Saturday, April 10, 2010

Gail Collins' "The Curse of the Wow Factor": Hillary Is a Paragon of Honesty

In an op-ed in today's New York Times entitled "The Curse of the Wow Factor", Gail Collins would have us believe that women in politics have always had a reputation for being honest and cites Hillary Clinton as an example. My online response, if the Times deigns to post it:

Collins writes that in mid-2008 Hillary Clinton transformed herself into a really terrific campaigner, that "some of us hoped that it might be the beginning of a new era," and that "Women in politics had always had a reputation for being honest".

Collins has apparently "forgotten" that Hillary is famous for fibbing to the U.S. electorate about a would-be corkscrew landing at a would-be sniper-infested airport in Bosnia.

Collins has also "forgotten" that although Hillary recently claimed to have been "insulted" by an Israeli proposal to construct 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem, while campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary wrote that "Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned." Moreover, in 1999 Hillary wrote, "I personally consider Jerusalem the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel."

I am no fan of Palin, but I'm sorry to inform you, Gail, that women in politics, particularly Hillary, are no more honest than men. Perhaps a more apt question which you can personally answer is whether women newspaper columnists are more honest than men. You might want to begin your inquiry by examining the Maureen Dowd 2009 plagiarism controversy.

[This comment was censored by the Times' "moderators".]

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