Posted on 02/26/2016 7:40:59 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Here are more signs Sarah Palin could face an uphill battle with PBS host Gwen Ifill.
Professor Sherrilyn Ifill of the University of Maryland Law School, whom Gwen Ifill has lauded as "my brilliant baby cousin," has written that black women are not buying Sarah Palin's "false claims to feminism" and is portrayed as too perfect: "when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it's offensive to black women."
The Community Times, a suburban Maryland newspaper, found Professor Ifill was ardently opposed to the Alaska governor when they did an e-mail interview:
"From the first day, Palin presented herself as shooting a bear in the morning, field dressing it, cooking up the breakfast, diapering the babies, passing legislation in the afternoon, cleaning the house, satisfying her husband, etc., etc., etc. And it's just not true," she wrote in an e-mail interview. "It's hard to be an average working mom, really hard. And when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it's offensive to black women."
She said, "black women are not easily confused by false claims to feminism. When women like Palin lay claims to 'representing' average women, I think that black women have a visceral reaction to it."
Ifill added that Palin "missed her opportunity when she announced Bristol's pregnancy to explicitly talk about how painful it was to her as a mother - instead of making it as though this too was also part of her perfect life.
"Hillary has the sympathy of women because of what she went through with Bill in front of the whole country.
Michelle [Obama] takes pains to be self-deprecating and to talk about her concerns and fear about her girls. She insists that she couldn't do what she does without the help of her mother. Most importantly, both champion issues that affect the lives of real, average women - universal health care, equal pay, choice, etc. To do so is a recognition that real working women (not political wives or politicians) need policies that will help them maintain their families. What's the point of Palin's brand of feminism if it doesn't translate into real returns for average women?"
It can be noted that the professor is so passionate an Obama supporter that she also denounced Hillary Clinton as a phony feminist: "When she knocked back a shot and a beer in that bar in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Clinton ended any pretense of running as a feminist." She compared it to Michael Dukakis in a tank, a failed "macho stunt."
Gwen Ifill's family pride came through in her monthly washingtonpost.com online chat on October 4, 2007:
Pittsburgh, Pa.: Is Professor Sherrilyn Ifill at the University of Maryland Law School, who's spoken out so eloquently and thoughtfully on symbols of racial hatred lately, any relation to you?
Gwen Ifill: She is indeed my brilliant baby cousin, and the author of an excellent book "On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 20th Century."
Cousin Gwen supported that book at an event at the liberal D.C. bookstore Politics and Prose. As The Politico reported in February of 2007:
Ifill's reading illustrates how decisions are made. She had everything you need: a name to draw a crowd (her cousin, moderator of PBS's "Washington Week," introduced her); a friendship with Jim Lehrer of "The News Hour," also on PBS; and a book with a liberal, social-justice bent, about lynchings that took place outside the Deep South.
"Jim Lehrer's a great friend of the store," Meade said, adding that the store probably would have held the reading anyway, given the content of Ifill's book. "If it's something that involves civil rights, civil liberties, we're pretty interested in it usually."
The idea that Politics and Prose has a liberal bias has caused the store some consternation, but it's rooted in reality. The bookstore draws a graying, turtleneck crowd in a neighborhood known for its liberal politics in a city that gave George W. Bush fewer than 22,000 votes in 2004. Would you expect the shelves to be buckling under the weight of Sean Hannity and Co.'s latest books?
The bookstore's most well-known snub went to Matt Drudge, a conservative and the creator of The Drudge Report. Cohen reportedly called him "a rumormonger and a troublemaker" in 2000 when the store rejected his request for a reading.
1. Cruz has joined forces with Rubio. Rubio favors amnesty; therefore, Cruz must also accept amnesty.
End of discussion
Not much worry about you over-thinking things is there lol.
Suspect Gov. Palin isn’t losing any sleep over what any member of the Ifill family thinks about her.
Problem - Palin has a husband that supports her and the family in their endeavors. That is the biggest insult of all.
Sarah is a lot like Trump.
The more the hard left goes after her the stronger we support her and the stronger she gets.
Single issue freepers,the ones who sat home, the ones who gave us 8 years of communism.Most have learned their lesson. As you see a few have not.
When you are a major member of a political party that has all but destroyed the US and you have noting at all to run on you make crap up. Thats what this is.
Vassar and NYU grad explains to woman who worked her way through (non-Seven Sisters, non-East Coast elite) college how she (the one who worked her way through college) is “privileged”.
Here's what 'black women' offer: endless excuses for their criminal men and massive on-going pity parties for themselves. Maybe it's black women who 'don't connect'... (Black pity-party rage screams start in five, four, three....)
Here's what 'black women' offer: endless excuses for their criminal men and massive on-going pity parties for themselves. Maybe it's black women who 'don't connect'... (Black pity-party rage screams start in five, four, three....)
There/s her problem right there....she/s thinking.
Just b/c they think something they get cocksure like it has the force of reason....that they are right; we, of course, are wrong.
Wooo Hoo!!!
Great response newbie now go peddle your tripe elsewhere...
harpu is too clueless to comprehend that
that incompetent and spiteful Gwen Ifill is chosen to moderate presidential debates and comment continually on the news
while her rabidly racist cousin Sherrilyn Ifill is promoted heavily to push the anti-US, anti-white agenda.
It shows how our closely connected “news” media, Academia, and various “civil rights” organizations work as one to sell the leftwing agenda.
Both Gwen Ifill and her cousin Sherrilyn are not very bright, filled with poison—perfect stooges to be put front and center by the left as part of the manipulation of the US into the disaster the left wants it to be.
The clueless, of course, are hopeless when it comes to comprehending this.
Your tax dollars support this angry parasite. She gets a paycheck from the Sate of Maryland. The law school was kind enough to let her take a leave of absence to work as an NAACP propaganda minister
Somebody post all those democrat women's photos again please?
I have exactly zero f%$@s to give about anyone who hates on my Sarah!
(HUGS!) Prefectly Said Megan Dear!
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