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What is Debbie Schlossel's problem? (Besides low self-esteem?)

It is a progressive myth, not to mention an insult, to attribute a woman’s conservatism to low self-esteem. To assume a woman has to be a bra burning feminist in order to officially be a woman is the polar opposite of the enlightenment progressives claim to have. Why do you not try using some actual facts and logic in drawing your conclusions instead of knee jerk assumptions there is obviously something defective about a non-progressive?

You were not specific in your question outside of already assuming Schlossel is a conservative because she hates herself, so I will address schlossel in general and the Lara Logan controversy in specific.

Schlossel, whom I do not read with any sense of regularity, has the problem of wanting to be Ann coulter, but lacking the sharp wit. Coulter skewers her targets on point, but in a entertainingly humorous manner. Schlossel is a low rent version. She comes across mostly as vicious and unhinged. In trying to compete with coulter, Schlossel has the same problem as Michelle Malikin often does--she jumps to incredibly wacky conclusions hoping to get the drop on an issue to make a name for herself, but usually winds up looking like a weirdo in trying to defend it. Remember when Malkin said Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts were making a pro-Palestinian statement with a scarf ray wore? Schlossel is not as high profile, but she gets entangled in dumb stuff like that without really thinking.

As to her lara Logan comments, let them speak for themselves:

I just love it when the people of the profession of “the public’s right to know” suddenly want “privacy.” Tell it to your next interview subject, Lara. Of course CBS has no further comment. Wouldn’t wanna impugn the “peacefulness” of “Religion of Peace” animals, would we? Now, if they were Christians or Jews, well, then there would be comments galore.

So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so we’d hope. But in the case of the media vis-a-vis Islam, that’s a hope that’s generally unanswered.

This never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled.

Now that’s all gone. How fitting that Lara Logan was “liberated” by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the “liberation.”

Hope you’re enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdilllullah [praise allah].

I do not think Schlossel’s blaming Logan for her sexual assault is a matter of low self-esteem. She is just demonstrating the frequent line of blaming sexual assault victims for the crime. I am not certain exactly why this is, but we have a tendency to excuse the rapist because the victim is attractive or was wearing provocative clothes or in a place deemed unwise--as if an attractive woman ought not dress and go wherever she pleases without the fear of getting raped.

It is the same mindset evident in assigning the blame for the murder of a dozen united Nations workers on Terry Jones for burning the Koran rather than the Muslims who actually murdered the workers. If there is any way to absolve a perpetrator of an evil act, no matter how disgusting the rationale has to be, someone out there will put forth the argument.

If you want to get right down to it, Schlossel’s problem is ignorance, lack of writing talent, and no sense of style. It is arrogance that convinces her she does possess all that in spades, not low self-esteem. I suggest ignoring her the same way I try my best to do.