announced it was opening an investigation into allegations of a separate relationship with a congressional staffer, which she has denied. in hill s final floor speech thursday, she cited a double standard. the forces of revenge by a bitter, jealous man, cyberexploitation and sexual shaming that target our gender and a large segment of society that fears and hates powerful women have combined to push a young woman out of power and say that she doesn t belong here. film maker michael moore tweeted dear speaker pelosi do not accept the resignation from representative katie hill, she s a crime victim. if you allow a plan who uses revenge porn to succeed here, you and the rest of congress are his collaborators. this is 2019. washington post columnist monica hessey joins me now. she wrote this piece, what mattered in the katie hill
people did or didn t get away with. monica hesse, thank you for that. more social media reaction. your tweets and facebook comments this comes from twitter. yes, she should have, but not because it s fair, but because dems put it out there that everyone should resign or quit who has the perception of any mall misfeasance, so here we are. i was making a slightly different, but similar point at the end with my guest when i said i think the standard that was established in #metoo necessitated. to the extent she had a relationship with a campaign staffer. i m not talking about the bong and the nakedness. which i frankly think is an irrelevancy to the issue confronted in this circumstance. but people tend to see them all together. i want to remind you to answer the survey question at my website this hour, will the impeachment process remain partisan from start to finish? go vote at smerkonish.com. what does politics have to do with participation rates in high school football?