New York Times says Congresswomen don’t have sex scandals, ignores widely-known liberal case
According to the New York Times, women in Congress just don’t get involved in sex scandals:
According to the New York Times, women in Congress just don’t get involved in sex scandals:
“I’m telling you,” said Representative Candice Miller, a Michigan Republican, “every time one of these sex scandals goes, we just look at each other, like, ‘What is it with these guys? Don’t they think they’re going to get caught?’”
Republican Candice Miller is unlikely to get involved in a sex scandal. Very few men want to sleep with a woman who looks like the Quaker Oats guy.
Ms. Miller’s question raises an intriguing point: Female politicians rarely get caught up in sex scandals. Women in elective office have not, for instance, blubbered about Argentine soul mates (see: Sanford, Mark); been captured on federal wiretaps arranging to meet high-priced call girls (Spitzer, Eliot); resigned in disgrace after their parents paid $96,000 to a paramour’s spouse (Ensign, John) or, as in the case of Mr. Weiner, blasted lewd self-portraits into cyberspace.
…But there may be something else at work: Research points to a substantial gender gap in the way women and men approach running for office. Women have different reasons for running, are more reluctant to do so and, because there are so few of them in politics, are acutely aware of the scrutiny they draw — all of which seems to lead to differences in the way they handle their jobs once elected.
All this is, of course, nonsense. It completely ignores the case of one current Southern California Congresswoman who is widely rumored to have bedded half the officers in the Pentagon.
She is, of course, a liberal Democrat, so the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Huffington Post, Media Matters and Daily Kos choose to ignore her indiscretions.
Why?
Because if she were a Republican her actions would threaten the very institutions of Democracy. But since she’s a Democrat it’s just a personal matter.
