‘Check Your Privilege’ Means ‘Shut Your Mouth’
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
‘Check Your Privilege’ Means ‘Shut Your Mouth’
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg
We’ve all known forever that Princeton University is a place of many privileges. It has recently gotten a new one: Starting an argument from there, filled with conservative sentiments and anecdotes, is now a surefire way to command the attention of the Internet.
Monica’s Emancipation Proclamation
Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
“It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress,” Monica Lewinsky, now 40, writes in a Vanity Fair essay due for digital release today. All I can say is: You go, girl.The 1998 revelation of L’Affaire Lewinsky and its fallout should have made one thing clear to American women.Forget “You’ve come a long way, baby.” When husbands cheat, the other woman usually ends up the odd man out.Bill Clinton’s presidency and poll ratings survived his self-serving definition of sex. Hillary Clinton had to live with her husband’s betrayal, but the scandal helped boost her career from first lady who…
Weathermen as Props: An Old Messaging Trick
Martha Joynt Kumar, RCP
To some observers, it seemed that President Obama did something new and radically different Tuesday by bringing eight weather forecasters to the White House to talk about climate change, but such a move was not a novel presidential ploy. Seventeen years ago, President Clinton reached out to a similar group — to deliver a similar message about the dangers of global climate conditions.On Oct. 1, 1997, Clinton met with 110 weather forecasters who came to the White House for meetings with scientists from NOAA and the National Science Foundation as well as the president and vice president. White…