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Carol Platt Liebau: The Moral Collapse of "Feminism"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Soledad O'Brien is asking McCain spokesman Nicole Wallace how Sarah Palin can consider herself a supporter of special needs children when she (allegedly) cut budget items related to them. For O'Brien (who, incidentally has left young children at home in order to come to work), "support" is defined only as allocating taxpayer money to a person or cause. Gloria Steinem proclaims Palin "the wrong woman." Why? She "shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton." Since when are some women of accomplishment "wrong" while others are right? Keep this in mind: It all comes ...

Hag Staggers From Grave… Still Crazy As A Shithouse Rat After All These Years
Daily Pundit — Palin: wrong woman, wrong message - Los Angeles Times Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Aging harridan and harpy Gloria Steinem, who apparently shares chromosomes with Rodan, seems to think Palin isn’t a “real woman” like Hillary. Clinton aides: Palin treatment sexist - John F. Harris and Beth Frerking - Politico.com ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sarah Palin found some unlikely allies Wednesday as leading academics and even former top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed the ...

Media Elites Weigh In On Palin's Speech
A Blog For All — Well, they weigh in on something. Some decide to question her hair style . Gloria Steinham sneers at the fact that Palin is not one of them. They question her use and reliance on one of President Bush's speechwriters . That's as if Sen. Obama, Sen. Biden or any other politician doesn't rely on speechwriters for important statements? It's condescending and lame all at once, and I'll again point out that no one questioned where and how Obama put his speech together. Gail Collins thinks that Palin was a horrible choice, but the best under the ...

Angry Feminist Relic on Palin: 'She is Phyllis Schlafly, Only Younger'
JammieWearingFool — The Los Angeles Times opens up their editorial pages for possibly the most bitter editorial on Sarah Palin imaginable, courtesy of the irrelevant Gloria Steinem . It's so laden with misinformation and Democrat talking points, I'll assume she used a ghostwriter. Needless to say, this was clearly written before Palin brought the house down last night, but regardless, it speaks volumes about an era of feminism that is rapidly coming to an end. The far-left feminist crowd has been replaced by working mothers that don't revel in their status as victims. Instead of whining, they set ...

"She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger."
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] I'd frame this if I were Palin! Gloria Steinem is right "this is huge." But she's all wrong about the reasons and implications ... ...

In which Ms. Steinem redeems herself
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — That "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs" bit is pure gold : Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's ...

Gloria Steinem: Palin is The Wrong Woman
TalkLeft — ... I hope most Democratic women realize the truth in Gloria Steinem's column today in the Los Angeles Times. Hillary Clinton certainly does, and so do I. ...

Thursday evening links
Maggie's Farm — ... Gloria Steinem hates her feminist sister Palin. Is the only correct way to be a "liberated woman" to be a screeching angry victimized lesbian abortion-loving man-hating bitch? Or is it a wonderful thing that women can chose to be and do what they want? ...

A Feminist Defines the Bounds
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... In today's LA Times, stalwart feminist Gloria Steinem defines the boundaries of what she thinks is fair criticism of Palin and what's not: ...

GOP Convention - Day 4: McCain’s night
Sister Toldjah — ... from Senator Harry Reid: Radical feminista Gloria Steinem wrote a critical piece on Gov. Palin today, exclaiming, “Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.” Thank God. (h/t: ...

A Bad Political Dad From History?
Rhymes With Right — ... shrilly denounce Palin as unfit for office on the basis of ideology . Why can't they take the time to demand that their side hold a woman to the same standard they would hold a man of their own party?

And it’s the Republicans who are cynical?
QandO — ... And that has panicked the Dems. The harridans have emerged. Gloria Steinam has written a piece you could spend a week fisking, but it is the female version of calling a black person an "Uncle Tom" (remember the Clarance Thomas hearings?). Steinam’s criticism of Palin is a blatant indulgence in hypocrisy where Steinam declares that a successful woman cannot really emerge on the right because they are slaves of the patriarchy. ...

Fake Feminists
blonde sagacity — ... It's believing that women are every bit (of not more) capable of achieving as any man. It's not buying into the fact that I need to follow any prescribed path buy my own. It's the inner strength that allows me to have strong opinions and beliefs, to take on misogyny anywhere it may be lurking...all while staying home to breastfeed and raise my own kids... I love that Sara Palin considers herself a feminist too because I'm sure our definitions would be similar. Needless to say, a recent piece by Gloria Steinem was painful to read: "...Selecting Sarah Palin, who was ...

Day By Day by Chris Muir September 5, 2008 - “Karma’s a Bitch”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Barack Obama played the sexism card against Hillary Clinton, nearly lost the Democrat nomination with working class women rebelling and spawned the PUMA movement at the Democrat National Convention. Did anyone see (Flap knows no one cares) Gloria Steinem’s pathetic piece in the Los Angeles Times yesterday? The backlash from ordinary American women voters has just begun. ...

Steinem on Palin.
Blah3 Feed — Ouch. This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience. Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the ...

Links for 2008-09-05 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Palin: wrong woman, wrong message - Los Angeles Times Gloria Steinem - All Left All of the Time Stop the music: Heart tells GOP to take 'Barracuda' off play list - TwinCities.com Time for Republicans to boycott Left Wing musicians: Heart, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencampt and Jackson Browne Sarah Palin Watch: Oprah Afraid - Says No to Palin Scoop: Readers dump Us Magazine over Palin - The Scoop- msnbc.com Marc Ambinder - Obama Surrogates Urged To Mention Eagleton In memos, e-mails ...

links for 2008-09-06
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: sarah_palin heart Bruce_Springsteen Jackson_Brown) Palin: wrong woman, wrong message - Los Angeles Times Gloria Steinem - All Left All of the Time (tags: sarah_palin) ...

What has happened to feminism?
Betsy's Page — ... have been revealed to care more about liberal policy positions than women per se . In many ways Sarah Palin is a model of what feminists have long said they wanted - women to be able to build a successful career on their own without depending on their husband's position to get where they want to go. And to have a family with a husband who fully shares in the parenting duties. Yet now we know that that is not enough. A woman also has to be a liberal to be a true role model. When Gloria Steinem takes to the pages of the Los Angeles Times to tell us that Palin is not the right ...

It’s the class war, stupid
neo-neocon — ... Cries that the Democrats have engaged in sexism towards Palin are not misplaced. Palin is also hated for her social conservatism—even by feminists, who acknowledge she’s a woman, but a woman from the wrong side of the issues. ...

McCain/Palin: Wrong For Women And Families
Firedoglake — ... How very submissive meets Stepford. How many of you gals in the audience still ask your mate's OK to have a "double career" inside and outside your home?  (Checks calendar.  Nope, still not the 1950s.) Let's see what McCain/Palin does stand for, shall we?   Enforcement of equal pay for equal work?  Nope.  Pro-choice?  No. Even in cases of rape or incest?  Not even.   Access to contraception?  Nopity nope nope nope.  (To top it off, Palin belongs to ...

Biden Being Biden
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... up her for the rest of the us before I can even start addressing that question.” The last sentence of the first paragraph has, of course, been taken out of context by the media over the last several months. It is obviously a rhetorical and somewhat amusing answer to a question in which she is trying to deflect attention to the possibility of her being named as running mate. Yet the MSM pounced, here at CNN, Rolling Stone, MSNBC, the LA Times, and the New York Times, among countless others. Fortunately the even keeled ...

Adele Stan: Palin's Pal: A Feminist of Her Own
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Like Sarah Palin, Phyllis Schlafly has long been the target of sexism in her own party. One of the conservative movement's foremost intellects, Schlafly is rarely celebrated as such, and instead finds herself relegated to the G.O.P.'s ladies' auxiliary. So, if I, as a feminist, decided to support Phyllis Schlafly in a bid for a job that offers a direct line of ascendency to the presidency -- would I still be a feminist? After all, I'd just be defending a target of sexism from people -- feminists -- who say mean stuff about her. And isn't that what feminism's all about -- ...