Africa Activist Slams Phony 'War on Women' Meme by Dems, Media
Giving her two cents on the whole Limbaugh/Fluke row today, media strategist Elizabeth Blackney trashed Democrats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, saying it's "just as cynical as Rush's appalling commentary" for Democrats to "raise money on the backs of women."
Blackney, who "recently completed a 40 Day Hunger Strike in order to draw attention to the unprecedented sexual and gender based violence ongoing in Congo," according to her Politico.com bio, lamented that:
Voters and all citizens deserve better. The only "war on women" is being waged in Sudan, Congo, Syria and other places with oppressive and violent regimes. Tomorrow marks Super Tuesday but it is the votes cast in November that will ultimately adjudicate the Theatre of the Absurd that is 2012's election cycle.
You can read her full comment at Politico.com's The Arena page here.
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Well, there's a bucket of cold water in the face for the Dems
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 4:14pm.
And it returns the focus to larger questions about women's rights. Even SecState Clinton routinely brings up the mistreatment and torture of women in the Third World, and other than issuing statements, what has Obama done about it?
That reminds me
Submitted by GW on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 7:49am.
I went to a few Lilith Fairs in the 90's, and there were always people handing out literature about how bad women have it in Afghanistan and how we need to do something about it. Then the US went in and the same folks railed about how evil we were to go into Afghanistan.
You don't get it
Submitted by Unsane on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 1:09pm.
The literature was enough to scare the Taliban into compliance. Just as the Chinese pulled out of Tibet today, citing that the millions of "Free Tibet" bumper stickers in the United States scared them straight.
(/sarc)
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)