HILLARY'S FEMINIST EXCUSES

By L. BRENT BOZELL III

June 11, 2008 -- "NOW that Hillary Clinton has finally conceded to Barack Obama, the media elites have suddenly discovered the glorious and militant cause of women.

Clinton's failure wasn't her fault. It was sexism that ruined her chances.

Feminists have blamed everyone for this crushing burden of sexism. It's most fun watching them savage the press - the amazing thing being that the media just play along, as if they deserve it, with self-loathing males like CBS's Harry Smith sitting in their studio chairs cheering them on.

"Talk from your gut," Smith urged ex-Rep. Patsy Schroeder. She responded as if afflicted by rhetorical rabies: "It was like they made a witch out of her, some people! You know, we thought the Salem witch trials were over!"

A wee bit excessive, that. In Salem, the accused witches were executed. Clinton lost a campaign because, for the first time in her career, the media liked another candidate even more - period.

An authentically sexist media would've taunted Clinton for not having the brains to be president, which no one did. A sexist media would've said at the very start of the race that she didn't have the toughness because she was a woman, which no one did.

All this feminist whining suggests that it was apparently just sexist to oppose Clinton or even question her in any way. It was "sexist" to suggest she had no mathematical chance in the last few months, to imply she was putting her own dreams of power ahead of her party's chances for victory. It was "sexist" to state that she was cold and robotic compared to Barack Obama - a smoother, more natural candidate and speaker.

Feminists cried foul when a couple of reporters discussed the Clinton "cackle," or how she'd laugh inappropriately and artificially when asked a tough question. Feminists found "sexism" where other political observers saw that which most politicians get accused of - faking sincerity.

Here's where the complaints of the feminists and Bill and Hillary all collapse. In her last few days, as pundits wondered whether she'd become Obama's running mate, suddenly a couple members of the Sexist Media suggested it might be a major obstacle that the Clintons had failed to disclose anything about the mega-bucks donors (including mysterious foreigners) to the Clinton Presidential Library.

This issue of non-disclosure surfaced just barely in the campaign. If the media were so opposed to a woman being president, why was it that this library-donor issue wasn't raised to more than a whisper over the year and a half that she was running hard for the nomination?"

I guess I've said worse things about Hillary as opposed to Obo, simply because her track record is far more odious. But few things would please me more than a deserving female as President, if only to quiet the feminazi's and their incessant bitchfest. To want someone of any gender to succeed simply because of their sex is, well, sexist, and I've heard enough "It's about time a woman did this or that" to come to the conclusion that fairness doesn't exist in the real world because rabid followers of this or that usually don heavy-duty blinders in order to spread the word about the swellness of the object of their affection.

My wife happens to be the smartest, most beautiful woman ever to trod the earth. This is a fact. But she'd need far more experience in many things to run for President.