{"id":936,"date":"2012-12-20T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2013-03-01T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T05:16:34","slug":"the-moran-familys-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/20\/the-moran-familys-war-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moran Family&#8217;s War On Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The <a title=\"Misogyny Of The Left\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/11\/26\/misogyny-of-the-left\/\" target=\"_blank\">misogyny of the left<\/a> is well established.\u00a0 But some high-powered people on the left go from mere misogyny to outright violence.\u00a0 Democrat Congressman Jim Moran&#8217;s son, Patrick, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/guilty-plea-for-son-of-us-rep-moran-in-assault-case\/2012\/12\/12\/6c7165a6-4489-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">convicted<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/blogs\/citydesk\/2012\/12\/12\/rep-jim-morans-son-guilty-of-beating-up-his-girlfriend-in-columbia-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\">assaulting<\/a> his girlfriend. \u00a0Patrick Moran&#8217;s conviction is not only notable because his father is a connected Congressman, but because Patrick Moran was a political player himself and was caught on video discussing how to commit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gT77qP2Nai8\" target=\"_blank\">voter fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While Rep. Moran can not be held legally accountable for the actions of another person, even his son, he should be answerable for his own actions.\u00a0 Rep. Moran was accused by his ex-wife of <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5076227\/why-you-shouldnt-vote-for-a-bad-guy-with-good-positions\" target=\"_blank\">domestic violence<\/a>. \u00a0His ex-wife later refused to testify against him; such refusal is often an example of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battered_person_syndrome\" target=\"_blank\">battered woman syndrome<\/a>&#8221; and ought to have raised the concern of feminists.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, the left&#8217;s &#8220;War on Womyn&#8221; meme and decrying of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/12\/13\/sen-patty-murray-bemoans-domestic-violence-ignores-pat-morans-abused-girlfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\">violence against women<\/a>&#8221; does not apply to powerful leftist politicians who support a narrow pro-abortion agenda.\u00a0 This is being echoed in the case of Patrick Moran who, despite his conviction for assaulting his girlfriend, is nonetheless being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtysexandpolitics.com\/2012\/12\/rep-jim-moran-needs-a-lesson-on-domestic-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">defended<\/a> <em>by<\/em> the assaulted girlfriend as being nothing but an &#8220;accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If a Republican or a conservative was falsely accused of <em>anything<\/em> that Rep. Moran or his son were, the so-called feminists would have hounded them and the media would have crucified them.\u00a0 Yet again we see feminists excusing actions by powerful men that harm women, and total silence when it comes to supported battered women.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Moran&#8217;s rallying cry to feminists is less &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mmifO2sKT7g\" target=\"_blank\">I am woman<\/a>&#8221; and more <em>Prodigy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0BpfydZdTE0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The misogyny of the left is well established.\u00a0 But some high-powered people on the left go from mere misogyny to outright violence.\u00a0 Democrat Congressman Jim Moran&#8217;s son, Patrick, was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend. \u00a0Patrick Moran&#8217;s conviction is not only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/20\/the-moran-familys-war-on-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[15,22,42,57,51],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-fail","tag-mood-music","tag-war-on-women","tag-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}