Today's honors go to U.S. News' Bonnie Erbe, as she pontificates lamely about this week's manufactured Beltway embarrassment. Shorthand: Obama doesn't like women!
President Obama drew heat last week for a story that surfaced outing his private White House male-only b-ball games. The story was that even though two female members of his cabinet were members of their college basketball teams, they were excluded, as were all women, from this most private of male-only clubs. The story became a metaphor for how the president views women generally and threatened to reveal some inconvenient truths about the man.
Now we see reports that gender-insensitivity charges have resonated with the Obama White House. According to Politics Daily, the president dragged chief domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes to the golf course on Sunday, and she became the first female to join his golf foursome since he took office. The event produced a photo op of global proportions.
Got that? Obama “excluded” women from a White House pick-up basketball game. When that became a thing, when it was magically transformed by shallow pundits into “metaphor for how the president views women generally,” Obama then invited a White House female adviser to play golf.
Problem addressed and a wrong belatedly corrected, right? No! According to Erbe, Obama didn't invite a female colleague to play golf, he dragged her out in public for a “photo op.” She was his “faux” golf partner. (What does that even mean??)
Told you it would make your head hurt.
UPDATED: How many times, as president, did George W. Bush play golf with women? Erbe has no idea.
Just sayin'.
UPDATED: Who's the one “uncomfortable” with women? That's the claim Erbe keeps making in her errant attempt at analysis. But I'm wondering if she's the one with the problem. Note this hateful passage as Erbe mocks Michelle Obama as “his clearly career-oriented mate who has been toned down and remorphed into a Stepford Wife.”
UPDATED: No joke, Erbe repeatedly compares Obama to Jesse Helms in her painful piece of hackery.