AS writes "Amen", to a reader who sends him this drivel:
The great tragedy of "Monster"-gate is that a woman who betrayed the ideals of the feminist movement exclusively for political gain secured a political victory at the expense of a woman who only owed herself for her achievements.
Can we finally say that we've seen AS definitively play the victim, something he so loathes others doing? (Not his best post, I guess).
I like Sam. She'll recover from this. But they were her own words and she now knows not to talk to reporters off the record, when that doesn't mean anything.
Now, the pressure is on Obama. What is he going to say? He's going to have Samantha-like people around him all the time, hopefully, if he wants to keep the academic voice from being silenced. Where's his politics on the matter? I can think of two or three things. So far, nothing ...
