{"id":101539,"date":"2017-11-14T00:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T07:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101539"},"modified":"2017-11-14T09:06:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:06:27","slug":"damn-time-bill-clinton-call-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/11\/damn-time-bill-clinton-call-account.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s About Damn Time Bill Clinton was Called to Account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

as the sexual assailant he is, says The Atlantic<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, it is.\u00a0 And the feminists and party hacks who prostituted themselves to defend him:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0notorious 1998\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0op-ed by Gloria Steinem<\/a>\u00a0must surely stand as one of the most regretted public actions of her life. It slut-shamed, victim-blamed, and age-shamed; it urged compassion for and gratitude to the man the women accused. Moreover (never write an op-ed in a hurry; you\u2019ll accidentally say what you really believe), it characterized contemporary feminism as a weaponized auxiliary of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Called \u201cFeminists and the Clinton Question<\/a>,\u201d it was written in March of 1998, when Paula Jones\u2019s harassment claim was working its way through court. It was printed seven days after Kathleen Willey\u2019s\u00a0blockbuster\u00a060 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>interview with Ed Bradley<\/a>. If all the various allegations were true, wrote Steinem, Bill Clinton was \u201ca candidate for sex addiction therapy.\u201d To her mind, the most \u201ccredible\u201d accusations were those of Willey, whom she noted was \u201cold enough to be Monica Lewinsky\u2019s mother.\u201d And then she wrote the fatal sentences that invalidated the new understanding of workplace sexual harassment as a moral and legal wrong: \u201cEven if the allegations are true, the President is not guilty of sexual harassment. He is accused of having made a gross, dumb, and reckless pass at a supporter during a low point in her life. She pushed him away, she said, and it never happened again. In other words, President Clinton took \u2018no\u2019 for an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Steinem said the same was true of Paula Jones. These were not crimes; they were \u201cpasses.\u201d Broaddrick was left out by Steinem, who revealed herself as a combination John and Bobby Kennedy of the feminist movement: the fair-haired girl and the bareknuckle fixer. The widespread liberal response to the sex crime accusations against Bill Clinton found their natural consequence 20 years later in the behavior of Harvey Weinstein: Stay loudly and publicly and extravagantly on the side of signal leftist causes and you can do what you want in the privacy of your offices and hotel rooms. But the mood of the country has changed. We are in a time when old monuments are coming down and when men are losing their careers over things they did to women a long time ago.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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When more than a dozen women stepped forward and\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0Leon Wieseltier of a serial and decades-long pattern of workplace sexual harassment, he said, \u201cI will not waste this reckoning.\u201d It was textbook Wieseltier: the insincere promise and the perfectly chosen word. The Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton. The party needs to come to terms with the fact that it was so enraptured by their brilliant, Big Dog president and his stunning string of progressive accomplishments that it abandoned some of its central principles. The party was on the wrong side of history and there are consequences for that. Yet expedience is not the only reason to make this public accounting. If it is possible for politics and moral behavior to coexist, then this grave wrong needs to be acknowledged. If Weinstein and Mark Halperin and Louis C.K. and all the rest can be held accountable, so can our former president and so can his party, which so many Americans so desperately need to rise again.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Some of us have never forgotten, \u201cYou better get some ice on that<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I believe Juanita Broaddrick.<\/p>\n

Dems:\u00a0 If you are serious about opposing our Sex Predator-in-Chief and Roy Moore, then step up say what you should have said 20 years ago or you are continuing to re-victimize every one of Clinton\u2019s prey.\u00a0 You knew it was wrong when it happened.<\/p>\n

Do the right thing at long last.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

as the sexual assailant he is, says The Atlantic.\u00a0 Yes, it is.\u00a0 And the feminists and party hacks who prostituted themselves to defend him: The\u00a0notorious 1998\u00a0New York Times\u00a0op-ed by Gloria Steinem\u00a0must surely stand as one of the most regretted public actions of her life. 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