39.Howard Kurtz, “Suddenly Everyone’s A Critic,” Washington Post, October 3, 2005, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100201296_2.html.
40.Thomas Edsall, “Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism,” Columbia Journalism Review, October 8, 2009, http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/journalism_should_own_its_libe.php.
41.“Journalists Admitting Liberal Bias, Part One,” Media Research Center, May 19, 2014, http://www.mrc.org/media-bias-101/journalists-admitting-liberal-bias-part-one.
42.David Weigel, “Kermit Gosnell: The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Bored Media,” Slate, April 12, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_mass_murderer_and_the_bored_media.html.
43.Brandon Ambrosino, “What the Gay Rights Movement Should Learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Time, January 20, 2014, http://time.com/2332/what-the-gay-rights-movement-should-learn-from-martin-luther-king-jr/.
44.Luke Brinker, “Meet Brandon Ambrosino, Homophobes’ Favorite Gay Writer and Vox’s Newest Hire,” Media Matters for America, March 12, 2104, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/12/meet-brandon-ambrosino-homophobes-favorite-gay/198461.
45.Gabriel Arana, “Ezra Klein’s Queer New Hire,” American Prospect, March 13, 2014, http://prospect.org/article/ezra-kleins-queer-new-hire.
46.Mark Joseph Stern, “Vox’s Unbelievably Terrible New Hire,” Slate, March 13, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/03/13/brandon_ambrosino_to_vox_he_s_unbelievably_terrible.html; Carlos Maza, “Ezra Klein: ‘I Could’ve And Should’ve, Handled This Hire A Lot Better,’” Media Matters for America, March 14, 2014, http://mediamatters.org/tags/brandon-ambrosino.
47.Noah Michelson, “Ezra Klein, I’m Calling Bullsh*t on Your Defense of Hiring Brandon Ambrosino, and Here’s Why,” Huffington Post, May 14, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-michelson/ezra-klein-im-calling-bul_b_4965557.html.
48.“110K Call on The Washington Post to End Climate Change Denial in its Editorial Page,” Forecast the Facts, February 20, 2014, http://forecastthefacts.org/press/releases/2014/2/20/110k-call-washington-post-end-climate-change-denia/.
49.“About Forecast the Facts,” Forecast the Facts, http://forecastthefacts.org/about/.
50.George Will, “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism,” Washington Post, June 6, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html.
51.Andrew Johnson, “Will’s Bout With Feminists,” National Review Online, June 11, 2014, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380156/wills-bout-feminists-andrew-johnson.
52.“Letter to George Will from Senators,” June 12, 2014, available at the Washington Post website, http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Letter-to-George-Will-from-Senators.pdf.
53.Michael Miner, “The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Conspicuously Dumps George Will,” Chicago Reader, June 26, 2014, http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/06/26/the-st-louis-post-dispatch-conspicuously-dumps-george-will.
54.Post Opinions Staff, “George Will Responds to Senators on His Sexual Assault Column,” Washington Post, June 13, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/13/george-will-responds-to-senators-on-his-sexual-assault-column.
55.“Tell the Washington Post: Fire George Will,” UltraViolet, http://act.weareultraviolet.org/cms/sign/Fire_George_Will/.
56.National Organization for Women, “Washington Post: Dump George Will,” NOW, http://now.org/take-action/washington-post-dump-george-will/.
57.Tony Messenger, “Editor’s Note: Michael Gerson Replaces George Will,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 19, 2014, http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editor-s-note-michael-gerson-replaces-george-will/article_4b645ed8-e70e-5357-a85b-d347e5802785.html.
58.Ellie Sandmeyer, “Backlash Against George Will’s Offensive Rape Column Grows As Paper Drops Him,” Media Matters for America, June 19, 2014, http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/19/backlash-against-george-wills-offensive-rape-co/199797.
CHAPTER EIGHT: ILLIBERAL FEMINIST THOUGHT POLICE
1.Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al., 573 U.S. (2014), http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf; See the brief for the respondents in Kathleen Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stories et al. at http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/No-13-354-Brief-for-Respondents.pdf; and Jayne O’Donnell, “Hobby Lobby Case; What Birth Control Is Affected?,” USA Today, June 30, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/30/morning-after-iuds/11768653/.
2.“Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception),” PlannedParenthood.org, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-info/morning-after-pill-emergency-contraception.
3.Jackie Seal, “MSNBC Guest Invokes Jim Crow, Apartheid in Reaction to Hobby Lobby Ruling,” MRC NewsBusters, June 30, 2014, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jackie-seal/2014/06/30/msnbc-guest-invokes-jim-crow-apartheid-reaction-hobby-lobby-ruling.
4.Tweet from Senator Harry Reid, June 30, 2014, https://twitter.com/senatorreid/status/483630584833773568.
5.Glenn Kessler, “Democrats on Hobby Lobby: ‘Misspeaks,’ ‘Opinion,’ and Overheated Rhetoric,” Washington Post, July 14, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/07/14/democrats-on-hobby-lobby-misspeaks-opinion-and-overheated-rhetoric/.
6.Ruth Marcus, “Judging from Experience,” Washington Post, July 1, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-judging-from-experience/2014/07/01/78c51c30-0148-11e4-b8ff-89afd3fad6bd_story.html.
7.Lydia Saad, “Contraception Debate Divides Americans, Including Women,” Gallup, February 24, 2012, http://www.gallup.com/poll/152963/contraception-debate-divides-americans-including-women.aspx.
8.Kristina Arriaga, Executive Director, Becket Fund, interview with author, March 6, 2015.
9.The biography of Kristina Arriaga is available on the Becket Fund website at http://www.becketfund.org/staff-members/kristina-arriaga/.
10.Lydia Saad, “Majority of Americans Still Support Roe V. Wade Decision,” Gallup, January 22, 2013, http://www.gallup.com/poll/160058/majority-americans-support-roe-wade-decision.aspx.
11.Washington Post–ABC News Poll National Politics, July 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/07/25/National-Politics/Polling/question_11465.xml?uuid=bN9EXvUZEeKB-o6Ds4ZMNg.
12.The amici curiae briefs are available online at http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-354-356-bsac-Womens-Policy-Groups-and-Coaltion-of-Female-State-Legislative-and-Executive-Branch-Officials.pdf; http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-354-bsac-Women-Speak-for-Themselves.pdf; http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-35413-356bsacIndependentWomen’sForum.pdf; and http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bsac-13-354-and-13-356-Brief-of-Beverly-Lahaye-Institute-et-al.pdf.
13.Ibid.
14.Tweet from Jill Filipovic, June 30, 2014, https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/483633989463592960.
15.Tweet from CJ Werleman, September 8, 2014, https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/509063346092797952.
16.Ibid.
17.Seal, “MSNBC Guest Invokes Jim Crow.”
18.Ibid.
19.Paul Rosenberg, “This Is a Religious Civil War: Hobby Lobby Only the Beginning for New Religious Theocrats,” Salon.com, July 8, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/07/08/this_is_a_religious_civil_war_hobby_lobby_only_the_beginning_for_new_religious_theocrats/.
20.Audio of Ed Schultz is available online at MRC NewsBusters, http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/Schultz%20O%27Neill%20actual%20war%20on%20women.mp3. See also Peter Berkowitz, “The Left’s Hollow Complaints about Hobby Lobby,” RealClearPolitics, July 12, 2014, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/12/the_lefts_hollow_complaints_over_hobby_lobby__123293.html.
21.Tweet from Jimmy Williams, June 30, 2014, https://twitter.com/jimmyspolitics/status/4836266
21740789761.
22.Ibid.
23.Lincoln Mitchell, “How Hobby Lobby Undermines All Americans’ Freedom,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/how-hobby-lobby-undermine_b_5561501.html.
24.Mark Joseph Stern, “Of Course Hobby Lobby Discriminates against Trans Workers, Too,” Slate, July 15, 2014, http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/15/hobby_lobby_discriminates_against_trans_workers_and_women.html.
25.Garance Franke-Ruta, “Rick Perry, Mansplainer in Chief,” June 27, 2013, Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/rick-perry-mansplainer-in-chief/277308/.
26.Marin Cogan, “The Mittsplainer: An Alternate Theory of Mitt Romney’s Gaffes,” GQ, August 1, 2012, http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/08/the-mittsplainer-an-alternate-theory-of-mitt-romneys-gaffes.html.
27.Kat Stoeffel, “Watch Ted Cruz Mansplain the Second Amendment to Dianne Feinstein,” New York, March 14, 2013, http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/watch-ted-cruz-mansplain-the-second-amendment.html.
28.Jillian Rayfield, “Sen. Ron Johnson Offers to Mansplain the Budget to Tammy Baldwin,” Salon.com, November 8, 2012, http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/sen_ron_johnson_offers_to_mansplain_the_budget_to_tammy_baldwin/.
29.Emily Swanson, “Poll: Few Identify as Feminists, but Most Believe in Equality of Sexes,” Huffington Post, April 16, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html.
30.Sue Owen, “Michelle Malkin Says Gloria Steinem Once Called Kay Bailey Hutchison a ‘Female Impersonator,’” PolitiFact Texas, March 29, 2012, http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/mar/29/michelle-malkin/gloria-steinem-once-called-kay-bailey-hutchison-fe/.
31.Tom Humphrey, “Democrat on GOP’s Female Lawmakers: ‘Lift Their Skirts to Find Out If They Are Women,’” Knoxville News Sentinel, June 14, 2010, http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/democrat-gops-female-lawmakers-lift-their-skirts-f.
32.“Just Plain Nut-ty,” Radio Equalizer, August 10, 2010, http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/08/lefty-actress-threatens-rush-limbaugh.html; and Michelle Malkin, “The Vulgarity of Liberal Female ‘Comedians,’” MichelleMalkin.com, August 12, 2010, http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/12/the-vulgarity-of-liberal-female-comedians/.
33.“Ann Coulter Is a Man,” From the left, https://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/ann-coulter-is-a-man/; and Pam Spaulding, “Mann Coulter Is Crying That Her Time Cover Is Distorted,” Firedoglake, April 18, 2005, http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2005/04/18/mann-coulter-is-crying-that-her-time-cover-is-distorted/.
34.Bennett Marcus, “Gloria Steinem: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann ‘Are There to Oppose the Women’s Movement,’” New York, August 11, 2011, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/08/gloria_steinem_sarah_palin_and.html.
35.Nico Pitney, “Sarah Palin: George Bush in Lipstick?,” Huffington Post, October 8, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/07/sarah-palin-george-bush-i_n_124654.html%22%5Ct%22_blank.
36.Doniger is quoted in Michael Gaynor, “Sarah Palin IS a Woman and a Good Mom!,” Renew America, September 17, 2008, http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/080917.
37.Cintra Wilson, “Pissed about Palin,” Salon.com, September 10, 2008, http://www.salon.com/2008/09/10/palin_feminism/.
38.Caroline May, “Olbermann says S.E. Cupp Demonstrates the ‘Necessity’ of Planned Parenthood,” Daily Caller, April 14, 2011, http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/14/olbermann-says-s-e-cupp-demonstrates-the-necessity-of-planned-parenthood/.
39.Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” Daily Beast, March 4, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html.
40.Tommy Christopher, “Keith Olbermann Apologizes to SE Cupp and Michelle Malkin, Suspends Worst Persons Again,” Mediaite, March 7, 2012, http://www.mediaite.com/tv/keith-olbermann-apologizes-to-se-cupp-and-michellemalkin-suspends-worst-persons-again/.
41.Peggy Noonan, “America’s Real War on Women,” Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2012, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304459804577283841891275230.
42.Nathan A. Heflick, “Sexualized Women Are Seen as Objects, Studies Find,” Psychology Today, August 14, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thebig-questions/201008/sexualized-women-are-seen-objects-studies-find.
43.Ibid.
44.Nina Burleigh, “The Best and the Rightest,” Elle, August 12, 2011, http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a12323/female-conservativism/.
45.Ibid.
46.Derek Hunter, “Progressives Make Sexist Twitter Smears about Combat Veteran Joni Ernst,” Daily Caller, January 20, 2015, http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/20/progressives-make-sexist-twitter-smears-about-combat-veteran-joni-ernst/.
47.Katie Glueck, “Tom Harkin: Joni Ernst as Pretty as Taylor Swift? So What?,” Politico, November 2, 2014, updated November 3, 2014, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/2014-iowa-elections-tom-harkin-joni-ernst-taylor-swift-112433.html#ixzz3PgSeeW.
48.Wilson, “Pissed about Palin.”
49.“Sarah Palin: Former Beauty Queen, Future VP? (Photos),” Huffington Post, October 21, 2008, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/sarah-palin-former-beauty_n_122400.html?.
50.Rachel Slajda, “MSNBC Host Apologizes for Using Fake Palin Pics,” Talking Points Memo, November 16, 2009, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/msnbc-host-apologizes-for-using-fake-palin-pics.
51.Gene Lyons, “Forget the Tea Party, What about the Crumpets?” Salon.com, September 22, 2010, http://www.salon.com/2010/09/23/gene_lyons_tea_party/.
52.Noah Rothman, “Russell Brand on the Reasons behind Sarah Palin’s Broad Appeal: ‘People Want to F**k Her,’” Mediaite, July 28, 2012, http://www.mediaite.com/online/russell-brand-on-the-reasons-behind-sarah-palins-broad-appeal-people-want-to-fk-her/.
53.Erin Gloria Ryan, “Kirsten Dunst Thinks Ladies in Relationships Should Wife the F—Out,” Jezebel, April 3, 2014, http://jezebel.com/kirsten-dunst-thinks-ladies-in-relationships-should-wif-1557845533.
54.Hollie McKay, “Kirsten Dunst Sparks Debate over Support for Traditional Gender Roles,” Fox News, April 7, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/04/07/kirsten-dunst-sparks-debate-over-support-for-traditional-gender-roles/.
55.Burleigh, “The Best and the Rightest.”
56.Karin Agness, “Conservative Women as ‘Baby Palins,’” National Review Online, August 22, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275226/conservative-women-baby-palins-karin-agness.
57.Amy Gardner, “Sarah Palin Issues a Call to Action to ‘Mama Grizzlies,’” Washington Post, May 14, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/14/AR2010051402271.html.
58.Sarah Palin, “Remarks on Pro-Life Agenda,” CSPAN, May 14, 2010, http://www.c-span.org/video/?293509-1/sarah-palin-remarks-prolife-agenda.
59.“Feminism Is Alive and Well . . . Even Sarah Palin Wants to Be One,” transcript of interview with Katie Couric, Gloria Steinem, and Jehmu Greene, Alternet.org, July 8, 2010, http://www.alternet.org/story/147478/feminism_is_alive_and_well_…_even_sarah_palin_wants_to_be_one.
60.Chloe Angyal, “The Feministing Five; Amanda Marcotte,” Feministing, May 5, 2010, http://feministing.com/2010/05/08/the-feministing-five-amanda-marcotte/comment-page-1/.
61.Jessica Valenti, “The Fake Feminism of Sarah Palin,” Washington Post, May 30, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052802263.html.
62.Marcus, “Gloria Steinem: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann ‘Are There to Oppose the Women’s Movement.”
63.Burleigh, “The Best and the Rightest.”
64.Allie Jones, “Kaley Cuoco: I’m Not a Feminist and I Love Feeling like a Housewife,” Gawker, December 30, 2014, http://gawker.com/kaley-cuoco-im-not-a-feminist-and-i-love-feeling-like-1676352429.
65.Some of the Twitter responses to Kaley Cuoco can be seen at https://twitter.com/MeleMallory/status/550407772735422465.
66.As
sociated Press, “Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting Apologizes for Comments on Feminism,” New York Times, January 6, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/01/06/arts/ap-us-people-kaley-cuoco-sweeting.html.
67.Ann Romney, “Three Seasons of Motherhood,” USA Today, May 10, 2012, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-05-10/ann-romneymitt-stay-home-work-mom-grandkids/54862378/1.
68.“Newsweek Columnist Likens ‘Insufferable’ Ann Romney to Hitler, Stalin,” RealClearPolitics, May 14, 2012, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/14/newsweek_columnist_likens_insufferable_ann_romney_to_hitler_stalin.html.
69.Michelle Goldberg, “Michelle Goldberg on the Ann Romney Hitler Tempest,” Daily Beast, May 14, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/14/michelle-goldberg-on-the-ann-romney-hitler-tempest.html.
70.Votes on HB 574 (2013) in the Pennsylvania House are available online at http://votesmart.org/bill/votes/35196#.VNtq0nQo4dk.
71.PoliticsPA Staff, “5/5 Morning Buzz,” PoliticsPA.com, http://www.politicspa.com/55-morning-buzz/57539/.
72.John Kopp, “Davidson Takes Swipe at Dem Party Leaders,” Delco Times, May 22, 2014, http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20140521/davidson-takes-swipe-at-dem-party-leaders.
73.“Davidson Sworn In to Third Term in House of Representatives,” news release, Office of Representative Margo Davidson, January 6, 2014, http://www.pahouse.com/Davidson/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=60216.
74.Tweet from Cecile Richards, October 16, 2014, https://twitter.com/cecilerichards/status/522781979893592064.
75.“Statement from Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains CEO and President Vicki Cowart on the Indefinite Postponing of HB 1256,” news release, PlannedParenthood.org, March 17, 2011, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-rocky-mountains/newsroom/press-releases/statement-planned-parenthood-rocky-mountains-ceo-president-vicki-cowart-indefinite-postponing-h; and Taking Control: The Ongoing Battle to Preserve the Birth Control Benefit in the Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, 2013, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/4913/9611/7011/BC_Report_062713_vF.PDF.
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