CBS Delivers Ode to Handmaid’s Tale Author, Claims Dystopian Vision Has Arrived
8th December 2024
CBS Saturday Morning’s has recently taken it upon itself to deliver gushing interviews of liberal heroes. First there was actress Jane Fonda, then there was Clinton strategist James Carville. This Saturday it was author Margaret Atwood’s turn, and co-host Michelle Miller was there to help her affirm the idea that the conservative-imposed dystopia she wrote about in The Handmaid’s Tale is no longer a work of fiction.
Miller, who also conducted the Carville interview and whose husband is the former Democratic mayor of New Orleans and current president of the National Urban League, declared in a voiceover that the book “struck a chord after the 2016 election and a promise to end abortion rights. Although written in the era of another Republican president, Ronald Reagan.”
The premise behind The Handmaid’s Tale is that America has fallen into dystopia, and women have become enslaved and solely exist to get pregnant and have children. It is quite ridiculous to pretend that describes America today, but Atwood claimed it does, “It seemed less of a possibility then certainly to some readers and some reviewers, who said, ‘Don’t be silly, this would never happen in the United States.’ And now, they’re saying, ‘This should not be an instruction manual.’”
Miller played along, “What is that for you to be witnessing?” and Atwood replied, “You know, I would rather have been wrong, given the choice.”