance of the right, that’s the funny thing. They think they know which side of the issue is the right one to be on – without fully comprehending what the issue is in the first place. If Rush had watched or even read transcripts of her testimony he would have known what was actually taking place. It felt like someone waited for a commercial and whispered “another stupid cunt is asking the government to pay for her birf control – get ‘er, Rush.”
And Heaton is doubly stupid because her kneejerk reaction got the whole fucking thing even wronger. And wronger is a word, Heaton will attest.
Uh… actually… he’s *gaining* readers. I now have UPROXX running through my RSS *because of* the skewering of the insanity that is now the right. Boobs, pop culture notables, and other weirdly funny shit is just the bubble gum that comes with the A-Team trading cards.
I agree with Cordes. The purpose of the Uproxx is to parrot back to me my narrow worldview. Certainly if I disagree with them, then they will lose readership because I am the center of the Known Universe.
Seems like she wasn’t really acting when she was a complete cunt on that terrible show. Can they take back her awards?
What I don’t understand is why do they think you have to be a slut to use birth control? My wife’s on the pill, and she only sleeps with like 3-4 guys a year tops. That’s normal, right?
Actress has an opinion that differs from mine, therefore she must be an right wing idiot. I’m stun at your logic.
Actress ridicules those with different opinion. There before the grass of Dog goes pie.
Actress spouts idiocy, therefore she is an idiot. It just happens to be typical right wing idiocy.
tell me her tweets weren’t dumb. Seriously, try and say that.
You’re stun? Well, I am disappoint.
And yeah, the things she said were pretty dumb, by virtue of their being apparently based on an untrue belief that this shit is about “being paid by the government so that you can have sex.”
Quick fact check: no one, not Rush, not Heaton, is complaining that Fluck uses cheap birth control, or that insurance will cover it.
What is so staggeringly stupid is that Fluck wants the /Catholic church/ to pay for her birth control pills for her lifestyle which goes directly against church beliefs on sanctity of life. Further, if the government feels it so necessary to force all of us to subsidize Fluck’s gold plated, diamond dust encrusted pills ( only Paris Hilton spends $1000 annually on birth control ), why /shouldn’t/ we get something out of it?
If the government doesn’t think preserving life is worth a conscientious objection, that check box you probably filled in on on your draft card doesn’t mean anything either.
She’s actually asking the religiously unaffiliated insurance company to cover her birth control pills, not the Catholic Church.
Sanctity of life? She’s asking for insurance companies to cover the pill not abortions. And she’s not even referring to the somewhat controversial “morning after pill.” She’s asking for the one you take every day regardless of whether you’re active or not. It’s the same cost for her and Paris Hilton.
Your understanding of the issue is incomplete. Please come back later once you have actually read something about the issue from an actual news source.
Yep, the church is also forced to abide by other laws too, which I’m sure are not included in the bible (not that it stops them from fucking little boys in the ass).
I can’t opt out of the ADA because it goes against my belief in some mystical spirit in the sky. Please explain why your imaginary friend is better than mine.
Catholic Church pays for insurance. Church says to insurance provider: we’d like insurance coverage that doesn’t cover birth control and abortifacients except in case of life hormonal imbalance and similar diseases, please.
Government steps in and says “All insurance plans MUST take money from clients in order to pay for any abortifacients and birth control! No exceptions anymore!”
If anyone can point to where Heaton or Rush suggested limiting access to BC, rather than their actual position of opposing forcing Church to subsidize it, post it.
Can the church also say, we won’t cover diabetes meds like insulin and testing supplies, since gluttony and sloth are sins?
Can they say, we won’t pay for AIDS meds, because it’s caused by gay sex and evil?
Can I start a church (the answer is yes) and say I’m a pro cancer church, and then sell my fortune 500 company to that church (or simply affiliate with it, like georgetown) and say, we don’t cover cancer treatment, because cancer is the way to see the light.
In short, why not leave medical treatment choices to medical professionals, and keep zombie worshippers out of my doctors office.
If you think churches are better at determining what medical care is necessary, go to a church and not a hospital, the next time you are injured.
Let me know how that works out.
Tomateeyo, 4:34pm:
Neither of those is the position that Heaton and Rush are arguing. They’re both arguing on the grounds that the whole thing is to be funded by taxpayers. I get the sense that Heaton actually believes that to be true, while Rush may very well know it’s not, but still argues that point because he knows that’s more likely to get his right-wing listeners riled up than if he tells the truth and says it’s just the churches that would be forced to pay for it.
Yeah, complaining about liberal posts on a blog is just as valuable to them as a joke comment. A click is a click for Uproxx. If people don’t like the posts, they should just not click them. Then the boss at Uproxx will say “Your liberal shit gets no traffic, cut it out.”
Her Twitter profile says “Mother of four”…what a slut! She should have less sex.
and certainly a virtuous, right wing, flying spaghetti monster praising woman like her, has never had sex other than for procreation.
aarghh! Nothing about all this outrage makes sense. Rush made some stupid comments. He’s made many. So what? You want him kicked off the air for this? No, you want him kicked off the air because you don’t agree with him and this whole non-issue has gained some traction. No one seems to be asking why the hell insurance plans should be forced to cover birth control. Employers add and restrict coverage of items all the time, in order to keep premium costs under control. Believe it or not, the more things that are included in a plan, the higher the premium costs. It is bullshit to single out birth control and force inclusion in health plans. It is being done for political purposes only. It takes literally no effort to find a women’s health clinic or county run health program to provide contraception. Cajun Boy, I love you and uproxx, but when you start in with politics, it is always the same boilerplate left wing fart sniffing. Even Bill Maher is saying to let it go (of course he did call Palin a Cunt and a dumb twat and got in trouble with NOW and I suppose some on the right, but that’s ok i suppose because it’s “true”). Keep throwing your dipshit opinions up if you want, you’re entitled to them, just as i am entitled to my dipshit opinions, but it is getting tiresome. Maybe you should moonlight for the Daily Kos.
Yes because the lefties are the only people who lobby for political purposes. The right would never push for mandates involving birth control.
First, the push for insurance companies to cover birth control is because birth control is far cheaper then a baby, thus (in theory) decreasing costs for everyone.
Second, your comparison between Maher and Limbaugh is a pretty far stretch. There aren’t any Democrats who would shed a tear if Maher ripped them or Maher would not be hurt if a Democrat did it to him. Limbaugh, on the other hand, commands absolute fealty from GOP politicians. How many time has a GOP pol dared to speak out against him only to have to crawl back days later to kiss his ring? Limbaugh has legions of mouth-breathing followers he will unleash on a politician if they slight him. Maher does not. Also, Maher is on HBO (subscriber only) while Limbaugh is broadcast to everyone with a radio for free.
elvino – you are both wrong and dim.
This is an issue now, because churches want to keep more of their tax free money, and republicans want to pander to them, because they contribute shitloads of that tax free money, as well as their support, to these politicians.
All of this is done to the detriment of their own constituents.
Babies cost us all millions, particularly when had by idiots like you. Birth control is pretty cheap, and has many other health benefits.
ps. I would gladly pay higher premiums to ensure that you never procreate.
Sorry, AB. I have three children. And fine children they are. And hopefully they will be giving me grandchildren soon. And they have only cost me money, not you or anyone else. And I am a proud user of birth control. Always have been. And yes, this is political, given the particular axe you are grinding. And yes, I wish more people (such as yourself) would use birth control. But, it is cheap and readily available and does not need to cost $1,000 per year and certainly does not need to be the overheated issue it is becoming. And that is the fault of the left and the right. That said, if we met in the real world, I suspect we would get along swimmingly.
And i really like the word “and”.
Re: monsieur Hell yes they would. Both sides do it non-stop and ramp up the rhetoric whenever the other side disagrees. It’s tiresome, but part of the process. The right is just as guilty of disingenousness as the left. No question. But this whole thing has (way) less to do with the issue at hand and way more about how everyone hates Limbaugh. At least be honest about that.
Yeah I agree. Limbaugh is a moron. He started out as a top-40 DJ and failed so he decided to be a inflammatory right-wing shock jock because it’s easy. He could just as easily have chosen to do the same thing for the left and been just as successful.
Exactly. And then the right would forever be trying to get him off the air. Sometimes I think it is better to just ignore. Maher and Olbermann have their schtick, Limbaugh and Beck theirs. Entertainers all and taken way to seriously.
Disagree. They should be held accountable for what they say when they are at their jobs. Just like you and me. “The Left” isn’t trying to get Rush off the air. They’re trying to make him less rich by convincing his sponsors that they shouldn’t be giving him money to berate innocent women.
Good point. No problem holding people accountable. I just get so tired of the selective outrage both sides display.
I also love the idea that these fucktards equate the cost of birth control with the number of times you are having sex in a given period. If a woman doesn’t want to get knocked up, she has to take the pill every day regardless. it’s not like you just take ‘em when you wanna fuck.
Worst part: they already know that, but don’t want to say it because it kills their moronic argument.
Insurance companies pay in excess of $10,000.00 for childbirth. Isn’t it cheaper for them to pay $1,000 for birth control?
HALLELUJAH!
I think it is hilarious that churches, and Republican politicians, are going against the Bible in order to suppress women. Nothing new there, I guess. The Bible points to the breath of life as being the point that life is conferred. The misogynist church leaders even had Exodus 21 altered so that the Bible would appear to agree with anti-abortionists, thus encouraging fools to murder doctors and placing their own souls in peril. Look at a Jewish O. T. translated from the original Hebrew, or a Christian Bible printed before l970. Ex. 21 stresses that it is only the woman’s life and limb that is worth a life or limb. If the pregnant woman loses her fetus due to someone’s bad actions, her husband can go to court and sue for differing amounts of money, or not. The fetus, according to God’s word, is not worth a human life. By the way, Jesus treated men and women equally and Paul was not trying make all women inferior to all men. He was trying to fix the horrendous pagan marriages and the attitudes Greek and Roman men had of their wives as well as the contentious way the women reacted toward their husbands. Phony, self-righteous politicians, and Bible thumping churchmen, are just using religion to control trusting people.
Fascinating, if true. Though I’m sure the Bible has been altered and/or re-interpreted a great many times throughout history, during various ecumenical councils and such, in light of evolving social mores. We like some changes, we dislike others… it’s difficult to take seriously, since if even one word can be changed, then God must not be as infallible as we’ve been led to believe.
Also, it’s important to note that a significant part of this whole thing isn’t even about contraception. My best friend takes birth control pills to prevent the terribly painful ovarian cysts she otherwise gets from her endometriosis. My best friend is also a dyed-in-the-wool lesbian. So she ain’t worried about getting preggers, and she probably wouldn’t even be able to, with the endometriosis.
Now, she doesn’t happen to work for the church, being a lesbian and all, so the argument isn’t directly relevant for her; but if someone who does work for the church happens to have the same condition? Sucks to be her, I guess?
I don’t think any of her tweets made her sound like an idiot, just snarky. They simply just weren’t in the popular view of the left wing media. Anything that isn’t considered to lean to the left is too often considered to be racist, homophobic, or just plain ignorant.
Nope, she’s an idiot. Her tweets continue the false implication that we, the taxpayers, would be paying for the birth control, when in reality it would be insurance providers covering the cost. Either she’s ignorant to this, which makes her an idiot for opening her mouth without being informed, or she’s a liar furthering false talking points & propaganda. But no matter what she’d still be an idiot for calling her twitter followers “Tweatons”- I mean that’s just stupid.
Patricia ROCKS! This website in fact made an A$$ of yourselves, bashing her!
@So I fail to see why people like Limbaugh and Heaton should feel entitled to compensation for “our money being used to pay women to have sex” any more than I should feel entitled to compensation from some guy who gets his pain meds paid for by the same health insurance provider as I do.
Precisely. You’ve just made an excellent argument against Obamacare. So now you understand why Conservatives believe everyone should buy his own health insurance (only if he wants it) and the government should stay out of people’s health care as well as their bedrooms Glad that you’ve seen the light, even if it took a while.
Well, I’ll give you props. No one used the word “neo-con” wrong, which I see on almost every left leaning comment section. Not knowing the legal concept of “tax free” and the direct connection between paying insurance premiums (which the Catholic Church pays) and what the insurance company covers however is going to cost you.
Also, failure to understand that Ms Fluke is a student at Georgetown and not an employee and that the two are different policies with different rules shows, that like Ms Fluke, you are dumber than anything that Ms Heaton said.
Finally, the fact that there was a clinic within walking distance where Ms Fluke could have gotten her birth control pills for less than $20 a month and she didn’t know it shows that SHE was in no position to be talking to Congress about it.