Hello Greta, Sean and Rush!
You have been asking the above question repeatedly since David Letterman maligned Sarah Palin (again) and her daughter(s) this week. The National Organization for Women IS INSOLVENT, according to a highly placed insider. You are missing a trend that has been taking place beneath the surface of American politics since the Democrat primary ended last year; yet you are all aware of the circumstances that led up to it. BECAUSE OF THEIR FAILURE TO SUPPORT ALL WOMEN, N.O.W. AND OTHERS LIKE IT ARE ALL BUT DEFUNCT!
Scores of women have abandoned NOW, canceled subscriptions to Ms. Magazine, and stopped contributing to NARAL due to these groups' collective failure to vigorously support Hillary Clinton during the primary – including not standing up to Barack Obama's campaign team and supporters – in spite of the race baiting and thuggery that went on against mostly female supporters in the trenches. Some of these organizations jumped ship and gratuitously endorsed Barack Obama while Hillary Clinton was still in the race: they will never recover from those actions. The unintended consequences go beyond the country's decent into socialism and will impact the far left in ways foreseen and unforeseen.
The old-guard women's groups you mention daily are gone. Like you, many moderates and independents now believe the women's groups have strayed from their stated mission of supporting women in the workplace, in their access to healthcare, in politics, and in society in general – and have veered toward the useless and redundant purpose of supporting all far-left liberals, regardless of gender, in every conceivable realm.
Moderate women and men alike have also left the Democrat party in droves, never to return. Calling themselves PUMAS, independents, unaffiliated or even newly conservative, this group voted for John McCain after Hillary was given that final heave-ho by Nancy Pelosi during the fake roll call at the sham primary in Denver last August. These voters have been just as disgusted, frustrated, and upset over the way Sarah Palin and her children were treated during the general election as they were at the manner in which Hillary was treated.
THE QUESTIONS MEDIA FOLKS SHOULD BE ASKING TODAY REGARDING THE DEFENSE OF WOMEN LIKE SARAH PALIN ARE THESE: WHERE HAVE THE MEMBERS OF, SUBSCRIBERS TO, SUPPORTERS FOR, AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MENTIONED ORGANIZATIONS GONE? WHY DID THEY LEAVE? WHAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE REPLACING THEM, IF ANY? WILL THE OLD GROUPS SOON BE RELEGATED TO HISTORY AS FAILURES IN THEIR STATED MISSION OF SUPPORTING ALL WOMEN?
Sean, contrary to an oft-repeated example cited in your coverage of the Letterman-Palin conflict, Hillary Clinton and others not on the Obama bandwagon were and are still constantly put through the ringer by the far-left. The Obama Democrats have attacked all but the most radical-leaning women and men in a manner that would never have happened within the Democrat party prior to the Obama Phenomena. The contributing factors to this include the tone of his campaign(s); the fact that he is a mixed-race black-appearing presumably naturalized Kenyan American of Arab descent and Islamic upbringing; and the makeup of his supporters consisting of a combination of socialist-leaning young thugs and low-information racists and, alternatively, "politically correct" and/or secular bigots. (You showed clips of some of these types recently, for example, when you covered Eric Holder's failure to prosecute Black Panthers with billy clubs at a voting booth in Pennsylvania who were there to intimidate John McCain's supporters.)
We all know that Sarah Palin has been and continues to be treated badly by the far left. Yet there is evidence that moderate women and their supporters have also suffered at the hands of their former party allies. Countless YouTube videos depict the sexism, mockery, and slandering of Hillary Clinton throughout the primary. There are also numerous testimonies of the brutality inflicted upon her supporters. This includes examples of women and the elderly being shoved, mocked and bullied at the Democrat-run caucuses. One filmmaker, Gigi Gaston, has compiled interviews into an as yet-to-be rolled-out documentary entitled, We Will Not be Silenced; Hillary's own campaign filed a lawsuit – now buried – against the Obama campaign alleging the mistreatment at caucuses as well as fraud. There is also evidence that moderate female supporters of both Hillary and Sarah Palin were bullied and intimidated online: the hacking of emails, the posting of private information and the sabotaging of blogs are just some examples of what women have dealt with who are not part of the far-left agenda. They, too, pleaded for support from NOW and others to no avail; today, they just applaud its imminent demise.
In conclusion, feminists in the traditional sense are no longer; the voices supporting women today are mostly conservative women seen on Fox News. They have taken up the mantle for women – and this will help Republicans in 2010 and 2012 if the media make folks aware of the trend.
Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
[Listener's Name]
Chicago, IL
(Proud Home of William Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Louis Farrakhan, Father Pfleger, Rev. Wright and Rod Blagojevich)
That says a great deal. I would urge everyone to continue to write media repeatedly on this issue.
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With the kind permission of our very own Doctorate, I post her eloquent letter to Hannity, Greta and Rush:
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Wow, that is a great article. Thanks for posting it. Yes, the National Organization of Women (N.O.W.) is wack for sure. I'm not surprized they are silent in the case of the abosolute spectacle the media and others made out of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteI remember how SILENT N.O.W. was when the State of Florida gave rights to a husband (Michael Schiavo) who was already living for years with another woman and whom had abandoned his wife (Terry Schiavo) to purposefully murder her.
And they have been completely SILENT on the plight of middle eastern women who are burned, tortured, chained up and left to sleep outside like a guard dog, and murdered, and forced to wear black casper the friendly ghost attire.
Let's face it. Waiting for N.O.W. to take any action, let alone simply voice assistance to women is like RIDING A DEAD HORSE.
Let's stop waiting for them to do anything.
There are other women's groups out there that DO care about women. PUMA, for one and others. I urge folks to support those groups and let's have a mass and a funeral for the dead horse N.O.W. It's about time, it's stinking to high heaven about N.O.W.
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