NRO’s John Derbyshire with more of his reader e-mail. Here we go again. More misogyny to spread around, huzzah, just less of it Derb’s.

I’ve been theorizing a bit about the psychological forces at play in the vast right-wing world turning away from Mitt Romney and toward the “definer of civilization,” Newt Gingrich. How about we now listen to the people themselves? The fresh fans of Newt? Why they have embraced him? Here we go. And thank you, kind reader, for not sending me crap like this:

Derb:

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I also think you hit on something in last week’s Radio Derb episode when you said that Newt has won the “bitter ex-husband” constituency. So the sanctimonious “marriage is sacred” crowd thinks Newt’s affairs are unacceptable. You have to wonder what world these people live in where they have never been in a relationship with a pain-in-the-butt female. Lots of things can happen after you commit to someone. They let themselves go, get fat, etc. These broads can drain you emotionally and physically with their endless demands and grievances. People change over time, and divorce is a messy business, especially when there’s money involved. Affairs are biologically natural, when one is separated from their mate for a significant period of time. They are even more natural for the male, whose biological goal in most respects is to impregnate as many females as possible, no?

So Newt the “broads” dumper is a feel-good candidate. His story’s the same as any regular guy in American life. We bang chicks until they start putting on pounds and begin griping about everything, and then what? We do what we gotta do. He’s classic.

One other reason I’m inclined to root for Newt is that he just makes for such a great villain. His narcissism, grandiosity and megalomania have all the makings of a bombastic antagonist, perhaps in the mold of someone like Drax from Moonraker. Even his name, “Newt” lends itself to this narrative (a salamander?) I could easily see him as one of the Alien leaders from V — the original miniseries (1983 version, not the crappy remake.)

There you have it: if you’re into sci-fi and misogyny, and think narcissism is underrated, you’ve gotta go with Gingrich.

. . though he’ll probably kill a few children in an attempt at world domination. Still, you gotta love a guy who parks his car under a volcano.

I wish I could be sillier about this, but I can’t. The takedown is sad: Barack Obama, seemingly normal person, has somehow run away with conservatives’ balls. They’ve tried to oppose him, hate him, belittle him, recast him, to call him a n*gger over and over, but how has he reacted? With a lotta nothing. He never notices. And just look at the pompous son of a bitch. He’s actually favored to win. It’s as if they, hellish racism and all, never existed.

But Gingrich? The disgusting mistress-juggling, ethics-breaking, black-baiting troll? Now there’s someone who would hump Obama’s goat. Hell, just look what he’s doing to Romney — it’s practically a crime. And it’s been easy. Newt will drive the snotty professor to epilepsy, they hope. Comments to follow:

One can’t help but be impressed by the bit of campaign pop culture Newt’s invented. He’s got a big hit on his hands: “Just A Guy” b/w “The Man Who’ll Shoot Uppity Menace.” It’s the sound of today, apparently. Mitt has no familiarity with either of these tunes, so he’s all squaresville.

. . as if the current internet Ombudsman cares.

I don’t enjoy being in the position of criticizing the National Organization for Women, but these comments are ridiculous.

If your internet has been turned off over the last 48 hours, here’s the recap: website Gawker.com posted a recounted story of a then-25-year old man who opened his front door on Halloween to find the once (and future) 39 year-old Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. She remembered meeting him, and I guess she thought he was attractive. They go out to a bar, they go back to his place, they go to his bedroom, she undresses, and then she tells him she is and will remain a virgin. He’s not too happy with that. In the morning, he drives her back to her car. End of affair, all of — what — 10 hours?

Three years later, she gets the Republican nod for Senate, she gets loads of attention, and she’s the anti-sex and anti-masturbation candidate. He finds the whole thing bizarre. He tells Gawker, they pay him, they publish his story, the internet goes crazy. Liberals are particularly furious: it’s anti-women, it’s the usual crap, it’s opportunistic and it’s dirt-cheap politics.

That last part was Thursday. I wrote a post on it with this view: the idealistic notion that a politician’s sexual behavior must remain perfectly secret is laughable. While a noble idea, it’s never been the case for men, it won’t be the case for women, it’ll never be the case for anybody, ever. This story is not an expression of misogyny on the world’s part, it’s an expression of foolishness on the part of Christine and her ‘date.’

Well, cue the National Organization for Women. And while you’re at it, start up the cliche machine:

NOW to Media: Stop Reducing Women Candidates to Sex Objects
Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill
October 28, 2010

Sexist, misogynist attacks against women have no place in the electoral process, regardless of a particular candidate’s political ideology . .

I get the feeling that Terry O’Neill spent very little time writing this. Either that, or her job has gotten so routine as to be reflexive, there’s very little in here that makes sense.

Christine O’Donnell has gotten mountains and mountains of press. These are only a few of the things the world might know of her: Conservative, Republican, anti-sex, anti-porn, anti-masturbation, pro-marriage, anti-gay, anti-condom, pro-abstinence, anti-government, anti-evolution, anti-science, anti-brains, anti-Obama, anti-healthcare, anti-stimulus, totally Tea Party, fundamentalist Christian, witchcraft dabbling, Hare Krishna curious, campaign-fund pilfering, former Bill Maher show pundit, and about to get her ass kicked in the election.

But now that Gawker published that true story, she’s been ‘reduced to a sex object’? The crusader VIRGIN? Hullo?! Try the opposite: the barely lustful tale just got added to her massive personality profile.

And sexism? Misogyny? To my mind, those are efforts to denigrate or disrespect someone. Good luck making those claims stick to a story that’s both true and, frankly, vanilla. More:

Today the tabloid website Gawker published an anonymous piece titled “I Had A One-Night Stand With Christine O’Donnell” that takes the routine sexual degradation of women candidates to a disgusting new low.

Wow. There was no ‘sexual degradation’ between the couple that night. So if it didn’t happen, if it never existed in reality, then where else did it come from? From Terry O’Neill’s mind. Right? She thinks sex is abnormal and dirty. Therefore, reminding people of it, bringing it into the light of day, is degrading to the participants. Oops, sorry: to the participating woman. “Leave the twisted female sex life alone!” she’s saying. For the rest of us, sex is normally a dirty good thing. Yay.

NOW repudiates Gawker’s decision to run this piece. It operates as public sexual harassment. And like all sexual harassment, it targets not only O’Donnell, but all women contemplating stepping into the public sphere.

Worse and worse. There is not a single definition of ‘sexual harassment’ which remotely applies. You’d think the President of NOW would come close. Unless she’s claiming that the whole planet is a politician’s work environment. Then every sex scandal provides a cause for action, and all Christine O’Donnell has to do is to sue . . Zeus? No having sex with anyone else on Earth, incidentally — company policy.

NOW/PAC has proudly endorsed women’s rights champion Chris Coons, O’Donnell’s opponent in the Delaware Senate race, and finds O’Donnell’s political positions dangerous for women. That does not mean it’s acceptable to use slut-shaming against her, or any woman.

. . and that might be the sadly crowning effort, there. If Gawker were denigrating her, she would have been denigrated. If they were scorning her, she would have gotten scorned. But since they were ‘slut-shaming‘ her, Christine got slut-shamed. Congratulations Terry, you’re the first person to match up ‘slut’ with the iron-clad chastity ditz, O’Donnell. What a good friend you turned out to be.

Reminds me of the time I went over to see my niece as she got ready for the Homecoming dance. When she walked out into the living room, I said, “Wow, look at you, in that low-cut dress . .” That’s when my sister pressed “So she’s a slut to you, too?”

Similarly, reminds me of the time when that 39 year-old virgin politician showed up at the door of a 25 year-old woman on some Halloween night. Yada yada Gawker yada yada . . and the Men’s Rights League said “This is textbook sexism and misanthropy. It is not acceptable to use cad-shaming against him, or any man.”

Okay, what’s going on here? If anything, really?

My guess: with increasing freedom, especially of the sexual kind, women are free to take the initiative as they please. But let’s not pretend that with the proliferation of sexual events, especially of the more casual nature, as O’Donnell’s date was, that tales of a random ‘affair’ won’t make their way out of the bedroom. Men and women talk about sex — always have, always will. And the more meaningless it was, the more likely it is that the encounter will go public. This has always been true for men, and now it’s increasingly true for women. Welcome, ladies.

These are revelations about a current Senate candidate? Yes. Wow. Politics has certainly changed since the days when I used to stare at the TV and wonder how anyone could respect that crappy liar, Ronald Reagan.

Gawker has a first person tell-all with a (then) 25 year-old who hooked up with a 39 year-old Christine O’Donnell. Here’s a bit of the story:

I barely knew Christine when she turned up at my door at around eight o’clock on the night of Halloween. We’d met for the first and only time three months earlier when my two roommates and I signed the lease on our apartment: Christine’s aunt owned the place we were moving into, and she happened to be up from Delaware visiting at the time . .

Aggressive is another word I’d use to describe her. At the bar, she confessed to me that her aunt really hadn’t been sleeping. She hadn’t even gone to her apartment to check, she said. She had remembered me from our five-minute meeting the previous summer, and used the story about her aunt as an excuse to knock on my door. She’d set her sights on me from the beginning . .

Things got physical on the couch pretty quickly. It wasn’t long before we’d moved from the living room to my bed.

I won’t get into the nitty gritty details of what happened between the sheets that evening. But I will say that it wasn’t half as exciting as I’d been hoping it would be. Christine was a decent kisser, but as soon as soon as her clothes came off and she was naked in my bed, Christine informed me that she was a virgin.

“You’ve got to be kidding,” I said. She didn’t explain at the time that she was a “born-again virgin.” She made it seem like she’d never had sex in her life, which seemed pretty improbable for a woman her age. And she made it clear that she was planning on staying a virgin that night. But there were signs that she wasn’t very experienced sexually . .

Feel free to familiarize yourself with more of the racy details.

What’s most interesting about this is the reaction to it: plenty of left-wing and liberal voices are furious about Gawker’s piece (here’s just one, there are dozens). It’s a political hit that smacks of misogyny, of throwback anti-feminism, of lurid opportunism, you name it. Fine, I hear that, I respect those views. I wouldn’t want someone to do that to me, so it stinks.

But, first, I don’t find the story changes my opinion of her — she’s a fool who is unqualified for the job she so desperately wants. And, second, what planet did all of you wake up on this afternoon? What happened to all the obvious political realities being ignored in the tumult?

–Since when are sex lives sacred in the political realm? Since when have there been expectations for perfect secrecy regarding major political figures’ behavior and decisions? In any facet of life? When has politics ever been civilized? Should politicians’ sexual behavior be private and secret? YES. Feel free to rouse me from my grave in the century that reality finally turns in that direction.

–Wasn’t she the anti-sex candidate? She sure as hell was. O’Donnell made people’s personal sexual behavior an important part of her crusading personality and her ability to connect with the voters who eventually gave her the Republican nomination. Quote:

O’DONNELL: . . The sad reality is — yes, there is something you can do about it. And the sad reality, to tell them slap on a condom is not –

NIES: You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?

O’DONNELL: Yeah. Yeah!

NIES: You’re living on a prayer if you think that’s going to happen.

O’DONNELL: That’s not true. I’m a young woman in my thirties and I remain chaste.

She benefited greatly from these righteous little blips, she became the far-right-winger in the year of the crazies. She won the nomination. That sort of crusading is an easy target for all sorts of people, including your former sex partners. And obviously, ‘chaste’ is a word with many definitions in O’Donnell’s world.

–Sex is not a proper weapon in politics (if you’re a liberal). I applaud your nobility. I mock your craven nature. Anybody remember the impeachment of the last Democratic president? Anybody remember Obama being ‘smeared’ as a gay coke whore? Anybody remember Ann Coulter calling Bill Clinton and John Edwards prodigious adulterers who’d have to be homosexuals? Remember Gary Hart? How about David Vitter’s hypocritical Senate presence? Then how about this: O’Donnell’s own campaign employees ‘smearing’ her primary opponent as a closeted, adulterous homosexual? Hmm? Can I stop there?

–When a 39 year old former (and future) Senate candidate seduces an anonymous 25 year old, that’s just healthy feminism? No, that’s just a little reckless. If this seduced person turns out to be a shallow, immature oaf, perfectly willing to maybe scuttle a national political career, it’s misogyny? It’s not stupidity on both parties’ parts?

I’m pretty sure I could do this all day. Gawker is a gossip and pop culture site, but they should sit on the story? Any of you familiar with the definition of ‘gawker’? Have you seen their ridiculous internet numbers today? Even though they’re a business, their real loyalties should be . . where exactly?

This story is just another example of the sexism and slander that female candidates are forced to deal with. From Secretary Clinton, to Governor Palin, to soon-to-be Governor Haley, Christine’s political opponents have been willing to engage in appalling and baseless attacks . .

‘Slander’ and ‘baseless attacks’? That’s a stretch — something would have to be a lie. Anyway, the paranoid right-wingers see an evil master-puppet behind it all:

Classless Coons goons have proven yet again to have no sense of common decency or common sense with their desperate attacks to get another rubber stamp for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid . .

. . which reminds me of something, evil master-puppet wise. A woman by the name of Krystal Ball (yes) is a 28 year-old Democrat running for congress in Virginia. A Conservative blog got a hold of photos of a Christmas party in which Krystal is seen fellating the dildo-appointed outfit of her husband. Here:

Chris Coons’ gossip goon site, Gawker, acquired and published the images for all the world to see. The ‘controversy’ demanded a statement from Krystal, and this was it:

“Society has to accept that women of my generation have sexual lives that are going to leak into the public sphere. Sooner or later, this is a reality that has to be faced, or many young women in my generation will not be able to run for office.”

Amen. So, let’s ask ourselves: with all of this vigorous hand-wringing, who are we really worried about protecting? Our parents? Do we really believe there will ever be a time when sex won’t be interesting to us? Why would people’s sex lives ever manage to side-step politics? Christine O’Donnell turned out to be Christine O’Donnell. Whatever.

Ad in PA race:

If you’d asked Tom DeLay, he’d have admitted to pretty much owning the epithet ‘The Hammer.’ He enjoyed being called that, and that’s the way guys operate. But this Pelosi, this female politician, she’s out of control. She’s some kind of monster.

Illegal Immigration Proponents Support Slavery
Posted by Lori Ziganto
Wednesday, May 12th at 5:15PM EDT

Illegal immigration is another area where the true racist and misogynistic tendencies of Liberals/Leftists appear.

Hello! I heard my name — what’s up? OH, another RedState whackjob. *sigh*

Racism and misogyny, yup, that’s us. Can I go now?

. . they are currently more concerned with demonizing the state of Arizona and it’s new illegal immigration law than they are concerned with protecting the rights of citizens. They’ve also proven that they care not one whit about the people coming here illegally. They aren’t human beings to them; they are merely political pawns and cheap labor.

They’re not even pawns, they’re lumps of coal. I collect and burn them for Winter heat. Okay, that’s us — now can I bail?

. . What isn’t mentioned ever? Concern for The Children ™ who are suffering due to strained medical and educational resources.

Wow, you really are A Strange One.™ Yes, we’re The Haters Of The Children.™ I’m off now, I have to go strangle some . .

Apparently, having their lawns manicured and their tables bussed cheaply means more to the left than the human beings providing such services. Why have legal immigrants when you can have illegal ones as figurative slaves, huh, left? Nor do they show concern For the Women, who are brought here, smuggled in illegally, as slaves.

. . yes, and I enjoy killing them all, the immigrants, The Lumps™, the slaves, the little girls in their pink jumpers, fingers all sticky from candy. Kill, kill, kill. I’m Murder, Inc.™ We’re done?

. . the left doesn’t care. What’s a little enslavement and forced prostitution if it gets us some cheap labor and more bodies at the ballot box?

Non-citizens can totally vote in America. Sorry: AMERICA!™ The pawns and the slaves and The Dead Children™ vote by the billions all the time every day. If they move or breathe or eat a taco, it’s a vote.

And this is what we do: we round up all their votes, and we hate on them and enslave them and prostitute them and murder them and burn them for heat. And you know what? *BOING* The votes themselves suddenly start voting. For us. That’s how it works! I’m tired of this — end of this post, please . .

I also believe in human dignity and the sanctity of life. As such, unlike the left, I recognize illegal immigration for what it is:

The new slavery.

The new Holocaust, and we’re Adolf Hitler. Go on, say it.

Well, where to start with the jokes? My brain is reeling, I’m not sure where to begin. It’s like a snipe hunt, and they’re crawling all over our shoes.

. . Ted Nugent writes Time Magazine’s profile on Sarah Palin . .

Amazing. Well, the jokes have long since started of their own accord, haven’t they? Time magazine has been awful for as long as I remember, but Ted Nugent? Ted ‘dumb as a bag of oil’ Nugent? Ted ‘Hey Hillary you might wanna ride one of my machine guns into the sunset you worthless bitch’ Nugent? Ted ‘Barbara Boxer she might wanna suck on my machine gun’ Nugent? Ted ‘Dianne Feinstein ride one of these you worthless whore’ Nugent? What, Time Magazine couldn’t find anyone more repugnant than Nugent to offer an opinion on a well-known woman?

The mainstream media continue to embrace their inner populist thug for the purposes of sales and ratings, Rush Limbaugh wins again. Back when I was a kid, when my Dad used to get Time Magazine by subscription, I can’t imagine they’d have asked Paul Stanley to write about Betty Ford. Or . . well . . Ted Nugent to write anything ever. They’d have more likely joked that the ‘Motor City Madman’ was an unlikely candidate for literacy.

The world has changed, and what qualifies for mainstream ‘discourse’ no longer does so by minimal standards of intelligence or civility. It is mainstream because it is the main stream: if attracts the most eyes and ears, and that is all. So if you’re a lucky, well-paid main-streamer, it means that you can bring the heat. No different than porn, really, you can get the ‘clicks’.

Here, three attention whores conspire together to spunky-charm their way into your hearts, like the worms that rot your typical mangy mutt to death from the inside:

* Leaders

Sarah Palin
By Ted Nugent
Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010

If Sarah Palin played a loud, grinding instrument, she would be in my band. The independent patriotic spirit, attitude and soul of our forefathers are alive and well in Sarah. In the way she lives, what she says and how she dedicates herself to make America better in these interesting times, she represents the good, while exposing the bad and ugly. She embraces the critical duty of we the people by participating in this glorious experiment in self-government. The tsunami of support proves that Sarah, 46, represents what many Americans know to be common and sensible. Her rugged individualism, self-reliance and a herculean work ethic resonate now more than ever in a country spinning away from these basics that made the U.S.A. the last best place. We who are driven to be assets to our families, communities and our beloved country connect with the principles that Sarah Palin embodies. We know that bureaucrats and, even more, Fedzilla, are not the solution; they are the problem. I’d be proud to share a moose-barbecue campfire with the Palin family anytime, so long as I can shoot the moose.

Nugent is an author, activist and rock-’n'-roll legend

. . imagine, say, 20,000 Glenn Becks unleashed on unsuspecting high school History classes across America; we’d never again be able to agree on anything that ever happened five minutes ago.

Like I said, our ‘mainstream media’ thing is nothing more than a proud and public circle jerk. Next up: Glenn Beck does Tea Party maestro Dick Armey, and then he introduces Ted Nugent, cue Elton John. And then the San Diego Chicken profiles Joe the Camel. See? Don’t pretend you don’t know who they are . .