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By Linda Lowen, About.com Guide to Women's Issues

Roger Stone and Citizens United Not Timid

Tuesday February 19, 2008
Who was the producer at MSNBC that decided to book so-called "legendary Republican strategist" Roger Stone for an interview with Tucker Carlson last night?

If you haven't heard this yet, Stone is the 'gentleman' who founded the anti-Hillary group Citizens United Not Timid, and as Jason Linkins at Huffington Post explains:

...[it's] been formed to basically ensure that the voices of misogynist reprobates and their opinions on the Hillary Clinton campaign will be heard. The organization takes great pains to put the first letters in their four word name in boldface, and just so you get the point, their crude logo hammers the message home....

What you need to know about this group that bases its whole existence on a pejorative term for the female anatomy is that it's basically been founded by Roger Stone, who cut his teeth in dirty, political hackery in the Nixon administration and whose latest claim to fame was prank-calling Eliot Spitzer's father.

The ugliness perpetrated here is crudely specific, intentionally humiliating (unlike Jane Fonda's recent gaffe), and pointedly gender-driven.

Criticize the candidate if you don't agree with her positions. But don't start throwing out vulgar terms just so you can get a cheap sexual thrill over your attempts to derail her candidacy.

It doesn't matter if you support or oppose Hillary Clinton. No woman - or man who respects women - should stand for this.

Compare Stone's deliberately offensive tactic with two recent controversial events:

Comments

February 23, 2008 at 1:06 pm
(1) Stonebacker says:

It’s a sight-gag for people who beleive in the First Amendment AND the
Whatis hillary.com website hit’s it right on the head as far as what the real Hillary is….gee you liberals love free speech…when it’s yours.

A Stone Backer

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