Our idiotic CA Senator Barbara Boxer slams Secretary of State Condi Rice for being single and childless during her testimony before a Senate Investigative Committee and I guess the Los Angeles Times considers this a non event — or at least not newsworthy enough to even mention it in passing. See this search for LA Times articles that include “Barbara Boxer”.

Odd — The New York Times has a story on it.

A passing exchange during a Senate hearing on Thursday turned into a political flashpoint overnight as Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused one another of insensitivity in comments about motherhood and the war in Iraq.

In an interview this afternoon with The New York Times, Ms. Rice suggested that the California Democrat had set back feminism by suggesting during the hearing that the childless Ms. Rice had paid no price in the Iraq war.

“I thought it was okay to be single,” Ms. Rice said. “I thought it was okay to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn’t have children.”

During the Thursday hearing, Ms. Boxer told Ms. Rice: “You’re not going to pay any particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.”

In a separate interview, Senator Boxer said her comments had been misunderstood and were now being turned against her by the White House and other Republicans. “What I was trying to do in this exchange was to find common ground with Condi Rice,” Ms. Boxer said, adding that “my whole point was to focus on the military families who pay the price.”

The Grey Lady even covered it on one of its Blogtalk blogs, from which I borrowed this Rush Limbaugh quote about the incident.

“Here you have a rich white chick with a huge, big mouth, trying to lynch this — an African-American woman — right before Martin Luther King Day, hitting below the ovaries here.”

So did the NY Post. The San Diego Union-Tribune at least bothered to mentioned that an exchange between the two women had taken place. CBS News ran the AP version of the story. The White House came out with a strong statement against the Boxer position and verbal attack of the Sec. of State calling it “outrageous”!

“I guess that means I don’t have kids. Was that the purpose of that?” Rice said. “Well, at the time I just found it a bit confusing frankly. But in retrospect, gee, I thought single women had come further than that. That the only question is are you making good decisions because you have kids?”

And, White House spokesman Tony Snow also weighed in:

“I don’t know if she was intentionally that tacky, but I do think it’s outrageous. Here you got a professional woman, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Barbara Boxer is sort of throwing little jabs because Condi doesn’t have children, as if that means that she doesn’t understand the concerns of parents. Great leap backward for feminism,” Snow told FOX News Talk’s Brian and The Judge.

Our Liberal “feminist” Senator is back-peddling as fast as she can, but will not outrun this one — except for out here in La La Land, where our kitty-box-liner-of-record continues to ignore anything that might hurt the Liberal agenda, especially if it might shine an ill light on the anti-Iraq-War movement.

Now, maybe ol’ Bab’s comment has been taken a bit out of context, maybe not. And I can understand that if you’re a Lefty Anti-War Liberal you would feel that what Boxer said to Rice is right-on dude!, but what I can’t understand is not even mentioning the exchange. What say you LA Times? — cricket, cricket – - cricket, cricket . . .

Media Bias? Naaaaaa, couldn’t be — could it? (db)

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