I have created a new designation for female Democrats who play hypocritical gender politics on behalf of Barack Obama.
They're genderhawks.
You remember the term “chickenhawk,” don't you? During the George W. Bush years, anti-war activists and journalists hurled the ad hominem epithet at anyone who supported military action against our enemies but hadn't personally served.
Genderhawks are feminist chickenhawks. They demand “equal pay” for women, practice militant identity politics based on chromosomes and purport to wage an all-out government war on gender inequity.
Yet, they personally refuse to hold themselves and their lousy male bosses accountable for their own gender-based failures and delinquencies.
Meet genderhawk Jennifer Palmieri. The Clinton administration veteran faithfully defended a lecherous philanderer in chief against what his sexist operatives called “bimbo eruptions.” Then she served as spokeswoman for adulterous crap weasel John Edwards. Now she's Obama's communications flack and chief social media gender warrior.
Last Tuesday, which Team Obama dubbed “Equal Pay Day,” Palmieri took to Twitter to call out the sexist White House press corps: “Love all these guys, but note that 6 of 7 news orgs in front row sent men to ask @presssec abt the problem of gender pay inequity,” Palmieri tweeted.
Palmieri humiliated just one person: herself. In her faux-minist fog, she forgot that her own boss, the president, is a man. His vice president is a man. In fact, 12 of 15 Obama Cabinet members are men.
Thankfully, sane journalists of both genders pushed back against Palmieri's identity politics run amok. Fox News reporter Ed Henry fired back: “WH sent man to podium, right?” Trib Total Media reporter Salena Zito retorted: “In your line of (thought) Jennifer, a woman should have taken the question for the White House not a man.” National Review's Charles W. Cooke quizzed: “Would the answers have been different if the questions had been asked by women?”
Forced to respond, Palmieri grudgingly acknowledged that the White House press secretary carries XY chromosomes, but she rationalized that he's a man “who advocates for policies to reduce gender pay inequality and appreciates (the) seriousness of problem.” See, gals? Jay Carney feels your pain — unlike those chauvinist pigs in the press corps asking pesky questions about bogus White House wage inequity stats!
Obama and his femme-a-gogue flock aren't fooling anyone. Reporters bombarded Carney about a new American Enterprise Institute study, which found that the salary for the median female White House staffer is 12 percent lower than for a male staffer. Carney meekly replied that at least the White House pay gap is not as bad as the national average.
Both the left-wing Daily Beast and the free-market Wall Street Journal opinion pages debunked the “77 cents on a dollar” myth, which inflates the gender gap by failing to account for education, occupation and marital status.
Palmieri thinks squawking about male reporters is the way to achieve feminist social justice. Whatever we're paying this unhinged, selective man-hating lady is way too much.
Michelle Malkin is the author of “Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” (Regnery 2009).
