Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, 'Whore,' and NOW's Hypocrisy

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But they WILL remember old man, Jerry Brown calling Meg Whitman a "whore", distortion or no!
Jerry Brown is gone for sure, as if he had a chance in the first place. He is another balding, 72 year old man who has been in politics for 2-3 thousand years just like most of the "incumbants" we will get rid of come mid-terms ...and we want another one as Governor of California??? I sincerely don't think so!
Meg now has the women's vote and she has the Hispanic vote (illegal housekeeper, remember?). The highest populations of Southern Cal is, by and large, Hispanic.
I predict a landslide for Meg Whitman!!
...THIS is the reality, folks!

Rachael of CA 5:08AM October 13, 2010

RL Shaefer - Haven't taken any standardized tests lately have you..... One of the key study clues is that any statement including the word "all", "never" or "always" is too broad and probably inaccurate. You said -
"...ALL RAD-FEM GROUPS have one thing in common."
Your highly charged adjectives and adverbs lump together all women who believe in women's rights. They are intended to sell your point of view, but again clearly do not discern between the many reasons why women support candidates who will support their right to make their own choices (you used "rabidly .. irresponsible .... dismembered ...personal convenience....dupe of the male chauvinists.")
You appear to prefer the obedient little wife who does your bidding but has no voice in her own life. Not all women measure their accomplishments based on the number of children they produce. Some feel the planet is overcrowded, and a conception in its first trimester is not a conscious being. Who are you to judge? Were you endowed by the Almighty to evaluate and sentence women who make this extremely personal decision?
If they are using legal methods to plan their families, only an arrogant person would presume to intervene in their choices.

DeeToo of SC 1:51AM October 13, 2010

This fake outrage will not hide the fact Whitman is going to lose.
Just because Brown was in the room when someone called Whitman nasty names is not some big scandal.
This is nothing compared to the hypocrisy of an Illegal Employer like Whitman who has been such a vicious critic of illegal aliens. Slap Brown's advisor's hands for talking dirty, but someone should be bringing up criminal charges against Whitman. Rest assured the current CA attorney general won't bring charges against Whitman, but the next one should make an example of this corrupt candidate Whitman trying to buy this election.

Becca of CO 11:19PM October 12, 2010

The election is between Brown and Whitman.
I stated previously:
The comment made by someone off record is classic use of the term in a non-gender related way. My husband uses this term all the time for MEN who compromise their integrity in business dealings. It is not a term used only for women. Being a whore means doing anything for money. Nothing more than that. Men can be whores as much as women.
Someone on Brown's staff used that term when discussing Whitman. Brown's follow-up comment was only that - and he never used that term himself. Brown has not been sued for age discrimination or for attacking anyone physically. I guess Whitman is special, and California wants a governor that hits people? A governor that claims to be a business icon but who tanked the firm she ran after leaving several others? A governor who has pursued excessive pay and bonuses throughout her career and has numerous Human Resources issues? Illegal employees hred for work in her own home?
This girl has some real character issues behind all the money and marketing bravado.
Discussing Bill Clinton cannot change that.

DeeToo of SC 2:09PM October 12, 2010

Glad someone is discussing facts.
This article and several responses are just the usual lame attempts to turn to distortions to create red-meat issues. They take Jerry Brown and morph him into Clinton most of the article? Nonsense.
Brown is a devoted advocate of fair business practices, and has done a great deal more WORK as A.G. than most of his predecessors. He WORKED hard as governor, and had been actively involved in WORKING in the political sphere ever since. He has supported women's issues longer than most people have been alive, and NOW knows this.
Whitman has been non-political her professional life to get ahead -not even voting sometimes. Her sudden passion for politics coincides with her interest in buying a job in the governor's mansion. She likes figure-head positions, and migrates
The comment made by someone off record is classic use of the term in a non-gender related way. My husband uses this term all the time for MEN who compromise their integrity in business dealings. It is not a term used only for women.
This is just another weak effort to conflate a staff comment with a candidate's positions. Brown's body of WORK throughout his lfe makes it clear that he is a dedicated supporter of women's issues, and committed to WORKING while in office.
Please Read the following:
"Harsh Realm: Meg Whitman and the CEO Myth – 17. Aug, 2010
Billionaire Meg Whitman is, once again, trying to sell herself as potential governor of California by saying she was a great corporate CEO.
Though Whitman, notorious for her temper at eBay — and a reported $200,000 settlement of charges after shoving an employee — has the tough part down, the reality is that corporate CEOs seldom work out as governmental leaders.
But how good, really, was Whitman in her two CEO jobs, at eBay and FTD? The record is far more mixed than the endless commercials claim, and in her final years at the mature eBay was quite poor.
For starters, Whitman never talks about her brief stint at the helm of FTD, the nation’s leading floral delivery service. That’s because it didn’t go well at all, ending not long after she was forced to settle an age discrimination suit.
Like her other CEO job at FTD floral delivery, Whitman exited her job at E-Bay not long after expensively settling legal charges against her re: the shoving incident. That’s the one in which she grew infuriated with a PR woman who was trying to prepare her for a wire service interview about online avatars, lightweight stuff, much less what a governor of California has to deal with.
Whitman’s eBay leadership the last few years before she left the building - 2005, 2006, and 2007, eBay lost nearly half its value. Whitman started looking for her next job - governor.
Whitman formally exited E-Bay as CEO in 2008, becoming national co-chair of John McCain’s presidential campaign, but was mostly out the door in late 2007, with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

DeeToo of SC 1:52PM October 12, 2010

Correcting the ignorant comments of "California voter setting correcting your falsities of CA"
As for your ignorant comment "Bill Clinton's disgusting antics never approached that level" Does the name Juanita Broderick mean anything, Bill Clinton was accused of Rape.
As for ignorant comment " He did not voice agreement re 'whore" did you not listen to the recording or read the transcript? After Mrs. Moonbean wife says Whore several times, Jerry say very clearly " I AM GOING TO USE THAT"
Perhaps you should read more and speak less

Tom of CA 1:37PM October 12, 2010

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wert of AK 1:23PM October 12, 2010

Sir,
1-Whitman had to pay $200,000 to a WOMAN employee of hers whom she physically abused. Even Bill Clinton's disgusting antics never approached that level. Brown's been in the public eye more than practically anyone in the US, and he has nothing like this, beyond a stupid aid privately labelling Whitman's sellout to a union by using a crude term in a nongendered way.
2- Brown, unscripted, was condemning selling out to a union for political gain, which is what Whitman did. He did not voice agreement re 'whore.'
3-The fool aide who used a terrible word, was referring to the nongender issue of 'selling out' (not that that makes it any better to have used it).
4-It is obvious it wasn't Brown talking -he has totally distinctive voice.
5-NOW endorses based on ISSUES, not stupid chatter like this, which is the kind of garbage that turns off voters. Welcome to California, home of massive problems. NOW has seen Brown succeed, notably on women's issues, consistently. Whitman has no record and cares so little about issues, including women's issues, that she never even voted practically --and certainly didn't give any of her fortune to any women's efforts. (Unless you count how she hired an illegal woman for years, with her husband knowing that Latina's social security # was wrong.)
6-Whitman calculated at least as much as NOW did: she waited a MONTH to release this tape.
.....I grew up reading every issue of US News, but the reason it's practically out of business now is because of absurd writing like this. it's an embarrassment to the center-Right perspective it means to uphold. please write something useful. you must not have listened to the audio even. please come to california and write about the problems w/ infrastructure here, etc., etc.

California voter setting correcting your falsities of CA 12:49PM October 12, 2010

have one thing in common. Their primary criteria for "true feminism" is to rabidly defend the right of irresponsible women to have their babies dismembered in the womb, at any stage of gestation, for the sake of personal convenience. Any woman who disagrees with this butchery is merely a dupe of the male chauvinists.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:48PM October 12, 2010

The NOW will never heap praise on any women of achievement if they are conservative. Nor will they support any conservative women if they are slandered. A person's political leanings should have absolutely nothing to do with standing up for their civil rights or applauding their achievements. Whatever the National Organization for Women stood for in the past has been long since dropped along the wayside in favor of whatever the democratic party wants them to support. By Definition: Whores for the Democratic party.

TomW of WA 12:25PM October 12, 2010