Ok, it’s still early and some other spittle-frothing Progressive (but I repeat myself) may top this, but you gotta hand it to The Nation’s Dave Zirin for the sheer hatey-hate that is the hallmark of the Left. Here’s his reason why Condi Rice being invited to join Augusta is so horribly wrong:
Rice and Moore are not twenty-first-century Jackie Robinsons, and their acceptance into this bastion of exclusion has nothing to do with women’s liberation and is utterly disconnected from the reality of daily life for millions of American women.
Condi Rice as a symbol of female power? Only if by power, we mean the power to put thousands of Iraqi women in graves all in the name of a war based on lies that she actively promoted. […]
There were also, under Rice’s watch, 19,000 reported sexual assaults of women combat troops in the the US Armed Forces every single year. As the Guardian reported, “A female solider in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by military fire.”
In an eerie echo of the Representative Akin controversy, these women, if impregnated during their assault, could not get an abortion on a US military base. Rice, who claims to be pro-choice, never raised a voice on behalf of these women.
In a sane world, Rice would be awaiting trial at the Hague. Instead, she gets to play golf at a club that, incidentally, didn’t allow African-Americans until 1990.
I’m surprised at that last bit. I thought since Condi is not a Progressive, she is not an authentic African-American. Come on, Dave, you did so well with the Progressive playbook, why fumble on that?
But Dave does redeem a little of his Progressive creds with this anti-American dream:
The only way this club could be any kind of symbol of progress and justice is if the people of Augusta, Georgia, a whopping 32 percent of whom live below the US poverty line, took to the eighteenth green and occupied the Masters.
But, but, but..she’s a woman, and she’s black!
(Well played, Hootie)
Hey, I know what, let’s not have female soldiers — problem solved!
If only some super-genius had been able to forsee this potential problem. Oh well, hindsight…
Poor sot is so brain-addled that he thinks a country club should be a symbol of progress and justice. He probably also thinks that the Pentagon procurement department should be a symbol of efficiency, and that abortion clinics should be temples of virtue.
I’m pretty sure the Armed Forces are part of the Defense Department, not State.
WTF? How is Condi’s State Department responsible for these alleged sexual assaults on soldiers in Iraq? Its mind blowing to me that instead of focusing on the fact that an African American woman is one of the first members, they’re rehashing history that has nothing to do with Condi in the first place.
Well, duh. Yes, Augusta’s membership policies have absolutely nothing to do with the reality of the daily lives of millions of American women, progressive howling to the contrary notwithstanding. Idiot.
My, the little turds are fond of theft, violence, and mob rule, aren’t they?
Well, they’re convinced that a bunch of golfers are what’s keeping a third of the state’s people in poverty, so it’s probably silly to expect them to cleave to clear thinking and convincing arguments.
Greetings:
I heard that Jane Fonda came in third.
How very Chavezian of him.
So, the NBPP is talking louder and louder. Are they a Paper Tiger making more noise as the fair ground haunted house tram-car approaches, or will they actually ball up and try to hurt people when the Republican convention comes around? Things got a little rough on the ground in Minneapolis, Saint Paul back in 08′ as I recall.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/no-more-defense-an-in-depth-look-at-new-black-panther-rhetoric-as-it-turns-increasingly-aggressive/
Condi plays golf? Who knew?
Yeah, but she golfs left-handed…