| Oh good grief. From Gongwer: She said Ms. Brown's use of the word "vagina" in her floor speech was fine. "It wasn't what they said, it was the manner in which they said it," she said. Asked to explain what she meant, Ms. Liss struggled to find the words. "It was her tone, her mannerism, how she presented this topic," she said.
The irony here is that the first casualty of this could be Liss, a woman, and the first benefactor a man, Jon Switalski. Liss' support for (and, because she's claiming to speak on behalf of, apparent membership in) House Republican leadership circles has prompted progressive groups and activists to get behind him over her in their upcoming primary race. Towards the end of it, you get a sense of why the English believe that irony in the United States is a dead language. She, and the reporter, explain why it is that her husband spoke on her behalf last week on a story about why she didn't think it was a big deal for the House Republican leadership to tell two women they couldn't speak because one of them said, "Vagina," and the other said, "Vasectomy." |
