Nov 9th, 2011
David Frum may have been
substantially more polite than
we were in analyzing Fox News' astounding campaign against the Cain accuser(s), but,
he is no less indignant:
"It’s telling that the central communications network of the conservative world remains–for all its professed concerns about the war against Christmas–much more “Mad Men” than 700 Club in its attitude to women. On Fox, women exist as talking pinups, their opinions valued to the extent that their legs are shapely and their hair is blonde. Increasingly it looks like Herman Cain may well share those attitudes much more than the faith-and-family culture of the Christian conservative who plumped his poll numbers over the past weeks."
Hear hear. What Fox, along with Limbaugh, have set in motion is nothing short of program-directed misogyny. And for what? To promote and defend, without all the facts, an uniformed fringe candidate about whom a case can be made that he is
punking the electorate.
