Feminists defending Palin against misogynist smears.
UPDATE: Ron at Fort Hard Knox has more on the MSM misogyny, including a link to Times Watch.
…That the MSM have a liberal bias is well established. Organizations like Times Watch give daily examples of the double standard when it comes treatment of Republicans vs. Democrats. But the ferocity with which the MSM has gone after Palin is unprecedented. The only thing comparable was the treatment of Clarence Thomas, another minority the MSM seemed to think should know his place…
Indeed, Ron.
He also details the CNN episode from Campbell Brown…
CNN’s Campbell Brown is a case in point. In an interview with McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, Brown repeatedly implied that Palin was a bad mother by virtue of accepting the VP spot on the McCain ticket. Here’s what Brown said in that interview.
“Putting this young woman, Bristol Palin, smack in the media spotlight at what’s already got to be a very challenging time in her life, how do you respond to people who wonder why her mother would have subjected her to this kind of scrutiny by accepting this kind of high profile position?”
It’s just a double-standard.
Even though he shouldn’t have to, Ron points out the obvious…
Can anyone imagine the same line of questioning about a male candidate whose teenage child had a similar problem? Of course not! It would never happen. The fact is, many presidential and vice presidential candidates have had children with assorted problems. While those problems may have come out in the media, no one ever suggested that the candidate was a bad parent by virtue of running!
I can tell you now that we have not seen the end to the left’s panic, P.D.S. and smears. Palin is besting the Obamedia’s candidate and they want to know just who she thinks she is to be doing that, as hard as they are working to get Obama elected.
What Obamaland and the Obamedia don’t seem to get is that they are ticking off what tends to be some fairly regular supporters of the Democrat Party, feminists. There are indications that they are starting to lean toward McCain/Palin, because McCain saw fit to put an accomplished woman on his ticket. The One can’t say that. And, feminists are starting to come out, in force, as detailed earlier in this post, to defend Palin against the left’s smear campaign. And, don’t count out the PUMAs and people who are thinking like them, even if they aren’t in the PUMA organization.
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Shakesville has set up a Sarah Palin Sexism Watch.
So, is this a group of Republican women hiding out and trying to project the image of progressive feminists? I am pretty sure that is not the case.
So, as far as political ideology goes, most Shakesville contributores and readers and I may not, necessarily, agree. But, I do find it refreshing that they are consistent in supporting their feminist position across party lines.
It has been an issue of regular discussion in our home why liberals speak of tolerance, equality, etc. but then, when you see a conservative like Sarah Palin come along, her gender is mocked by immediate attempts to search out scandalous photos, etc, etc, etc.
But, I have to say, Shakesville seems to be consistent in supporting women, regardless of their politics.
I have to admit, my spouse and I are pumped about Gov. Sarah Palin being picked to join the Republicans’ 2008 ticket as V.P. Yes. McCain scored big on his V.P. choice. And, it would appear that the PUMA group is seriously considering support of the McCain/Palin ticket, after Hillary Clinton was shut out in the Democrats’ primary.
Keep your eyes peeled. The Obamedia will show its uglier side pretty regular in regard to Gov. Palin in the next several weeks, between now and the general election.
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September 3, 2008 at 9:12 pm
But why would women support Palin just because of her gender? She’s definitely no feminist and seems to be against most of the core issues that most women find important. Heck, most Christians would allow their daughters to have an abortion if they were raped by their brain-damaged cousin; not Palin. She’s against abortion even in cases of violent rape, incest, mental handicap etc…
She’s also not fiscally conservative.
My wife and I are socially liberal because we truly care about people, but we are fiscally conservative and believe in smaller government.
Not Palin: “Palin also is the subject of an ethics investigation involving the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner, allegedly because he would not dismiss Palin’s former brother-in-law, a state trooper. And Palin’s efforts as mayor to gain millions of dollars in federal funding through the so-called “earmark” process also appeared to be at odds with McCain’s message of fiscal reform.”
September 4, 2008 at 8:49 am
Palin offers a lot of the strong qualities found in many of this nation’s women, Scott. Yes, she is a staunch pro-life advocate. She got to where she is by taking on the “good ol’ boy’ system in her state to become governor. She has shown that reform can take place in government.
Let’s see how that investigation plays out, shall we?
As for the earmarks, it does run contrary to what McCain has said for some time. But, I don’t blame her for getting what she could, while the opportunity was there. If that money was going somewhere, she showed tenacity in getting it to better her town. It’s not like it was used for organic meals in the public schools, like the earmark for Berkeley, CA in the huge Omnibus Bill, right?
September 4, 2008 at 1:30 pm
By the way, Scott, you may want to check out this video from YouTube with Megyn Kelly bringing out the details of the incident that led to Gov. Palin calling for the dismissal of the trooper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQhiarIQaw
You will find info on it about about the 2 minute mark in the playback. Tasering his 10 year old child? Firing is probably the least of what he need done to him.
September 5, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Scott, my wife and I are socially conservative because we truly care about people. We are also fiscally conservative and believe in smaller government, which by the way, can’t possibly work with social liberalism. I disagree that Palin doesn’t believe in smaller government and your example doesn’t even speak to the issue. As JCGOP said, lets wait and see how that investigation comes out. I believe it will end in her looking better than ever.
As for her pro life stance, many in the right agree with her, including me. Having said that, I expect she’ll support McCain’s position. I’m certain that came up in the vetting process and she wouldn’t have bee selected if she couldn’t fully support McCain.
Your statements concerning women supporting Palin indicate that you put all women in the same box. In my experience, most women are not radical feminists. They’ll be supportive of a strong woman who has earned her position rather than having been anointed. She has very broad appear to both women and men.
It appears to me that you’re merely engaged in spin.
September 7, 2008 at 12:04 am
My main focus seems to have been diluted here Ron; that many of these alleged “misogynistic smears” are merely voters- mostly women who feel condescended to and pandered to at the same time by McCain’s choice of Palin.
Palin, by all accounts is not only the polar opposite of HRC on most issues but her level of experience is absolutely minuscule in comparison. Ms. Palin is actually much further to the right than McCain and some of her values are at odds w/ most mainstream Republicans.
She wants to make legal the inhumane (and unsportsmanlike) airborne hunting of wolves and caribou…the original legislation outlawing this mowing down of indigenous mammals was carried en masse (landslide on both sides of the aisle) and I don’t care how religious one is- anyone that doesn’t believe in evolution is simply terribly uneducated. It’s one thing to believe in fairy-tales but it’s quite another to say you’d like to pass a law to have bible (creation-ism) taught over science.
Furthermore Ron, et al, In Alaska Governor Palin disallowed the teaching of Sex Ed and instead went the Abstinence Only route and now ironically *(or not) her own daughter is unmarried, 17, and pregnant.
Does any of this bother you? Please give me your opinions.
September 7, 2008 at 2:41 am
So, my wife says I need to be clearer and cut the semantics, so here it is. On all the conservative blogs there’s this ‘we handed Obama his head by picking a woman when he didn’t’ type of boasting.
Equating Palin w/ Clinton, because they’re women and Barack wouldn’t pick a ‘woman’, but McCain did and the Dems were blind-sided etc…
So my “statements concerning women” Ron are saying the opposite of “putting them all in the same box” (weird choice of words btw) I’m saying that woman voters for HRC are mostly Pro-choice, mostly socially progressive, don’t hunt from airplanes or helicopters, believe in equality and are against the Invasion of Iraq and want to end it. So, because it isn’t just ‘gosh Palin’s a gal, we should all vote for her now’, the box you’re talking about doesn’t even exist. Women, just like men vote for whom supports the issues they care about.
That said Ron; being “socially consevative” is antithetical to “caring about people”. Almost every great human-rights legislation since the US Constitution has been penned by Progressives, liberals.
September 7, 2008 at 7:56 pm
HRC’s vast experience has always been an interesting statement to me. I listened to her in the Democrats’ debates talk about her “35 years” of experience. She was elected as the junior senators from New York in 2000 and re-elected in 2006. So, if we give her full benefit of the 8 years that comes out to be, how does she come to 35 years? She spent most all of this new term out running for the Democrats’ nomination for POTUS.
Math may not be my strongest suit but that leaves 27 years unaccounted by my calculations. Even if we were generous enough to count her time as first lady of Arkansas and first lady of the U.S., it is still way off the mark of 35 years. But, there again, first lady is nothing more than a figure head position with no assigned responsibilities. So, from where does her vast experience of “35 years” come that so overshadows everyone in her midst?
September 8, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I understand why the feminists disagree with some of Sarah Palin’s views, like abortion, and I understand their disappointment at loosing Hillary as the first female President, or Vice President. But, now they have a real chance to elect the first ever female Vice President. A woman who exemplifies so many amazing qualities, including her successes and 85% approval rating as Alaska’s governor, mother of five, and the whole nine yards. In addition to breaking the glass ceiling, Palin can finally bring about tremendous reforms for women.
As International abuses keep coming to light regarding women’s rights, including everything from burkas, to white slavery, to honor killings, you would certainly think that women would be tripping over themselves to elevate one of their own to such a high position. What a shame the feminists are so petty that they can’t see the big picture, set aside their conflicting grievances, and make a couple of concessions, in order to progress in such a big way.
September 8, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Gina says: “make a couple of concessions, in order to progress in such a big way”!?
Hmmm, you’re right Gina she is a woman…and Hillary is a woman but that’s about it-
• Palin has been honest about what she doesn’t know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, “I still can’t answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?” When asked about Iraq, she said, “I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
• She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she’s won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain’s campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax.
• McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
• She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves “abstinence-only” programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
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