Trump’s comments in a private conversation 11 years ago
certainly are sexist and insensitive, even boorish, and I don’t excuse or condone
them, but the level of hypocrisy and partisanship being displayed by the press
and politicians about this is astounding. I would bet that a very large
proportion of the males in this country have made sexist, homophobic or racists
comments in private conversations sometime in the past dozen years, and I would
bet that a fair number of the male politicians and media stars who are
pretending to be so outraged about this would be embarrassed to have some of
their own past behavior made public.
Meanwhile the press is remarkably silent about the concurrent
revelations that Clinton has been telling the banking world in private to
ignore her public promises – she really doesn’t mean them and has no intention
of implementing them. It seems to me this is actually more alarming than the
confirmation that Trump is a sexist asshole – we already knew that. But of course the press is predominantly liberal,
and has hardly been even-handed in reporting this election.
It will be interesting to see how Trump deals with this in
tonight’s debate. My guess is that
Hillary will bait him and he will take the bait and continue to
self-destruct. But in fact Hillary
hardly has the moral high ground here, unless one forgets how viciously and
publically she trashed and attacked the women that her husband seduced.
Nothing about this makes me want either one as president, or
even think that either one is suitable for the office.
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