You would think that an administration that passed as its first Act, the Ledbetter Bill, appointed more women to a first pick Cabinet than any other President, would hardly be attacked because the President did not play basketball with them. Unless you read the Onion. This attack is not on the Onion, it is on The Huffington Post, in a thinly disguised article selling hate.
We all remember the stupidity and racism of the PUMA "movement". Hate, racism and what they considered "revenge" was their agenda. Thankfully, most of them were so idiotic that they could not run a whelk stall.
I remember the scene in Starship Troopers quite well, when a talking head dismisses the idea of a brain bug out of hand. Amy Siskind is a brain PUMA.
Not all PUMAs are as idiotic as Darra$h Murphy. Her extreme racist agenda is out there for all to see. Siskind is different. The most dangerous form of racist is a racist with a brain. They sell their hate and bigotry by manipulation.
Amy Siskind is no laughing matter. She has an old agenda to sell, hate, wrapped up in one shiny happy package.
The Real New Agenda
To Siskind, crimes against women are only committed by members or supporters of the Democratic Party or by ethnic minorities and for her agenda, preferably both. Not once has she mentioned the assassination of Dr Tiller, a crime against all women, Letterman was more important. She has never once mentioned the wife beating dished out by Republican Dave Weller?
The assault by Chris Brown on Rihanna, according to Siskind, should have required a Presidential explanation.
Do women count so little to Siskind that she trades the real issues that impact them for her revenge against what she considers to be Obama campaign sexism against Hillary and Sarah?
When it comes to the achievements of President Obama on womens issues, Siskind is either silent, spreading mistruths or being deliberately manipulative.
The first Cabinet pick by President Obama has more women in it than any other President, he picked Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. She claims women are not supported by this President, because they do not play basketball with him. This was the whole basis of her article on Huffington Post. As a poster there said, it should have been on the Onion.
On the appointment of Valerie Jarrett, Siskind claim she defended her appointment, but she opens using every smear the right put out about her, using a common "some say" method of smearing.
On Ledbetter, it took the New Agenda the best part of six months to say nothing worth saying anyway.
Issues of race are completely irrelevant to The New Agenda. Never mind that minority women are impacted more by racism than men. No, women of colour should just go elsewhere. The New Agenda will not tackle racism.
She declares:
In reading our blog, we seem to hitting against a new issue – the issue of racism. I would make the same request of our viewers. There are many wonderful national organization devoted to speaking out against racism. For those of you that find your life impacted by the color of your skin, you will probably prefer to join organizations which are devoted to that important issue.
As a result of her association with race hate, when she tried to claim credit for the internal election results of a NOW, Diana Castaneda , of the NOW Combatting Racism Task Force, made it clear - The New Agenda can get lost.
Diana Castaneda on June 30th, 2009 6:52 pm
You cannot claim A COUP, when all the work to give NOW new life came directly from NOW Feminist like me, that have never heard of the NEW Agenda. The fact that a very few of you attended does not make a coup! I am a National Board member from Texas. The first I have ever heard of you was from a NOW President,.We are not new agenda/Palin supporters. We support candidates and women that adhere to choice . We also do not condone Letterman or any one that promotes misogyny and abuse of women either in Word or Deed. I for one supported Terry O’Neill because she is the most qualified to take on the Fiscal challenges that NOW is facing. In this country there is room for all concepts of inclusion including the NEW AGENDA, but NOW is NOT RIPE for the picking! YOU, will have to do your own joint collaborations with other Legitimate groups to build a network just as NOW has in over 40 years. No coup was masterminded by the New Agenda, it was the membership that wanted a new direction. NOW is happy to have people that support our AGENDA, and inclusion of All women , and Women of Color. Diana Castaneda, South Central Region, Texas/Combating Racism Task Force Member
Race hate is not welcomed by NOW. NOW fights against it. The New Palin Agenda, considers issues of racism irrelevant. That says a lot about The Real Agenda offered by Siskind.
She has called NoQuarter, good friends of the New Agenda and has them on her blog roll.
These are her good friends
Comment by Hadrianus | 2009-10-15 19:06:15
Yes, he has a problem with women. He’s gay! Look at the drag queen he married.
Comment by Mairi | 2009-10-16 23:27:33
Think about it....Meesh is as "manly" as they come! There isn’t a "feminine" bone in her body IMHO. It’s really sad. We have had some tremendously WONDERFUL First Ladies, but I don’t think this one will EVER make that list....not even last. When we DO have a female Prez, she MAY make the list of "First Dudes", but my guess would be that she would be last on THAT list! Just sayin’.......guess I am no longer "classy" either when it comes to evaluating this sidekick.
Comment by Not suprised | 2009-10-15 22:28:45
Culturally, Obama can’t have a woman around when his wife is not around. If the woman was a friend of Michelle’s she could be around but only if Michelle was present. Ask any woman in a Black community. Standard behavior.
Just some of the classy comments there. Does anyone call them out? Not a chance.
Is this the first time NoQuarter displays such hatred and sexism against women? Nope, of course not.
It is worth remembering even Harriet Christian called Siskind out.Christian was not the right type of woman wanted by the New Palin Agenda.
Huffington Post should not be pretending that Amy Siskind is a Democratic woman upset with the progress on issues that matter to Women. She is not. She is a Republican tool, being used to sell the Republican Party to women. That is The New Agenda. She needs to be called out for it continuously.
This is your chance to object email HuffPo.
community-support@huffingtonpost.com
(Adapted from an article of mine at StupidPUMAs.com)