http://www.nationalreview.com/node/426089/print Hillary: It’s Sexism, Stupid
By Rich Lowry — October 27, 2015
It was inevitable that Bernie Sanders would be accused of sexism sooner or later.
His day came over the weekend. At the signature Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa, Hillary Clinton hit the Vermont senator for saying in the first Democratic debate that “all the shouting in the world” wouldn’t keep guns out of the wrong hands. According to Clinton, Sanders had directed a notoriously sexist insult at her — although not one of the 15 million people watching at the time had noticed it.
“I haven’t been shouting,” Clinton intoned, “but sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it’s shouting.” What Clinton’s plaint lacked in plausibility, it made up for in bad faith.
Shouting has not typically been considered a loaded term. Sanders didn’t say “screeching.” He didn’t say “nagging.” In fact, he had been saying that shouting is ineffectual in the gun debate long before he was entangled in an argument about gun control with Hillary Clinton.
Nonetheless, Sanders felt compelled on the CNN show State of the Union on Sunday to tout his record on women’s issues and say, “I think what the secretary is doing there is taking words and misapplying them.” But there he goes again — suggesting that women aren’t capable of correctly applying words.
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