Herman Cain drops out of Federal Reserve contention; Stephen Moore, inexplicably, hangs on
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A week after vowing not to, pre-disgraced ex-presidential candidate Herman Cain bowed out of his Federal Reserve Board nomination on Monday. It had become clear that Republican senators were going to block his nomination, but Cain publicly claimed he was bowiHerman Cain drops out of Federal Reserve contention; Stephen Moore, inexplicably, hangs on
A week after vowing not to, pre-disgraced ex-presidential candidate Herman Cain bowed out of his Federal Reserve Board nomination on Monday. It had become clear that Republican senators were going to block his nomination, but Cain publicly claimed he was bowing out to spend more time with his money. The even less-qualified right-wing «economist» Stephen Moore, however, is not yet following suit. And that continues to be surprising, not just because Stephen Moore's economic advice has been egregiously wrong and uniformly catastrophic over the years, but because his nomination has resulted in the re-airing of a litany of personal failings as disqualifying as his professional ones. He was held in contempt of court in 2013 for failing to pay spousal and child support. He was hit with a $75,000 tax lien after tax errors that the IRS deemed «fraudulent» in nature. He is currently steaming over CNN's publication of a string of his old, gaudily misogynistic National Review columns, one of which railed against female basketball announcers and referees. Moore, for his part, insisted those columns were «a spoof» and that «I have a sense of humor.» If that's the case, then apparently Moore's entire publishing career has been a «spoof.» The New York Times followed up on CNN's report with a look at Moore's writing for other publications, and the same «satirical» themes kept popping up. In 2000 he wrote a Washington Times piece alleging that «radical feminists» on college campuses were turning white men into an «oppressed minority.» In an 1998 column he railed against the «social experiment» of coed youth soccer programs, claiming it was doing «irreparable harm to the psyche of America's little boys.» In 2014, he wrote that efforts to achieve pay equality «could be disruptive to family stability» because the menfolk would become «expendable.» It turns out that a significant chunk of Stephen Moore's «economic» writings have been incel-ish themed grievances against American women getting any more pay, rights, or respect than he feels they are entitled to—and that this particular bugaboo of his has been going on a long, long time. (It might be worth a skim to see whether Moore ever expressed an opinion on men withholding child support after a divorce. Seems like the sort of thing that would come up.) In any event, Stephen Moore now has something else to answer for if he makes it into Senate confirmation hearings (like Cain, it's not clear he will). It is a given that a great many of these quotes are going to be read back to him, and that he is going to be asked to explain them. Won't that be fun. Read more