Posted on 10/06/2016 3:02:53 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Feminism “died a little bit” during the Bill Clinton sex scandals of the 1990s, and Hillary Clinton helped kill it, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd argued on Monday.
In an interview with Yahoo! News, Dowd and host Katie Couric discussed a New York Times front-page article detailing the former first lady’s role in smearing the women who claimed they had affairs with her husband.
“There’s a very fixed pattern of Bill Clinton saying he didn’t do it, you know, Hillary and other people kind of trying to trash the women who said it, and years later Bill Clinton having to admit to having the affairs,” Dowd told Couric.
“The feminists had to come along with Bill Clinton’s retrogressive behavior with women in order to protect the progressive policies for women that Bill Clinton had as president.”
The Times article laid out numerous examples of Hillary Clinton’s efforts — both in public and in private — to undermine her husband’s mistresses and accusers.
“We have to destroy her story,” Clinton said of Connie Hamzy, a woman who claimed that Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel room, The Times reminded readers.
“Who’s tracking down all the research on Gennifer?” she said of Gennifer Flowers, the Arkansas state employee who came forward in 1992 to say she had had a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton.
Then the governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton denied Flowers’ accusation. But during a deposition in 1998, he admitted that he had had sex with her.
But even though Hillary Clinton knew that her husband had had affairs throughout their marriage, she sought to discredit Flowers in public during the run-up to the election.
In an interview with ABC News’ Sam Donaldson in Jan. 1992, Clinton pointed out that Flowers had been paid for her story and that she was “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a resume to fall back on.”
Asked during a June 1992 interview with late night talk show host Arsenio Hall what Flowers’ “problem is,” Clinton responded: “She’s got lots of problems.”
The Times also noted that Hillary Clinton was involved with Clinton insiders in hiring private investigator Jack Palladino to dig up dirt on Flowers. The effort involved interviewing Flowers’ ex-boyfriends and finding any other embarrassing information about her.
In an article for Vanity Fair published in 1992, reporter Gail Sheehy recounted her conversations with Clinton. She wrote that Clinton’s anger was “not anger at Bill,” but was instead aimed “at Flowers, the press and Republicans.”
Clinton told Sheehy that if given the chance to cross-examine Flowers in front of a jury, “I would crucify her.”
For Dowd, who has been a vocal critic of the Clintons for two decades, the Clinton team’s attacks against the then-president’s accusers targeted their socioeconomic status.
“They were kind of demonized on class,” the columnist told Couric, citing as an example an infamous remark made in 1997 by Clinton strategist James Carville.
“Drag a hundred dollars through a trailer park and there’s no telling what you’ll find,” Carville said of Paula Jones, the Arkansas woman who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment.
Dowd also lamented that the White House forced two high-ranking female administration officials to publicly support Clinton during the scandals.
“Bill Clinton had [Secretary of State] Madeleine Albright and [Secretary of Health and Human Services] Donna Shalala come out and say he was telling the truth on Monica,” Dowd said.
“And so all of these amazing, accomplished women that worked around him were kind of called to support him, and it’s almost a class issue, because they would put down these women on class or, in Monica’s case, they would say she’s a delusional stalker,” she added, referring to Monica Lewinsky.
“I do think that feminism died a little bit when the feminists had to help Bill Clinton when Monica was actually telling the truth,” Dowd continued. “They had to support Bill Clinton just because they wanted his progressive policies on women.”
Wass Up?
" The Times article laid out numerous examples of Hillary Clinton’s efforts — both in public and in private — to undermine her husband’s mistresses and accusers.
“We have to destroy her story,” Clinton said of Connie Hamzy, a woman who claimed that Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel room, The Times reminded readers.
You mean back when NOW was claiming that the first grope of a woman is “free” (until she says HELL NO)?
It didn’t just die a little, it was laid bare.
It died totally, you nasal-voiced, screechy female lib who can’t even find an illegal alien willing to marry you for a green card. Go sit in the corner and remember how you eviscerated poor Monica Lewinsky, you bitch you.
Even Maureen Pandowdy can recognize a story when it’s been around for 20 years and smacks her in the face several times.
Hillary Rotten Clinton has always paid the women on her staff 75% of their male counterparts. The dowdy one is still fooled by the Clintons' lies and promises of progressive policies on women.
How much is a little bit, Maureen? A scootch? A smidgen? A drop? A speck?
You lying whore, feminism wasn't damaged, it was EXPOSED by Hillary as the hypocritical totalitarian sex slavery it IS.
And you and your reptilian covens have been hiding under rocks about it for a quarter of a century, you VILE hag.
Feminism is presently dying because it can’t deliver. Merkel,Clinton,Rice,Werner,Jarrett and Wasserman for starters.
"Retrogressive behavior" = rape. Say it, Maureen. Rape. And the fact that feminists were willing to barter political favors for permitting it shows not only that they were prostitutes but that they were dishonest prostitutes.
Nah, it was already dead to anyone that counted.
Those on the Left weren’t bothered by any of the Clinton’s antics.
So Feminism didn’t fair all that poorly in the moment.
what happened to the rules around here?
:-)
You’d think there would be CZJ pic by the 11th post.
I’m afraid we’re the alter kockers around here and the younger members have no idea what we’re talking about.
pun intended?
Phew! What a rogue’s gallery.
We need to take away the women’s vote before the islamics (voted in by women) do!
of course. From her wherever as well no doubt. ;-)
Oops wrong thread. Thought this was the Ms. Kelly thread. My bad. Ignore the last.
“Died a little bit.”
Is that like “a little pregnant?”
My opinion is that if some advocacy group that I counted on to represent my most important issue had gotten down on its knees and given some PResident a figurative, uh, Monica - then I’d have been FURIOUS. NOW and similar organizations gave up ALL credibility when they didn’t criticize the Philander-in-Chief...or the First Enabler, for covering for the P-I-C and going after women who were clearly either literally assaulted or the victims of extreme pressure from a very powerful person.
Died a little bit - what a steaming pile of bull offal. She is STILL covering for them.
Ya think? (...to Dowd)
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