After Michelle Goldberg compared Ann Romney’s praise for mothers to that of history’s worst totalitarian dictators and faced a huge Twitter backlash, she is back with a supposed apology. Of course, she isn’t apologizing to Ann Romney. No, she’s apologizing to liberals.
I’m truly sorry to have given the right a pretext for another tedious spasm of feigned outrage. I’m especially sorry if I’ve done anything to strengthen the conservative myth that liberals disdain motherhood.
Naturally, conservative tweeps didn’t like Goldberg’s fake apology nonsense.
https://twitter.com/#!/megapotamus/status/202199443192283136
https://twitter.com/#!/Moira1987/status/202190432246050818
https://twitter.com/#!/DreadfulPenny81/status/202204103340859392
https://twitter.com/#!/YossiGestetner/status/202200441189179392
https://twitter.com/#!/hmfearny/status/202187669818712065
https://twitter.com/#!/MrTimMcCormack/status/202193468569812992
https://twitter.com/#!/mattjmobile/status/202199331896442881
Of course, liberal tweeps had a very different take on Goldberg’s faux-pology. Apparently, comparing Ann Romney’s op-ed to Nazi propaganda makes her a progressive feminist hero of some sort. ‘Cuz wimmin rule!
https://twitter.com/#!/Jawst4/status/202191294997610496
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