Posted on 11/20/2018 6:32:26 PM PST by Kaslin
During Monday’s Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham and her panel discussed CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers’s characterization of white women who voted for President Trump as racists who benefit from the patriarchy. Ingraham opened the segment by playing a clip of Powers from three years ago, back when she was a Fox News contributor and promoting her book, The Silencing: How The Left is Killing Free Speech.
According to Powers in 2015: “It’s one thing just to be intolerant and have your own views and just say...I’m not interested in what other people think and I’m not going to talk to them. I think that’s a problem and that's bad; it’s an extra step to say that people cannot say or express things that you disagree with.”
FNC's Ingraham Points Out Kirsten Powers's Complete 180 on 'Silencing' Free Speech
Once that clip finished, Ingraham teed up the clip of Powers from the present, noting how “Powers is doing her own silencing and berating white women who voted for Trump.”
Conservative commentator, former Powers sparring partner, and Washington Times columnist Monica Crowley said that she was “incredibly disappointed in her remarks here,” adding that “she seems to have dutifully submitted to CNN and its insane, dishonest agenda.” Crowley joked that, based on her old pal's logic, “if you voted for Mrs. Clinton, you are a liar and a lawbreaker.”
Liberal guest Rochelle Ritchie said that she did not agree with Powers’s assertion that “all white women that voted for Trump are racist.” She added that “I think that those women that voted for Trump where he’s been accused of racism, I think they don’t care if he is because it does not impact their everyday lives.” Ritchie also insisted that she was “not really sure” why Powers made those comments because “quite frankly this is a system that she has benefited from as a white woman.”
FNC's Ingraham Points Out Left's Double Standard on Supporting 'Misogynistic' Presidents
When Ritchie said that it surprised her that women voted for President Trump in spite of his “misogynistic comments,” Ingraham pointed out the left’s double standard: “Liberals didn’t care about any of this after Bill Clinton, right? That wasn’t really a concern back then, that women can’t support Bill Clinton because look what he did.”
Since making the switch from Fox News to CNN, Powers has made denigrating statements towards white men and Trump-supporting women, once describing them as “hypocrites.” It looks like the one-time moderate Powers has joined a long list of media personalities and life-long Republicans who have come down with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
A transcript of the relevant portion of Monday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle is below.
The Ingraham Angle
11/19/18
10:52 p.m. Eastern
KIRSTEN POWERS: It’s one thing to just be intolerant and have your own views and say I’m just not, I’m not interested in what other people think and I’m not going to talk to them. I think that’s a problem and that’s bad; it’s an extra step to say that people cannot say or express things that you disagree with and that’s what this book is about. It’s about this, this…not only did they not want to hear it, they don’t want anyone else to hear it.
LAURA INGRAHAM: Now, that was Kirsten Powers when she was selling a book called The Silencing: How The Left is Killing Free Speech. She felt very strongly about it at the time. She actually wrote that in the book, you know, the book title. And now how things have changed. Just three years. Now Kirsten Powers is doing her own silencing and berating white women who voted for Trump.
POWERS: They will say, well, I’m not racist. I just voted for him because, you know, I didn’t like Hillary Clinton and I just want to say that that’s not…that doesn’t make you not racist. It actually makes you racist.
INGRAHAM: Okay, you follow that logic? We didn’t even get to the patriarchy part of that. All right, joining me now with reaction, Monica Crowley, Washington Times Opinion Editor and Democratic Strategist Rochelle Ritchie. Monica, let’s start with you. Kirsten isn’t the only pundit making this claim but she might be the most surprising given some of her past work. Your thoughts?
MONICA CROWLEY: I have known Kirsten for years and I like and respect her very much. But I’m incredibly disappointed in her remarks here. She seems to have dutifully submitted to CNN and its insane, dishonest agenda. I mean, there are two things that are ludicrous on its face in her remarks about, well, if you voted for Donald Trump, particularly if you are a white woman, that somehow makes you a racist. The first, Laura, is that it’s the presumption Donald Trump himself is a racist which clearly he is not. That is all part of this massive defamation effort launched against this President from day one and only fools believe that. The second part of this is if you voted for him, you are a racist. Well then by that logic, Laura, if you voted for Mrs. Clinton, you are a liar and a lawbreaker. If you voted for Donald Trump, you are a racist, I mean, or a rapist. It is patently absurd and it doesn’t follow any logic whatsoever and I’m just very disappointed.
INGRAHAM: Yeah, well, I am beyond disappointed because it’s…what she’s doing is generalizing and stereotyping, which is what the left says that conservatives routinely do. You see, I think you can be a woman and be liberal, conservative, black conservative, white conservative, white liberal. It’s about what you believe. And Rochelle, I want to go to you on this. To say that women who voted for Trump are racist. She also said they are oppressed because they are part of the patriarchy. Then she said they benefit from the patriarchy. We don’t have time to play that part of the sound bite. That didn’t even make sense to me. They are oppressed but then they benefit from it. Which is it? Your reaction?
ROCHELLE RITCHIE: Well, look, you know, Laura, I’m not going to sit here and say that white women, all white women that voted for Trump are racist. I don’t believe that, so that’s not going to come out of my mouth. What I will say is that I think that those women that voted for Trump where he’s been accused of racism, I think they don’t care if he is because it does not impact their everyday lives. Now taking race out of this, just not talking about white women but talking about women in general that voted for Trump, you know, it surprises me only not because of their race, it surprises me because of the misogynistic comments that have come from Trump and yet he has still been able to have some sort of support from white women or women in general. So that's the big thing to me. I’m not really sure, you know, why Kirsten made these, made these comments because quite frankly this is a system that she has benefited from as a white woman.
INGRAHAM: Yeah but liberals didn’t care about any of this after Bill Clinton, right? He became a global brand after being impeached, after, I mean…just watch that A&E special on the Clintons. It was like a flashback for all of us who were covering it at the time. But that wasn’t really a concern back then, that women can’t support Bill Clinton because look what he did. It was like, women disagree and they disagree on these issues. Monica, close it out real quick.
CROWLEY: Yeah, you know, feminism was supposed to be about women having the ability to do what they wanted and think the way they wanted. And look, I voted for Donald Trump. I am not a racist. I voted for Trump because of economic issues, trade, exiting the Iran deal, renegotiating NAFTA and so on and a pro-Israel stance. That’s why I voted for him. Period.
Women who vote for democrats are racist because they don’t want blacks to be getting as many jobs as they are now.
So now she’s silencing herself.
Another CNN fool, Kirsten Powers https://t.co/0O1BiS1g0d— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) November 20, 2018
She’s been a huge disappointment. I had read her book and thought she was one of the few tolerant liberals around.
Kirsten Powers is too stupid to be held responsible for her own remarks. Remember, this is the ditz that dated Anthony Weiner and thought he was a nice guy.
No sane person would ever take anything she says seriously.
I’m so glad that I never have to look at or listen to that dingbat dumbell now that she moved to CNN.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.
Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."
This is one of those situations where it turns out Kirsten Powers is an actual racist.
Some people here stuck up for her some years back on here.
I always knew she was a b.tch.
IIRC, four or five years she professed to have had a conversion when she became a Christian. I believe it was due to the influence of a then-boyfriend.
Apparently it didn’t “stick”.
A little off topic but last night on Laura Ingraham she asked what is with Portland Oregon and what makes the city so screwed up. I remind, Portland is the most atheist city in the US
It boils down to that there is now no room for rational moderate Democrats. Powers has made her choice. Pride and dignity are out the window. That doesn’t pay DEMOBOT bills in DC. FOAD Powers.
“Tolerant liberals’’? Were there ever moderate Nazis?
Kirsten Powers. Another one of those babes at the frat keg party who, after two beers is crying because no one likes her. Half way through her third beer she pukes on her shoes.
If there were, they were eliminated quickly once the party got its hands on real power.
Members of a movement cannot be less fanatic than the leaders of the movement, at least once it gets control of the police and the courts.
NO PROG/LIBERAL/DEMOCRAT IS TOLERANT, EVER.
They talk a good game and blow smoke up your ass, it is all camouflage and subversion in order to hide their REAL AGENDA!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MODERATE, TOLERANT, OR HONEST LIBERAL!!!!
It’s the Washington/NYC cocktail circuit doing this to Powers. It is intoxicating for her to be around these people and all of them circle-jerk in agreement.
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