Fox Panelist: Single Women Depend On Gov’t Because They Don’t Have Husbands (VIDEO)

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Single women are “Beyonce voters” who depend on the government in lieu of husbands to provide their birth control, according to one Fox News panelist.

Jesse Watters made the comment Tuesday on “Outnumbered” during a discussion of the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Obamacare contraception mandate. After a clip played of Hillary Clinton calling the Supreme Court’s decision “deeply disturbing,” Watters suggested that Clinton would treat access to contraception as a constitutional right in order to curry favor ahead of a potential 2016 bid.

“She needs the single ladies vote,” he observed. “I call them the ‘Beyonce voters,’ the single ladies. Obama won single ladies by 76 percent last time and they made up about a quarter of the electorate.”

“They depend on government because they’re not depending on their husbands,” he added. “They need things like contraception, health care and they love to talk about equal pay.”

None of the program’s four female co-hosts challenged Watters’ assessment.

Watch below:

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  1. Wow … just … wow …

    Outreach? We don’t need no stinking outreach.

  2. More dog-whistling from this Fox whore.

  3. I notice HE is not one of the folks he’s trying to demonize and none of the ladies called him on his idiocy.

  4. Is he fucking serious? This is so pathetic because while he’s intending to denigrate single women, he’s also denigrating men. I don’t NEED a man. Never have, never will. When I’m in a relationship with a man it’s because I WANT him in my life, because I cherish and value him as a human being, but it’s never because I need him. Men who see themselves as nothing more than a paycheck basically see themselves as Johns, as tricks. And they see the women in their lives as whores. Only the truly pathetic want to be needed, healthy people want to be wanted.

  5. So…basically this douchebagis saying that if a woman is married, the need for BC goes away. Because, after all, her husband can just pull out. If he wants to.

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