Want your wife to be submissive? ‘There’s a Rep. for that’

By John Byrne
Monday, October 19th, 2009 -- 9:01 am
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iphone home Want your wife to be submissive? Theres a Rep. for that"If you want to heckle the president during his address to the nation, there's a Rep. for that."

That's the opening of a new ad created by a blogger attacking House Republicans using the language and style of Apple Computer's iPhone ads. Detailing outlandish statements made by Republicans in Congress, the announcer -- whose tone and intonation closely mirrors that of the iPhone pitchman -- substitutes the word "Rep." (for representative) instead of "app."

"If you want to suggest that smacking around your wife doesn't truly count as assault, and neither does killing homosexuals, there's a Rep. for that," he remarks.

"Whether you want to refute scientific research by quoting biblical prophecy," he continues, "declare that wifes should be submissive to their husbands or pass laws to establish the bible as the word of God for all Americans, we've got the Reps. you need."

An app is an application on the iPhone that lets the user perform a particular function, like playing a game or finding a restaurant.

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Detailed explanations and support for the claims are available at the creator's website, Waking Up Now.

The ads' claims are largely supported, though sometimes slightly exaggerated. A Republican congressman didn't explicitly say killing gays wasn't assault, but he did exclude certain elements of violence from his definition. On the other hand, a number of the claims repeat phrasing exactly as the GOP members did.

For example, Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, did say that "wives should be submissive to their husbands."

Speaking about her decision to pursue an advanced degree, Bachmann quipped, "But the Lord said, 'be submissive to your husbands, wives be submissive to your husbands.'"

Later, she said: "You are now looking at a fool for Christ."

A gallery of the original ads for Apple's iPhone are available here.

"There are apps that help you catch a flight. There are apps that help you catch a train. Apps for dining in. And apps for dining out."

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  • laydownthelaw
    owned
  • alverant
    I bet the Reps are pissed off about being quoted in context.

    Looking for prime hypocrites? There's an app for that.
  • asiliveandbreathe
    So basically this is about some crap on some blog. Uhhhh...
  • socialismorbust
    Nicely done! Put it on corporate T.V.
  • OldAtlantic
    Wouldn't it be the Muslim rep who took his oath on the Koran that requires submission?
  • Savantster
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    eh? wha? Go read your bible. If you're in a Judea-Christian (including Muslim) religion, you demand your wife be your submissive servant. You get to beat her, too. That's in the bible, tora, and koran.

    so, what's your point of bringing up Muslim? .. other than to show you're a bigot at heart?

    So much for freedom of religion, eh?
  • OldAtlantic
    Beating your wife is not in the New Testament.
  • GunTotinLiberal
    The subject is women being submissive to their husband And the New Test certainly covers that subject:

    Peter 3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 3:2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

    Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

    Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    There's tons more where that came from, but I know youre not very interested in the Bible or what it teaches.
  • OldAtlantic
    Which one of those is about beating your wife? Which one of those is about the way Muslims treat women?
  • GunTotinLiberal
    AGAIN, the subject is women being submissive to their husbands. No one said beating your wife was in the NT
    You keep wanting to make it something else. And there are sections of the Bible that approve of beating women and letting them be raped. It does not matter what book of the bible it is in, its in the bible christians use.
    Lot let his daughters be raped and beaten, in Peter 2:7 - 2:8 he is described as a righteous man, so the implication is there even in NT.
    Or in other words, according to the NT, a man that lets his daughters be abducted, beaten and raped is a good man.

    The Koran is not better (or worse) than the bible Christians use. Both books are filled with absurd mythologies, cruelty and violence.
  • Name
    Interesting that all the GOP can do is rip off other's ideas. Remember how many times they stole songs without permission and against the wishes of the artists involved? How many times did they get taken to court over it?

    And now all they can do is parrot other's commercials. Really creative, GOP. Can't come up with anything of your own? Steal from someone else. Pathetic.
  • Satan
    Raw's kind of quiet on the U.S. backed Iranian suicide bombing...
  • GunTotinLiberal
    They forgot the 30 reps that say it’s acceptable to not bring rapists to justice. Or the reps that say it’s okay to override doctors on what is the best treatment for those in irreversible comas.
  • GunTotinLiberal
  • airjackie
    Rep. Bachmann knows what see says as her husband is gay. She was all over George W. Bush after his speech on the House flood. She knocked others out of the way to kiss the President. The Christian Values of Republicans is truly frightening. Cheating on your wife, stealing, racial hate are all now the Values Republicans represent. I wonder who Bachmann's boy toy is now that Bush has left the building?
  • tom
    "The ads' claims are largely supported, though sometimes slightly exaggerated. A Republican congressman didn't explicitly say killing gays wasn't assault..."

    The video doesn't claim Gohmert explicitly said it. The video says he suggested it. And that's accurate. When the Republican claimed his 242 number was true, he was suggesting that his underlying assumptions were true -- one of which was that murdered gays don't have to be counted.
  • Jhoffa_
    Got news?
  • Danny
    Folks that latch on to and are influenced by the childish BS you provide still don't get it. Even when mixed American's of all races, relgions, and political preference give our government a 23% approval rating with Obama in office, they still don't get it. FACT: It doesn't matter which party or which politician is speaking BS like yours, IT'S STILL, FRUSTRATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT STUPID! It was key when Obama used it to get a landslide victory, and it still is now that he's gone to far to the left to keep his promise to unite America by cleaning out the White House. He is the "Great United Hope" and for certain his destiny haunts him. Done, by default, it will set back racism in a big and proud way. Given the Nobel Prize with expectations to unite the World, he must first unite America to influence the World. And he ain't doing that and neither are folks that keep bombarding us with BS like yours. 23% approval says we are tired, very tired, of the same old BS. IT'S STILL, FRUSTRATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT STUPID!
  • Danny
    Folks that latch on to and are influenced by the childish BS you provide still don't get it. Even when mixed American's of all races, relgions, and political preference give our government a 23% approval rating with Obama in office, they still don't get it. FACT: It doesn't matter which party or which politician is speaking BS like yours, IT'S STILL, FRUSTRATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT STUPID! It was key when Obama used it to get a landslide victory, and it still is now that he's gone to far to the left to keep his promise to unite America by cleaning out the White House. He is the "Great United Hope" and for certain his destiny haunts him. Done, by default, it will set back racism in a big and proud way. Given the Nobel Prize with expectations to unite the World, he must first unite America to influence the World. And he ain't doing that and neither are folks that keep bombarding us with BS like yours. 23% approval says we are tired, very tired, of the same old BS. IT'S STILL, FRUSTRATION WITH THE GOVERNMENT STUPID!
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