Big Journalism: Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift Wrestles with Her Inner Girlfriend

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More outrage from the feminist Left over the rise of conservative women. Like her soul sister Jessica Valenti, the tired old liberal columnist for troubled Newsweek magazine, Eleanor Clift feels so threatened by the New Feminism of Sarah Palin and other women not of the political left that she has little else to do but howl in protest:

As the nearly two-year-old Palin piñata-fest demonstrates, for the devout liberal the intersection of Sorority Street and Politics Avenue is left-turn only.

To no one’s surprise, Sarah Palin remains the left’s First Lady of political feminae non gratae, the gold standard. The needle on the left’s Feminometer moves from the safe green left-hand side (Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi) to the beige neutral middle (Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins) to the hazardous red-hued right-hand zone (Michele Bachmann) to the far-right crimson danger area (Sarah).

Palin’s status as the left’s lead whipping girl is not news. What is news is that women like Eleanor Clift (Hell hath no fury like a liberal feminist scorned) are using the same elitist Palinesque prejudices to bash this year’s crop of wrong-turning conservative women.

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Nevertheless, one question is begged of Clift: Throwing in the towel so soon? That’s not exactly what you’d expect from a progressive twenty-first century woman.

At least, it’s not what Sarah would do.

The full story by Gregg Opelka is at Andrew Breitbart's newest site, Big Journalism.

- JP