Steve Benen calls Bill Kristol, "the gift that keeps on giving". Well he's just delivered us another such 'gift' Saturday on the Weekly Standard's blog.
You see, Bill Kristol is absolutely outraged OUTRAGED, that Hillary Clinton is not the Democratic party's VP nominee. Citing the 18 million odd voters that Hillary garnered in the primaries, he says that it is downright unfair and indicative of the "glass ceiling" in the Democratic party for Obama to select Biden instead of her.
Will the Democratic party, which is committed (to say the least) to gender equity, and which in fact has a 50 percent quota for female delegates, accept Obama’s imposition of a glass ceiling at its convention?
If champion of gender equality is not a role that seems to suit Kristol well, particularly for those who remember back to February when he said on Fox News, "White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that". It must be pointed out that his commitment in this crusade against sexism is genuine, as far as it concerns the Democratic party at least.
This is not the first time he has spoken out against this horrible cancer growing within the Democratic party. Kristol took his first courageous stand at the end of the primaries, stating firmly on Fox News,
I think Hillary Clinton was gracious. She's put behind her the horrible sexism and misogyny the Democratic primary voters demonstrated, which I'm appalled by, personally. Never would have happened in the Republican Party. You know, we're - Republicans are much more open to strong women.
Kristol is totally A-OK with strong women, apparently as long as he doesn't have to work with them. Despite his crusade to shatter the "glass ceiling" in the Democratic party, he seems rather reluctant to do the same at his own magazine, the Weekly Standard. A quick glance at the publication's Mast Head reveals that only 3 of 20 "Editorial Staff" and 1 of 18 "Contributing Editors" are women. He does fare better with the "Business Staff" though, with women representing 4 out of 8 of those positions. So while he does not seem to believe that women are capable of writing or editing for his publication, he does believe that they are perfectly capable of performing such crucial functions as "Executive Assistant" and "Office Manager". Presumably he also lets them clean the office, make the coffee and fetch his dry cleaning as well.
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Update from Jed: I just watched FNC's Sunday show and Kristol kept on flogging this horse. He was so stupid that that even Chris Wallace and Juan Williams made fun of him.
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