YGTBFKM Toons: Another Hunter Laptop Story? (When the media believes it’s okay to slap a woman vs. when it’s not.)

Immediately after he died in 2020 at the age of 90, Scottish actor Sean Connery’s 55-year-old comments about slapping women haunted him posthumously.

“Connery was known to physically abuse women,” wrote Women’s Agenda. “His former wife, Australian actress Diane Cilento, experienced a decade of physical and psychological abuse.”

“As tributes to legendary actor Sean Connery poured in following his death,” noted Page Six, “some controversial comments the star made about hitting women resurfaced.”

At the time of his death, People magazine did a piece explaining Connery’s comments about slapping women:

Connery first made remarks about slapping women when he spoke to Playboy in November 1965. “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman, although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man,” he told the publication.

Describing an “openhanded slap” as “justified,” Connery also said it could be used “if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning,” adding, “If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it.”

Years later, during a sit-down with Barbara Walters in 1987, he elaborated on his quotes to Playboy. “I haven’t changed my opinion… If you have tried everything else – and women are pretty good at this – they can’t leave it alone. They want to have the last word and you give them the last word, but they’re not happy with the last word. They want to say it again, and get into a really provocative situation, then I think it’s absolutely right,” he said.

Six years after his Barbara Walters interview, the actor spoke with Vanity Fair about his views. “But I was really saying that to slap a woman was not the crudest thing you can do to her. I said that in my book—it’s much more cruel to psychologically damage somebody… to put them in such distress that they really come to hate themselves,” he said. “Sometimes there are women who take it to the wire. That’s what they’re looking for, the ultimate confrontation—they want a smack.”

Connery’s views from the 1960s until his death were highly controversial and, were it not for the fact that he died, would have landed him in the purgatory of today’s cancel culture.

It is that hypocrisy which brings us to Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, the man who previously admitted to cheating on his ex-wife (with their nanny), impregnating said nanny, and (allegedly) paid her $80,000 in hush money to go away along with signing a non-disclosure agreement.

The media hypocrisy surrounding Doug Emhoff–who is being lauded for reshaping “the perception of masculinity”–is astounding.

WATCH:

Jen Psaki absurdly tells Second Gentleperson "Doug" Emhoff: You have "reshaped the perception of masculinity."

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— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) September 29, 2024

Where is the outrage today?

Earlier this week, the Daily Mail published an exclusive article on the “2nd Gentlman” Doug Emhoff regarding an incident at a film festival where she slapped his then girlfriend in the face “so hard she spun around.” Her purported crime in Emhoff’s eyes? She was allegedly flirting with another man.

The Daily Mail story mostly relies on the testimony of three of the victim’s friends.

The friends, who all asked not to be named for fear of retaliation by Emhoff, shared with DailyMail.com pictures of him and Jane together from 2012, and other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story.

1) Ignore, 2) Mock and 3) Deny is the standard Modus Operandi

As with other controversies that turn out later to be true–from Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky to Hunter Biden’s laptop–the standard modus operandi (M.O.) from politicians and their complicit media is to deny the allegation (until they can’t), mock the accuser as “not credible,” as the mainstream media ignores the story (until it can’t).

As one of the few outlets covering the story (other than “conservative media”) Semafor exhibits all three of the typical responses in a small blurb in its newsletter:

1. Ignore: “Others (including Semafor) haven’t matched the reporting, and as of Wednesday evening the incident didn’t appear in The New York Times or top outlets.

2. Mock (as though the accusations are fiction): “But the allegations are a dominant narrative in conservative media: Megyn Kelly’s coverage had more than 150,000 views on YouTube, while Trump aide Stephen Miller demanded answers…” and “This is a new campaign front…” and “Now he’s a target.”

3. Deny: “In a statement to Semafor, a spokesperson for Emhoff said ‘this report is untrue,’ and that ‘any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false.’”

It depends what ‘is’ is…

The denial of the alleged Emhoff incident is interesting in that, for those old enough to remember the Monica Lewinsky scandal when President Bill Clinton’s parsing the difference between sex and oral sex became an issue, if needed, it seems as though Mr. Emhoff’s spokesperson gave him an out.

Emohoff can “factually” say that he did not “hit a woman”…as in a closed-fist kind of way…he merely slapped her.

Now, as the media continues to ignore the story like they did with Hunter’s laptop in 2020, the difference between hitting and slapping a woman is a distinction that even Sean Connery would appreciate.

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Related: If cheater and alleged abuser Doug Emhoff is the new face of masculinity, the Dems are up a creek