Go Gloria Go! Why I support Steinem’s freedom of speech.
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem was once quoted as saying, “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Unfortunately, Steinem’s primary problem is that she herself never took her own thoughts to heart and unlearned… how to speak.
If she had, we would not have had to hear about her repugnant and despicable diatribe over this past weekend regarding the importance of Senator John McCain’s time spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
One of Hillary Clinton’s best-known supporters, Steinem questioned the relevance of McCain’s ordeal as a prisoner of war: “I mean Hello… This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so,” the New York Observer quoted Steinem as saying as she took part in a political discussion in Texas.
And while many Americans are rightfully upset and repulsed that the seventy-three year-old and largely irrelevant Steinem had the audacity and the arrogance to belittle McCain’s five-and-a-half years as a P.O.W., I say to them, don’t be so quick to try and stop her.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t for a moment condone Steinem’s stupid statements. In fact, if it was in my power, I would hop aboard the time travel machine and turn the destination knob to August 20, 1920–to the moment in time when the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote. I would then proceed to pencil in an addendum excluding Gloria Steinem from the amendment.
Based upon Steinem’s vilification of Senator McCain, I don’t believe Steinem should ever be allowed to vote ever again as she has clearly demonstrated that she is certainly not of sound mind but that her mouth is functioning at full speed, outpacing her shriveling brain by a ratio of about 100-to-1.
So to those who would move to silence Steinem, I say, don’t you dare! Let her go… Let her lips rip. Let her show the world exactly the pathetic, small-minded, and insignificant person she really is. Go Gloria Go! Every word that comes out of her mouth potentially exposes her for her looney-left leanings.
The American public-at-large is not going to welcome Steinem’s incredible questioning of the importance of John McCain’s time spent as a prisoner of war. The more she spews the more she alienates.
After all, the fact of the matter is that Senator McCain was tortured repeatedly while serving this country and being held as a P.O.W. The same country that affords Steinem the freedom to say stupid things. So when a loud-mouth liberal like Steinem smugly, humorously, and brazenly attempts to diminish and disparage a decorated military veteran, a true patriot and hero—who refused to be freed until all his comrades were—it tells me all that I need to know about the underpinnings of the Democrat party.
Not surprising, also according to the New York Observer, the Clinton campaign quickly attempted to distance the campaign from Steinem’s crass and loutish comments, issuing the following statement from Howard Wolfson: “Senator Clinton has repeatedly praised Senator McCain’s courage and service to our country. These comments certainly do not represent her thinking in any way. Senator Clinton intends to have a respectful debate with Senator McCain on the issues.”
Yada, yada, yada. There is not a doubt in my mind that regardless of whatever official statements are strategically released to rebut, Clinton and Steinem will remain as thick as fleas on a dog’s back.
If you need further proof that Steinem is simply another unscrupulous, ignominious, gasbag, you need only travel back in time to 2000, when Steinem, who had been a long time critic of the institution of marriage, suddenly married her late husband, David Bale. Much to the outrage of fellow-feminists far and wide. Seems that Bale faced deportation charges for overstaying his visa, but his marriage to Steinem earned him conditional residency.
So what have we learned about Steinem? She has no regard for our military; no respect for the tens of thousands of P.O.W.’s who endured a hell that Steinem cannot begin to fathom; no regard for the sanctity of marriage; and not an ounce of class in her entire body. And you can bet the mainstream media will lack the balls to lambaste Steinem accordingly. The double-standard remains ever-present in our politics.
In her rush to render aid to Hillary Clinton’s faultering campaign, Steinem shot off her big mouth and simultaneously shot herself in the foot. I pray that her aim doesn’t start to improve anytime soon. Keep up the good work Ms. Steinem. I’m behind you all the way to the November election.
Seed Newsvine
I must really be living in a cacoon LOL I have been in this country over 20 years now, and thought i was well informed. Honestly, I never heard of this woman until a day or two ago reading some article which mentioned about how this feminist trashed the choice of Sarah Palin.
On second thought, I am glad I never heard of this woman LOL
You haven’t missed a thing. Gloria Steinem is a banal braindead old liberal dinosaur and an uninteresting, irrelevant, ignominious died-in-the-wool Democrat who refuses to crawl quietly back under her rock and disappear into a few ol’ history books of hype, hysterionics, hate, and hypocrisy. She is proof-positive that loud-mouth old feminists never really die, they just look that way.
I have never heard of so many idiots in one place!
Why does a five-and-a-half years as a P.O.W. qualifies him to be president??
I agree with her!
Go and do some research.
Put her down all you want but she helped to make the world a better place for women. She was a leading activist in women’s rights and showed us just how unbalanced the role between men and women really are.
If you want to draw to conclusions that’s you’re prerogative, but you should actually do you’re homework and look at some of her work. Try a short article titled The Good News Is: These Are Not The Best Years Of Your Life. It makes some good points
By they way, I’m only a junior in highschool and I find that your demonstration of knowledge on this topic is not very pragmatic to your ethos as a writer.
My dear, you are proof of exactly where we’ve gone wrong in our public school system. And a classic example of the rampant lack of parenting pervasive in today’s society. Your parents may have told you how perfect and precious you are, but, when you come in here with your mouth open and your mind closed, intent on wasting my time, don’t be surprised to be swatted on your proverbial fanny little Miss Sunshine. Steinem is a withered old gas bag who needs to be wheeled off the public stage and into a private nursing home. You, on the other hand, need to stop staring at yourself in the mirror, wake up, and wander off over to the mall. If I want to hear the opinion of a self-important adolescent I’ll browse the New York Times or Huffington Post.