This also appeared in our local newspaper, the Elmira Str-Gazette! WOOHOO!
normaR


Posted on Fri, Jun. 17, 2005
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/11916686.htm
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*BARBARA WALTERS*

'Breastfeeding bigotry' spurs protest 
*MICHELLE MALKIN*

 Have pity on Barbara Walters. Barbara Walters is, after all, Barbara 
Walters. And Barbara Walters should not be made to suffer the gross 
indignity of flying in first class while a common woman breastfeeds her 
baby.

Barbara Walters is a world-famous, Very Important Person. She has, according 
to her official bio, "arguably interviewed more statesmen and stars than any 
other journalist in history."

Barbara Walters has interviewed "such world figures as Russia's Boris 
Yeltsin, China's Premier Jiang Zemin, Great Britain's former Prime Minister 
Margaret Thatcher, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi and Iraq's President Saddam 
Hussein." And every American president and first lady since Richard Nixon. 
And Fidel Castro. And, uh, Monica Lewinsky.

So when Barbara Walters gets on an airplane accompanied by her hairdresser, 
you can imagine the distress of being seated next to an ordinary mom who had 
the nerve to nurse her child in Barbara Walters' presence.

"It made me very nervous," Walters complained last month on "The View," her 
ABC morning talk show hosted by a klatch of elitist women posing as your 
chatty best friends next door. (If, that is, your door happens to be located 
in Manhattan or the Hamptons or Beverly Hills.)

Walters attacked the offensive nursing mom further: "She didn't cover the 
baby with a blanket. It made us uncomfortable."

How dare that hungry baby make Barbara Walters and her hairdresser 
"uncomfortable"?

After being forced to endure the insufferable sight of a woman providing 
nourishment to her child, the feminist icon Barbara Walters (winner of the 
International Women's Media Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 
Women's Project and Productions' Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NY 
Women in Film and Television's Muse Award) reportedly pronounced it "gross 
and disgusting."

Alert viewers of "The View" note that Walters' co-hosts have expressed 
similar disdain for nursing women on prior shows, with Star Jones Reynolds 
making puerile faces when the subject arises.

As you might have heard, 200 women from across the country and from many 
different backgrounds held a highly-publicized "nurse-in" at "The View's" 
studios last week to protest Walters' breastfeeding bigotry. I completely 
sympathize with their outrage at Walters' remarks. Nursing a child takes 
time, dedication and selflessness. No mother should be made to feel ashamed 
of that.

Which reminds me: When millions of parents complained about the outrageously 
inappropriate exposure of Janet Jackson's breast during a sexually explicit 
Super Bowl performance last year, they were immediately branded as "prudes" 
by elite liberals in the media. Why aren't those same supposedly progressive 
commentators bashing the ridiculously priggish Walters and company now?

Walters is now reportedly blaming her hairdresser for the mess. And she has 
comforted herself by retreating into her sycophantic coven. New mother and 
"View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was wildly applauded by Walters' coterie 
when she announced she was giving up nursing her newborn and switching to 
bottle-feeding.

No doubt seeking approval from her world-famous, critically acclaimed 
mentor, the young Hasselbeck confessed on the show that she was 
"uncomfortable breastfeeding in general."

Working around the nose-crinkling Barbara Walters and her squeamish 
hairdresser, who wouldn't be?
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