Democrats — including numerous Dem Party-aligned journalists — have spent all day smearing 2 Politico reporters as misogynistic because they had the sexist audacity to report on the very lucrative relationship between Janet Yellen & Wall St., the industry she’s about to regulate: https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344886212327317506
There are so many remarkably dumb and bad faith components to this accusation, beginning with their central claim — that only women (like Yellen & Hillary) have their Wall St largesse scrutinized when they’re about to assume large amounts of political power. Here’s 2 examples:
What’s wrong with this misogyny accusation? Everything.

The most glaring and inexcusable: their smear relies on the assertion that only women get this kind of media scrutiny even though **the very same article** extensively scrutinizes the Wall St ties of Antony Blinken, a man.
How can they accduse 2 reporters of not examining Wall St. ties of powerful men when they did *exactly that*?

Because Dems are the Party of Wall St. They put people in charge of industries who have been enriched by them.

If you point it out, they’ll try to wreck your reputation
The Dems are a neoliberal party which serves Wall St & corporate power. They are overwhelmingly led by extremely rich people who serve these power centers.

Touting diversity is how they try to hide that, and bad faith bigotry accusations are how they punish those who report it.
If you’re embarrassed that your party just put in charge of the Treasury Dept someone who got wildly rich by collecting $250k checks from Wall St for 1 hour of “work,” then pressure your party to change.

Don’t exploit misogyny smears to try to deter reporters from revealing it.
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