WorldNetDaily is apparently not afraid to mock a woman’s looks, especially when it doesn’t agree with what she has to say.
A Feb. 25 WND article by Joe Kovacs takes umbrage with Sandra Korn, a Harvard University student who wrote a column for the school newspaper arguing that the school not support research that runs counter to goals of “oppos[ing] racism, sexism, and heterosexism.”
In a email promotion for the article, WND called Korn a “Harvard ‘beauty'” — with “beauty” in scare quotes — and a “Harvard newspaper gal.”
That’s definitely denigrating language; we suspect that nobody at WND would call, say, Chelsea Schilling a “website gal.”
Now that readers have been set up to ridicule Korn’s looks, the article itself delivers with a large picture of Korn placed between the headline and the article:
Apparently, as far as WND is concerned, being a non-conservative is the same thing as being unattractive. Not exactly an enlightened view of women, is it?
Kovacs goes on to mislead readers about Korn’s column, falsely claiming that she “insists Harvard stop guaranteeing students and professors the right to hold controversial views and conduct research putting liberalism in a negative light.” In fact, the only time the word “liberal” appears in her column is when she’s criticizing “the liberal obsession with ‘academic freedom.'”
The rest of Kovacs’ article is just dutiful stenography of Rush Limbaugh’s musings on the subject, which appears to be his main job at WND.