Ingraham Tears Apart Hillary’s Fake Feminism

LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham blasted Bill and Hillary Clinton for their cynical efforts to deploy feminism to attract support from female voters.

Ingraham, appearing on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” ridiculed Bill Clinton’s complaint that upstart Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Democratic campaign against his wife was employing sexist and “profane” attacks. Clinton’s comments came as feminist icon Gloria Steinem and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright practically threatened young women supporting Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

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“There’s something quite rich with Bill Clinton and his rich history talking about profanity and politics and sexism on the trail, and there’s also something very beautiful about the old dinosaurs of the feminist movement being hoisted on their own petard by shaming women,” Ingraham said. “I don’t know if that’s micro-aggression, Brett, or macro-aggression.”

Young, liberal women, Ingraham said, want the “real deal, not the woman who went from zero money to $100 million.”

Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer agreed. He said the episode demonstrates how much things have changed.

“The worry of these young women is not sex discrimination, it’s the general worries of their generation — stagnant economy, can’t get a job, student loans. And Sanders offers what a young person would imagine is a kind of utopia where everything is free and nobody has to pay,” he said.

“College kids just, they want to play Ultimate Frisbee,” Ingraham said. “They want a free kegger. They want free sex, and they want free tuition. And Bernie is promising all of that.”

Albright has taken heat for her statement at a Clinton rally — that women should vote for the former first lady and that there is “a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”

On “Hannity,” Ingraham said, “That seems like the damsel in distress being bailed out by the former secretary of state.” She noted that Albright used that same line at a 2006 event celebrating the WNBA’s All-Decade Team.

“So this is a recycled line, but it takes on new importance now during the primary,” she said. “We are supposed to believe that all of these young women, who have different experiences, different views of Democratic politics, that they should vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman. Now how is that feminist? I thought feminism initially was supposed to be women have an opportunity, and they can advance. But it doesn’t mean you have a special place ahead of the line of any man out there.”

Ingraham also quipped that Bill Clinton’s red-and-black lumberjack shirt was “just not working at all” on the campaign trail.

“He looks like he’d rather be anywhere except on the stump for a candidate who has been as lame in so many ways as Hillary Clinton,” she said.

Ingraham predicted that a double-digit Hillary loss in New Hampshire, if it occurs, could spell trouble in South Carolina.

“The veneer of the Clintons is really worn thin, and I don’t think these younger women and younger male voters feel any obligation, any historical obligation to vote for the Clintons,” she said. “That’s just a joke.”

Ingraham also pointed to more potential bad news for Clinton — musings by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg about an independent run for president.