{"id":545,"date":"2005-09-22T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T15:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=545"},"modified":"2005-09-22T08:44:46","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T15:44:46","slug":"bush-women-horses-and-cats-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/09\/22\/bush-women-horses-and-cats-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush: Women = Horses and cats and…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>It’s easy to riff away the song and ensuing controversy over the hip-hop song “Bush don’t like Black People”<\/a> as something of a liberal self-parody. ‘Tis Shrill. Surely you’re not saying that Bush doesn’t like black people? Are all black conservatives “Uncle Tom”s, and isn’t that such a demeaning attitude? (Somewhere there’s a “Black Commentator”<\/a> online editorial that muses over Bush’s choice of Janice Rogers Brown as “fitting Bush’s criteria for what a black appointment needs to be: completely insane, and more insane than any white appointment could be.”)<\/p>\n

Perhaps Bush doesn’t dislike black people so much as he only likes WASPS… or Male WASPs… Male White Anglo Saxon Prostitu– er — Protestants.<\/p>\n

Case in point, regarding the sex that makes up 52 percent of the American population:<\/p>\n

One week ago, the Office of Women\u2019s Health of the FDA \u201csent an e-mail notice to women\u2019s groups and others announcing the appointment of Norris Alderson as its new acting director.\u201d Immediately, eyebrows were raised. Alderson was a Mike Brown-redux \u2014 an \u201cFDA veteran trained in animal husbandry who spent much of his career in the agency\u2019s Center for Veterinary Medicine\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though that history was sort of deleted away and tossed into the memory box, it… it remains true that… Bush Administration appointed a Veterinarian as acting director of the Office of Women’s Health.<\/p>\n

Replacing:<\/p>\n

The last director, Susan Wood, resigned last month to protest the agency’s unwillingness to make a decision on whether to make emergency contraception more easily available.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to riff away the song and ensuing controversy over the hip-hop song “Bush don’t like Black People” as something of a liberal self-parody. ‘Tis Shrill. Surely you’re not saying that Bush doesn’t like black people? Are all black conservatives “Uncle Tom”s, and isn’t that such a demeaning attitude? (Somewhere there’s a “Black Commentator” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}