Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all...Not Yecke

Why the Star Tribune continues to publish Cheri Pierson Yecke's loony rants escapes me. In the past, Yecke has argued against the separation of Church and State using arguments largely constructed of imaginary facts. Now, the little birds flapping around Yecke's brain told her to expose a new liberal conspiracy - The liberal media is attacking conservative women for their fashion sense or their looks. Fashion, in yecke's world, is now a partisan issue:

After all, it is mainly conservative women who have been the victims of this sort of media slashing. Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

Yecke is probably forgetting the time Rush Limbaugh compared Chelsea Clinton to the White House Dog when she was 13 years old. She maybe didn't catch NRO writer John Derbyshire calling Hillary a "double bagger":

Like you, I have been watching with fascination as our sleek, svelte, coiffed, poised, ever-smiling ex-First Lady turns into a grim-lipped, shapeless, stringy-haired old bag in a muu-muu.

Derbyshire followed up this masterpiece with an article in which he coyly states: "I hate Chelsea Clinton;" while generously, "...Leaving her looks out of it."

Yecke's diatribe is a tired re-hash of Anne Coulter's equally stupid assertions in her book Slander. There are enough examples of media skewering fashion victims, ugly people and making low-class trashy statements that it just plain isn't a partisan issue. At. All.

Still Yecke misses the point. Yecke aspires to to stand on a pedestal of propaganda. She points the finger at the other side and says you, you, you. She is so busy firing the blame gun that she misses the point. Americans don't object to Linda Tripp, Kathleen Harris or Condoleeza Rice because of the way the look or dress. Americans don't like them because of what they did or are doing.

Americans don't like Linda Tripp because she secretly wiretapped her friend and then sold her down the river. She says she did so out of patriotism. Americans don't really buy it. An affair with in intern isn't Watergate or Iran Contra. It's pretty tough to love a snitch and a liar.

Kathleen Harris: In the months leading up to the November 2000 balloting, in coordination with Governor Jeb Bush, ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 from voter registries. Most of those voters were black and Democrat. The state of Florida later quietly admitted fraud. Additionally, she was both the Secretary of State of Florida at the same time she was the Co-chair of the Bush campaign. In an sane world, that represents a massive conflict of interest. Eye shadow or no eye shadow, Harris's activty was mighty shady.

As for Rice, she is a seriously accomplished woman. I think she has done a reasonable job as Secretary of State. I was glad to see her visit Africa. I am also glad that a black woman is representing the US abroad. But you know what? She played a key role in duping the American public in the run up to the war in Iraq. Agree or disagree, it is now a matter of record that the premise for war was fake and the Bushies knew it. Rice helped sell us a bill of goods that caused the death of 1,700 American Soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. For that I do not trust her. For the record - I like her fashion sense.

Yecke is running for Congress here in Minnesota. I haven't seen pictures of her or met her in person. Still, based on the drabness of her "dress of thought" and the quality of her ideas, I think I will resist the urge to inflict her on our state and the country. I hope you will join me.