Tantaros: Sexism not an issue for libs if Palin or Bachmann targeted

Misogyny, to libs, knows no bounds, as long as it's looking to the right
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Andrea Tantaros figures that Sen. Chuck Schumer saying that the three branches of government are the House, the Senate and the president is "perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician say." Burt just imagine if a Republican woman had said that:

She would be called stupid. She would be mocked on cable news and spoofed on "Saturday Night Live." Her credibility would be questioned, and if she were attractive, she'd be discounted as a dingbat or a bimbo.

But that's not the case here. Schumer's gaffe was met with little fanfare or ridicule from the mainstream media. His interviewer, Candy Crowley, a shrewd veteran journalist, didn't even question his error.

Granted, mistakes are made on live television. And Schumer was probably tired. People in the public eye talk so much that they are prone to more verbal flubs than the rest of us. For example, when President Obama said there were 51 states, and mispronounced corpsman ("corpse-man," he said). But while Republican women like Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have been impaled for lesser missteps, Schumer and Obama can always expect a pass.

GOP women have been called names for doing a lot less than Schumer, or for doing nothing at all...

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The most egregious example, of course, is their despicable treatment of Palin. When Palin shouted at a Tea Party rally this past fall that, "We're going to party like it's 1773!" the left was quick to pounce, calling her an idiot. "She's so smart," came the sarcastic Twitter commentary from Markos Moulitsas, founder of the liberal blog Daily Kos.

But it turns out that Palin is smart - smarter than Moulitsas, anyway. The Boston Tea Party happened that year. So even when Palin gets it right, she is accused of getting it wrong, while her smug liberal critics escape relatively unscathed. Maybe if they spent more time studying history and less time trying to humiliate Palin, we wouldn't have such glaring examples of a double standard.

These days, it seems like the last acceptable form of prejudice is expressing hatred toward Republican women without fear of retribution.

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- JP

'Miss Representation' turning heads at Sundance Film Festival

"It is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue"
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A new defense of Gov. Palin comes from unexpected quarters. The documentary film "Miss Representation," directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, explores how mainstream media undermines American women in influential positions, and how this impacts young girls. The film also challenges the media's often disparaging portrayal of women. Ms. Newsome is married to California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.

In particular, "Miss Representation" devotes quite a bit of time to how Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton were covered by mainstream media in the 2008 presidential elections.

"The idea for the film came to me as I watched the 2008 presidential campaign and saw this sexism and double standard that was directed towards Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin, and some of the wives whose husbands were running for office. It really upset and affected me," Siebel Newsom told FOX411's Pop Tarts at the premiere in Park City, Utah over the weekend. "I knew I wanted to have children someday (she now has a two-year-old daughter and is pregnant with a son) and I was worried about raising a daughter in a world that objectifies women to such an extreme."

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom concurred, saying Palin was treated abominably.

"We need a greater sensitivity to the way we portray women particularly in the news media. To watch the way Sarah Palin was treated -- to discuss whether an elected official or former elected official has breast implants -- is pretty demeaning, and it would never happen to a guy," Newsom said. "We need to disassociate ourselves from this party ideology. It is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. This happens all around and puts so much pressure on young girls."

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"Miss Representation" has been turning heads at the left wing Sundance Festival, which officially characterizes the film as an "empowering" documentary.

Although Ms. Newsome says the issue her film addresses "is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue," the women she interviews in her documentary are overwhelmingly political liberals. While it is true that misogyny is a problem on both sides of the aisle, it is demonstrated most often by the left, since leftists dominate our entertainment and press institutions. So if anyone needs to see the message of this film, it is those on the left. Perhaps having a plethora of liberal interviewees in the documentary will help some leftists, at least, get the message. After all, they are the ones who pride themselves on their "tolerance."

- JP

A former liberal on the sexist attacks on Sarah Palin

Excerpts from a Robin of Berkeley op-ed at American Thinker:

Like most feminists, it was a no brainer to become a Democrat. Liberal men, not conservatives, were the ones devoted to women's issues. They marched at my side in support of abortion rights. They were enthusiastic about women succeeding in the workplace.

As time went on, I had many experiences that should have made me rethink my certainty.

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What finally woke me up were the utterances of bitch, witch, and monster toward Hillary Clinton and her supporters early last year. I was shocked into reality: the trash talk wasn't coming from conservatives but from male and female liberals.

I finally beheld what my eyes had refused to see: that leftists are Mr. and Ms. Misogyny. Both the males and the females don't care a whit about women.

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Then along came Sarah, and the attacks became particularly heinous. And I realized something even more chilling about the Left. Leftists not only sacrifice and disrespect women.

It's far worse than that: many are perpetrators.

The Left's behavior towards Palin is not politics as usual. By their laser focus on her body and her sexuality, leftists are defiling her.

They are wilding her. And they do this with the full knowledge and complicity of the White House.

We've seen lost of instances ourselves. Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman snickering as the former likened Sarah Palin to a mail-order bride. The Newsweek cover and even worse inside that issue of the magazine. David Frum. Andrew Sullivan. Letterman. Bernhard. Maher. And these are just a few examples. There is much more of it. And it gets even worse on scores of look-alike nutroots blogs run by radical leftists.

These lowlifes must be held accountable. They've been getting away with it for far too long.

Before the link to Robin's full opinion piece, please be advised that it is raw and not family-friendly. But it should be read by every warrior in Sarah's army. Know the enemies, even if that knowledge churns your stomach. Such knowledge is essential to defeating them.

The full article is here.

- JP

Misogynistic attacks are opening some liberal women's eyes

The fallout from David Lecherman's raunchy and sexist attack on 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her daughters has yet to settle, but already a silver lining has appeared around the dark cloud of such attacks, which have become common from the left.

Until Gov. Palin stood her ground and declared that Creepy Dave apologize to young girls everywhere, liberal feminists had remained silent in the wake of attacks on conservative women, their children and their values. Now an increasing number of them have been pushed to the point where they can remain silent no more. Those women who truly believe in the principles of feminism have been forced to choose between their feminist ideals and the sort of political tactics taught by Saul Alinsky and other radical leftists.

Jill Stanek calls our attention to a Salon op-ed by Amanda Fortini:

"If there was any question that a stubborn strain of old-school sexism persists in Obama's America, one has only to look at certain leaders of what the right wing loves to call the "liberal media" but which is sounding and acting, recently, more like the frat-house media. There, like a virus hiding in the body before, perhaps, staging a comeback, misogyny has found a place to lurk almost undetected, at least by the usually sharp eyes of progressive feminists."

Perhaps it was the timing that has served to open the eyes of some liberal feminists:

"A week before these remarks aired, there was an uglier outbreak of the contagion in the pages of Playboy -- never a bastion of egalitarian forward thinking, but still -- where writer Guy Cimbalo published a list of 10 conservative women he'd like to "hate f___," a term that various observers interpreted as rough sex, sex tinged by rage, or rape."

Whatever it is that's rousing some "progressive" women from the narcolepsy attacks which seemed to strike them whenever conservative women were attacked by liberal beta males, we men of the alpha variety can only say that it is about time.

- JP

Don't Forget the Eye of Newt and RINO Tails

In a recent Christianity Today interview of Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House didn't mention Sarah Palin nor any other Republican woman as potential GOP leaders until prodded to do so by the interviewer. I was somewhat taken aback that when Newt was cornered and had to come up list a couple of Republican women, he tossed out the names of Linda Lingle and Kay Bailey Hutchinson. I thought it was significant that Prof. Gingrich, who recently converted to the Catholic faith, could not or would not name a pro-life woman.

At The Confluence, Afrocity found something else of significance in Newt's answers:

Newt’s recent slight of Palin is not an isolated case. When interviews among other GOP males are examined collectively, their responses towards Palin tells a similar story. Palin’s former presidential running mate John McCain, exhibited a common air of discomfort and unresponsiveness when questioned about Palin’s political future within the Republican party. On one Jay Leno appearance McCain failed to even mention Palin’s name when asked who were the “rising stars” of the GOP.

It's not just GOP males, Afrocity. Exhibit A: Kathleen Parker. Exhibit B: Peggy Noonan. Exhibit C: Kay Bailey Hutchinson. And liberal females have been even more vicious in their attacks on Sarah Palin.

There's as much class warfare as there is misogyny at work here. And there's too much of both to be found in the two major political parties.

Gov. Palin is the only Republican of either gender who has the ability to reunite the old Reagan coalition which was so successful in two national elections. Blue collar Democrats and libertarian conservatives trust her, but they don’t trust a GOP which has been under RINO control since The Gipper retired to his beloved ranch in California in 1988.

- JP

Meghan hearts Eminem's Palin-mocking video

Via NRO's Jim Geraghty, the latest tweet from the McCain twit:

"I used to have the hugest crush on Eminem when I was in high school and he still looks hot in his new music video!!"

The puke rapper's latest video is none other than the sleazeball "We Made You," in which he fantasizes about Alaska's governor, portrays himself in bed with a porn star made up to vaguely resemble Palin and includes these lyrics:

Well I can be as gentle and as smooth as a gentleman
Give me my venom, an inhaler, and two Xenadrine,
And I'll invite Sarah Palin out to dinner, then
Nail her. Baby, say hello to my little friend.

Geraghty:

Good to know she thinks Eminem still looks "hot" while pretending to have sex with dad's running mate.

What the McCainette thinks is "hot" leaves conservatives cold. Mush-for-brains Meghan wants the Republican Party to change:

She thinks the Republican Party gives too much attention to Ann Coulter, whom she described as “offensive, radical, insulting, and confusing.” Rush Limbaugh is also unacceptable to Meghan, because he is the “extreme right-wing” and “dangerous” for the party — perhaps an unsurprising description in view of Rush’s hesitant and belated endorsement of her father in 2008. So whom does Ms. McCain think Republicans should turn to for political and cultural advice? None other than Russell Brand. A British “comedian,” Brand took time out of his MTV Music Awards hosting duties in September of last year to beg Americans to vote for Barack Obama. He also decided to insult and malign not just Sarah Palin, but her entire family.

And now I can only assume she wants the GOP to embrace the "culture" of misogynistic mayhem disguised as music and delivered by a disturbed and disgusting rapper. No thanks, Meghan. I, for one, will stick with my Floyd, Skynyrd, 3 Doors Down, Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley.

Meghan McCain is the face the drive-by media wants to put on the GOP. Republicans should say, "Face off!" Or, to borrow an old phrase recently heard from Governor Palin, "Over my dead body!"

Update: Dr. Melissa Clothier adds this:

Since the election, Meghan McCain has made quite the splash. Because she’s young, vapid and, like her father, hates her own, she’s a media darling. She is the perfect embodiment of what it means to be a moderate.

And Ace muses:

"For some strange reason, I have my doubts about Meghan McCain's claim that she wishes to help the Republican Party succeed."

- JP

Cross-posted at RedState.com

Defending Gov. Palin Against Misogynistic Attacks

In this video, Bill O'Reilly and Tammy Bruce excoriate feminist groups for refusing to defend Sarah Palin and other women who don't adhere to radical leftist views from misogynistic attacks:



h/t: The Conservative Xpress

And at The New Agenda, Cynthia Ruccia has an excellent post up about how common sexism has become in our society and how only a few have been willing to stand up against it.

- JP