Blonde on Blonde: Election Results, Birth Control, and a Wardrobe Lesson
Even though nobody takes Midol anymore, Imus joked that this morning’s Blonde on Blonde segment with Deirdre Imus and Lis Wiehl was sponsored by the medication, known for alleviating menstrual cramps. Hilarious, if not topical, given that after yesterday’s election, there will now be 18 women senators, 78 women in the House, and six woman governors.
“These are historical numbers,” Lis said. “It’s only getting better, but it will not be where it should be until women are equal on the dollar front.”
Three women who lost races last night—Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, and Linda McMahon—are all former executives who spent hundreds of millions of dollars on their campaigns, and Imus wondered if the electorate would have been less offended by this insane sum of money if a man had spent it.
“Frankly, they expect it of men,” Lis said. “Men have been buying elections forever.”
Something both men and women might not have to buy any longer is birth control, which, under Obama’s health care plan, could become free. Deirdre is “totally against” handing out oral contraceptives, while Lis feels, “If they’re going to have sex anyway, then wouldn’t you rather have them on some sort of birth control?”
Deirdre believes the money that would pay for free birth control should instead be put toward sex education, but Lis insisted that her own kids, aged 13 and 18, have been educated on the subject since 4th grade.
At which point Imus insisted, “They’ve already had sex probably.” On second thought, “The one who’s 18 has.”
Grossed out, Lis protested that he has not, and that she speaks about it with her son all the time. “He’s lying to you,” Imus said. “At least, I hope that he is.”
But Deirdre’s opposition to free birth control is, naturally, health-related. “That’s one of the things that sets women up for breast cancer—being on the pill for so many years,” Deirdre, who is not against passing out condoms, said.
The Supreme Court is set to rule soon on whether violent video games should be restricted so that children under 18 years of age would not be able to purchase them. While Lis does not want her children exposed to games that offer the ability to pretend-kill, maim, dismember, or sexually assault someone, she touted the importance of the First Amendment.
As far as Deirdre is concerned, the content of such games is pornographic. “You’re actually proactive, because you’re in the game doing this,” she said, noting that some of Wyatt’s friends have been playing these games since they were young because most parents don’t monitor what their kids do.
Kind of like how Deirdre and Lis don’t monitor what they put on their bodies. “Neither one of you know who makes the dress you have on,” Imus said, having already asked the two Blondes that question, for some reason, earlier this morning.
Hannah StormEven though they didn’t know what they were wearing, everybody knew what sports reporter Hannah Storm was wearing at a recent Miami Heat game because she took a lot of, uh, heat for donning a too-short, too-tight dress with boots.
“The truth is, women have to recognize if you put on a tight, tight mini-dress with boots and you want to be taken seriously, chances are you’re not going to be,” Deirdre said.
It’s also important, as Lis pointed out, to dress age-appropriately. You know, like Hillary Clinton. “She’s dead serious,” Lis said.
Maybe. But in a not unrelated story, as Imus observed, “She’s built like Neil Cavuto.”
-Julie Kanfer
Reader Comments (1)
I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO AND WATCHING IMUS FOR MANY YEARS; BUT I CAN'T GET THE BLONDE ON BLONDE THING. I DON'T FIND WATCHING TWO WOMEN TRYING TO OUT TALK EACH OTHER ENTERTAINING OR FUNNY. AND" LOOSE WHEEL" LIS IS AWFUL.