'Veep' Star Louis-Dreyfus Lets Veil Slip on Modern Feminism

CNN talker Piers Morgan can’t get many people to watch his nighttime show, but he’s awfully good at forcing celebrities to talk politics.

Morgan gently badgers his guests to spill on the latest headlines until they finally give in.

It didn’t take the usual full press when he welcomed Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of HBO’s new political comedy “Veep,” onto his show. The comedy casts the “Seinfeld” alum as a female vice president with very little power but a heaping helping of ambition.

Louis-Dreyfus told the CNN host she’d loved to see more women in politics, assuming they don’t resemble a certain Alaskan governor:

 I think that being a woman in a position of power is tricky, but important and crucial actually.      And I think the more women we have in power, the better off our country will be, that’s for sure.”

 “More Sarah Palins?” inquired Morgan.

“No, not more Sarah Palins, in my opinion,” she replied. “…No, I would like a hundred more female Democrats. How about that idea? That’s what I’d really like.

Thank you for the candor.

Louis-Dreyfus speaks for a majority of feminists, sadly. They don’t want to empower women. They want to empower women with whom they agree.

So if Palin had become the Vice President it wouldn’t have been cause for celebration, since the maverick politician doesn’t align with liberal orthodoxy.

Sometimes Morgan gets more than he expects from his interview subjects, even if a rather small subset of TV watchers notice.