{"id":6498,"date":"2012-02-16T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=6498"},"modified":"2012-02-16T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T23:36:25","slug":"foster-friess-birth-control-bayer-aspirin-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/16\/foster-friess-birth-control-bayer-aspirin-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"More Contraceptive Madness (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2012\/02\/15\/contraception-republicans-humor\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, I&#8217;d hoped to be done with birth control commentary for a while.  But then I saw this headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/02\/16\/427233\/foster-friess-contraception\/\">Santorum Sugar Daddy Foster Friess Gives \u2018Gals\u2019 Contraception Advice: Put An Aspirin Between Your Knees<\/a>.  And that story lives up to its headline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Foster Friess, the main donor to the Super PAC backing Rick Santorum\u2019s presidential bid, dismissed the controversy surrounding President Obama\u2019s new birth control rule by suggesting that women should just keep their legs shut&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>FRIESS: &#8220;On this contraceptive thing, my gosh, it\u2019s so inexpensive. You know, back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn\u2019t that costly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More Contraceptive Madness (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Rick Santorum and Friess &#8212; quite the pair<br \/>\nIn their &#8220;stop contraceptive care&#8221; guerre:<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want kids with your squeeze?<br \/>\nPut a pill &#8216;tween your knees,<br \/>\nLike Bay&#8217;r asp&#8217;rin, sez Rick&#8217;s billionaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s post, I&#8217;d hoped to be done with birth control commentary for a while. But then I saw this headline: Santorum Sugar Daddy Foster Friess Gives \u2018Gals\u2019 Contraception Advice: Put An Aspirin Between Your Knees. And that story lives up to its headline: Appearing on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell today, Foster Friess, the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,1820,72,1754,21,121,20,52,556,6,7,3,152,9,1221],"tags":[1823,1822,1824,1755,2786,2909,194,839,1821,375,337,1053,702,2877,1208,1819,1825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6498"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6498\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}