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to bash Keith for being exactly as sexist as Tweety is.
First, you have all the people who get angry at him every time he says Britney, Paris or Lindsay are stupid, and implies that he's "misogynist" because of that. Then you have Rebecca Traister in Salon, who is trying to trash the media for writing off Hillary too soon and too eagerly:
...the Iowa commentary was just a warm-up for the post-Iowa free-for-all, in which everyone from the New York Times to Keith Olbermann speculated giddily, practically drunkenly, about when, exactly, Clinton would pack it in...."Could New Hampshire end the Democratic primary race?" leered Olbermann on Monday.
"Leered"?!? WHAT?!?!?!?
And these comments on that column, in which she primarily takes Tweety to the woodshed for his sexism:
...the left's television hero Keith Olbermann has more than a few blind spots that his admirers chose to ignore, not the least of which is a certain condescending attitude toward women, both in the studio and in his interviews when he infrequently has them. He tried to turn Monica Novotny into his little Girl Friday when Countdown first got underway and she fled.
He had Joan Walsh on his show only once, if I recall, and he was stone cold. I think he is intimidated by strong women...
(That was from a "Garry Owen.")
Am I blind, that I did not see this? Is something wrong with my hearing, that I have never seen Keith act "condescending" with women? Or even have them "infrequently"? And what's this about Monica? She didn't "flee"--she told Stephanie Miller Keith was a great mentor!
"Anonymous" says:
MSNBC should be ashamed to have "women bashers" on their staff. The men obviously are threatened by women, expecially strong women, who have the mendacity to venture in the male bastion. While Chris Matthews is the worst of the worst, other pundits--if that's what their negativity makes them--are vying hard for second place.
"Have the mendacity"? That one's worthy of Freeperville. Yeah, strong women venture into the male bastion because they are liars...LOL. I guess you could say that one is "casting asparagus" on MSNBC.
But anyway. Am I the only one who thinks the world is going crazy? I guess not. Some people actually posted comments defending Keith and asking WTF Traister was talking about. And, more importantly even than defending Keith, pointing out that it's really kinda juvenile and scary to say that you would vote for somebody, in a primary or a final election, just because you wanted to PUT TWEETY IN HIS PLACE. I mean, come on. We're electing a president here. It's a serious decision. Are we supposed to do it out of pique or spite? Makes about as much sense as eloping to Vegas with a stranger just because your ex has announced an engagement to someone you hate. OK, so it was kind of funny when Rachel Madddow suggested it last night, but I thought that was the point...it was a JOKE. All those New Hampshire women determined to stick it to Tweety, or sexism in general, by going for Hillary. Ha ha. Funny.
Of course, the sad truth that has to be faced is, yes--people really DO do things like that, and I guess we ignore that fact at our own peril.
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