But it’s not just him.  He’s just the leader of the band.  Bill Maher only has a bully pulpit because HBO gives it to him.  It’s a subscription network and the only way he can attract viewers are a paycheck, is to say things so inflammatory that it makes headlines.  Trashing Conservative women simply helps him make the best living.

This week, Peggy Noonan holds him accountable.  She hits a home run.  Her WSJ column about the liberal MEDIA’s attack on women with Conservative values and missions, will make the hackles raise on the back of anyone’s neck.  Thanks to The Wall Street Journal for printing it!  Peggy Noonan writes:

“There is a war against women. It is something comparatively new in our national life, and we have to start noticing it.

It is not a “Republican war on women.” It has nothing to do with White House attempts to paint conservative efforts to protect religious liberty as a war against women’s rights to contraceptives. That is a mischievous fiction, and the president’s polls this week suggest it isn’t working. Good.

A Sage Voice For Women

But the real war is against women in American public life, in politics and media most obviously, but in other spheres as well. In this war, leaders who are women are publicly demeaned and diminished based on the fact that they are women. They are the object of sexual slurs, and insulted in sexual terms. The words used are vulgar, and are meant to tear down and embarrass.

Every woman in American public life knows of it. They talk about it in private. They’ve all experienced it.

Here are some of the words that have been hurled the past few years at public figures who are female: “slut,” “whore,” “prostitute,” “bimbo.” You know the other, coarser words that have been used. But the point is, these are not private insults. They are said in public.

Cancer Survivor and Mother of 2 Wisconsin's Rebeccas Kleefisch...humiliated by radio talk show host who suggested she performed oral sex for interviews.

This is something new in American political life, that women can be spoken of this way.

Eleanor Roosevelt was probably the most controversial first lady ever, but no one ever felt they could speak of her in these terms in public. Dorothy Thompson may have been the most controversial commentator of the 20th century, but no one felt free to take to the airwaves, to go on the radio, and oppose her in such a low and vulgar way.

But you don’t have to go back 60 and 70 years to see how much things

And it's a BLAZING fire......

have changed. Twenty years ago the discourse was higher.

All this has devolved into a political argument about who’s worse, the right or the left. I don’t think that’s the most important question, but since it’s on the table the answer is the left. We all know about Bill Maher, David Letterman, Ed Schultz. A liberal radio host a while back accused the Republican lieutenant governor of Wisconsin of performing “fellatio on all the talk show hosts in Milwaukee.”

READ EVERY SINGLE WORD…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577283841891275230.html

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics by Sonja Eddings Brown, Jul 15, 2012