Brent Bozell’s Heatheriffic speech at CPAC was introduced by right-wing “comedian” Steven Crowder, as the beginning of the video of the speech as posted on MRCTV shows.
But Crowder’s remarks leading up to his introduction of Bozell included a joke about actress Ashley Judd, who’s thinking about running for Senate in Kentucky:
By the way, in breaking news, Ashley Judd just tweeted that buying Apple products, again, is akin to rape. From her iPhone. Rape—now she knows how my brain felt after Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Oh, she said it. What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape? It’s pretty unnerving.
As Mother Jones points out, there’ s a reason Judd talks about rape: She is, in her own words, “a three-time survivor of rape.” And rape in Africa is a large part of what she does as a public health activist.
But rather than immediately denounce Crowder’s crude remarks, Bozell started in immediately on his prepared remarks, which included the pompous declaration, “After three long days, they saved the best for last: me.”
Given that Bozell’s first instinct when Rush Limbaugh went on a three-day misogynistic tirade against Sandra Fluke was not to criticize Limbaugh for his vile remarks but to set up a “We Stand With Rush” website, it’s not really a surprise that Bozell is similarly callous about rape jokes.