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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.”
Exactly. When Anita Hill, on a Saturday morning version of the Today show, was asked how she felt about Bill Clinton’s behavior, her response was ‘well, you really have to consider his voting record’. REALLY, ANITA?? I thought women were to be respected, no matter what.
Ha, I finally figured that out. If you mention Mo-Dowd, ya gotta post Catherine Z-Jones pics as eye bleach.
Have at it guys.
It didn’t die. It was exposed for what it really is - anti male liberalism.
Dowd is vicious jealous feminist hag, but she does despise the Clintons.
Earlier in the year she suggested that Hillary Clinton “should have run as a man this time!”
And that’s funny.
My thoughts exactly. It didn’t die, it exposed itself for what it really is.
Wouldn't that be synonymous with....sexism?
Not quite correct. The Mulligan given for offenses against women applied only to Democrats.
Libs like MoDo love the Clintons because their stories are already written. They can either go negative on one day and then positive on the other day. But in the end they will defend the Clintons to the death. The libs do not crack. They firmly believe with every fiber that conservatives and Repubs are intrinsically evil.
Seems like it is stronger than ever: now poised to return Mr. Bill to the White House is a slightly lesser role.
Yes, that’s correct but my antenna are up due to the noticeable increase in MSM coverage on Hillary’s role on Bill’s rapes and sexual assaults.
It’s a snowball at the top of the hill.
Feminism was exposed as a fraud when they assisted the Rapist-in-Chief stay in office.
Rules!
Thank you!
I hope you are right and I am dead wrong.
Somethings up. But it is likely not what we think. Maybe there is another major sexual scandal ready to be exposed and they are trying to get in front of the story and soften the blow by covering Bill’s old rapings. /IDK
The Clinton sex topic is coming up on FOX news now.
Crowley discussing Trump’s tactics for the next debates. The consensus is that Trump won’t bring up Bill’s raping or Hill’s treatment of the victims unless he is provoked with attacks on him related to his women.
sounds like more of the same. Nothing has changed.
Thank you, Maureen Dowd!
Suddenly, no one was a Clinton apologist in the '90s. Ken Starr, you say? Mo has no idea who you're talking about.
As for Katie...she was on bereavement leave or she would have conducted the interview where Hill blamed a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" for the 'rumors' surrounding Bill. Nobody in the press batted an eye at that nonsense. Because, you know, it's "just about sex" and the Right Wing has to get out of Bill's bedroom...and "everybody lies about sex."
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