Ann Richards, a very liberal woman, was election as governor of Texas in part because her conservative opponent made some discourteous —and ridiculous—remarks about her during he campaign. Texas—male-voters were repelled by the remarks. When George Bush ran against her, he was careful to be nothing but courteous—and won. This is how far down the pike we have come, that this ugly little man can get away with this sort of thing.
I try to avoid television and usually succeed, but sometimes I find myself forced to listen to Bashir and his ilk. The MSM news and commentary was biased back in the Walter Cronkite era, but there was still a sense of shared humanity between the left and right. I think that most Americans still want that. The rabid hyper-leftist partisanship of the Martin Bashirs is turning off viewers/listeners.
Just to keep the record straight, Clayton Williams did not make any vile sexist remarks about Ann Richards. What he actually did was say to a bunch of reporters that he had taken camping that bad weather was liked being raped- can’t change it, so just lay back and enjoy it. Needless to say, this was widely reported.
Interestingly, since he was a wealthy man, they tried to skewer him for not paying any income taxes in 1986. He responded by pointing out that ‘86 was a bad year for the Texas economy, and he *lost* money- thus no income to tax. But it was the rape comment that lost the campaign for him.