THEY STILL CAN'T QUIT HER.
We all know from years of bitter experience how conservatives feel about Lena Dunham, right? Well, imagine how they'd feel about a Dunham/Hillary mashup in the form of an friendly interview. Feel the incoherent, seething hate from Breitbart.com's John Nolte!
Just months after recanting a phony rape charge against an innocent man and apologizing for making light of what many have described as the sexual abuse of her younger sister...
If you need it, here's an explanation of why "phony rape charge" and "sexual abuse" don't mean what Nolte wants you to think they mean (though regular readers will have already assumed that). Anyway, Nolte goes on churning these charges against Dunham -- in fact there's almost nothing else in the column but bitter froth -- until he brings it all back home:
If you think about who Hillary Clinton is married to, no one should be surprised she shrugs off charges of sexual abuse. She’s had a lifetime … of … practice.
Eccentric use of ellipses in original. One imagines Nolte reading it aloud to himself several times, trying to figure out what typography and/or punctuation best communicates his rage-stresses. Em-dashes? Boldface? Interrobangs?
And while we haven’t yet seen the full interview...
Talk about premature ejaculations! Well, sometimes the fantasy is enough.
UPDATE. On a daffier note, Ann Althouse reacts to Clinton's anodyne definition of feminism ("A feminist is by definition someone who believes in equal rights... It just means that we believe that women have the same rights as men") as if AT LAST SHE'S GOT HILLARY ON THE STAND WHERE SHE CAN'T WRIGGLE OUT OF IT!
Who writes the definition? We're still saying what X is "by definition" after all these years of scoffing at the anti-same-sex-marriage people who kept saying, tediously, marriage is by definition between a man and a woman?
Even if we are still doing "by definition"-style arguments...
If you like logic puzzles that end in enigmas ("Put that way, the resistance itself [to calling oneself a feminist] sounds feminist to me"), just follow the link and God go with you.
UPDATE 2. Oh for fuck's sake: Bre Payton at The Federalist:
Clinton thinks it’s really odd when women think that it’s important they have the same rights as men, but resist the feminist label. Clearly the two don’t understand why some women are hesitant to associate themselves with some of the extreme aspects of feminism that the movement has become known for.
Perpetuating fake campus rape statistics, insisting upon access to abortion on demand, and outright man-hating have become major attributes of the more vocal elements of modern feminism.
No supporting links, alas.
But those probably don’t bother Clinton or Dunham, as they both are huge fans of Planned Parenthood...
I'm seriously trying to envision the target audience for this, but I keep seeing wild, hairy creatures howling YOU MADE US IN THE HOUSE OF PAIN! NOT MAN! NOT BEAST! THING! It's like you're talking to people who think Pope Francis seems like a nice guy, but you're anti-Catholic so you go, "Clearly the Pope doesn’t understand why some people are hesitant to associate themselves with some of the extreme aspects of Catholicism that the movement has become known for." I mean, you may be right and you may be wrong, but you sound to a normal person like you're trying to put one over, or new to the planet Earth.