Topic: Liberal Fascism
Another shot has been fired in the War on Women—not by a Republican, though!
In a characteristically demented rant, leftie nosebleed and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took a nasty shot at Hillary Clinton, decrying her “corporatism” and “militarism.” The latter particularly exercised him, apparently because women are supposed to act as peacemakers. “This is the problem of women trying to overcompensate in becoming more aggressive and macho so they are not accused of being soft on the need to kill and war, right? Instead of taking the tradition of women of peace, and turning into a muscular waging of peace of conflict and prevention, she did the reverse.”
So Hillary is just one more uppity broad who doesn’t know her place! Well, at least Ralph didn’t go so far as to call her “bossy.”
Now I get why Nader doesn’t like the Pants-Suited One. Her blatant opportunism, her inauthenticity, the sleaze and dubious foreign cash that trail in her wake, have disquieted many inhabitants of the leftie fever swamp besides him. In their eyes she’s hardly the model of a modern progressive. So who is? Why, Ralph Nader, of course—Ralph Nader, who thinks nothing of mouthing a lowdown sexist slur but would spin into a three-foot hover if you called him on it. After all, back in 2008 when the odious Bill Maher went off on his notorious Sarah Palin rant, Nader called him a sexist to his face on the air and was hailed for it. It takes one to know one, I guess…
This incident, unimportant in itself—for who really cares what a chump like Nader thinks about anything?—is nonetheless telling. It can be taken for granted that if a conservative, male or female, had said something similar about Hillary Clinton the Left would be up in arms. But aside from a squawk on this blog and a bleat on that one…crickets. Okay, sure, it’s understandable that the Left prefers to pass over such incidents in silence. The Right wasn’t all that eager to discuss the rhetorical transgressions of Todd Akin or Richard Murdoch. But there’s more to it than that.
The Left’s outrage over sexism and misogyny is highly selective. Remember when Rush Limbuagh called Sandra Fluke a “slut” and was roundly excoriated for it, up to and including demands that he be taken off the air? Well, there were some at the time who wondered whether Bill Maher, who had called Sarah Panin a “dumb twat” and a “cunt” among other pleasantries, should not be taken off the air as well. None other than Obama minion David Axelrod stepped up to Maher’s defense: “Understand that these words that Maher has used in his stand-up act are a little bit different,” he claimed. “Not excusable in any way, but different than a guy with 23 million listeners using his broadcast platform to malign a young woman for speaking her mind in the most inappropriate, grotesque ways. Nor does Bill Maher play the role in the Democratic Party that Rush Limbaugh plays in the Republican Party, where he’s really the de facto boss of the party.”
Oh, I see: “not excusable in any way” except the way you just excused them. Thanks for clearing that up, Dave!
Feminists are always whining and crying about gender stereotyping and the like, blind to the fact that the ideology to which they pledge their allegiance is a great offender in that regard. Progressive sexism displays itself not only in the stupid comments of people like Maher and Nader but also in the often-voiced charge that conservative women aren’t “real women”—because, you know, real women have all the right progressive opinions. It’s one of the least attractive facets of an ideology that grows uglier by the year.
