About a year ago, the term “rape denier” became a popular way to silence anyone who was skeptical about a claim of sexual assault. If you didn’t agree that a rape accusation alone was sufficient evidence of guilt, you were a “rape denier.”
This was especially true for men, who were told they couldn’t ask any questions about such an accusation because of their male privilege and so forth. “Proving an accusation false will only discourage rape victims from speaking out,” was the theory. Instead, we were supposed to believe women because… well, because they’re women. #IBelieveWomen. End of story.
The heyday of the “rape denier” charge was very brief, though, thanks to Mattress Girl and the UVA rape hoax and other inconvenient facts that went against the narrative. Leftists love nothing more than finding ways to silence their opponents, and when “rape denier” lost its ability to do that, it was abandoned.
Which brings us to 2016. Not only is “rape denier” out of fashion, but now the very idea of believing a woman just because she’s a woman is being repudiated by our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left. That is, if believing a woman stands in the way of putting another Democrat in the White House.
Derek Hunter reports on a Hillary Clinton town hall meeting in New Hampshire yesterday:
A woman, reportedly a Republican State Representative, stood up during the question and answer session, yelling a question about Juanita Broderrick, the woman who has accused Bill Clinton of raping her in the late 1970s.
When Hillary called on someone else, the woman sat down. But, even though the woman had stopped talking, her outburst had already caught Clinton’s attention. The candidate turned her gaze toward the woman and snapped, “You are very rude, and I am not going to ever call on you.”
WATCH: @HillaryClinton shuts down heckler: “You are very rude, and I am not going to ever call on you.” https://t.co/fJns50eKv6
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 3, 2016
Well, Hillary certainly put that peasant in her place, didn’t she?
The heckler is a New Hampshire state representative named Katherine Prudhomme O’Brien, and yesterday she took to Facebook to explain her point of view:
This is my response to a man who wanted to know why I asked the questions as rudely as I did:
Thank you for asking what I was so concerned with. I appreciate your interest. It all started when I saw Juanita Broaddrick give an hour long interview on Dateline NBC to Lisa Myers in 1999 where she said she was raped by Bill Clinton in 1978. You can find a video of it on Youtube. I believed her so when Al Gore was running for president, I asked him if he believed her too because I was shocked that women’s groups like NOW were not demanding answers. Gore told me that he doesn’t know the story but that I should forgive Clinton anyway as if I was asking about an affair, not a crime. After Broaddrick saw that question on TV, she called me and I asked her all the questions people were throwing at me about why she may not be telling the truth. I was in a support group at the time for rape and sexual assault survivors and I know this subject better than I want to…
At any rate, it is very weird that Hillary now says on the campaign trail that women should be believed when they say they have been raped(she is correct about that, false reports are rare, it happens but it is not the norm) but told a questioner on the trail last month that she does not believe Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey(who has said that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breast when they were in the Oval Office together). Clinton told the questioner that she does not believe them because of evidence against them. I would like to know what that is…
That is what drove me to do what I did today, my concern for sexual assault survivors. If I could have brought this issue up in any polite way or if people in her campaign really did follow up with me by calling me, I would never have been so impolite. I know I was impolite but in this whole scenario, you are angry at the wrong person, save that anger for Bill Clinton for being a sexual predator or for the woman who enables him-not me.
Read the whole thing. In sum, this woman is a rape survivor who’s speaking out for someone she believes to be another rape survivor. Whatever you think of her approach, she seems to be sincere. She listened, and she believed. That’s what she’s supposed to do, right?
Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported. https://t.co/mkD69RHeBL — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 23, 2015
Unfortunately for these women, the accused rapist went on to become President of the United States, and now his wife is running for the same office. This changes everything, of course. #IBelieveWomen has gone #OutTheWindow. The old rules mean nothing when they embarrass the Democrats.
This is a great photo. Meme away, please. https://t.co/LMCHgWQnSr
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 4, 2016
Bill Clinton “abused women?” No. He got parental leave law passed. He was pro-choice. He had consensual sex w/ an adult. #trumps3wives — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 4, 2016
“This woman stood up for Bill Clinton’s rape victims. This is where her children sleep.” https://t.co/V4j3ELHvft
— L (@OrwellForks) January 3, 2016
This woman is just a heckler. She’s to be mocked and dismissed. If that doesn’t work, dig up whatever you can find about her to discredit and silence her. She can’t be allowed to impede the ambitions of a Clinton.
It’s not victim-shaming when leftists do it.
I don’t know what happened between Bill Clinton and Juanita Broaddrick. Neither does anybody else but Bill Clinton and Juanita Broaddrick. But I do know that, once again, the rules that apply to everyone else don’t apply to the Clintons.
Just something to keep in mind the next time Hillary Clinton claims to represent victims of sexual assault. She’s got a war on women going on under her very own roof… or whichever roof Bill happens to be sleeping under on any given night.