Alicia Machado Is 2016’s Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam..By Mollie Hemingway

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 Alicia Machado Is 2016’s Sandra Fluke, A Democratic Public Relations Scam

Democrats and the media work together seamlessly to push the idea that innocent, random young women are victimized by mean old Republican men.

By Mollie Hemingway
September 29, 2016

In February 2012, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing about how an Obamacare mandate would harm religious liberty. These religious liberty concerns have been upheld at the Supreme Court all the way down, but were dismissed as illegitimate by Democratic leaders and their many allies in the media.

Democrats on the committee wanted to have a Georgetown Law student testify in favor of forcing religious groups that provide student health plans to violate their consciences if they don’t sponsor abortifacients and birth control. She wasn’t seated, and Democrats walked out in dramatic protest, later holding an event to hear her speak about how evil her Catholic university was for not violating Catholic teaching.

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http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/29/alicia-machado-is-2016s-sandra-fluke-a-democratic-public-relations-scam/

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The problem with this theory was that the Sandra Fluke fiasco was purpose-made for politics. Her sole claim to fame was as a "pro-choice" feminist.

The incident with Machado on the other hand was long, long before Trump was running for the Presidential nomination; politics had nothing to do with it, at least until Trump's surrogates decided to put that smear article out a couple days ago. Until then, it could have simply been brushed off as a personal beef and nothing more, but then Trump felt the need to shoot the messenger. Did the Dems capitalize on it? Of course, just as the GOP would love to capitalize on all of Bill Clinton's paramours, willing and unwilling.