“Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, ‘Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.’ Surely what’s good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.” – from her column today. Sorry, Democratic-party-hacks-pretending-to-be-feminists. (That means you, Pollitt, Steinem and Streisand.) One grope and you’re ok. Them’s your rules. I stand by the distinctions I made yesterday.
RAINES AWARD NOMINEE: The David Sanger DNC talking-points on Friday was a worrying sign of the pro-left reflexes that can take over a paper when it is written by people who have rarely met a Republican, let alone listened to one. But the extraordinary puff-piece on Joe Wilson today is staggering. In a piece discussing this man’s agenda, they couldn’t even mention his avowed intent to bring down neoconservatism and frog-march Karl Rove out of the White House. Don’t those quotes deserve a teensy bit of attention to balance the Wilson-as-national-hero tone of the piece? Not if you haven’t even heard of them, I guess.
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