All posts tagged "Kathleen Parker"

While discussing Mitt Romney's admission of owning multiple cars, Washington Post conservative columnist Kathleen Parker labeled the GOP presidential candidate a "dork" Sunday morning.

Kathleen Parker, author of the infamous "Obama is our first female president" column, followed up with a column declaring that she had no idea calling a black man a woman for not going apeshit in any way played on centuries of racial stereotypes. Of course, the column, in which she purports to be race blind and Obama's eighth cousin (which immediately strips him of racial identity) was an edited draft. Below is the original.

Thanks to Sir Charles for pointing me to this hilarious spaz of an op-ed by Kathleen Parker. If you really want to understand the wingnut mind, you have to really, truly understand that male power over women's bodies is a holy principle to them, second only to the love of pissing off liberals. (By the way, thanks to AJ Kandy for tweeting me this link suggesting that the love of angering other people for no good reason has been measured, and related to hormone levels, though I'm cautious about making causal claims.) You really see it on Pam's post about the Freeper reaction to Mary Cheney's pregnancy---this visceral anger about pregnancy existing outside of their own model of it as a man's conquest of a female body and demonstration of his virility upon that body. The cock is all-powerful in the wingnut imagination, and suggestions to the contrary are rejected angrily. Even when those suggestions to the contrary aren't actually made with any strong feminist intent---I imagine Mary Cheney and her partner simply want another child---it's spun as some childish rejection of male authority and control.

The Whole Foods Health Plan has been endorsed by Kathleen Parker, mainly because it's really, really American.