Time magazine dragged out the typical pimp-with-a-limp feminist scandal spin: “Hillary Clinton’s Emailgate Is an Attack on Women.” Berkeley professor Robin Lakoff – presented by Time simply as a “professor of linguistics” – and not as a $1,000 donor to Hillary and a $1,000 donor to Elizabeth Warren – is spitting nails:
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.
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....
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.
If the candidate were male, there would be no scolding and no “scandal.” Those very ideas would be absurd. Men have a nearly absolute right to freedom of speech.
Dear Lakoff and the Time enablers: Ever heard of Gen. David Petraeus, who ran the CIA? In April of 2015, Petraeus made a plea deal for sharing classified information and paid a $100,000 fine with two years probation.
Lakoff claimed (as many liberals do) that no one can figure out what she did wrong, and what law she might have broken: "But here’s Hillary Rodham Clinton, the very public stand-in for all bossy, uppity and ambitious women. Here are her emails. And since it’s a woman, doing what decent women should never do—engaging in high-level public communication—well, there must be something wrong with that, even if we can’t quite find that something."
Where is PolitiFact (or PunditFact) when a (formerly) weighty news magazine charges like it's a fact that Hillary is being investigated because she's female?
