After 8 years of every criticism of President Obama getting labeled as "racism", it comes as no surprise when attacks on Hillary Clinton's corruption get the sexism label. Case in point: Robin Lakoff's Time editorial, "Hillary Clinton’s Emailgate Is an Attack on Women":
I am mad. I am mad because I am scared. And if you are a woman, you should be, too. Emailgate is a bitch hunt, but the target is not Hillary Clinton. It’s us.Lakoff will be 74 later this month, but clearly she is suffering some form of Alzheimers or senility, because she seems to have forgotten the 1990's, when every week was another Clinton scandal, and they weren't strictly about Hillary.
The only reason the whole email flap has legs is because the candidate is female. Can you imagine this happening to a man? Clinton is guilty of SWF (Speaking While Female), and emailgate is just a reminder to us all that she has no business doing what she’s doing and must be punished, for the sake of all decent women everywhere. There is so much of that going around.
(In hindsight, I am beginning to wonder if Hillary wasn't the root of the worst scandals. Bill's sex scandals were notorious, but things like Whitewater and the White House Travel Office were heavily influenced by Hillary's actions. But that is my opinion.)
The only reason Emailgate is still with us is because FBI Director James Comey chose not to prosecute her, instead leaving it up to the American people to decide her fate. But that isn't good enough for aging feminazis like Lakoff:
FBI Chief James Comey has shown himself to be another bully of the same kind. He has repeatedly talked down to Clinton, admonishing her as a bad parent would a 5-year-old. He has accused her of “poor judgment” and called her use of a private email server “extremely careless.” If Comey’s a Boy Scout, here’s one old lady who will never let him help her across the street.That is because Comey is showing her a mercy that nobody else would get under similar circumstances. Ask former CIA Director David Petraeus about such things, because he got charged. Did I mention Petraeus is a male?
So Miss Lakoff, take your sexist self-pity party somewhere else. You want equal rights? Then take your equal responsibility with it. Let Clinton have her day in court, like any other public official who plays fast and loose with the rules.
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