Oops.
Florida State Senator Mike Bennett is anti-abortion. And yet, during a floor debate on a bill requiring abortion seekers to pay for an ultrasound, the cameras caught him looking at topless pics on his laptop.
Debate over the bill — which has no exceptions for rape, incest, or endangerment of a woman’s life — has been heated, but it failed to hold Bennett’s attention. Just as Senator Dan Gelber, a Democrat, was saying, “I’m against this bill, because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida,” Sunshine State News service’s cameras caught Sen. Bennett looking at a photo of topless girls, and then watching a video of a dog shaking itself dry.
Obiously, a master debater.
Not surprised at all.
What a consummate asshole.
I’m surprised he’s heterosexual. *Wait*, maybe this is just misdirection so people don’t question his sexuality?
well, what we know is that he was looking at a sexually titillating image, then at an image of a dog.
Does this imply normal heterosexuality to you?
“paging Rick Santorum……….paging Rick Santorum”
Surely anyone with an iota of sense would keep this sort of voyeurism private? Not that I care a jot what he looks at, but his voters will…
No they won’t. Bradenton is full of slack jawed yokels who reflexively vote GOP out of pure muscle memory – you know, the kind who rail on about morality and whatnot to anyone who will listen, but always seem to find ways to rationalize it away when Republican politicians are exposed for violating those high moral standards (apparently they only apply to everyone else). His seat is safe.
I’m sure some will be bothered by it. Maybe enough that they simply won’t vote, or they’ll vote for a Republican primary challenger. But I agree that most will probably overlook it or rationalize it away. They haven’t used reason to arrive at their current positions, and no amount of reason will convince them to consider a different point of view.
Titties and Abortion, wasn’t that a Frank Zappa song?
No, but it should have been.
“…caught Sen. Bennett looking at a photo of topless girls, and then watching a video of a dog shaking itself dry.”
The last line makes a fairly normal action seem totally fucked up.
Maybe he’s a doctor and he was merely doing an on-line evaluation of a patient. All kinds of possibilities exist, and we should be reluctant to jump to conclusions. Some people were skeptical of the politician with the “wide stance” in the bathroom stall, but now that term has become a permanent part of out lexicon.
actually, if you look carefully, as i have, you’ll see that all of the girls are actually wearing bathing suit tops. yes, all of them – look for strap shadows. not saying he should be looking at that, but to give the guy credit, it looks like he was just checking his email. maybe that was in an email from some old colleagues of his? who knows.
i don’t necessarily agree with his position, but don’t put a black bar over bathing suit tops and call it topless chicks – that’s just not fair.
peace
Yeah, they aren’t all that topless. I finally got to see the movie, there’s one quite obviously wearing a bikini top (the second one, right to left).