Independent Women’s Forum
"We American sophisticates laugh at cheesy, North Korean-style Dear Leader political propaganda, right?
"In an absolutely hilarious review of two new children's books about Hillary Clinton, Meghan Cox Gurdon finds the depictions of Mrs. Clinton worthy of Pyongyang . The new books are bathed in a "hagiographic glow that even kindergartners might find hard to swallow."
"The first book is bears the subtitle "Some Girls Are Born to Lead:"
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"These vainglorious picture-book renditions of the life story of an American machine politician give an illuminating glimpse into the mind-set of those who offer themselves as cogs in that machine. Like the Kim family’s posters in North Korea, they are so richly and inadvertently comic that only true believers or the very young and trusting could find them persuasive. Unfortunately, it is the very young for whom these works are intended. "
More here from the Wall Street Journal . . . "Now, it is possible that one or two children may perceive some disjointedness in the idea that women were not “supposed to be” smart or ambitious in those benighted times, yet there existed a prestigious women’s college. But it is not a child’s job to perceive the historical framework beneath layers of deceiving gauze. That is the job of grown-ups, and the grown-ups who created this work are not about to let context knock the halo off the “cool” and “fearless” HRC." . . .
More here from the Wall Street Journal . . . "Now, it is possible that one or two children may perceive some disjointedness in the idea that women were not “supposed to be” smart or ambitious in those benighted times, yet there existed a prestigious women’s college. But it is not a child’s job to perceive the historical framework beneath layers of deceiving gauze. That is the job of grown-ups, and the grown-ups who created this work are not about to let context knock the halo off the “cool” and “fearless” HRC." . . .
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