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What's good for the goose, is good for a different goose

Best of the Web Today, yesterday noted the response of Sen. Clinton's campaign to a recent Washington Post "fashion" column that made Sen. Clinton into an object instead of treating her as a person with important ideas. Ann Lewis, of the Clinton campaign said

"Frankly, focusing on women's bodies instead of their ideas is insulting. It's insulting to every woman who has ever tried to be taken seriously in a business meeting. It's insulting to our daughters--and our sons--who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too fast,"

I wonder if the Clinton campaign will continue its criticism of Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan who, in the past wrote of Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice

When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, to caricature. To shadowy daydreams. Dominatrix!

Givhan also reduced the Secretary of State to an object instead of taking her seriously. And in this case there were demonstrated consequences.

Israel Matzav brings word that an op-ed written by Dr. Rice was never published. The topic was using private-public partnerships to rebuild Lebanon. This topic strikes me as worthwhile, but it must be the "Matrix" image of the Secretary of State that prevented American op-editors from taking her seriously.

Israel Matzav thinks that Dr. Rice should start a blog in order to get her ideas past the MSM gatekeepers. Maybe then, she should join Hamas, a group that seems to have little trouble getting their op-eds published. After all their op-eds "provoke" debate, a main purpose of the op-ed page.

hillary clinton, condoleeza rice.

Posted by SoccerDad at August 1, 2007 6:31 AM