Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans by Shapiro Ben

Author:Shapiro, Ben [Shapiro, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2013-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

ANTI-MOM BULLIES

In April 2012, the Obama campaign realized that it had a bit of a problem. The Obama administration had been a disastrous failure on domestic and foreign policy; their “war on women” bullying rhetoric wasn’t working. And, worst of all, Mitt Romney had a secret weapon: his wife, Ann.

While Mitt wasn’t personally popular, thanks to his generally bland image, Ann had high positive ratings with the American public. She was tough, a survivor; she’d raised five boys, all the while fighting off multiple sclerosis and breast cancer.

Ann had to be stopped.

So the Obama administration trotted out its resident feminist spokeswoman, Hilary Rosen, to talk about Ann Romney.

Rosen is a militant lesbian. She made her name in politics as interim director of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy organization; her partner at the time, Elizabeth Birch, was the executive director of the same organization. Together, they adopted twins. Later on, Rosen dumped Birch and moved in with the head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. Who takes care of the kids? The Guatemalan nanny, undoubtedly. All of this may have something to do with Rosen’s less than traditional view of marriage and family.

At the time she decided to speak up about Ann Romney, she was being paid by the Democratic National Committee to help Debbie Wasserman Schultz shave off the rough edges.37 Rosen was a frequent visitor to the White House, too. As a public relations executive at SKDKnickerbocker, her specialty was messaging.

And message she did. She appeared on CNN, where she told the American public that Ann Romney wasn’t a real woman—she’d “never worked a day in her life.”38

The blowback was immediate and harsh. President Obama sprinted to a microphone as fast as his skinny legs could carry him. He defended Ann Romney, stating, “[T]here’s no tougher job than being a mom. . . . Anybody who would argue otherwise, I think, probably needs to rethink their statement.”39 He was followed by Michelle Obama, The Most Beautiful Woman In The World™, who tweeted, “Every mother works hard, and every woman deserves to be respected.” This was a massive overstatement—the Octomom does not deserve to be respected. But point taken. David Axelrod and Obama campaign manager Jim Messina came out of the woodwork to express their disapproval, too40—though if the new media hadn’t picked up on Rosen’s comments, these same folks likely would have been nodding vigorously throughout Rosen’s nasty monologue. The Obamas condemned the remarks. But they didn’t disassociate from her.

And Rosen wasn’t backing down. “This isn’t about whether Ann Romney or I or other women of some means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise kids,” she said. “Most women in America, let’s face it, don’t have that choice. They have to be working moms and home moms. And that’s the piece that I am not hearing from the Romney camp.”41 In other words, if you’re a stay-at-home mom, you must be rich, so shut up.

The only problem is that it’s not true.

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