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It takes a really weak, insecure, and spineless man to attack a woman on television. It takes an even weaker “feminist” movement to play down such attacks.
In a recent episode of “Somebody, Please Notice Me,” also known as “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO, the show’s host may have hit rock bottom with his latest rhetorical bomb by referring to Sarah Palin with a vulgarity exceedingly offensive to women. Far more noticeable, and certainly more noteworthy, was the backhanded “defense”of Palin from radical feminists and their clearly misnamed organizations.
National Organization for Women communications director Lisa Bennett, after days of silence, sounded more as if she didn’t want to be bothered: “Sorry, but we can’t defend Palin or even Hillary Clinton from every sexist insult hurled at them in the media.”
Several weeks ago, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews attacked Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) with another derogatory slur in reference to a harmless geographical gaffe she made about American history. Only crickets from the radical feminists. (A few weeks later Matthews found himself geographically-challenged when he said the Panama Canal was in Egypt.)
The woman didn't know where Lexington and Concord were!!!!!
I don't attack women for no reason, but the majority of the mainstream Republican women like Bachmann and Palin are ignorant of reality, and are nothing more than talking heads.
LOL, Whitman was staunchly pro-gun control. Of course, you picked blue state "conservatives" as examples so it figures.
If anything, it demonstrates how leftist you folks are and cannot distinguish between classical liberalism and a leftist/statist.
So if she leans just a little bit to the center on any one issue, she's automatically booted out of the right wing loonies club?
Extremists and their Happy Meal(tm) politics are so tiresome.
In real life, real people often have ala carte opinions, in fact, some consider it a sign of intelligence.
A sign conspicuously absent in Palin and Bachmann, who get made frun of, even in sexist terms, because they are such an affront to smart people.
I certainly have no problem figuring out where you land on the political continuum.
Your assumptions about me are far less accurate. You do know that "leftist" connotates belief in certain kinds economic systems, right? Ones that don't support capitalism, as I do?
Maybe you don't know that, and that's why you are an extremist.
Maher doesn't make jokes about Palin being a woman, he makes jokes about her being stupid. Same with Bachman, or "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell.
If these ladies would stop saying stupid things, they would not come to Maher's (or Stewart's or Letterman's or Leno's, etc) attention and there would be no jokes about them.
The stupid people (male and female) know who they are and if they don't want people making fun of them, they should stop making declarative statements.
If you pay attention, you'll realize that Liberals typically use personal attacks and histrionics (rather than studies or statistics) when presenting their views. When they do use statistics, they are of questionable source, misinterpreted, or wrong (consider: "Your employer, it's estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent," said the president, "which means they could give you a raise." A White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke; he had meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.) AP: Insurance costs go up under Obamacare | Mark Hemingway | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/ap-insurance-costs-go-under-obamacare - broken link). Today, Obama grants waivers from Obamacare to favored supporters. Who needs a waiver from something that would save them ANY money, or would benefit enough to offset increased costs?
Of course some radio conservatives on the conservative side are histrionic too, but it is much more pervasive in the liberal media. It seems like the opposing side is simply being ridiculous when the Liberal host is scoffing, snorting in distain, stuttering in outrage and throwing in phrases like "Can you believe it!" and "Outrageous!"
Liberals also try to influence the intellectually-challenged masses claim they have have considered all the sides of a topic, and come to a reasonable conclusion--when they are actually ignoring the key issue. Case in point: I was radio channel-surfing recently and hit NPR, where a liberal was saying how he supports the new (3rd) war in Libya because, basically, it is our duty to police the world. He stated that of course we must consider all the relevant factors, including cost, before continuing too far on this path.
But obviously he could NOT have considered cost, since our federal government is dangerously in debt, having borrowed over $14 trillion, with another $1.6 trillion added every year. The vast majority of economists say our economy is simply incapable of paying this off, even if it boomed for some new bubble--leaving America to face a virtually worthless dollar, hyperinflation, or default, all of which would be catastrophic. Unless he truly thinks that Libya is worth the end of America, this Liberal simply pretended to have considered all the relevant factors, confident this would stop anyone from thinking "But can we afford it"? Of course we can, the liberal silently implies, I just said I considered all sides of the issue!
Of course at the same time Liberals tell us they support yet another concurrent war, they also continue to accuse Republicans of being the Party of War. They remain totally silent when asked why we still have 50,000 troops in Iraq, and why when for 2 years they had complete control of the Presidency, the House, and the Senate, they didn't stop the Iraq War that Bush had started to prove his manliness to his father.
If you pay attention, you'll realize that Liberals typically use personal attacks and histrionics (rather than studies or statistics) when presenting their views.
If you pay attention, you'll realize that Liberals, Conservatives and everything in between will use these tactics on Internet message boards and elsewhere.
Believing that only "Liberals" do it evidences either an bias so overriding that you cannot be intellectually honest, or some serious problems with perceiving objective reality.
Um, it seems more like an attack on stupid women who just happen to be loudmouthed, right-wing ideologues.
I don't see people going after Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Christine Todd Whitman or Murkowski...but they are smart, capable women who happen to be conservatives.
Way to play the sexism card, guys. LOL
Excellent point. The loud mouth dummies (palin & bachman) deserve all the true negative opinions expressed by any and all.
Same reason it's ok to attack conservative blacks... liberal "tolerance" is reserved only for those who agree with liberalism and/ or hate America.
Which is really no better or worse than Conserative tolerance which is reserved only for those that believe American should be a White American Christian dominated and controlled nation.
Oh please, with all the crap that conservatives throw at Michelle Obama, you're gonna complain about the treatment of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman?
No offense but these last two are not exactly great examples of smart, strong women. I hope my daughter is nothing like Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman.
Palin is the bunt of many jokes not because she is an idiot, that just happens to be a woman.
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