Why The Media Hate Conservative Women

What is it with the liberal media and conservative women?


I can't think of a time when more conservative women are attacked and portrayed (by television, news and entertainment) as being stupid, vapid, and/or sexed up bimbos with hardly a second thought given to such heavily biased judgments.


The latest case in point was last night's "comedic" sketch of Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) on  NBC's "Saturday Night Live" -- mocking her response to the President's State of the Union address last Tuesday.

In the sketch, actress Kristen Wiig, playing the Congresswoman, explained that as a result of technical difficulties in her first attempt, CNN was giving her a second try.  What followed was an idiotic, bumbling attempt by Bachman to communicate to her audience, by looking off camera and using a flip chart that was angled away from her viewers.  What comedic brilliance.  The late Gilda Radner must be rolling in her grave...

This once-funny show made news with the 2008 presidential elections (with Tina Fey's impersonations of Sarah Palin) and 2010 midterm elections (by trashing Delaware's Christine O'Donnell).  As we begin 2011,  SNL has made it quite clear that they are picking up where they left off.


Unfortunately, SNL is just one crude example.  And while it's nothing new, I do get tired of the constant attacks on conservative women.  Here are a few more --


During a June 9, 2009 discussion on NBC's “Today” show about Palin's role within the GOP, comedian Chuck Nice told his co-panelists the following.  “But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say, she is very much like herpes, she's not going away.”


Co-panelist, John Abrams said, “That's the advantage of being Chuck Nice. You can say something like that and there's no repercussions.”  Before moving on to other topics, Nice informed viewers, “Everybody is laughing. I don't care. The band is cracking up.”


Keith Olbermann of MSNBC - recently fired from his job on that liberal news network - compared Michelle Malkin to a “big, mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it” during his Oct. 13, 2009 “Countdown” show because he believed she encouraged death threats made to a woman who posted a video of singing their praises to President Barack Obama.  His message was clear:  perspectives from conservative women were not appreciated or welcomed, and if a woman stepped out of line, she deserved whatever treatment she received.


Another example is Playboy magazine writer Guy Cimbalo who released his 2009 list of top ten conservative women against whom he'd like to commit violent sexual acts. In his “So Right It's Wrong” article, Cimbalo explained that he “might despise everything” about women like Michelle Malkin, Fox News's Megyn Kelly, “The View's” Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Mary Katherine Ham  and Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann, “but g--dammit, they're hot!”


Cimbalo listed the physical attributes of each woman along with short explanations of why a liberal male shouldn't be attracted to them.   For each woman, a “hate-f--- rating,” was used to tell others just how good the sex would be.


Elizabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" was described as “the clean-cut American sweetheart who elicits our filthiest thoughts.” Cimbalo called Bachmann the “lusty congresswoman from the Twin Cities who's got some great twins of her own.” 


The new governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, is the most recent example of the hateful way conservative women are treated in the media.    Last year, during her campaign to be governor, her fidelity and faith were questioned.   A blogger and a lobbyist alleged they had had affairs with Haley.   According to the Culture and Media Institute, of the 42 stories mentioning Haley on the day the election was held, 37 mentioned the unsubstantiated claims of infidelity.  Three months later, there has been no proof, but most articles still mention the allegations. 



I'm sure there have been inappropriate comments made about liberal women, but not in the mainstream media.  Careful not to show any sign of sexism - the CBS, NBC and ABC literally gush over the success of 1) Hillary Rodham Clinton as the first woman who had a legitimate chance at winning the presidency, or 2) representative Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House, or 3) Katie Coric being named the first sole female anchor of a major news organization (CBS).  


So why attack conservative women?   They are easy targets because smart women aren’t supposed to be conservative.  While we will continue to see conservative women made fun of in the media, what you won't see is this:  liberals taking on Hasselbeck, Palin, Haley and Malkin based on the issues.   And that is the reason they hate them so.  Because the libs know they're wrong on the issues, so they base their attacks on stupidity and appearance. 


Try to smile the next time "Saturday Night Live", MSNBC and Playboy magazine talk about Bachman's looks or call her a "balloon-headed" woman.  Feel good because she is taking something from them they desperately want—their power.  


Fight on, conservative women.

I've Never Favred So Good.

It's 5:20 on Sunday evening and the Green Bay Packers have just beaten the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship game.  I've never favred so good.


It's been almost three years to the day since the Packers lost to the New York Giants in Lambeau Field on January 20, 2008.

In bitter, sub-zero temperatures (actual temp at kickoff was minus one degree Fahrenheit), Brett Favre played his last snap as a Green Bay Packer after throwing an overtime interception to Cory Webster of the Giants.  The Packers went on to lose 20-17 after Lawrence Tynes kicked a 47-yard field goal after missing his previous two.

After that numbing loss, I kept saying that the Packers would have won that game if Aaron Rogers had been put into the game.  Favre never looked so old, so damaged, so.... cold as in the second half of that game.  It was like his ability to quarterback -- including his thought process, his defensive reads, his check downs and his throwing motion -- had slowed down like oil in his Mississippi lawn tractor abandoned somewhere in icy Wisconsin.

Aaron Rogers, fourteen years younger and with just enough NFL seasoning to not know better, would have found the fortitude -- his antifreeze -- to lead the Packers into field goal territory and victory.  The names of New York's kicker Tynes and cornerback Webster would have remained in the Giant's team program and not on the front pages of our nation's newspapers the following day.

The end result of today's game and the Giant's game-- and the parallels between those two games -- bear out (forgive the pun)  my earlier belief that Favre had passed his prime and that his competitive vigor had evaporated as quickly as the steam rising from Donald Driver's bald head.

Football in the upper midwest, including Soldiers Field in Chicago, can be brutal and ugly when played in January (think frozen tundra with frost bitten fingers and toes).  Sunday's game -- played in single digit temps after accounting for wind chill -- was sold as the "Game of the Century" in Chicago.  While great for attracting high football viewership, the game never lived up to its billing.   Green Bay's Rogers came out firing, completing 8 of 11 for 138 yards and a 114.7 passer rating in their first four series.  The Bear's defense, after shutting down the Seattle Seahawks inept and snow-adverse offense, looked lost and always two or three steps behind the speedy Greg Jennings, Jordy Nelson and James Starks.  But after the first half, Coach McCarthy's offense went into hibernation as was the disturbing norm all season.  Chicago's trio of quarterbacks -- Cutler, Collins and Hanie -- never mustered up much of a challenge to the  Packer's defense until the fourth quarter.  By then Hanie, a third string quarterback, needed a last minute miracle just to send the game into overtime.

Never happened -- end of game, with the Packers winning 21-14.  As the freezing winter air settled into  the joints of every Bear fan at Soldiers Field, the combination of a better offense with solid defense, beat a rudderless offense and inspired defense.

But back to the parallels between this game and the Giant's game.  Many comparisons have been made between Favre and Rogers over the past three years, including winning percentage, game-winning comebacks and touchdowns to interceptions ratio.  What we need is a comparative tool to measure the effectiveness of an aging Favre in cold weather games -- starting with his 2003 game against the Atlanta Falcons in Green Bay -- a 27-7 loss to Michael Vick.  Or the 2007 loss in the Windy City to these same Bears, 35-7.  There was a time when he was the master of cold-weather games (at one time, he was 43-6 in games under 34 degrees), but like UCLA's 88 game winning streak that ended in 1974, all good things eventually come to an end.

Rogers is still too...  fresh to put up such amazing numbers this early in his career.  But as this season's last two games against the Giants and Chicago, and the playoff road games against Philadelphia and Chicago showed, Rogers' record is 4-0 in cold weather games when it really matters.  A significant difference perhaps that was missed in 2008 as two Packer quarterbacks stood with heads hung low following the Giant's overtime kick.

Enough of a difference to believe that the Packers could be going back to the Super Bowl for the second time in three years.  Or, with a little luck, even more in the years to come.  

Let youth be served.