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Women's Issues
Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.
What is a ''women's issue'' anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there's one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it's the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I'd say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women's issue.
He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the "Clinton charisma."
My favorite line is the last one, though:
Remind me never to complain about ''liberal media bias'' again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.
Posted by Rand Simberg at November 17, 2002 03:24 PM
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Excerpt: The Dems lost this election because all they had to offer was more of the same tired demagoguery on Social Security and abortion while the electorate has a taken decidedly more serious turn.
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Steyn is the best!
Posted by Anna at November 17, 2002 04:09 PM
The problem is media bias, is real, and it was largely to blame for the Ritchie-like shellacking
of an evangelical businessman like Stockwell Day,
by the Canadian equivalent of Bartlett; Msr. Chretien
Posted by at November 19, 2002 06:46 PM
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