Read and weep as Genevieve Wood of the conservative Family Research Council refuses to admit that masturbation does not cause pregnancy, then suggests that masturbating can lead to STDs.
WOOD: Well, hold on. Well, hold on.
Look, everything in that report that Waxman put out there is taken out of context.
CARVILLE: Right.
WOOD: I have spoken to people who have talked to all the individuals who do those programs in the schools. They say it's -- they are lying about some of the things they say and much of it are mistruths. Waxman has an agenda. Come on. Waxman...
CARVILLE: Can we agree that masturbation does not cause pregnancy, just -- it's simple enough. Yes or no?
WOOD: I'm not going to debate that thing -- no, I'm not talking going to talk -- that's not what this is about.
CARVILLE: Well, can you...
WOOD: That's not what this is about. What this is about is a political agenda.
(CROSSTALK) CARVILLE: Why are you going tell kids that they can get -- why do you lie to kids?
WOOD: Why is it, for 30 years, the -- quote, unquote -- "comprehensive sex-ed movement," those who want to pass out condoms in schools, for 30 years, have gotten all the federal dollars? They have had 30 years in the classrooms having their way with our kids. What's happened from that? Sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers have skyrocketed.
(CROSSTALK)
(APPLAUSE)
CARVILLE: Teenage pregnancies are down. Teenage pregnancies are down. Actually, it's working. I don't know how to tell you this, but it's working.
WOOD: Pregnancies are down.
CARVILLE: Right.
WOOD: But STDs have skyrocketed, which shows you, yes, condoms may help...
CARVILLE: Well, can you catch an STD through masturbation?
WOOD: In some cases, yes. Hold on, James.
The full transcript illustrates exactly what's wrong with political discourse of the Crossfire type. Though one way to read this is to see that Carville wants Wood to admit that she's saying something that's clearly false, you could also say that he's trying to get her simply to admit to something that would be politically embarrassing.
That Crossfire focuses so much on the latter at the expense of the former simply confirms that there is no "liberal" media.
Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a "case" in which masturbation allows one to "catch an STD."
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