After years of protests by feminists for inclusion, the Augusta National Golf Club opened its doors to its first female members, Condi Rice and banking executive Darla Moore.
Liberals are outraged.
The Nation's take:
Ed Schultz:
Liberals, how do they work?
Liberals are outraged.
The Nation's take:
And yet, please forgive me if I don’t join the chorus of cheers. Rice and Moore are not twenty-first-century Jackie Robinsons, and their acceptance into this bastion of exclusion has nothing to do with women’s liberation and is utterly disconnected from the reality of daily life for millions of American women.
I’m sure it’s tempting to look at today as an advance for women in sports. But it’s very difficult to think that today’s national celebration of a multi-billionaire and a war criminal has anything to do with women’s liberation. If anything, this should only be a story because it’s so unbelievable that the membership of the Augusta National Golf Club still opposed the presence of women in 2012. The only way this club could be any kind of symbol of progress and justice is if the people of Augusta, Georgia, a whopping 32 percent of whom live below the US poverty line, took to the eighteenth green and occupied the Masters. Let’s see whose side Condi Rice and Darla Moore would be on then.
Ed Schultz:
“Mitt Romney has finally found a women’s rights issue that he can stand up for and support: Augusta National letting two rich women in to play. The boys out at Augusta could really break the glass ceiling a little bit better if they were to say bring in Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton.”
Liberals, how do they work?
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