{"id":2249534,"date":"2024-05-21T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-harrison-butker-really-say-we-should-go-back-to-when-women-had-more-babies-than-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T17:56:53","slug":"fact-check-did-harrison-butker-really-say-we-should-go-back-to-when-women-had-more-babies-than-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-harrison-butker-really-say-we-should-go-back-to-when-women-had-more-babies-than-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Did Harrison Butker Advocate Returning to a Time When &#8216;Women Had More Babies Than Thoughts&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-harrison-butker-really-say-we-should-go-back-to-when-women-had-more-babies-than-thoughts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2249534&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses \u2064the backlash faced by\u200d Harrison Butker for praising homemakers and allegedly making controversial\u2063 remarks. Despite the uproar, some statements\u2062 attributed to Butker are clarified as satire. The incident highlights the impact of media bias and \u2063social media \u200csoundbites in \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-congressman-goes-viral-for-giving-democrat-operative-fashion-advice\/\" title=\"GOP Congressman's Fashion Advice to 'Democrat Operative' Goes Viral\">shaping\u200b public perception<\/a>. Butker&#8217;s actual speech emphasizes marriage and family values, sparking debate \u200dand misinterpretation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sports\/\">  Sports <\/a>    <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 21, 2024 at 9:59am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>After Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker committed the unspeakable crime of praising women who choose to be homemakers and receiving severe backlash, he is now getting pilloried online for new alleged statements.<\/p>\n<p>The initial controversy began when Butker, a devout Catholic, delivered a commencement address at the Catholic Benedictine College on May 11.<\/p>\n<p>In that speech, he praised his wife and referred to her \u201cvocation\u201d as homemaker as \u201cone of the most important titles of all,\u201d for her and for women in general.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, Butker expressed many other controversial, counter-cultural, and truthful statements in that speech, but that brief section is what earned most of the ire online.<\/p>\n<p>Ire which has only increased after Butker allegedly released a statement in response to this controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page The Sports Memery shared what it claimed were Butker\u2019s words in response to the backlash: \u201cEveryone is taking what I said out of context. All I said is that we should go back to a better time, like the 50s and 60s. When men were men, and women had more babies than thoughts. When the only \u2018Me too\u2019 movement was one woman saying she was ready for her 4th child, and another woman agreeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the chronically online liberals lost their minds.<\/p>\n<p>A woman on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X shared the post, with the caption, \u201cThis is what they mean when they say \u2018stupid jock.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what they mean when they say \u201cstupid jock.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGpYKtuHIk\">pic.twitter.com\/iGpYKtuHIk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melissa 2024 Edition \ud83d\udfe6\ud83d\udfe9\ud83d\udfe8\ud83d\udfe7\ud83d\udfea (@Meltart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Meltart\/status\/1791094301151170826?\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One woman, who goes by @lifecoachshawn, was so affronted, she spent one minute ranting about it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-decision-join-tiktok-proved-disastrous-within-matter-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, saying sarcastically, \u201cLadies, we have him all wrong! He\u2019s not a misogynistic man that thinks women are just baby factories, whose only purpose in life is to serve men and their children and to wait on them hand and foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lifecoachshawn\/video\/7369596692280429870\" data-video-id=\"7369596692280429870\">\n<section><a title=\"@lifecoachshawn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lifecoachshawn?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@lifecoachshawn<\/a> The controversial kicker Harrison Butker says we\u2019ve got him all wrong and he makes things clear aa mud with this new statement. <a title=\"harrisonbutker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/harrisonbutker?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#harrisonbutker<\/a> <a title=\"datingadvice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/datingadvice?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#datingadvice<\/a> <a title=\"relationship\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/relationship?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#relationship<\/a> <a title=\"dating\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dating?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#dating<\/a> <a title=\"greenscreen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/greenscreen?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#greenscreen<\/a> <a title=\"\u266c original sound - Shawnda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7369596783271463723?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound \u2013 Shawnda<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Never mind that he never said or implied any such thing, but, undaunted by facts, she continued, \u201cNo! He wants us to go back to a better time \u2014 but better time for who?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then cited all manner of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-sowell-brutally-debunk-feminist-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feminist talking points<\/a> regarding the evil times before women could kill their children legally (such as not having the right to vote or have bank accounts, etc.), before saying, \u201cThis man really curled his lips to say, \u2018When women had more babies than thoughts.\u2019 Your physicist mother must be so proud \u2014 and your wife, to think that all she is to you is a quiet baby factory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the keyboard warriors took this alleged statement and ran with it because it seemed to align with their misguided, incomplete, bad faith understanding of what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pearl-jams-eddie-vedder-total-meltdown-concert-harrison-butkers-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butker<\/a> meant in one short part of a 20 minute speech.<\/p>\n<p>But, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-stealth-makeover-could-it-save-the-a-10-warthog\/\" title=\"A Stealth Makeover \u2013 Could It Save the A-10 Warthog?\">real kicker<\/a> (no pun intended) here was, Butker never said that.<\/p>\n<p>And not as in, his words were misinterpretedn\u2013 as in, he literally never said that.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you support Harrison Butker?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fact-checking website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/harrison-butker-50s-60s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes<\/a>, of all places, defended Butker, pointing out that the website from which this statement originated, The Sports Memery, is a satire and parody page, like the Onion or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parody-song-babylon-bee-skewers-biden-disastrous-time-wh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babylon Bee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cButker did not release a statement with these words, nor did he appear to publicly release any statements following his speech. A closer look at the quote meme reveals a watermark for \u201c@TheSportsMemery\u201d \u2014 a reference to the Facebook page named The Sports Memery. The Facebook page\u2019s description describes its output as containing satire and parody,\u201d Snopes said, rating their fact check as \u201coriginated as satire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butker has not publicly commented on the ridiculous controversy, and several online warriors have instead taken a meme as gospel truth.<\/p>\n<p>What is truly disturbing, however, is not just how people are still piling on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pearl-jams-eddie-vedder-total-meltdown-concert-harrison-butkers-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butker<\/a> over a week later, but also how easily people believe this quotation is genuine.<\/p>\n<p>Which, was probably because many have already ascribed this sentiment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/irate-leftists-wage-war-chiefs-star-kicker-conservative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butker\u2019s commencement address,<\/a> although he said nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>He never said women shouldn\u2019t have jobs or shouldn\u2019t speak in public. All he said was that the girls graduating were probably most excited about getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/african-church-elder-stands-firm-denominations-rewrite-marriage-holds-bible-high-declares-word-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">married<\/a> and having children, which, despite what the left would say, most women are.<\/p>\n<p>This whole debacle showed, yet again, how easily people are swayed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checking-the-media-no-the-u-s-does-not-rank-dead-last-on-healthcare\/\" title=\"Fact Checking The Media: No, The U.S. Does Not Rank \u2018Dead Last\u2019 On Healthcare\">biased media coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-JS7RIKSaCc&#038;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full speech<\/a> has been easily available for people to watch, but you can tell that very few people have based on the ideas and quotations they ascribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/taylor-swift-fans-target-travis-kelces-christian-teammate-song-reference-speech-insane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Butker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, why take the time to listen to a thoughtful, heartfelt, and intelligent speech, when you can listen to soundbites on social media and twist them to fit your leftist narrative?<\/p>\n<p>After all, it\u2019s much easier to cast Butker as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/meltdown-kc-outlet-publishes-piece-saying-chiefs-replace-harrison-butker-woman-viral-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cartoonish misogynist<\/a> than honestly address his actual words and beliefs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. 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Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. 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She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, 2024, Harrison Butker, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker, faced backlash for supporting homemakers. Following this, he is now under fire for alleged new remarks. The controversy arose from a commencement speech where Butker, a devoted Catholic, expressed his views. 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