Im sorry Rush Limbaugh called 30-year-old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut. Shes really just another professional femme-a-gogue helping to manufacture a false narrative about the GOP war on women. Im sorry the civility police now have an opening to demonize the entire right based on one radio comment -- because its the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs.
We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it. And no we dont need coddling phone calls from the pandering president of the United States to convince us to stand up and fight.
At his first press conference of the year on Tuesday the Nations Concern Troll explained that he phoned Fluke to send a message to his daughters and all women that they shouldnt be attacked or called horrible names because they are being good citizens. After inserting himself into the fray and dragging Sasha and Malia into the debate Obama then told a reporter he didnt want to get into the business of arbitrating language and civility. Too late pal.
The fact is slut is one of the nicer things Ive been called over 20 years of public life. In college during the late 1980s it was race traitor coconut (brown on the outside white on the inside) and white mans puppet. After my first book Invasion came out in 2001 it was immigrant-hater the Radical Rights Asian Pitbull Tokyo Rose and Aunt Tomasina. In my third book 2005s Unhinged I published entire chapters of hate mail rife with degrading unprintable sexual epithets and mockery of my Filipino heritage.
If I had a dollar for every time libs have called me a Manila whore and Subic Bay bar girl Id be able to pay for a ticket to a Hollywood-for-Obama fundraiser.
Self-serving opponents argue that such attacks do not represent respectable mainstream liberal opinion about their conservative female counterparts. But it was feminist godmother Gloria Steinem who called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a female impersonator. It was NOW leader Patricia Ireland who commanded her flock to only vote for authentic female political candidates. It was Al Gore consultant Naomi Wolf who accused the late Jeane Kirkpatrick of being uninflected by the experiences of the female body.
It was Matt Taibbi now of Rolling Stone magazine who mocked my early championing of the tea party movement by jibing: Now when I read her stuff I imagine her narrating her text book-on-tape style with a big hairy set of (redacted) in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose.
It was Keith Olbermann then at MSNBC and now at Al Gores Current TV who wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does and who called me a mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it. He stands by those remarks. Olbermann has been a special guest at the White House.
Some of us have not forgotten when liberal Wisconsin radio host John Sly Sylvester outrageously accused GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch of performing fellatio on all the talk-show hosts in Milwaukee and sneered that she had pulled a train (a crude phrase for gang sex). (Earlier he called former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a black trophy and Aunt Jemima.)
Or when MSNBC misogynist Ed Schultz called talk show host Laura Ingraham a talk slut for criticizing Obamas petty beer summit. Or when Playboy published a list of the top 10 conservative women who deserved to be hate-f**ked. The article which was promoted by Anne Schroeder Mullins at Politico.com included Ingraham The Views Elisabeth Hasselbeck former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann and others. Yours truly topped the list with the following description: a highly f**kable Filipina and a regular on Fox News where her tight body and get-off-my-lawn stare just scream Do me!
And then theres the lefts war on Sarah Palin which would require an entire national forest of trees to publish.
A reporter asked Obama to comment on examples of liberal hate speech at Tuesdays press conference. He whiffed of course. This is after all the brave leader who sat on his hands while his street thugs attacked tea party mothers and grandmothers as Koch whores during the fight over union reform in Wisconsin. (As I reported last week his re-election campaign is now targeting the Koch brothers private foundation donors in a parallel effort to chill conservative speech and activism.) Hes leading by example.
So no we wont get any phone calls from Mr. Civility. Acknowledging the war on conservative women would obliterate The Narrative. Enjoy the silence.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
Im sorry Rush Limbaugh called 30-year-old Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut. Shes really just another professional femme-a-gogue helping to manufacture a false narrative about the GOP war on women. Im sorry the civility police now have an opening to demonize the entire right based on one radio comment -- because its the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs.
We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it. And no we dont need coddling phone calls from the pandering president of the United States to convince us to stand up and fight.
At his first press conference of the year on Tuesday the Nations Concern Troll explained that he phoned Fluke to send a message to his daughters and all women that they shouldnt be attacked or called horrible names because they are being good citizens. After inserting himself into the fray and dragging Sasha and Malia into the debate Obama then told a reporter he didnt want to get into the business of arbitrating language and civility. Too late pal.
The fact is slut is one of the nicer things Ive been called over 20 years of public life. In college during the late 1980s it was race traitor coconut (brown on the outside white on the inside) and white mans puppet. After my first book Invasion came out in 2001 it was immigrant-hater the Radical Rights Asian Pitbull Tokyo Rose and Aunt Tomasina. In my third book 2005s Unhinged I published entire chapters of hate mail rife with degrading unprintable sexual epithets and mockery of my Filipino heritage.
If I had a dollar for every time libs have called me a Manila whore and Subic Bay bar girl Id be able to pay for a ticket to a Hollywood-for-Obama fundraiser.
Self-serving opponents argue that such attacks do not represent respectable mainstream liberal opinion about their conservative female counterparts. But it was feminist godmother Gloria Steinem who called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a female impersonator. It was NOW leader Patricia Ireland who commanded her flock to only vote for authentic female political candidates. It was Al Gore consultant Naomi Wolf who accused the late Jeane Kirkpatrick of being uninflected by the experiences of the female body.
It was Matt Taibbi now of Rolling Stone magazine who mocked my early championing of the tea party movement by jibing: Now when I read her stuff I imagine her narrating her text book-on-tape style with a big hairy set of (redacted) in her mouth. It vastly improves her prose.
It was Keith Olbermann then at MSNBC and now at Al Gores Current TV who wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does and who called me a mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it. He stands by those remarks. Olbermann has been a special guest at the White House.
Some of us have not forgotten when liberal Wisconsin radio host John Sly Sylvester outrageously accused GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch of performing fellatio on all the talk-show hosts in Milwaukee and sneered that she had pulled a train (a crude phrase for gang sex). (Earlier he called former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a black trophy and Aunt Jemima.)
Or when MSNBC misogynist Ed Schultz called talk show host Laura Ingraham a talk slut for criticizing Obamas petty beer summit. Or when Playboy published a list of the top 10 conservative women who deserved to be hate-f**ked. The article which was promoted by Anne Schroeder Mullins at Politico.com included Ingraham The Views Elisabeth Hasselbeck former Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann and others. Yours truly topped the list with the following description: a highly f**kable Filipina and a regular on Fox News where her tight body and get-off-my-lawn stare just scream Do me!
And then theres the lefts war on Sarah Palin which would require an entire national forest of trees to publish.
A reporter asked Obama to comment on examples of liberal hate speech at Tuesdays press conference. He whiffed of course. This is after all the brave leader who sat on his hands while his street thugs attacked tea party mothers and grandmothers as Koch whores during the fight over union reform in Wisconsin. (As I reported last week his re-election campaign is now targeting the Koch brothers private foundation donors in a parallel effort to chill conservative speech and activism.) Hes leading by example.
So no we wont get any phone calls from Mr. Civility. Acknowledging the war on conservative women would obliterate The Narrative. Enjoy the silence.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
