Billionaire investor Foster Freiss Rick Santorum's biggest backer dismissed women's concerns about access to contraception with an astoundingly offensive joke trivializing those concerns during an interview on MSNBC.
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Santorum's Billionaire backer jokes about holding asprin between your knees as contraception
Foster Freiss, the wealthy investor bankrolling a super PAC for GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, appeared on MSNBC Thursday to argue that social issues are largely irrelevant.
If he wanted to take focus away from Santorum's recent remarks about birth control and premarital sex, however, he didn’t succeed.
“This contraception thing, my gosh, it's so inexpensive,” Freiss told host Andrea Mitchell. “You know, back in my days, they'd use Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.”
Mitchell was visibly taken aback. “Excuse me, I’m just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freiss, frankly” she said after a few seconds. “Let’s change the subject.” (She said via Twitter that she is “still trying to get my head around” the comment and asked her followers how she should have responded.