It's Not A Conspiracy, It's A Belief System

The mainstream media's self-reinforcing intellectual cocoon, first defined by former CBS newsman Bernard Goldberg in Bias, is functioning smoothly  in Roberts Resisted Women's Rights, by Amy Goldstein, Jeffrey Smith and Jo Becker. There's a difference between "women's rights" and "the Democratic party platform," but that's not something these people hear from their colleagues very often.

Here are some examples of Roberts' fight against rights for women. Memos show Roberts opposed:

* Giving women more protection than men during layoffs
*"Comparable worth," which replaces capitalism with the kind of centralized state planning that worked so well in the Soviet Union
*Charging women less money for tuition because, according to experts, they are women

Other crimes against women's rights include Roberts' opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposal that younger readers of PostWatch have been spared, thanks to the sacrifices of their forbearers. For some obscure legal reason this revision to the foundation of American law required approval by representatives of  the people who would be subjected to it. No word yet on whether that law needs to be changed.

The story also devotes a lot of attention to a smart-alecky remark made about 20 years ago about whether it was wise to encourage homemakers to become lawyers.  This takes up a good eight grafs of the story, which well reflects the extent to which Roberts has shunned female attorneys during his subsequent career.

A few other nuggets that accurately and honestly portray the soul of this man include throwaway lines about the Kickapoo Indians and the reaction of "amigos'"  to immigration law. They were printed by the Post more in sorrow than in anger.

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