Cosmopolitan magazine has officially endorsed Democratic congressional candidate John Foust in Virginia over his Republican opponent Barbara Comstock.
The endorsement comes just over a month after Foust questioned whether Comstock — who has held positions as a congressional aide, lobbyist and spokesperson for the Justice Department — “even had a real job.”
Questioning Comstock’s intention to create jobs, Foust said at a campaign event, “In her mind, that means giving tax benefits to special interests and the super wealthy. I don’t think she’s even had a real job.”
The Democratic candidate for Congress was immediately accused of being sexist, a fact that Cosmopolitan fails to acknowledge in its piece, which reads more like an attack on Comstock than it does an endorsement of Foust.
“Foust supports equal pay for equal work and a minimum wage of $10.10,” the piece declares.
Yet, if Foust doesn’t think women hold “real” jobs, isn’t their work is disqualified from the “equal” category from his perspective?
In response to Foust’s remark, Comstock’s campaign manager labeled it evidence of “how out of touch he is with … the challenges that working women, working moms and moms at home face every day by men who demean their many and demanding roles.”
In a later interview, Foust argued that the comment was taken out of context.
There’s not much room in the Cosmo piece to discuss Foust’s “real job” line, as most of it is dedicated to pointing to what’s wrong with his opponent. The magazine also takes several lines to expose the organizations that have endorsed Comstock.
“[The Susan B. Anthony List] endorses her, as does Rick Santorum (who said contraception destroyed society and compared same-sex marriage to child rape and ‘man on dog’), right-wing radio host Mark Levin (who comments on the air about Hillary Clinton’s genitalia), and conservative commentator Brent Bozell (who said President Obama looks like a ‘skinny, ghetto crackhead’),” says the piece.
As long as we’re holding candidates accountable for the groups that support them, Foust should be reminded that he is now endorsed by a publication that boasts headlines like “This Sweet Couple Spends Over $30,000 to Have Threesomes With Sex Dolls,” “My Boyfriend Feels Weird About Using a Vibrator in Bed,” “The 9 Biggest Misconceptions About Blow Jobs,” and “12 Things No One Tells You About Masturbation.”
