Catholic and Enjoying It!
Remember when violence against women was wrong? Turns out it’s *hilarious* if the victim happens to be a tribal enemy of the Left.
Wednesday afternoon, CNN anchor Carol Costello hyped newly released audio of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol tearfully recounting her being physically assaulted during a fight the family was involved in last month by saying it was “quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across.” She grinned during the entire setup.
The anchor went on to say “sit back and enjoy,” before playing the audio, in which Bristol says she confronted a man who had allegedly pushed her little sister, only to have him shove her to the ground, then drag her by her feet while calling her an obscene name I cannot republish here that refers to the female anatomy.
Costello commented, still grinning, after the audio that “the long bleep” was her favorite part. She ended the segment by saying “you can thank me later.”Costello is the same anchor who was enraged by the NFL’s apparent lack of concern for the wife of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, who was punched by the football player in an Atlantic City elevator in February.
Other liberals piled on, seemingly delighted that the daughter of someone they disagree with politically was physically attacked. Talking Points Memo provided a partial transcript of the audio,including it in a list of the “best (or worst) moments from the audio.”
MSNBC writer Joseph Neese described the scene in such a way that teemed with glee and downplayed the assault.
“A lady with gray hair apparently wanted to punch Willow. Bristol was in the limo. A guy dragged Bristol across the grass. They took her $300 sunglasses and shoes. And she was left there,” Neese wrote, before referring to the “expletive-laden audio.”
And he made sure to point out that Bristol was a “former ‘Dancing with the Stars’ contestant.” The only quotes included from Bristol’s audio was her saying she would defend her little sister. While describing the video, Neese allotted just one sentence to the attack on Bristol.
What Neese found “most notable” about the video was not the fact that a young woman tearfully told police she was assaulted and dragged, but that she described this using “16 expletives in just 89 seconds.”
Radar Online, an entertainment news website,used the headline: “‘Drunk’ Bristol Palin sobs to cops […]”
E! ran with “See bloody photos from Bristol Palin’s drunken fight in Alaska.”
Dear Media: Tell us more about this #waronwomen you speak of.
I think it’s especially notable that Carol Costello, the talking hairdo overseeing this little postmodern auto-de-fe is a woman. And it has nothing to do with gender. This was about class. For the open, tolerant, diversity-celebrating people rejoicing over this act of beating a woman, the Palins are white trash and may therefore be brutalized, not merely with impunity, but with delight by the Manufacturers of Culture in Newstown. In her little cultural bubble, Costello seems to have forgotten that she was not simply speaking to her upscale economic peers and was audible to the rest of us. It was a particularly ugly revelation of the contours of who is and is not protected by the Left’s rather selective “concern” for women subjected to violence. And it is equally telling that, so far as I can see, she, as the most visible member of the auto-de-fe squad, is the only one who has apologized. The rest of the Mean Girls appear to be using their relative anonymity to let their catty remarks stand.
Of course, you just know that the people who are going to scream loudest about Costello’s vile remarks will be hypocritical propagandists like Sean Hannity, who just a week or two ago was pulling his chin about the “two sides” of the wife beating question. Perhaps forcing the two of them to spend 48 hours trapped in a small room with each other would be the best punishment.
#whyIhateourpartisanpoliticswiththewhitehotfuryofathousandsuns
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