Femmos put force field around offensive US leftie, spare no thought for Sarah Sanders
Aussie feminist Clementine Ford defends controversial US comedian Michelle Wolf. Twitter, yesterday:
Astonishing to read conservatives hand wring over the supposed “shaming” of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ appearance (at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner). Not only did @michelleisawolf (Michelle Wolf) not do that but tearing women’s looks apart is, like, a policy platform for Republicans. Hillary Clinton, anyone?
Astonishing to read conservatives hand wring over the supposed 'shaming' of Sarah Huckabee Sanders' appearance. Not only did @michelleisawolf not do that but tearing women's looks apart is, like, a policy platform for Republicans. Hillary Clinton, anyone? #cousinhuckabee
— Clementine Ford (@clementine_ford) April 30, 2018
We thought bringing up a woman’s looks at all was a feminist sin? Wolf at the White House correspondents dinner, Sunday night:
… she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Like, maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.
Ford has objected to it in the past on Twitter, June 10, 2015:
You can disagree with a woman’s ideas without calling her looks into question.
Different when the woman is conservative? Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Fox News, April 3 last year:
The only “war on women” that I see is the one that’s being waged against every woman and every female that is close to this President.
Talking of powerful women, here’s then Google executive Michelle Guthrie at an AsiaTV Forum event. Posted on YouTube, April 23, 2013:
There’s no point in having the content and the users … if you can’t bring the money in as well.
Commercial channels in Australia agree. A Free TV submission to the House of Representatives’ communications committee, April last year:
… there has been a marked rise in the extent to which the ABC and SBS directly compete with commercial free-to-air TV … This trend is accelerating.
So why is Guthrie’s ABC encroaching on the commercial sector? Darren Davidson in The Australian, yesterday:
In recent years, both public broadcasters have made a relentless online push …
Would Google’s Guthrie be pleased with her future ABC self? Guthrie at the AsiaTV Forum, continued:
We’re trying to balance three things: getting the content, getting the users and getting the advertisers.
The latter certainly wouldn’t help the former’s business. Guthrie at a Friends of the ABC event, October 6, last year:
Should the ABC be forced … into a pure market-failure role, simply doing the things the commercials don’t want to do, or can’t?
Finally, we recently poked fun at Fairfax Media’s correction of a World War I story. Cut & Paste yesterday:
Did historian Jonathan King get a single thing right in his (Fairfax) story about Villers-Bretonneux?
Fairfax now says it is not the only history dunce in town. Ross McMullin writes in The Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday:
When (Malcolm) Turnbull opened the (Sir John Monash) centre, he … commended Monash’s “brilliant leadership” … at Villers-Bretonneux, which was startling praise because Monash had nothing to do with it.
A bit rich coming from Fairfax, is it not? The Age, Saturday:
A story by Jonathan King last weekend entitled, “The little-known battle led by Australians which turned the tide of World War I” contained a number of factual errors.