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    Liberal media's hypocrisy about conservative women on full display in Politico hit piece

    She’s unqualified. She’s a policy lightweight. She worked as a typist. She’s not a thinker. She’s been raising kids since the ’80s … and at 65, does she even have the stamina for the office?

    If the president-elect were Hillary Clinton and journalistic breadcrumbs like these were written about one of her female appointees, the howling accusations of ageism and sexism would be deafening.

    But while the mainstream media and what passes today for the women’s movement wasted no time lobbing such accusations at Donald Trump when he called Clinton’s stamina into question, there has been only silence this week after Politico published a story by Michael Crowley about incoming Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland, entitled “Flynn deputy raises more doubts about Trump team.”

    It seems virtuous indignation is reserved for women of the liberal order exclusively.

    If we are to accept the article’s “deck” — Former Fox analyst K.T. McFarland, out of government for three decades, is the unlikely choice for the pressure-filled job of No. 2 at the National Security Council — as the overarching hypothesis, one would expect to read personal vignettes or quotes that highlight and lend credence to the assertion that McFarland is indeed incapable of handling such a “pressure-filled” job.

    Instead, the focus of the article is that McFarland has been out of government service for 30 years, working as a Fox News analyst and a homemaker who “invokes her child-raising hiatus as a source of special wisdom.” It cites a number of anonymous sources and anonymous experts who detail how vigorous the job of deputy will be and say it “would test the stamina even of someone a decade younger.”

    And while the article does mention McFarland’s national security experience, there is always an accompanying jab toward her age:

    · “McFarland, 65, last worked in government three decades ago, as a public affairs official in Ronald Reagan’s Pentagon”

    · “Skeptics say McFarland will find government and foreign policy radically changed since the 1980s.”

    · “McFarland will return to the NSC nearly 50 years after her first arrival there, as a George Washington University student who worked nights as a typist for the Nixon White House, where Kissinger was national security adviser.”

    Perhaps it’s time we all just agree that, outside the NFL draft, neither age nor sex has any relevance to one’s competence.

    Rather than disparage McFarland for the life choices she made to enter, leave and re-enter government service, we should celebrate what the women's movement was all about: the freedom to choose...

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/...hit-piece.html

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