My first instinct was to mock this story: Hillary Clinton: 'I've Made Women a Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy'

Really, it sounds like so much feminist claptrap—and consider the source! But on reflection, I decided that the Secretary of State deserves at least a modest kudo. Though her rhetoric is typically squishy, replete with such Newspeak words and terms as “reproductive rights,” Clinton is drawing attention to the world’s number-one human rights issue: the oppression of women. Unfortunately, she’s not doing so in the strident terms with which the nineteenth-century abolitionists denounced slavery, which is what injustice on this scale calls for. Not only as a diplomat but also as a postmodern, nonjudgmental liberal, Hillary Clinton is ill equipped to shine the spotlight of truth on agents of female oppression like the Islamofascists. But even her soft and hesitant words constitute an improvement over the silence with which Western feminists have for the most part passed over this huge and hideous global crisis.

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And speaking of the odious Bill Maher, as of this morning the Obama super PAC (run by former Obama adviser Bill Burton) has still not returned the $1 million donation it received from the unrepentant misogynist.

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Via Commentary: Team Obama is now running against Sarah Palin—who isn't running.

No, really, Alana Goodman details the Obama campaign's strategy in this blog post. I tend to agree with her that launching an attack ad against a political opponent who isn’t actually running against you is a sign of desperation—or least of a campaign that lacks a positive message, as in “Here’s why you should reelect me.” On the other hand, this attack on Sarah Palin may have something to do with the rising influence of misogynist-in-chief Bill Maher, who contributed $1 million the Obama reelection effort. I haven’t seen the ad, so I don’t know if it refers to the former Alaska governor as a “dumb twat.”

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This story caught my eye, and the lede cracked me up:

BERKELEY, Calif.— Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan delivered a speech to hundreds at the University of California Berkeley Saturday and some students took issue with parts of his message.

Imagine that! A racist, anti-Semetic, hate-spewing kook makes a speech at a major American university—and some students had the politically incorrect audacity to find his remarks objectionable!

In a speech to the Afrikan Black Coalition Conference (note the “k” in “Afrikan,” incidentally—very trendy!), “Minister” Farrakhan opined that the wicked Jews control the the American government and media. Needless to say, some students, Jews particularly, found this statement disturbing. Perhaps they recalled Hitler’s characterization of thre Weimar regime as the “Jew Republic.”

That the University of California Berkeley tolerates the presence on campus of a horrific racist like Farrakhan is dispiriting enough. Worse still, however, was the rauturous response he received from black students. “What I got out of it was how we as black students can take our education and utilize it to build the black community back up," one said. How’s that? By launching a pogrom against the Jews? As long as the black community accepts a truly evil person like Farrakhan as its spokesman and champion, it will never escape the abyss of poverty and failure in which it is mired. Such attitudes do have consequences.

Posted by tmg110 at 9:51 AM EDT

Updated: Monday, 12 March 2012 3:47 PM EDT

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As of this morning the Obama super PAC (run by former Obama adviser Bill Burton) has still not returned the $1 million donation it received from the repulsive misogynist, Bill Maher. In a recent interview, Burton explained that it's OK for the Obama campaign to take Maher's money because he's just a "comedian." So now we know that in the view of Team Obama, a comedian who calls a woman a "dumb twat" or a "cunt" is a respectable citizen. They're taking his money, aren't they?

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You know who just about everybody failed to mention during the white-heat phase of the Limbaugh/Fluke/disgusting misogynist dustup? Andrew Sullivan. I was thinking about all the vile things that Maher and similar lowlifes had said about Sarah Palin—and I remembered Sullivan’s creepy, not to say demented obsession with her pregnancy. For months, he promoted the literally and figuratively incredible claim that Palin had not actually given birth to her son trig. No, no, it was actually Palin’s daughter Bristol who was pregnant, and Palin, who was Governor of Alaska at the time only pretended to be pregnant so as to avoid having her family values image tarnished by an out-of-wedlock birth. Or something. See here for a sample of Sullivan’s Trig Palin “commentary.” Aside from being hateful, it’s truly weird.

Now it seems to me that Sullivan’s obsessive raving and ranting about Sarah Palin’s pregnancy was actually worse that Maher’s string of offhand obscenities: It just went on and on and on. If this isn’t a prime example of misogyny, what is? I realize of course that progressives would angrily reject the proposition that Sullivan, a homosexual, could be guilty of any type of bigotry. Lucky Andrew, he belongs to one of the officially designated mascot groups of the Left. But over here in reality land we're honor-bound to expose Sullivan’s hateful, woman-bashing craziness, and pronounce the anathema upon him accordingly.

Posted by tmg110 at 5:50 PM EST

Updated: Sunday, 11 March 2012 10:10 AM EST

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One thing that seems to have fallen through the cracks in the course of the uproar over Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh and (of course) the “Republican War on Women” is the shocking revelation that the cost of sex in America is skyrocketing. And no, I don’t mean the average hourly cost of a prostitute’s services or the bill for dinner at a good restaurant. I mean the cost of birth control. You may recall that according to Ms. Fluke, it’s costing her a cool $3,000 to stay protected during sex while she attends law school. Now that is an outrage to rival the sky-high cost of college tuition!

Of course, if Ms. Fluke can’t afford the high cost of sex, it begs a question: Can society afford to underwrite the sex lives of the women of America?. Let’s see, call it a grand a year per sexually active woman times the total number of same and we could be talking about one hell of a budget buster!

Posted by tmg110 at 1:45 PM EST

Updated: Saturday, 10 March 2012 1:51 PM EST

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As of this morning the Obama super PAC (run by former Obama adviser Bill Burton) has still not returned the $1 million donation it received from the bottom-feeding misogynist, Bill Maher. Way to set the example, Barry!

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This could indicate a trend: Two or three days ago, my email program started directing missives from Nation of Change, the online progressive rag, to the spam folder. This was not by my direction: I rely on NoC to monitor goings-on in the left-wing fever swamps. Besides, an article like "Dennis Kucinich: Coinscience of the Congress" (by Robert Scheer, and doesn't that figure?) is always good for a laugh. But now it seems that even the software in my computer has grown weary of this tired old leftie malarky.

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Priorities USA Action, the Obama super PAC, has come to a decision about woman-bashing comedian Bill Maher’s $1 million contribution: They’re keeping it. Bill Burton, who runs the super PAC, explained that there’s really “no similarity” between what Rush Limbaugh said about Sandra Fluke (“prostitute,” “slut”) and what Maher said about Sarah Palin (“bimbo,” “cunt,” “dumb twat”). So that’s all right!

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