It takes a special kind of stupid to be a Democrat.
Via MRC:
CNN host Jake Tapper set himself apart from the rest of CNN and the wider liberal media by devoting two segments to Juanita Broaddrick and other accusers of Bill Clinton. In a panel segment with Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and former Clinton staffer Donna Brazile, Tapper even asked about how feminism struggles against the Broaddrick allegations of a rape in 1978.
Brazile took that question and twisted it into an Orwellian pretzel, as Clintonistas do. Raising Bill Clinton’s past is the “real misogyny,” she insisted.
Tapper began: Donna, let me read this to you from Michelle Goldberg a feminist writer writing in the liberal website Slate. She says, ‘Feminists have repeatedly and convincingly made the case that when women say they’ve been sexually assaulted, we should assume they’re telling the truth. Particularly when it comes to the story of Juanita Broaddrick, it’s not easy to square the arguments against believing her with the dominant progressive consensus on trusting victims’. What do you think?”
The CNN host left out the next sentence, which signaled Goldberg’s unease with the conundrum: “This is a tension that people on the right are eager to exploit.” Goldberg began her article: “Donald Trump has all but promised us that in 2016 we will revisit the peregrinations of Bill Clinton’s penis.” Tapper knew Brazile would have this take, and more. He was trying to hold the liberals to their own standards.
Brazile began her answer with two usual tropes. First, Donald Trump is the real sleaze: Trump “has built his campaign on mocking women, attacking immigrants, of course, and smearing Muslims. I’m not surprised that Donald Trump has decided to go into what I call the sleaze basket.” Whenever you bring up Clinton misbehavior, they pull out the 1992 playbook about “the issues that matter to the people.”
Second, claim that the Democrats have an excellent record on sexual matters, ignoring everything Clinton and Ted Kennedy and John Edwards and JFK and RFK and LBJ et cetera ever did. “When it comes to sexual assault, violence against women, I think Democrats and liberals and progressives have a good history on ensuring that women are able to tell the truth and to ensure that there are laws properly on the books to allow victims of these crimes and abuses to have their day. So I don’t think there’s any contradiction there.”
Then Brazile claimed Trump defines misogyny, appealing to a party based on misogyny: “Donald Trump believed that this is one way to silence Hillary Clinton when she brings up his misogyny and his attacks on women, I don’t think that’s going to work either. Now, I’m a feminist, Jake. I mean, and I know Bill Clinton. And I have a great deal of respect for Bill Clinton. During that time, we all condemned his misconduct. [??!!] I mean, I’m not married to Bill Clinton. I’m sure as a husband and wife issue, there were marital issues they had to resolve.”