Santorum Backer Apologizes For Birth Control 'Joke'

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Santorum Backer Apologizes For Birth Control 'Joke'

Foster Friess, the billionaire backer of the pro-Rick Santorum super PAC, apologized early Friday for "joking" that women should put "aspirin between their knees" as a form of birth control. Friess wrote on his blog:

After listening to the segment tonight, I can understand how I confused people with the way I worded the joke and their taking offense is very understandable. To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness. My wife constantly tells me I need new material—she understood the joke but didn’t like it anyway—so I will keep that old one in the past where it belongs.

On MSNBC Thursday night, Friess also laughed off the remark as a bad "joke."

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[chelsea0011]

1. That was suppose to be a joke?

I thought he was just insane.

[ProSense]

5. I go with insane freak! n/t

[spanone]

2. not accepted

[hobbit709]

3. Whenever they get called out on their BS, that's always their alibi "I was joking"

[ProSense]

6. Exactly. What this

shows is that there was obvious backlash and this moron is trying to do damage control.

[obamanut2012]

4. ha ha yeah, what a joke

Apology not accepted.

[southernyankeebelle]

7. I don't know how old this man is but am 64 and I never heard of such an outrageous comment. I

was so upset to hear him joke about something so serious. I think he and Rick are jokes and he really should realize he will never see the bedroom of the family upstairs of the white house. Rick really has some problems I think with sex. He sounds very, very frustrated. I think his wife is very surpressed. I think his wife is more liberal then he lets on. There is something going on in that house of his and I am sure it ain't pretty.

[lapislzi]

9. First heard the "joke" from my mom in 1978.

A marginally appropriate way of telling me not to have sex at the age of 17. Although she didn't know it, she was a day late and a dollar short. I did not present her with a grandchild until 1994, however, so I must have been doing something right.

[southernyankeebelle]

23. Oops. She should have told you to use condoms. Why do they always put it on the woman? I don't

get it. I have a son and we told him we'd hope he would wait to have sex but if he wasn't he better damn well use a condom and don't put it all on the girl because they forget to take their birth control pill. It works both ways. Your momma was wise.

[yellowcanine]

19. "Rick really has some problems I think with sex." Ya think? "In what respect, Charlie?"

[southernyankeebelle]

22. Your right. Especially if he is married to a Palin type woman. You know how Sarah is that he man

god fearing hunting woman.

[rurallib]

8. Pretty sure he meant what he said until he was caught.

Wanna bet he's got some great material on race also?

[yellowcanine]

18. "...he's got some great material on race also?" Yes, and no doubt the "little woman" has told him

it isn't very funny as well but he just can't "hep himself" and tells it anyway when he thinks he can get away with it.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. There are many who have heard that "joke" before

I have from elders... However the point is, just like the old "wife" jokes by Henny Youngman, that time has passed. Society has changed. None of this is acceptable. And bringing it back only harkens back to a time when men sexually harassed women to no end.

[redqueen]

15. "...that time has passed. Society has changed."

Yeah... well in some ways it has, but in many ways it hasn't.

And some of those changes were from one bad situation to another.

[hamsterjill]

11. It wasn't a joke, Foster.

And we can all tell that your apology isn't sincere.

[yellowcanine]

16. It was a "joke" only in the sense that spiteful sarcasm can be considered a joke rather than

the misogyny that was on display here.

[yellowcanine]

12. "To all those who took my joke....." He might as well stop right there. This is not a real

apology. And why do the guys who get caught telling offensive "jokes" always think that throwing in "My wife constantly tells me..." somehow reduces the magnitude of the offense? Leave your wife out of it schmuck.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Yes, real apologies do not begin with accusations...or "if's" I get so sick

of these "apologies".

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Foster Friess, my apologies "if" you take this the wrong way. No offense but...

FUCK YOU!

[Hubert Flottz]

17. The first time I heard that tired old line of bullshit...

("aspirin between their knees&quot I was too little to laugh, I just rolled over and took a Mitt!

These guys need to find a new crew to write their lines for them.

[stevenleser]

20. I find his lack of an honest apology disturbing.

Apology Accepted, Friess...

[MurrayDelph]

21. And we used to think THIS

was the most-sexist Mr. Freeze!