The feminist blogosphere has been chewing over Gropegate these past few days (see the post with 364 comments over at Shakesville) and I just watched James Carville and some Republican strategist “analyze” the incident and the brouhaha on The Situation Room. Carville, who I generally really like, acted like a total pig. While the speechwriter apologized and Hillary accepted, Carville thought he had nothin to apologize for, he was just a 27-year old havin some fun, whohoo ye haw! Amy Siskind, cofounder of The New Agenda, has a piece up today at The Daily Beast on it too.
I’m with Shakesville on this one, who asks “ why, pray tell, do so many people seem so compelled to make excuses for what is, at best, such puerile, obnoxious, and just plain disrespectful behavior?”
I mean, seriously? Really boys? Sigh.
Comments
Skye — December 10, 2008
Carville should be ashamed of himself.
Bob Lamm — December 10, 2008
You're completely right, Skye, but I highly doubt that the emotion of shame is in the repertoire of James Carville or the rest of these boys.
And sorry, Deborah, but Carville's role in this ugly story doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I always found him loathsome, even when he said things I agreed with. In my view, James Carville and Bill Clinton are well matched.
Girl w/Pen Digest - Majority Post — December 15, 2008
[...] Gropegate 2008: A photo depicting Obama administration Director of Speechwriting Jon Favreau with his hand on the right breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton and another, unidentified man in an “Obama Staff†t-shirt kissing her left cheek and holding a beer bottle to her lips that was leaked to the media. Ugh. [...]