By Janell Ross:
The list of logical, fact-based things that can be said in support of a candidate, and a self-described business genius, whom the New York Times exposed Saturday as having declared a $916-million loss in the midst of a mid-1990s economic upturn — a loss that could have allowed him to avoid paying income taxes for up to 18 years — is not long. But on Sunday, while trying to offer some sort of supportive spin on Trump's tax news, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani reached for the bottom:
"Don’t you think a man who has this kind of economic genius is a lot better for the United States than a woman and the only thing she's ever produced is a lot of work for the FBI checking out her emails?
Giuliani defenders, most of whom are also Trump supporters, claim the point he was trying to make was not overtly or obviously sexist. This is a matter of failing to understand his point, leaping to conclusions and reading a little too much into his grammar or word choices, they say.
Perhaps.
But perhaps what we have here is a demonstration of the way Giuliani really thinks about men and women — a truth about his ideology — that escaped in that statement. Trump's questionable behavior, as a man, is evidence of his genius. Clinton's questionable choices regarding her email and server, as a woman, is evidence of the opposite.
The Full Story (October 3, 2016)
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