Can anyone explain to me why Nora Ephron is allowed to mount theHuffPo soapbox?
The woman who thought the most significant aspect of Bill Clinton’s pushback against the vile Chris Wallace was the fact thatthe Big Dog showed a little ankle is at it again today. She’s oh so concerned that Democrats, by pointing out that Republikkkan leaders have been covering for a predatory pederast for years, are acting like“homophobes”.
And yet when I watch the liberal punsters on television, I can’t help suspecting that they’re taking advantage of the homophobia in the culture in order to make slightly more of this episode than it may in fact turn out to be worth. When I watch the Democratic politicians smack their lips, I can’t help wondering whether they’ve forgotten that this is the sort of scandal that can happen to either party, and there’s no evidence that Democrats would have handled it any better. In short, I can’t help thinking that the homophobia is catching.
Um, Nora? Just who are the “liberal punsters on television”. Somehow I missed Molly Ivins hostingMeet the Press and Jim Hightower empaneled onThis Week.
Who is it that is making “slightly more of this episode than it may in fact turn out to be worth”? The Speaker of the House, the man who is two heartbeats away from the presidency, has conspired to conceal a federal crime for years on end, and both the House Majority Leader and the chair of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee are in on it as well. If anything the Democrats have made less of this than it has already turned out to be worth.
Of course scandals happen in both parties, but upon what exactly do you base the claim that there is “no evidence that Democrats would have handled it any better”? The only similar scandal on the Dem side was that involving Congressman Gerry Studds a full generation ago, and that scandal was indeed handled differently by the Democrats. In short, it WAS NOT CONCEALED FOR YEARS BY THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP.
Can she point to one single homophobic statement on the Foley matter uttered by one solitary Dem? No, of course she can’t, she doesn’t even try. Her role as the concern troll of the HuffPo cocktail party is confirmed.