Bloodthirsty Liberal

We have liberal fascism, as chronicled by Jonah Goldberg; we have liberal racism, as articulated by Sonia Sotomayor.

Now we have liberal sexism—and it’s just as bad:

First there was the character assassination of Miss California Carrie Prejean, in which liberals thought a deft response to her anti-gay marriage comments was to call her a slut. By saying that marriage should be between a man and a woman, Prejean did nothing more than restate the official position of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Bill Clinton—and every other male politician liberals adore. There’s no doubt that Prejean’s femininity determined how the media treated her. As Miss USA owner Donald Trump said, “If her beauty wasn’t so great, nobody really would have cared.”

That’s how liberal woman-haters think. Male politicians are allowed to have opinions; young beauty pageant contestants aren’t. Even Feministing.com editor Jessica Valenti acknowledged that they were “fighting homophobia with misogyny.”

Then, last week, the pigs at Playboy magazine published a list of ten conservative women they’d like to “hate f-ck,” because “we may despise everything these women represent, but goddammit they’re hot.”

A “hate f-ck” sounds like rape to me, which I assume was Playboy’s point. The list was filled with leering observations about the women’s “tight bodies” and “saucy looks,” and concluded with each woman’s “hate f-ck rating.”

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It doesn’t matter whether they’re forbidding Carrie Prejean to say things Joe Biden is allowed to say or fantasizing about raping overly opinionated conservatives. Sexist liberals have always been open about their desire to prevent women from talking. Two years ago, some slobbering loser responded to one of my Townhall columns by writing, “I don’t know Ashley Herzog. Never heard of her before today. I would, however, go so far to say that I would date her if she promised not to say anything.”

Nice work. Especially from people who are constantly screaming about the right’s “war on women.”

Maybe some liberals will be persuaded by this argument, but none that I know, They would point out with arrogant certainty that they are liberals: by definition they cannot be sexist, or racist, or fascist. It simply makes no sense.

And then they’d be done.

College frat boys are the worst. Drunken, ill-behaved, smelly, hairy, horny—how do you women (and some men) stand it?

What’s that?

They’re not college frat boys?

The guy on the left … the one cupping Hillary Clinton’s breast on this cardboard cutout, that would be President-elect Obama’s chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau. He struck this rather intriguing pose at a party, and then, bummer for him, the photo got posted by a pal on Facebook.

Jon, I’m not even going to go after you for this, because it is just too easy. It is shooting fish in a barrel. My 1-month-old kid could look at this picture of you and say, if he could talk yet, “what a total idiot move.”

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A Clinton spokesman described the photo as an example of just good-natured fun between former rival camps. The Post quotes Sen. Clinton’s adviser Philippe Reines as saying, quote, “Sen. Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon’s obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application.”

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I’m sorry, but this is the same woman who, during the campaign, pointed to example after example of sexism directed at her saying that, quote, “It’s been deeply offensive to millions of women”?

Is this the same woman who pointed out the references to her cleavage or her cackle, the comments by certain pundits and the media?

The same woman who concluded, quote, “the remnants of sexism are alive and well” after someone at a rally shouted out “iron my shirt”?

She made a point of calling people out during the campaign, and for that, she became a hero to millions of women. But now, the campaign is over.

She is joining Team Obama, and, apparently, this photo of her likeness being groped by another key member of Obama’s team doesn’t bother her a bit. Just good-natured fun, or so her spokesman says.

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Put another woman in that photo, just an average woman who supported you during the campaign. Have it be her image being degraded by a colleague of hers. Would you be OK with that?

No, she wouldn’t. But she’s okay with this because now Obama owes her even more. The State Department is going to be her private fiefdom over the next four years—probably the price of her support in the campaign. This picture just proves how smart she is—it’s like a big deposit in her political bank account—and how the Left just can’t help itself.

The Left believes by its nature it cannot be racist, sexist, anti-Semitic—anything but warm, loving, and generous. The facts? What are facts compared to feelings?

I rarely quote CNN commentary—and never Campbell Brown—but she gets this one right:

How many times have politicians been warned about the dangers of an open microphone? And yet, on Tuesday, the lectern mic at the National Governors Conference picked up this little nugget from Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.

He’s having a conversation near the lectern about President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for to lead the Homeland Security Department, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. Here is what Rendell said about Napolitano:

Rendell: Janet’s perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day to it.

Wow. Now, I’m sure Gov. Napolitano has many qualifications for the job beyond having no family, and therefore the ability to devote 20 hours a day to the job.

But it is fascinating to me that that is the quality being highlighted here as so perfect. C’mon. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is married with two grown children. His predecessor, Tom Ridge, had a family. Anybody remember a debate about whether they would have trouble balancing the demands of work and family?

I just want to know if Governor Napolitano is willing to use a pair of pliers and a blowtorch on the job. It would save her a lot of time. She might even be able to enjoy the Washington social life.

Look, a lot of people think this way, and not just men. But Campbell Brown is factually correct: nobody says a word—not one peep—when a man takes a big job. But let a woman take any job beyond substitute teacher or clinic nurse, and she practically commits infanticide.

Just ask Sarah Palin—or Hillary Clinton for that matter.

I think we can all agree this is very good news indeed:

Two men have been arrested in connection with an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama that was hung outside a building at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, police said Thursday.

Authorities found a life-size effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a tree outside the school’s Mines and Minerals building on Wednesday morning, police said.

Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush, 21, a former student at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

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Fischer and Bush were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, burglary and theft by unlawful taking, police said. The burglary and theft charges involve allegedly removing items from a room in the fraternity house.

Burglary and theft I get—but disorderly conduct? Doesn’t that sometimes go by another name: free speech?

If you think I’m wrong, that’s fine. I’m willing to entertain the belief that the act committed here approaches if not surpasses the threshold of shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater.

But then I hope you would join me condemning in the same terms and with the same consequences this “crime”:

A man who prompted protests by hanging an effigy of U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin by a noose from his home at Halloween has removed the display because it was causing too much trouble.

No arrest? No mugshot on the web?

What’s more, I couldn’t find a picture of the Obama effigy with the accompanying story. Or accompanying any other accounts of the incident.

Thank God for local TV.

It’s not that I want to see the offensive imagery, but Sarah Palin’s strung-up self was plastered all over the news. Why we are supposed to condemn this as the greatest hate crime since the Crucifixion sight unseen?

And why are these two punks in jail, while the West Hollywood puke walks free?

Colin Powell called Barack Obama “transformational”. I guess that’s as polite a way as any other for calling him two-faced (see his promise on public funding). Watch how he “transforms” on women:

Shelly Mandell, president of Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women: “I am outraged by the new ad put out by Barack Obama. It is sexist and demeaning to women. These tactics started with Hillary Clinton and continue, growing even more disgusting with Gov. Palin. … Let female Obama supporters take a good look at this and still believe their candidate supports women’s rights and women’s dignity.”

Prameela Bartholomeusz, DNC Platform Committee Member: “I am once again stunned at the personal and sexist attacks by the Obama campaign against Gov. Palin. This latest ad is sexist and offensive. The Gov. of Alaska has been managing and balancing a budget of $10 billion; I think she knows a bit about economics. Sen. Obama never spoke up against sexism during the primary season, and is not speaking out against misogyny during this phase of the election season — he is contributing to it. I have no confidence that Sen. Obama will fight for women’s issues if elected. This sets women back decades.”

Stephanie Bressler, Ph.D, Hillary Clinton supporter, University of Scranton women and politics professor: “It’s a sexist example of reducing a woman to an object - a wink - and denying her a voice. Her lips are actually moving, but she’s not allowed to be heard.”

Amy Siskind, ambassador for Hillary: “When Senator Hillary Clinton was demeaned and degraded during the Presidential Primary, many of us of, myself included, vowed ‘never again’. The treatment of Governor Palin by both the main stream media, and now the Obama Campaign, shows that the misogyny fest is alive and well in our country. There has been a complete and utter smear job of our fellow citizen, Sarah Palin, who is only trying to serve her country.”

Hopeful enough for you? That the change you were looking for?

I’ll admit I could watch a tape of Sarah Palin winking and not talking for the next eight to sixteen years—but I’m not an anonymous male blogger for nothing. At least I can understand how people would be offended. Obama, yet again, seems clueless. (I know, what was my first clue?)

He pays his female staffers roughly 25% less than males in similar positions

Why am I not surprised?

Barack Obama is doing his best to demonstrate his fiscal responsibility in keeping down wasteful spending: Pay female staff members less than their male counterparts!

If you listen to Barack Obama’s speeches, he waxes poetical about equality for women in all areas. He pauses for dramatic effect as he tells you how he wants his two daughters to have the same opportunities as our sons. One Obama campaign ad takes a swipe at John McCain, saying, “Today women work to help support their families but are paid just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. It’s just one more thing John McCain doesn’t get about our economy.”

The truth? It’s Obama who doesn’t get it. Or he does get it, and just doesn’t care: While Obama complains that women in America are paid only 77 cents for every dollar men make in the same positions, he only pays his female staff members 78% of what he pays male staff members in comparable positions.

So which are you, Obama, the pot or the kettle? Some people talk the talk… and nothing more.

Meanwhile, female staffers on John McCain’s staff earn an average of 24% more than women in comparable posts on Obama’s staff. Some people walk the walk… and THAT’S what’s needed if women want to be valued as equals.

I guess you could say Barack Obama pays his female staff members in “pocket change they can believe in.”

He is so full of it.

- Aggie

As in the ticket that is history:

STATEMENT OF KIM GANDY
Chair, National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC)

September 16, 2008

It is with great enthusiasm that I announce today, on behalf of the nation’s oldest and largest women’s rights organization, that the National Organization for Women Political Action Committee (NOW PAC) proudly endorses Sen. Barack Obama for President of the United States.

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NOW supported Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primary, and now we join with her in saying “NO” — No Way, No How, No McCain! And we proudly stand arm-in-arm with her in putting our hopes and our dreams, our hard work and our hard-earned money, behind the next President of the United States — Barack Obama, and his running mate, longtime friend and ally of women, Sen. Joe Biden.

You will note that Governor Palin is conspicuous by her absence, and that’s not my creative editing.

They ignored her.

Now, I’m just a beer-swilling, private-scratching, middle-aged guy, but it seems to me that tuning out women and their accomplishments is the hallmark of sexism.

If I may be allowed, you can put lipstick on a chauvinist pig, but she’s still a chauvinist pig.

Some of us see in Sarah Palin what we want to see—others what they don’t want to see:

Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that she was able to steal Barack Obama’s mojo just by showing up wearing rimless glasses and a skirt.

I hate that she makes Joe Biden look like John McCain and John McCain look like the maverick he is not.

I hate that Palin reminds me of Susan Sarandon’s feisty character in “Thelma & Louise.” I loved Sarandon in that movie, yet I couldn’t stand Palin’s feistiness at the Republican National Convention.

Sarah Palin makes me sick — not because she may speak in tongues — but because she is a fast talker.

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It irks me that Palin is being painted as some kind of “New Age Feminist” by the so-called “elite” media.

She isn’t.

Palin is a fresh face on a weary campaign trail, and a jack-in-the-box in this election.

I see. Yes, well… oh my.

Let me point out that the columnist, Mary Mitchell, cites appearance, perception, a toy, “mojo”, and a movie character, without once referring to a specific statement or position that actually causes her illness.

Oh, and it’s not just a physical malady, you’ll be astonished to learn. It has a psych element to it as well:

Frankly, Sarah Palin scares me.

How did Cindy McCain put it during her speech at the Republican convention?

“John has picked a reform-minded . . . hockey-mommin’ . . . basketball-shootin’ . . . moose-huntin’ . . . fly-fishin’ . . . pistol-packing . . . mother of five for vice president.”

The basketball-shootin’, moose-huntin’, fly-fishin’ and pistol-packing might hold up.

Excuse me, did you mean “hold you up” as in lift you up—to new heights from which you’ll see distant horizons beyond imagining?

Or as in “stick ‘em up”?

I’ll let you guess. Mitchell follows with a stream of recycled sleazeball charges that have already been refuted several times over.

No, wait, that’s not entirely fair. She does make one concrete and truthful charge:

Palin’s extreme views on abortion (she once said she would be against her daughter having an abortion even in the case of incest or rape) and her support of abstinence-only programs should make her a laughingstock to feminists.

There it is: gaze with wonder. It is as rare as a black pearl. (For the record, the columnist is African American, and I debated whether I could even use the the previous expression without being accused of something, before saying—to myself, of course—screw it, it’s my blog, I can use language as it was intended without worrying about giving offense.)

But one paragraph hardly makes a column. So the rest is more of the same bilge:

As for “hockey-mommin,” that’s a stretch, too.

Palin is the governor of Alaska. Granted, Alaska is a sparsely populated state, but being governor of any state has to be a full-time job.

Even with a supportive husband, I doubt seriously that Palin has time to be a hockey mom unless she is making a personal appearance on a campaign trail.

And while 7-year-old Piper Palin gave the world a fuzzy moment on stage at the convention when she licked her hand and smoothed her baby brother’s hair, and when Bristol, 17 and pregnant, held Trig against her chest while her mother shook the hands of adoring fans, I couldn’t help but wonder what it’s really like for these kids.

After all, there’s no such thing as a superwoman, and children of driven moms make their own sacrifices.

When so-called “feminists” resort to calling Governor Sarah Palin a failure as a wife and mother, do they have to return their Women’s Studies degrees to the colleges and universities where they were earned? Are their subscriptions to Ms. cancelled and replaced with Cosmopolitan?

Are they even remotely conscious of the irony that while Sarah Palin threatens to remove the glass ceiling and turn it into a flower vase and a set of candlesticks, they are slopping the same old tired water of identity politics over the same old dingy floor?

If the word weren’t so loaded with sexist baggage, I’d say Mitchell was being hysterical.

This is the Left.

This is the Left on drugs:

She’s the woman who shows up at the kid’s birthday party and starts opining about everything from politics to lawn care. This is the woman that knows it all. Will shout you down, will get revenge on you. That’s who she is.

She’s friends with all the teenage boys. You have to say no when your kids say, ‘can we sleep over at the Palin’s? No! NO!’

Randi Rhodes of Air America, as if you couldn’t guess.

What kind of weird projection is that, anyway? Does she have posters of the Jonas Brothers up in her room?

I have a teenage boy, by the way, who I am sure would prefer the company of
Governor Palin to that of Ms. Rhodes any day—and not (not just, anyway) for the perverted reasons she implies. One can teach him how to field dress a moose (whatever that entails); the other is a moose.

Sorry, but one gratuitous slam seems positively charitable under the circumstances.

What is it with the Left and Sarah Palin’s sex? They’re just freaked out.

Local radio host Michael Graham is heading to New Hampshire tonight to present Barack Obama with hundreds of lipsticks donated by listeners.

You’re Invited…

To meet me night in Concord, New Hampshire to deliver more than 500 lipsticks to Senator Barack Obama.

WHEN: Friday September 12th (5-5:30 p.m.)

WHERE: New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord’s Community College

Please bring your (polite but pointed) signs, posters, stuffed pigs, lipsticks, etc., and let the media and other Obama supporters how you feel about their treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin!

(We’ll meet in front of the campus bookstore )

Be there!

You could make a lot of pigs mighty purty with them lipsticks.