Michelle Wolf referred to Huckster, Jr. as (an) Aunt Lydia.

[Solly Mack]

I can't speak for other women but I've viewed conservative women as Serena Joys or Aunt Lydias (as well as Econowives) since 1985, when "The Handmaid's Tale" was first published.

Wolf's comments had nothing to do with how Huckster, Jr. looks and everything to do with how SHS props up and supports the misogynistic agenda of the "Commanders/Angels/Guardians/Sons of Jacob" (conservative men).

Her other comments had nothing to do with looks either. Wolf called a liar a liar. Shocking.

Wolf simply let loose a small portion (a very small portion) of the anger many women (myself included) feel about conservative women who support the oppression of women in the name of their own (supposed) "goodness" and (self) righteousness.

I loved the Aunt Lydia comment.

[JI7]

1. She compared her to Coulter also

'Aunt Coulter'

[Solly Mack]

2. That was great too.

[oberliner]

3. What did the "dividing into softball teams" joke mean?

[Solly Mack]

4. I thought it a dig at the Press.

[oberliner]

5. It seemed like a dig on her appearance but I might have misunderstood

With the whole "softball coach" implication.

[Solly Mack]

6. Perhaps people inferred what wasn't implied?

There are times when people will take the associations they make and project them onto the speaker.

Now, sometimes, there is no doubt what people mean, eg dog whistles.

But I think Wolf meant that some in the press lob softballs. Also, SHS has a habit of making a point of who she (and her boss) thinks of as "fake news", eg - fake news team v. fox news (which SHS and her boss think of as an actual news station). When watching SHS in action I have noticed her attempting to divide the press into for Trump and against Trump teams, and it is obvious who she favors.

[oberliner]

7. Could be

Interestingly, Maggie Haberman has been having a back and forth with some of her twitter followers on this very same question.

[Solly Mack]

9. I'm not on Twitter but from DU I gather a lot of people are discussing it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Media pitching "soft" (softball) questions to favored interviewees. Red team / Blue team. . .nt

[greyl]

29. It was a phys ed teacher joke, not about softball questions. nt

[Achilleaze]

34. The "white house media" is as soft as puppy shit in the face of FASCISM

they lob softballs. No hard reporting. They are scared that they will be "criticized" and lose their "special" white house "privileges."

Collectively, they are The KGOP Symps, Inc.

[brer cat]

8. I agree.

She and other conservative women enable the misogyny and patriarchy that take away women's rights to their own bodies and lives. Their self-righteousness makes me ill.

[Solly Mack]

10. And they are cheering their own oppression. They forget that to a misogynist - they're still women.

It's mind boggling.

[Pepsidog]

11. Agree absolutely

[Solly Mack]

12. Thank you.

[dreamland]

13. So on target

The media prefers to listen to a vulgar man hawk fake news than a smart comedian who unveil truths, this is why tRump got elected.

[Solly Mack]

14. And the press would rather push a poor Sarah narrative than deal with what Wolf said about them.

[betsuni]

15. I was surprised how many thought the jokes were about Sanders' appearance.

Obviously the gist of the jokes was that Sanders is no friend to the truth or to women. Maybe because Sanders' looks are often commented on, people have that in their heads when she's mentioned and their minds immediately went there.

[Solly Mack]

16. Which says more about what they think about Sanders than anything Wolf said.

[betsuni]

17. Agree.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Discussion elsewhere says maybe confusion between "burning facts" (Wolf said) and "burning fat" . nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. Yup. I made that comment

When I watched the WHCD on YouTube, I thought she said "fat".

[H2O Man]

18. Recommended

[Solly Mack]

19. Thank you.

Hope all is well with you. You doing better?

[backscatter712]

22. Yeah, looks like most of the right wing is applying ice to the burn...

[Solly Mack]

23. Heh

[Cha]

24. Thank you for your perspective, Solly Mack..

I appreciate it!

[Solly Mack]

27. Thank you, Cha.

I guess it's easier for the Press to fret over SHS than it is to deal with their complicity re: Trump.

[Cha]

30. We know the US corporate/gopress by

now.

cover for trump.. scold anyone who's against him with the truth.

It's a pattern for the lazy ass complicit press.. bring us bush bring, us War on Iraq.. bring us trump.

President Obama won 2 times in spite of them.

[Scurrilous]

25. Since when did 'perfect smokey eye' become an insult, America?

Comedian Michelle Wolf was slammed by a wide range of commentators for commenting on the press secretary’s eye shadow. This is a storm in a teacup

<snip>

"If you’re not familiar with the common parlance of cosmetics, you might not know that ‘a perfect smokey eye’ is a very nice way to describe a woman’s makeup – glamorous, well-applied, nicely smudged. But on the morning after the White House Correspondents’ Association (WCHA) dinner on Saturday night, you might have thought otherwise.

Comedian Michelle Wolf was slammed by a wide range of commentators for saying just that about the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, during her keynote roast: “I actually really like Sarah,” Wolf said. “I think she’s very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.”

“Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable,” wrote MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, overlooking the crucial fact that Wolf was in fact complimenting the appearance of Sanders’ makeup. Wolf was mocking the fact that Sanders is a liar. Which is something that she definitely is."

<snip>

"It’s a shame that those on the right have used the concept of ‘snowflakes’ as an insult against those who oppose them, because time and time again it’s clear that no one is more sensitive than the far-right who follow Trump in lock step and can’t take a compliment from the other side about eye-shadow."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/29/snowflakes-sarah-huckabees-perfect-smokey-eye

[Solly Mack]

28. Seriously. I can't do a smokey eye to save my life.

It's a good look for her but that doesn't make her any less a liar - and that's the point. She's a liar.

[Cha]

31. Tweet from Michelle Wolf..

Link to tweet

[Solly Mack]

32. It seemed all too plain to me what she said and what it meant.

Thanks, Cha.

[Achilleaze]

33. republicans adore Aunt Lydia's republican family values

She's also worshiped as a role model for republican values, as is, of course, Dirty Donny* himself.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Solly Mack]

35. I've read where they are angry that they are seen that way since the series started.

Some have gone so far to say that they aren't the "bad" characters (the Serena Joys/Aunt Lydias, etc. from the show/book) - liberals are.

There is a disconnect there.

To say the least.

I gathered, from reading the article, that a lot of conservatives never read the book and it took the series to bring it to their attention.

[Achilleaze]

36. They are angry that the show makes the sickness of

their republican-style, right-wing christo-dominionism so starkly plain. They are anti everything that Christ taught.

[Solly Mack]

38. The denial is strong in that group.

[IronLionZion]

37. I like the DUers who share their opinions without having seen the video or read the transcript

and come here in a moral panic and actually seem to think they are fighting the good fight.

DUers are an endless source of entertainment.