Free Press editorial page shows misogyny in action

Last Monday’s editorial on the right side of the Opinion pages aimed yet another shot at Hillary Clinton (“Hillary could still become President …”). Who can count the number of times Hillary has been bashed by this editor since her election defeat 14 months ago?

Practically every week her reputation has been denigrated in the righthand editorial page or in the political cartoon, and sometimes both. This situation is not just a case of superfluously “beating a dead horse.” It’s about the Free Press’s editor and the Republican Party’s political agenda.

Bashing Hillary is an easy mark that diverts public attention from the outrages that flow daily from the White House and from Republican leaders in Congress. The word count limit for letters prohibits listing all the outrages, but let me point to one embedded in the aforementioned editorial. Besides Hillary, that editorial also bashed three other women — Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and Toronto writer Kristen Pyszczyk.

Gratuitously bashing four women (no men) the day after hundreds of thousands of men and women joined in national and worldwide marches for women’s equality — this is misogyny in action as well as a decades-long Republican agenda.

Dave Benn Chattanooga