Fox News' Laura Ingraham says 2018 could ‘turn out to be the year of the man’
Friday morning on Fox News, conservative commentator and host Laura Ingraham weighed in on the nation’s biggest, most divisive discussion: the Kavanaugh hearings.
After yesterday’s Senate hearings — which featured emotional testimony from both Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford — this morning Ingraham doubled down on her support of the judge.
“As someone who’s known Judge Kavanaugh for 28 years, and I spent my own time in the Supreme Court as a law clerk, this was a political exercise in futility for the Democrats,” she said.
While those on the left hope that the Kavanaugh controversy could result in increased political participation from women, Ingraham thinks the backlash may be stronger.
“And I don’t think this whole ‘year of the woman’ thing … I wonder if they haven’t bit off more than they can chew on that,” said Ingraham. “Because I think it could easily as well turn out to be the year of the man.”
She went on to say, “[Men] feel like the target is on their back all the time, and it’s not fair to just make one allegation and say your life should be turned upside down. I don’t think that’s fair to victims, and I don’t think that’s fair to the accused.”
Ingraham’s comment that it might be the “year of the man” makes reference to the Anita Hill hearings of 1991. After Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court, there was a surge of women who successfully ran for office, resulting in 1992 being dubbed the Year of the Woman.
Ingraham also made her “year of the man” comment on Twitter, and that resulted in many users writing back different versions of the argument that every year is the year of the man.
Every year is the year of the man.
— Tim Mashburn (@tamashburn) September 28, 2018
That's a stupid comment. Every year is already the year of the man.
— Robert Rowley (@catacon15) September 28, 2018
Year of the man? Yes, for the 10,000 year in a row.
— Aaron (@Aaron32072126) September 28, 2018
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