"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other."
Thus
spake Madeleine Albright, directing her comment at female supporters of
Bernard Sanders, Hillary Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party
nomination for president of the U.S., trying to morally blackmail women
into voting for Clinton on the basis of vaginal-solidarity, I suppose.
This
happens to be the same Madeleine Albright who in 1996 was asked
point-blank on television if the deaths of half a million Iraqi children
was "worth it."
Albright's answer: Yes. [1]
No one in the U.S. media- or any media I'm aware of- has asked the obvious rhetorical question: how did killing their children "help" the mothers of those victims? Were not those mothers women?
Is
there a special place in hell for someone who helped murder them, maybe
even more special than the place for women who don't vote for Hillary
Clinton? (Whose husband, by the way, killed most of those children, with
the help of his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.)
Former
CIA infiltrator Gloria Steinem, Official Establishment (read: safe)
Feminist, also went to bat for Hillary C., by sneering on comedian Bill
Maher's show that young women who support Sanders are just looking for
boys. Maher went Whoa, if I said that, but Steinem brushed off the
obvious (and ironic) sexism of her comment. (Perceiving it soon after as
a political goof, Steinem later "apologized," like she could just erase
what she revealed about her own cynical attitude.) [2]
Of
course, where does a "progressive" like Steinem get off campaigning for
a right-wing imperialist warmonger, vicious class warrior, and
recipient of millions of dollars in "speaking fees" from oligarchs
appreciative of her servie to their class interests? (And how much did
the Clinton's assault on the crumbs dribbled down to poor women "helped"
those women. Some people actually resigned from Bill Clinton's regime
as a result, and it takes a lot for political types to give up a
government gig.)
Hopefully those with a larger audience than I will take up the nauseating cynicism of mass murderer Madeleine.
1] View the video clip of Albright on "60 Minutes" with Leslie Stahl.
2]
The feminist collective Redstockings long ago documented Steinem's CIA
work in India. Even the New York Times reported it one day, back in the
1970s. Later Steinem and her ally Bella Abzug got the publisher of the
Redstockings' book to suppress the information in later editions. On a
rare moment when she wasn't relying on establishment media to make
knowledge of her CIA work go away, Steinem said “In my experience the
agency was completely different from its image: it was liberal,
nonviolent and honorable.”
Right. It's just a smear that the CIA has directed the torture and murder of literally millions of people around the world.
See, for example, "A Word From Our Sponsor," New York Times Sunday Book Review, January 20, 2008.
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