It has started: Nasty, irrelevant, media smear campaign against Fed Nominee, Stephen Moore

One media hit job after another is now rolling out against him in the press today, and none of it has to do with economics. The left has made a big deal about Moore's presence on the Fed board a matter of 'politicizing' it, but this is what 'politicizing' really looks like.

The New York Times, home of nasty, embittered columnist Paul Krugman, is the worst of them, and most ironically, too, because not long ago, the paper defended its hiring of Sarah Jeong, despite her quite recent history of racist tweets. Now it's put out a nasty hit job with just that logic it criticized, under an august and measured-looking articled headlined: "As Herman Cain Bows Out of Fed Contention, Focus Shifts to Stephen Moore."

The Times' fill doesn't match the tone of that neutral-looking title. Their story is all Bessie Mae told Mabel Jean-style gossipy dreck, completely irrelevant to economics, starting at:

In his columns, published in the early 2000s by the conservative magazine National Review, some of which were first reported by CNN, he complained that women are “sooo malleable” because his wife at the time voted for a Democrat, based on a campaign commercial.

In other pieces, Mr. Moore said that female tennis players “want equal pay for inferior work” and called it a “travesty” that women wanted to play pickup basketball with men. He called for women to be banned from the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, unless they were as attractive as the CBS sports journalist Bonnie Bernstein, ”

Plenty of Moore's remarks cited weren't up to the political correctness standards of today and some come off as wrong-headed or even stupid, but in this context-challenged age, it's clear they were meant in jest, little more than vaudeville-style flippancies, some ill advised. Boys clubhouse stuff, expressed badly, and most men can relate on some level, even with exaggerations. What's more, they're things he would never think today, but they want to pin them to him to keep him off the fed.

BALONY!!

They are things that men everywhere in the US think.

If they are in political life they don’t say them in mixed company or in the company of men they don’t trust and they certainly don’t write them in OP Eds.

But, all of that is wrong. We should say them, we should write them and we should not be afraid to do so.

Women are in places, in positions and in jobs that where they have not logically a place.

Women should not be fire fighters or ditch diggers or basketball, football or boxing broadcasters.

And we shouldn’t be afraid to say so. We think it so why shouldn’t we say it?

Let’s face it we have all been frightened in to silence.

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