Did noted feminist and actress Lena Dunham have second thoughts about supporting Hillary Clinton? According to the New York Times the creator of HBO’s Girls was “disturbed” by how “the Clintons and their allies discredited women” who had “sexual encounters with or been sexually assaulted by former President Bill Clinton.”
But if Dunham did have her doubts, it didn’t stop her from stumping for the former Secretary of State at a campaign event in New Hampshire this month.
In a January 20 article headlined “90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton’s Strength With Women” the New York Times’s Amy Chozick reported the following:
“This month, Lena Dunham, wearing a red, white and blue sweater dress with the word ‘Hillary’ emblazoned across the chest, told voters how Hillary Clinton had overcome sexism in her political career.
‘The way she has been treated is just more evidence of the fact that our country has so much hatred toward successful women,’ Ms. Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO series ‘Girls,’ said at a Clinton campaign event in Manchester, N.H.
But at an Upper East Side dinner party a few months back, Ms. Dunham expressed more conflicted feelings. She told the guests, at the Park Avenue apartment of Richard Plepler, the chief executive of HBO, that she was disturbed by how, in the 1990s, the Clintons and their allies discredited women who said they had had sexual encounters with or been sexually assaulted by former President Bill Clinton.”
If Dunham is having second thoughts about supporting the Hillary Clinton campaign she has yet to say so publicly. According to Chozik “Dunham declined a request for comment. Her spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, said that Ms. Dunham is ‘fully supportive of Hillary Clinton and her track record for protecting women,’ and that the description of her comments at the dinner party was a ‘total mischaracterization.’”
As Newsbusters has documented several of Bill’s victims have recently come out to denounce the former First Lady’s role in pressuring them to keep silent. The question has to be asked, will the rest of the media notice this story and press Dunham about her rumored doubts?
