On her MSNBC show this morning, host Tiffany Cross and provocateur par excellence Elie Mystal vented their fury at the Texas law limiting abortions. And in doing so, they made a number of outrageous and absurd statements.
Highlights:
— Continuing her penchant for casting pro-life people as caricatures out of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Cross said the Texas law “sounds like something straight out of Gilead,” the fictional land in the story. And as she has done before, Cross again branded Justice Amy Coney Barrett as “an actual Handmaid.”
— Cross claimed “they really must hate women in Texas and all across the country.”
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— Flaunting her hipness, Cross described as “ten stacks” the $10,000 that private citizens can potentially be awarded for helping enforce the law. Turns out “stack” is slang for $1,000. Very cool, Ms. Cross!
— Based on her “lived experience,” Cross described herself as very frightened by what she called the “vigilante” enforcement mechanism in the law. She said: “we know all to well what happens when dangerous white men are in power.” Dangerous white men? Like Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas? And note Cross’s use of that favorite liberal phrase: “lived experience.”
Cross then turned to Mystal for solutions, ways to block the Texas law. Mystal said there were no easy solutions, but urged Biden to go “buck wild.” Someone with diminished command of his faculties going buck wild? Sounds like a dangerous combination! Among the approaches Mystal proposed:
Biden should hire a “force” of “doctors” and send them into Texas to perform abortions. A veritable invasion of Texas by an army of Biden abortionists! Mystal claimed that as federal employees, the abortionists wouldn’t be subject to enforcement under the law.
Turn military bases into “enclaves” where abortions would be performed, again supposedly beyond the reach of the law’s enforcement provisions. In a variation of Rush Limbaugh’s famous line about “the Clinton Presidential Library and Massage Parlor,” under Mystal’s proposal would we have “the Fort Hood Army Base and Abortion Clinic?”
In a discussion of the Texas law limiting abortions, MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross speaking of her fear of “dangerous white men,” and Elie Mystal suggesting Biden hire a “force” of abortionists and send them into Texas, was sponsored in part by Walmart and AT&T.
LifeNews.com Note: Mark Finkelstein has a B.S. from Cornell University, an Ed.M. and a J.D. magna cum laude from SUNY Buffalo, and an LL.M. from Harvard. He lives in Ithaca, NY where he hosts “Right Angle,” a local political talk show. Finkelstein is a Contributing Editor at MRC’s NewsBusters blog, where this article originally appeared.
