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Did Scherer head over to rushlimbaugh.com and decide that the conservative 'Democratic men are women, and the women are men' meme needed to be brought to the attention of the liberals here at Salon?
I should like to assure Scherer that we know all about it. It spins constantly through the media all the way from Coulter's 'fag' pronouncement to its most dilute form here on Salon.
Now, I don't think that Scherer wrote this story to help conservatives make the case that Democratic men are closet 'homos' and Dem women are emasculating 'bitches,' but Scherer should really be aware that conservatives are using arguments he apparently finds novel and interesting to enflame homophobia and misogyny.
Barack and Hillary have different personal styles maybe, but Salon should be using its platform to argue that personal style isn't important. Instead its reinforcing conservative memes that may have cost us the two previous elections.
