{"id":6811,"date":"2012-04-06T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2012-04-06T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T23:13:06","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-obamas-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6811","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama’s War On Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox Nation has taken up the tactic perfected by Karl Rove of attacking head on your opponent’s strengths and accusing them of your own weaknesses. Hence we have the Fox Nationalists declaring: “Obama’s War on Women.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Throughout this campaign cycle there have been numerous examples of conservative assaults on women. We have seen them insult a female law student, calling her a slut and a prostitute. We have seen them block the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. We have seen them oppose access to reproductive health care without first undergoing intrusive, unnecessary vaginal probes. We have seen them lobby for rolling back the availability of contraception from their own private insurance policies.<\/p>\n

The War on Women is unquestionably being waged by conservative politicians and pundits. Therefore, consistent with the Rovian strategy, it is time for conservatives to assert that it is really the other way around and that it is Obama who is anti-woman. And in support of that mission Fox Nation has published an article sourced to the ultra-conservative Washington Free Beacon that takes the President to task for golfing and for failing to employ women amongst his senior staff and advisers.<\/p>\n

The Beacon focuses their report on remarks by the White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney who, in a response to a reporter’s question, said that the President believes that the Augusta National Golf Club, hosts of the Masters Golf Tournament, ought to admit women as members, something it has never done. The Beacon then characterized Carney’s answer by saying that…<\/p>\n

“The remarks were viewed by some as a conscious effort by the White House to propagate the meme of a “war on women”<\/em> being waged by Republicans against the fairer sex.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The question the Beaconese and the Fox Nationalists should answer is: What is Mitt Romney trying to propagate by announcing the exact same position? And they surely know of Romney’s stance because they reported it on their web site prior to their report on Carney’s White House briefing.<\/p>\n

The Beacon went on to say that “The president himself, however, has a well-documented history of excluding women.”<\/em> They provided no evidence whatsoever to support that statement. Some examples would have helped it to make sense considering that Obama’s cabinet is full of women in the highest positions – beginning with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis; Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius; Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano; and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Additionally, some of Obama’s closest personal advisers in the White House have been women, including Valerie Jarrett, Stephanie Cutter, and Samantha Power.<\/p>\n

But the Fox Nationalists can’t let facts get in the way of their propaganda. They’ve got an audience to misinform, and when the lies are as big as these, they need to devote every bit of energy to the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox Nation has taken up the tactic perfected by Karl Rove of attacking head on your opponent’s strengths and accusing them of your own weaknesses. Hence we have the Fox Nationalists declaring: “Obama’s War on Women.” Throughout this campaign cycle there have been numerous examples of conservative assaults on women. 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