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It was wrong of Playboy to publish a top ten list of conservative women its writer Guy Cimbalo would like to "hate-f***" but, c'mon, we all know Michelle Malkin had it coming. That's the gist of PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributing editor Bonnie Erbe's June 3 blog post, "Playboy Mix of Sex, Hate, and Politics Demeans Conservative Women" (emphasis mine):
Yesterday, I was contacted by the executive director of SmartGirlPolitics.org, a conservative women's website, to stand up for conservative women treated despicably by the media. Here I am, doing just that.... A couple of caveats are in order. First, I probably disagree politically with much of SmartGirlPolitics.org's agenda--I know I disagree completely with the group's position on abortion rights. But as a nonpartisan, I'm also a firm believer in supporting all members of my gender when attacked due to their gender. I am supporting these women herewith.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓I also want to note that at least one woman on the list is so venom-spewing, she unfortunately invites venom to be shot back at her: Michelle Malkin. Her posts and her "routine" are so venomous and predictable, in fact, I stopped paying attention to her years ago.
Weekly Standard's Mary Katharine Ham, another target of Cimbalo's list, lamented that Erbe suggested that outspoken conservative women have this sort of disgusting treatment coming. Via Ham's Twitter page (in reverse chronological order):
These are the very women who remind us that no woman is ever "asking for it." But my politics are my proverbial short skirt, I guess.
Bonnie Erbe tries to deliever a Playboy criticism from the Left but ruins it by saying @michellemalkin had it coming: http://bit.ly/2MvnEN
Update: Michelle Malkin responds to Erbe here, writing, "This is what feminism looks like: Bitter, clingy, and effete"
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A Lot Of Guts
June 3, 2009 - 12:09 ET by rammingspeedVenom spewing? Sorry, Bonnie, but it's called speaking Truth to Power. You remember that, when the Left was, ahem, speaking Truth to Power when W. was president.
That's why you hate Michelle Malkin. She skewers your position and you can't even stand to read her point of view. You have no answers, other than to circle the liberal wagons and chant the standard demagoguery.
Enjoy it while it lasts. You're making the kind of mistakes that will cause the independents to vote for Republicans the next time around.
I feel my gorge rising...
June 3, 2009 - 16:28 ET by Joe BlogsI must lead a sheltered life because I never heard of this woman before I began reading Newsbusters. She looks like a smelly geriartic version of Julie Brown.
So, Michelle Malkin "had it
June 3, 2009 - 12:17 ET by robert108So, Michelle Malkin "had it coming", but Tiller didn't? More strange double standards from the extreme left wing.
Malkin
June 3, 2009 - 12:18 ET by KC MulvilleMaking one's point strongly is not venom. I don't read Malkin's column everyday, but fairly often. She can be sarcastic, but that's not venom. She can be aggressive and she doesn't take kindly to being dismissed, but that's not venom. She certainly never asked for her political opponents to be raped. She never invited anything.
Erbe is just a bombthrower. Her snobbery is based on gender instead of income or class. The only reason she's noteworthy is the annoyance that she's doing all this on the public dime.
what is ironic is her claim
June 3, 2009 - 12:36 ET by pgrossjrwhat is ironic is her claim that others engage in hyperbole. she apparently does not understand what it is as her columns fairly drip hyperbole. e.g. all Pro-life adherents are "extremists".
Let's juxtapose!
June 3, 2009 - 12:38 ET by moderncommentaries83Erbe, paragraph one:
Erbe, pragraph two:
So I'll defend women unless I don't like what you say (notice how Erbe never actually cites, in context, the "venom" Malkin supposedly "spews"?). If I don't like you, you're fair game.
I could imagine Erbe as a defense lawyer in court:
"Your honor, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the victim in this case is a venom-spewing, right-wing conservative woman. Therefore, my client is accused of raping her but should be found not guilty because her political beliefs and speech make her a deserving target of rape."
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
Be careful.
June 3, 2009 - 14:11 ET by TailgunnerWord is she's on the 'junior varsity' for the Supreme Court.
NOLO PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE
What Obama giveth with one hand he taketh away with both hands.
You stay classy Bonnie!
June 3, 2009 - 12:40 ET by jefflebowskiLiberal women and their liberal women organizations have proven many times over they support only liberal women. Just like homosexuals crying "tolerance" when they allow for no other point of view. The left has no clothes on morality. They only care for one view...theirs...and are willing to destroy any person who doesn't agree with them.
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US News & World Report???
June 3, 2009 - 12:43 ET by VengeanceIsMine"she unfortunately invites venom to be shot back at her:" -----------from another woman??
Isn't that the same as saying a woman "asked" to be raped by dressing provocatively? I have never heard of this Bonnie Erbe before, but hope her newspaper goes broke.
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Rape
June 3, 2009 - 12:48 ET by aakaakaakRape - Hey, that conservative bitch had it coming! Can we use that as a defense? Oh wait, it's against conservatives. I guess it's okay.
http://www.americanwarmonger.blogspot.com
"But as a nonpartisan," and
June 3, 2009 - 12:54 ET by Reaver"But as a nonpartisan," and a comic apparently.
If stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can't it get us out?
--Will Rogers
But as a nonpartisan, I'm
June 3, 2009 - 12:55 ET by CamelopardalisBut as a nonpartisan, I'm also a firm believer in supporting all members of my gender when attacked due to their gender.
Was she on medication? How can she truly believe that she is nonpartisan?
dependably feministic
June 3, 2009 - 13:04 ET by katainkentIt's important that you're a woman - until it's not.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past - George Orwell - 1984
She was asking for it!
June 3, 2009 - 13:32 ET by 76UnitedI mean, c'mon. Look at her. With her hair done up all pretty. Her makeup. Her voice. Her pretty mouth. She was asking for it, just like all women are asking to be hatef'd. They all deserve it. I hit Michelle on head with club, take back to cave. Make cook Groc's dinner. She no should vote. She no should drive. She bad cuz she words no good like mine.
You don't hit a Filipina wife with a club....
June 3, 2009 - 14:09 ET by Tailgunner...if you don't want to wake up one morning minus your reproductive capacity, if you know what I'm saying.
'Least I wouldn't do it to mine.
Feminism as a political movement publicly immolated itself when NOW defended a serial adulterer, sexual harasser and quite probably a rapist from the consequences of his actions.
Erbe hasn't gotten the memo yet that she hasn't had any credibility for nearly two decades.
NOLO PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE
What Obama giveth with one hand he taketh away with both hands.
I was reading the comments
June 3, 2009 - 13:34 ET by Scuba DudeI was reading the comments at the USNWR website of this article. I do not think there was ONE comment that supported what Erbe wrote.
Do you think there will be an apology forthcoming? Naaah, what was I thinking? An apology from the Left? Somehow, someway Pres. Bush will be blamed.
The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER
Venom from Michelle
June 3, 2009 - 13:37 ET by Radical1979Venom from Michelle Malkin? Is she serious? Malkin is talented and opionated, but NOT venemous. Typical of the left attributing their own faults to the right.
Malkin???
June 3, 2009 - 14:00 ET by TailgunnerNever mind.
NOLO PUGNARE ME OCCIDERE
What Obama giveth with one hand he taketh away with both hands.
Erbe is a loud-moth leftist
June 3, 2009 - 13:51 ET by bigtimerErbe is a loud-mouth leftist hypocritical b!tch.
Nobody knows who she is...I wished it would stay that way...I wished the nobody wouldn't get the attention she gets here....
She is so not worth it.
JMHO.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Let's face it
June 3, 2009 - 13:58 ET by Tom in NCBonnie Erbe is a lying, hate filled, slut that deserves a good slap across that ugly mug of hers and I would give a months salary to see Michelle Malkin bitch slap her across the room.
Having said that, I feel much better now with that mental picture
Except to make a point about
June 3, 2009 - 14:11 ET by Chris NormanExcept to make a point about her hypocrisy, I wouldn't seek Erbe's condemnation of Playboy. Any words of support from her are insincere. Left wing "feminists" aren't interested in feminism except as tool and cover to advance their radical poltical agenda.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Erbe asserts: "Yesterday, I
June 3, 2009 - 14:56 ET by TEErbe asserts: "Yesterday, I was contacted by the executive director of SmartGirlPolitics.org, a conservative women's website, to stand up for conservative women treated despicably by the media."
Never heard of SmartGirlPolitics.org, but if they in fact "contacted" Erbe "to stand up for conservative women treated despicably by the media" then they are not "smart" girls. They are dumber than sh!#. No one with a brain would contact a vile, virulent, America hating, hysterical leftist feminist like Erbe for anything, and especially would not contact Erbe "to stand up for conservative women". Does SmartGirlPolitics.org contact al Qaeda or the Democrat party "to stand up" for America?
Say...
June 3, 2009 - 16:02 ET by Kekela WardCimbalo's "story" in Playboy sure seems like hate speech to me....why no outcry?
Sam: "I hurt somebody's feelings once"
I keep telling ya...
June 3, 2009 - 17:39 ET by m4ster chiefIt's the jealousy factor.
Liberal women such as Erbe, Baba Wawa, Barbra Streisand, Whoopie Holeberg, et al, can't stand the thought that there are bright, intelligent, articulate, and beautiful conservative women out there such as Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter who are adored by millions of real people.
And, these conservative women don't have to shout, use gutter language, expose their private parts (like Whoopy), or cuddle up to some piece of trash like Snoop Dogg to "enhance" their image or grow their audience.
You men out there, with whom would you rather have a leisurely cup of coffee...Bonnie Erbe or Michelle Malkin?
Bonnie Erbe or whatever her name is.
June 5, 2009 - 16:16 ET by blazermaniacErbe needs to disappear off TV. Bonnie is just a "SKANK"!
Oh My Michelle!
June 4, 2009 - 09:35 ET by ChattychitoMichelle is an authentic, intelligent woman who deserves respect and support from the American People. Playboy Writer had not right to say he wanted to horribly rape her and the other women as he did.
On a side note I would like to Lavishly Love Michelle. Never in my mind does she deserve any less.
We love you Michelle keep up the good Journalism.
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