{"id":33446,"date":"2018-05-19T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33446"},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T16:10:24","slug":"sometimes-the-double-standard-is-very-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33446","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes The Double Standard Is Very Puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Post<\/a> posted an article today about Bill Clinton. Although he is doing a lot of speaking at various political and charitable events, he is keeping a rather low profile. No so with his wife. According to Hot Air<\/a>, Hillary Clinton recently tweeted:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>If I were a Democrat, that would strike fear into my heart. According to an April 19th article at BizPacReview,<\/a> Mrs. Clinton’s favorability rating is at 27 percent. The article reports that this is a new low for Clinton who dropped in popularity from 30 percent in August 2017. Just as a point of reference, President Trump’s rating was at 35 percent. I suspect it may have gone up in the past month.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton seems to be relatively popular with the American people despite his past actions.<\/p>\n

The New York Post reports:<\/p>\n

As recently as 2016, the very liberal Joy Behar was dismissing the women who slept with Clinton as \u201ctramps\u201d on \u201cThe View.\u201d Not that much has changed since the period in the \u201990s when Maureen Dowd dismissed Lewsinky as being \u201cnutty and slutty\u201d and \u201ca ditsy, predatory White House intern who might have lied under oath for a job at Revlon.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Rasmussen Reports poll taken in November 2017, a month after the #MeToo movement began, found that 59 percent of people believe the accusations against Bill Clinton. But you wouldn\u2019t know it from the way he\u2019s being treated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow Bill Clinton has escaped the wrath of the #metoo movement despite the believable accusations against him.<\/p>\n

The article at The New York Post concludes:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to find worse men than Bill Clinton of course (Harvey Weinstein). It\u2019s not even hard to find worse men named Bill (here\u2019s looking at you, Cosby). But there\u2019s a big difference between \u201cnot being the worst man in the world\u201d and \u201cbeing a guest of honor in an age where women are speaking out against assaulters like you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Democrats want to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged misconduct, and we should, then we have to hold Democrats accountable, as well. Sexual harassment isn\u2019t an important issue because it serves as leverage against another party. It\u2019s important because it destroys women\u2019s lives and careers. At least in Lewsinky\u2019s case, we know the fallout from the affair rendered her suicidal. But Clinton seemed to go blithely on, largely beloved in spite of the way he abused his power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe this is the year we say enough. After 20 years, it\u2019s time for Bill to go and take a long walk in the Chappaqua woods.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We should be so lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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