The National Organization for Women had an unusual gift for Alan Simpson this morning. One thousand five hundred nipples. Or, as they termed it, “1500 Tits for an Ass.”
Simpson, who co-chair’s President Obama’s deficit commission, regained notoriety this summer when he compared Social Security to a cow with 310 million tits. The milky metaphor was part of an angry email he sent to a critic — Ashley Carson of the Older Women’s League.
When news of the tit analogy broke, NOW took to raising money. The 1,500 nipples (baby bottle tops, more precisely) each represent $5 in donations NOW raised in response to the story.
At a meeting of the fiscal commission this morning, NOW President Terry O’Neil presented Simpson a heaving sack full of nipples. Simpson graciously declined them.
“You should send that to a children’s hospital,” he said, according to The Hill. Sucks for him, I guess. Or not.
