Good grief, I would’ve had more respect for the National Organization for Women (not a high bar) had they just said nothing. Via Caroline May at The Daily Caller:
In the wake of Bill Maher’s tasteless slur against Sarah Palin Friday night, in which he called the former Alaska governor a “twat,” the National Organization for Woman (NOW) has not only denounced the use of such sexist words, but also issued a warning to conservatives who they believe are attempting to use the issue to discredit their organization: “We are on to you, right-wingers.”Listen, supposedly progressive men (ok, and women, too): Cut the crap! Stop degrading women with whom you disagree and/or don’t like by using female body terms or other gender-associated slurs,” Lisa Bennett, NOW communications director wrote in a statement. …
“You’re trying to take up our time getting us to defend your friend Sarah Palin. If you keep us busy defending her, we have less time to defend women’s bodies from the onslaught of reproductive rights attacks and other threats to our freedom, safety, livelihood, etc,” wrote Bennett. “Sorry, but we can’t defend Palin or even Hillary Clinton from every sexist insult hurled at them in the media. That task would be impossible, and it would consume us. You know this would not be a productive way to fight for women’s equal rights, which is why you want us stuck in this morass.” …
“Did you speak up once on behalf of a woman politician before you learned the name Sarah Palin? Did you work toward equality for women in any way prior to August 2008?” wrote Bennett. “It would be nice to think that you’ve suddenly discovered sexism and are interested in joining us in the struggle for full equality. But this really smacks of the worst kind of hypocrisy: Folks with no history of working on an issue trying to discredit those who have been working for decades on the issue. Ridiculous.”
Well, I’m sure that taught Bill Maher a lesson!
In my thirty years of fascination with politics, I have never seen the deck as stacked against anyone as it is against Governor Palin. The media and the Left rabidly hate her unlike anyone since Nixon, some insufferable establishment elites on our own side are devoted to undermining her, and the entertainment world seems to delight in shedding every ounce of their remaining class to hit as low as humanly possible. Furthermore, they go directly after what we’re told is off-limits with every other being on planet Earth: her gender, her looks, her culture, her religion, her dialect, her children… And if there’s nothing there, they just make something up.
Think how much better the world would be if these people devoted as much energy and hate towards defeating Islamic terrorism as they do towards defeating Palin.
And yet somehow through it all, Palin just keeps on keeping on, which only drives them all crazier.
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