It is against nature. They were created differently, their nature is different, their constitution is different. I think the president of turkey has some interesting thoughts when it comes to women and he certainly doesnt think they are equal in turkish society. In the United States we have a different standard for what equality means for women that isnt that comparable to that in the middle east. What is your sense of the balance between men and women . I think he has a point in the sense that men and women are created differently, in the sense of their biology, the way they think and do things, the careers they go into, the things they are drawn to but in terms of what men and women can do, i believe that women can do the same jobs as men and that we are not created unequally when it comes to the opportunities that we can pursue, and the kind of work that we can do. How is it that someone who is 26 has already written two books . I moved to d. C. Fresh out of college, and i really got my feet wet and worked really hard and said yes to a lot of things. I have been very blessed with lots of opportunities that have come my way. Politics is my passion. I have done a lot since i have been here on president ial campaigns, i have covered scandals, lots of Different Things inside the media. It has really been a good time to be in d. C. , to be a journalist and writer. I always joke with people about living in washington because i say it is dog years. You pack so much information into a day, not to mention a year. You get to learn a whole lot. My favorite part about my job is really seeing history in the making. In late summer, your book came out, assault and flattery. Where did you get that title . It was a brainstorming session. I came up with it myself. After a lot of different changes, that was the last one i came up with and the one that stuck. We had a couple of names before that but they werent as powerful as that one. The reason it is assault and flattery theres literal assaults that happen to women, but also flattery, because that is false praise and compliments for ones personal gain. That describes a lot of whats in the book and how women are treated by the left. You dedicate your book to Mary Pavlich Robie . She was my great aunt. She passed away about 2 years ago. She was really a pioneer in her own right. She was the associate Athletic Director at the university of arizona, in a time when women werent held and high positions. She was a feminist of her time and a pioneer in the sense that she did things women hadnt done before. She took on the athletics department, and she did it all by maintaining her lady status and being a lady and she always had so much class. I looked up to her and she played a big role in my college career. She was there throughout my whole life as a strong, prominent female figure. I miss her and i thought a lot of what was in this book she would relate to. You went to the university of arizona . I did. Here is the second person you dedicated the book to. I detest every single one of the domestic policies. I think that the honorable gentleman knows that i have the same contempt for his socialist policies as the people of east europe who have experienced it. I think i must have hit the right nail on the head, when i pointed out that the logic of the policies they would rather that the gap was that. [shouting] down here. Not there. So long as the gap is smaller, they would rather have the poor poorer. You do not create welfare and opportunities that way, you do not create democracy that way. Why Margaret Thatcher . I think her words speak for themselves. She was a pioneer in her day. She did phenomenal things for the freedom of not only her country but for the world as a whole. She took on people with grace and class. Even people she disagreed with were laughing with her. She had a sense of humor and she really was an amazing role model of women everywhere, a perfect example of strong leadership and a strong woman, who was very good at making arguments, and was very good at taking on the evils of the world and evil men of the world. I think we saw that with the cold war. She definitely played a big role in my political perspective and i think she left a big mark on history as a strong, powerful woman. You have a warning at the front of your book i will read it. Due to the vulgarity of many democratic leaders, as well as the socalled womens Rights Groups that defend them, this book contains language suitable for mature audiences only, or at least those with strong stomachs. Why did you feel the need to put that out front . There are plenty of examples and stories in the book about democratic men from top to bottom, engaged in sexually explicit activities with women against their will, sexual abuse and sexual assault, and the womens groups who claim to be the ones that represent all women, who do things like dress up in costumes that are inappropriate and display things that arent necessarily the best way to make an argument. A lot of that is detailed. I wanted people to know that i talk about things that are very straightforward way. I am not going to sugarcoat it like the media has and i am not going to make excuses for the kind of behavior and the kind of language that is used. It is not me saying these things, it is me quoting womens Rights Groups and activists and detailing stories about sexual abuse inside public office. Your chapter titles, among other things, you have inside the real war against women, profiles and liberal misogyny, the women they dont want to know, and then you have the cword. How much of that was calculated to get peoples attention . It was to get peoples attention and also draw attention to the language and tactics these groups were using. The reason i decided to write this book came after being on the 2012 campaign trail. I was following both the romney and Obama Campaigns, in the reason this book into light was because i was sitting at the 2012 Dnc Convention, and at that time we had already seen the left take on this war on women argument, accusing republicans of hating women, and yet at this convention, after sitting there listening to speech after speech of war on women, not only did you have sandra fluke speak that night, and then bill clinton, but in between the commercial breaks and newscasts, they played a seven minute long tribute video to ted kennedy, and have the words womens rights champion. At that point i figured the war on women argument had gone on long enough, and had been monopolized long enough, and someone needed to do something to point out that ted kennedy was anything but a womens rights champion, considering his history with women. That was something that spurred this book. Terry mcauliffe is a close friend of bill clinton, the governor of the state of virginia here he is in 2014. We are running this so you can pick up from what he says. There cannot be a starker contrast between the two candidates running for governor. [applause] i want everybody to know where i stand on the issues im going to fight for women every single day. A woman who works the same job gets . 78 for a dollar that a man makes. You work the same job, you are going to get paid the same amount. [applause] i will not let them shut down Womens Health centers and take away their rights. I am not going to stand for it. You help me for the next six months and i will promise you i will be there every day for you. Your reaction . Terry mcauliffe, yes, now the governor of the state of virginia. The statistics that he quoted in his speech was the . 78 on the dollar it has been thoroughly debunked by many economic studies. Even womens Rights Groups look at the studies on womens pay. The pay gap is a myth. It is something that the white house used to get barack obama elected. It is something that Terry Mcauliffe used to get himself elected. That plays on this idea that women are somehow discriminated against in the workplace and they are not paid the same amount as men when they dont explain that the . 78 on the dollar figure actually comes from a lifetime of work, not comparing one job that a woman is doing and an equal job that a man is doing. It comes after a lifelong of work. When you look at the details, women tend to work less over a period of a lifetime because they make different choices. Because they are working less over a lifetime, they make less money. But instead the left has successfully taken that argument and been very dishonest about where that figure comes from and try to tell women that they are discriminated against, and that the government is going to step in and make things equal for them. Really, we have come a long way since things were unequal in the workplace. Women are getting paid as much as men are, in the workforce. They are not being discriminated against based on the fact that they are female. What is your fulltime job . My fulltime job as a news editor for townhall. Com. Do they pay you equally . Yes. What is townhall. Com . Townhall. Com is a conservative media outlet. We have a columnist page that is filled out everyday. My role as editor is to make sure we cover stories that people are interested in. I have also done a lot of different work, including columns, reporting, and investigative work. We have a team of about 10 and we have expanded over the past couple years. Our main focus is writing and reporting, and analysis. You used to be owned by the Heritage Foundation. What can you tell us about your new owner, Salem Communications . They are a Large Company that bought us. We were started in the 90s at the Heritage Foundation and was turned into a forprofit is this when salem purchased it. It is a Christian Company they own lots of media outlets. There are a lot of big radio hosts, and they have the website spectrum. Now we have a publishing company, which published my first book. Salem is a Big Media Company and it has expanded from radio to online in the past couple years. One of the questions i have is that this book is published by threshold. But it is owned by simon schuster. Are you surprised they would publish a conservative book like this . They are actually very tolerant and the kinds of books they publish. The people were great to work with and my editor it was fun to work with him on some of the issues and the challenges that we went through and that he brought to my attention. The arguments and counter arguments that were made. Was happy to work with them and i thought the process went really well. They have different divisions for different kinds of books. The spectrum of material is wide there. Lets go to chapter four. Cretins of camelot. Who were the cretins . The men of the Kennedy Family. You look at the history of the Kennedy Family and the men, and it is not just one generation of disrespecting women, not only within their family but as a whole. I think joe kennedy set the stage with his treatment of his wife. You look at the consequences for the behavior of the kennedy men, and they have very severe consequences on the women in their lives many committed suicide or were depressed. Then you have the women who were abused outside of the Kennedy Family, including mary jo. She was killed in a car crash. She was loyal to them and willing to help them and yet he left her to cover his own tracks. If you take a hard look at the Kennedy Family, they have a long history of domestic abuse. I think that is something that is upheld as an example of american politics and something to be celebrated, as they still do. I think we should still be talking about them in looking at their history. Hundreds of affairs, lovers on the side, abusing women as if they are disposable. It is something we should take a hard look at and discuss. Cretin 1 is the patriarch, who you write was not comfortable. The man who gifted the world with americas family and always had higher ambitions. Most consistently, in bed with anyone other than his longsuffering wife. You werent even around when he was alive how do you know all this . There is plenty of Extensive Research to be done on the kennedys. Through a lot of research, you can find out a lot about the diaries that have been released, some of the stories that were told about jfk inside the white house. Stories that are told by aides close to the kennedys. They are still upheld as this family that should be celebrated and glorified, and they had a very heavy influence in american policy. I wasnt around but i still think it matters, especially as a young woman in politics. When i see the left glorifying these people, you have to take a look at their history. Cretin 2 is John Fitzgerald kennedy. If and i dont have sex every day, i get a headache, he was told a member of his cabinet, so he decided not to take any chances. Jfk was consistently running around on his wife, including inside the white house while she was there. The disrespect and level of arrogance and shameless behavior, and yet we can take a look at jfks policies outside that, but he is held up as this perfect figure, and that is the same party that has been championing womens rights and womens equality and womens dignity, and yet this is the kind of person that is glorified. He set the stage for that kind of behavior. You do mention the media the book that was written by she had an affair with jfk. How much coverage did this get in the country when her book came out . Do the media Pay Attention to it . They paid a decent amount of attention to it, but there werent really consequences when it came to stupid decisions that democrats made. I am not the kennedys do get a lot of attention from the media, even though they have these discrepancies. The question is not at this is being covered, the question is that democrats will continue to uphold the family that really has a bad history when it comes to the treatment of women. Ethel kennedy got the middle of freedom. Freedom. Cretin 3 is her husband, said to be more timid and family oriented. It is a shame that Robert F Kennedy joined a long list of unfaithful men. You suggest that he had an affair with jackie kennedy. That was done outside of my research. Do you believe it . I reported on it, so i do believe it based on the history of the Kennedy Family. I certainly believe it was a possibility and it has been reported multiple times by significant sources, put forward by people who were close to the Kennedy Family. It has been reported in multiple outlets. There is plenty of evidence to show that that was a possibility. You thank your editor over the issue of the kennedys. Was a difficult of his standpoint to include all this . I dont think so. I dont think it was necessarily difficult. I think we had some disagreements about what is fair game and what isnt. But my editor was very excited about the book and thought it was a good idea. He thought it was important to get out there. Cretin 4 is ted kennedy. I was doing research for this book and decided that if im going to do research, i need to do a lot of reporting. I wanted to attend the National Organization for Women Conference in chicago. The only way you can do that is to become a member or go through the press. I emailed and tried to get in as a member of the press, and considering ive done all this work in washington and they denied my credentials as a member of the press, despite being a female member of the press interested in learning more about the con rents and the people involved in their organization. I got the email the day before and i decided to go anyway. I discovered that the only way to attend the National Organization for Women Conference is to become a member. So i became a member. I have been a member since 2013. I have been a member ever since. I they are nonprofit . I believe it is a 501c3. They certainly act like they are in politics. They heavily endorsed certain political positions, that feel like candidates. There are the details of what you can and cannot do, but they always certainly happen to fall on the last, endorsing women who have a different perspective. What is your problem with ted kennedy . It goes back to the idea of where this book came from, the Dnc Convention where they were showing distribute video. Him as a womens rights champion, when he left a young woman to drown in his car. If he had not gone back, and try save his own behind, she would have probably survived. You can do an entire video at a cant do an entire video at a convention claiming to be preaching and fighting about the war on women, and glorify someone like that while not including that part of his life in a video about his womens rights record. I think that is something that should be discussed and something that people should be reminded of. Ted kennedy has gotten a pass on claiming when he is for women and yet he left one to die in his car and didnt pay that big of a consequence for. He didnt run for president , but he was also glorified by the Democratic Party up until his death. If they want to continue to glorify him i think we need to continue to criticize him. Let me show you the other side of this. This is from june, 2009. The former governor of south carolina, mark sanford, now congressman. I have been unfaithful through my life. I have developed a relationship with a dear friend from argentina. It began very innocently, as i suspect these things do, in a casual email back and forth, advice on life. Recently, over this last year, it developed into something much more. As a consequence, i hurt her. I hurt you all. I hurt my wife, my boys, friends, a lot of different folks. All i can say is that i apologize. What is your reaction when you see mark sanford a conservative district, it didnt seem to bother the people down there. He was the governor at that time, and i think we remember when he came out to talk about this. Im not defending republicans. The difference here is that mark sanford is not being glorified