Tuesday, July 27, 2004
women = conservative targets
Women in America definitely have a ways to go before they get respect. From the clerks and admin people at Walmart who apparently don't deserve to get paid as much as their male counterparts, to strong-minded political wives like Hillary Clinton and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, women continue to be targets of discrimination and persecution.
The right wing is loving the story about Teresa's "shove-it" comment. But as the folks at Media Matters have pointed out, the part of the story that gets left out of most news items regarding her comment is that it was directed at Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, a conservative paper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife. Remember him? He's the guy who funded the Arkansas Project, a controversial attempt to bring Clinton down. Colin McNickle has written columns that are derogatory toward the Kerry/Edwards ticket (He has referred to them as "two Johns pimping for a populism that can only perpetuate poverty.")
In the spirit of alliteration for political purposes, I'd like to say to Mr. McNickle, strong women everywhere scream salutations for spouses who stand up and say shove it to sour-spirited Scaife-toadies.
¶ 10:09 AM
Women in America definitely have a ways to go before they get respect. From the clerks and admin people at Walmart who apparently don't deserve to get paid as much as their male counterparts, to strong-minded political wives like Hillary Clinton and Teresa Heinz-Kerry, women continue to be targets of discrimination and persecution.
The right wing is loving the story about Teresa's "shove-it" comment. But as the folks at Media Matters have pointed out, the part of the story that gets left out of most news items regarding her comment is that it was directed at Colin McNickle, the editorial page editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, a conservative paper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife. Remember him? He's the guy who funded the Arkansas Project, a controversial attempt to bring Clinton down. Colin McNickle has written columns that are derogatory toward the Kerry/Edwards ticket (He has referred to them as "two Johns pimping for a populism that can only perpetuate poverty.")
In the spirit of alliteration for political purposes, I'd like to say to Mr. McNickle, strong women everywhere scream salutations for spouses who stand up and say shove it to sour-spirited Scaife-toadies.
¶ 10:09 AM
