The Silencing (40 page)

41
.
    
“Journalists Admitting Liberal Bias, Part One,” Media Research Center, May 19, 2014,
http://www.mrc.org/media-bias-101/journalists-admitting-liberal-bias-part-one
.

42
.
    
David Weigel, “Kermit Gosnell: The Alleged Mass-Murderer and the Bored Media,”
Slate
, April 12, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/12/kermit_gosnell_the_alleged_mass_murderer_and_the_bored_media.html
.

43
.
    
Brandon Ambrosino, “What the Gay Rights Movement Should Learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.,”
Time
, January 20, 2014,
http://time.com/2332/what-the-gay-rights-movement-should-learn-from-martin-luther-king-jr/
.

44
.
    
Luke Brinker, “Meet Brandon Ambrosino, Homophobes’ Favorite Gay Writer and Vox’s Newest Hire,” Media Matters for America, March 12, 2104,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/12/meet-brandon-ambrosino-homophobes-favorite-gay/198461
.

45
.
    
Gabriel Arana, “Ezra Klein’s Queer New Hire,”
American Prospect
, March 13, 2014,
http://prospect.org/article/ezra-kleins-queer-new-hire
.

46
.
    
Mark Joseph Stern, “
Vox
’s Unbelievably Terrible New Hire,”
Slate
, March 13, 2014,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/03/13/brandon_ambrosino_to_vox_he_s_unbelievably_terrible.html
; Carlos Maza, “Ezra Klein: ‘I Could’ve And Should’ve, Handled This Hire A Lot Better,’” Media Matters for America, March 14, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/tags/brandon-ambrosino
.

47
.
    
Noah Michelson, “Ezra Klein, I’m Calling Bullsh*t on Your Defense of Hiring Brandon Ambrosino, and Here’s Why,” Huffington Post, May 14, 2014,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-michelson/ezra-klein-im-calling-bul_b_4965557.html
.

48
.
    
“110K Call on The
Washington Post
to End Climate Change Denial in its Editorial Page,” Forecast the Facts, February 20, 2014,
http://forecastthefacts.org/press/releases/2014/2/20/110k-call-washington-post-end-climate-change-denia/
.

49
.
    
“About Forecast the Facts,” Forecast the Facts,
http://forecastthefacts.org/about/
.

50
.
    
George Will, “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism,”
Washington Post
, June 6, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
.

51
.
    
Andrew Johnson, “Will’s Bout With Feminists,” National Review Online, June 11, 2014,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380156/wills-bout-feminists-andrew-johnson
.

52
.
    
“Letter to George Will from Senators,” June 12, 2014, available at the
Washington Post
website,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2014/06/13/Editorial-Opinion/Graphics/Letter-to-George-Will-from-Senators.pdf
.

53
.
    
Michael Miner, “The
St
.
Louis Post
-
Dispatch
Conspicuously Dumps George Will,”
Chicago Reader
, June 26, 2014,
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/06/26/the-st-louis-post-dispatch-conspicuously-dumps-george-will
.

54
.
    
Post Opinions Staff, “George Will Responds to Senators on His Sexual Assault Column,”
Washington Post
, June 13, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/06/13/george-will-responds-to-senators-on-his-sexual-assault-column
.

55
.
    
“Tell the
Washington Post
: Fire George Will,” UltraViolet,
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/cms/sign/Fire_George_Will/
.

56
.
    
National Organization for Women, “
Washington Post
: Dump George Will,” NOW,
http://now.org/take-action/washington-post-dump-george-will/
.

57
.
    
Tony Messenger, “Editor’s Note: Michael Gerson Replaces George Will,”
St
.
Louis Post
-
Dispatch
, June 19, 2014,
http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editor-s-note-michael-gerson-replaces-george-will/article_4b645ed8-e70e-5357-a85b-d347e5802785.html
.

58
.
    
Ellie Sandmeyer, “Backlash Against George Will’s Offensive Rape Column Grows As Paper Drops Him,” Media Matters for America, June 19, 2014,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/19/backlash-against-george-wills-offensive-rape-co/199797
.

CHAPTER EIGHT: ILLIBERAL FEMINIST THOUGHT POLICE

1
.
      
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al., 573 U.S. (2014),
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf
; See the brief for the respondents in Kathleen Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stories et al. at
http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/No-13-354-Brief-for-Respondents.pdf
; and Jayne O’Donnell, “Hobby Lobby Case; What Birth Control Is Affected?,”
USA Today
, June 30, 2014,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/30/morning-after-iuds/11768653/
.

2
.
      
“Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception),”
PlannedParenthood.org
,
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/health-info/morning-after-pill-emergency-contraception
.

3
.
      
Jackie Seal, “MSNBC Guest Invokes Jim Crow, Apartheid in Reaction to Hobby Lobby Ruling,” MRC NewsBusters, June 30, 2014,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jackie-seal/2014/06/30/msnbc-guest-invokes-jim-crow-apartheid-reaction-hobby-lobby-ruling
.

4
.
      
Tweet from Senator Harry Reid, June 30, 2014,
https://twitter.com/senatorreid/status/483630584833773568
.

5
.
      
Glenn Kessler, “Democrats on Hobby Lobby: ‘Misspeaks,’ ‘Opinion,’ and Overheated Rhetoric,”
Washington Post
, July 14, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/07/14/democrats-on-hobby-lobby-misspeaks-opinion-and-overheated-rhetoric/
.

6
.
      
Ruth Marcus, “Judging from Experience,”
Washington Post
, July 1, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-judging-from-experience/2014/07/01/78c51c30-0148-11e4-b8ff-89afd3fad6bd_story.html
.

7
.
      
Lydia Saad, “Contraception Debate Divides Americans, Including Women,” Gallup, February 24, 2012,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/152963/contraception-debate-divides-americans-including-women.aspx
.

8
.
      
Kristina Arriaga, Executive Director, Becket Fund, interview with author, March 6, 2015.

9
.
      
The biography of Kristina Arriaga is available on the Becket Fund website at
http://www.becketfund.org/staff-members/kristina-arriaga/
.

10
.
    
Lydia Saad, “Majority of Americans Still Support Roe V. Wade Decision,” Gallup, January 22, 2013,
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160058/majority-americans-support-roe-wade-decision.aspx
.

11
.
    
Washington Post
–ABC News Poll National Politics, July 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/07/25/National-Politics/Polling/question_11465.xml?uuid=bN9EXvUZEeKB-o6Ds4ZMNg
.

12
.
    
The amici curiae briefs are available online at
http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-354-356-bsac-Womens-Policy-Groups-and-Coaltion-of-Female-State-Legislative-and-Executive-Branch-Officials.pdf
;
http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-354-bsac-Women-Speak-for-Themselves.pdf
;
http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/13-35413-356bsacIndependentWomen’sForum.pdf
; and
http://www.becketfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bsac-13-354-and-13-356-Brief-of-Beverly-Lahaye-Institute-et-al.pdf
.

13
.
    
Ibid.

14
.
    
Tweet from Jill Filipovic, June 30, 2014,
https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/483633989463592960
.

15
.
    
Tweet from CJ Werleman, September 8, 2014,
https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/509063346092797952
.

16
.
    
Ibid.

17
.
    
Seal, “MSNBC Guest Invokes Jim Crow.”

18
.
    
Ibid.

19
.
    
Paul Rosenberg, “This Is a Religious Civil War: Hobby Lobby Only the Beginning for New Religious Theocrats,”
Salon.com
, July 8, 2014,
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/08/this_is_a_religious_civil_war_hobby_lobby_only_the_beginning_for_new_religious_theocrats/
.

20
.
    
Audio of Ed Schultz is available online at MRC NewsBusters,
http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/Schultz%20O%27Neill%20actual%20war%20on%20women.mp3
. See also Peter Berkowitz, “The Left’s Hollow Complaints about Hobby Lobby,” RealClearPolitics, July 12, 2014,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/12/the_lefts_hollow_complaints_over_hobby_lobby__123293.html
.

21
.
    
Tweet from Jimmy Williams, June 30, 2014,
https://twitter.com/jimmyspolitics/status/483626621740789761
.

22
.
    
Ibid.

23
.
    
Lincoln Mitchell, “How Hobby Lobby Undermines All Americans’ Freedom,” Huffington Post, July 6, 2014,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lincoln-mitchell/how-hobby-lobby-undermine_b_5561501.html
.

24
.
    
Mark Joseph Stern, “Of Course Hobby Lobby Discriminates against Trans Workers, Too,”
Slate
, July 15, 2014,
http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/07/15/hobby_lobby_discriminates_against_trans_workers_and_women.html
.

25
.
    
Garance Franke-Ruta, “Rick Perry, Mansplainer in Chief,” June 27, 2013,
Atlantic
,
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/rick-perry-mansplainer-in-chief/277308/
.

26
.
    
Marin Cogan, “The Mittsplainer: An Alternate Theory of Mitt Romney’s Gaffes,”
GQ
, August 1, 2012,
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/08/the-mittsplainer-an-alternate-theory-of-mitt-romneys-gaffes.html
.

27
.
    
Kat Stoeffel, “Watch Ted Cruz Mansplain the Second Amendment to Dianne Feinstein,”
New York
, March 14, 2013,
http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/03/watch-ted-cruz-mansplain-the-second-amendment.html
.

28
.
    
Jillian Rayfield, “Sen. Ron Johnson Offers to Mansplain the Budget to Tammy Baldwin,”
Salon.com
, November 8, 2012,
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/sen_ron_johnson_offers_to_mansplain_the_budget_to_tammy_baldwin/
.

29
.
    
Emily Swanson, “Poll: Few Identify as Feminists, but Most Believe in Equality of Sexes,” Huffington Post, April 16, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/feminism-poll_n_3094917.html
.

30
.
    
Sue Owen, “Michelle Malkin Says Gloria Steinem Once Called Kay Bailey Hutchison a ‘Female Impersonator,’” PolitiFact Texas, March 29, 2012,
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/mar/29/michelle-malkin/gloria-steinem-once-called-kay-bailey-hutchison-fe/
.

31
.
    
Tom Humphrey, “Democrat on GOP’s Female Lawmakers: ‘Lift Their Skirts to Find Out If They Are Women,’”
Knoxville News Sentinel
, June 14, 2010,
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/democrat-gops-female-lawmakers-lift-their-skirts-f
.

32
.
    
“Just Plain Nut-ty,”
Radio Equalizer
, August 10, 2010,
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/08/lefty-actress-threatens-rush-limbaugh.html
; and Michelle Malkin, “The Vulgarity of Liberal Female ‘Comedians,’”
MichelleMalkin.com
, August 12, 2010,
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/12/the-vulgarity-of-liberal-female-comedians/
.

33
.
    
“Ann Coulter Is a Man,”
From the left
,
https://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/03/03/ann-coulter-is-a-man/
; and Pam Spaulding, “Mann Coulter Is Crying That Her
Time
Cover Is Distorted,” Firedoglake, April 18, 2005,
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2005/04/18/mann-coulter-is-crying-that-her-time-cover-is-distorted/
.

34
.
    
Bennett Marcus, “Gloria Steinem: Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann ‘Are There to Oppose the Women’s Movement,’”
New York
, August 11, 2011,
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/08/gloria_steinem_sarah_palin_and.html
.