Melissa McEwan asks a really good question about the cesspool that is the Post:
I'd love to hear the Washington Post explain how they feel confident their reporters are giving balanced coverage to female public figures when they're willing to unabashedly use sexist slurs in public.
So would I. And for those who missed it, the sexist slur comes courtesy of Mr. Milbank and those deeply embarrassing videos the Post produces instead of spending money on, oh I don't know, the news. In a video about what beers various public figures would drink,* Dana Milbank suggests Hillary Clinton would drink "Mad Bitch" beer. Hee-larious. Almost as funny as the Post trying to resurrect Terry Randall's reputation. Fortunately, Terry is a giant asshat and took no time in reminding everyone why he was undeserving of any rehabilitation.
You know, the really amazing thing is that these people wonder why their business model is failing.
* Because the Village
is fucking obsessed with this trivial shit instead of what really matters (which for the record would include the race and class issues that the Gates incident touches on, but, of course, that's not what's important, it's what fucking beer everyone was drinking at the great, meaningless summit).
** Melissa's question, btw, could also be asked of all the "news" outlets who have been spewing racist shit, which seems to be increasing in recent weeks.
Note - I'd embed the video, but the video has been "removed by the user."
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try this link- not finished watching
but I think is a similar YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKapHRZO8NQ
Thank you for calling it a slur
Most other blogs are treating it as an issue of "class" as if they were just being rude or it was just generic profanity when they were being overtly bigoted. As a nation, we have just recently realized that "fag" isn't a mere swear word but a homophobic slur and yet we're still knee-deep in denial over misogynistic bigotry (e.g., trivializing such intolerance and hate by calling it "disrespect").
Here's a good post on gender and the "beer summit" over at TAPPED. It also touches on how Hillary Clinton was mocked much more heavily than other candidates when taking a swig of beer last year, including by Obama himself (Shock!).
But on the Gates arrest: it's amazing how quickly Crawley's guilt was buried by the media immediately after the tapes were released. Seriously, the fucker was caught lying and threatening to use excessive police force ("keep the cars coming") and still all I heard was how bad it was that this all-American cop was smeared by Gates and Obama. When they weren't making bad puns about beer, of course.
That was Melissa McEwan's language
but it's dead on and it's why the question she raises - and how she raises it - is so good. How can you trust people who use sexist slurs to cover women leaders? That's something the Post should be asked over and over again. Every time something like this happens. And it happens rather often (off to find link about some horrible chat they hosted not too long ago).
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
DCBlue, sorry not to have made more comments
to support your take, but I totally agree.
I can't tell you how personally I took Larry Summers comments (then pres. of Harvard) that "women can't do science".
Having fought that battle for decades, it was totally demoralizing.
But, for the moment, I'm paying attention to the mess (yeah!) that is being stirred up about healthcare stuff.
Okay, that link above still works at youtube
and can be embedded.
And, just to make sure it's not lost to posterity, I ripped it and saved it on my computer.
It is totally obnoxious, of course.
Slurs in public are a problem?
Not in supposedly politically correct Cambridge, MA!
Death is easy. Comedy is hard.
I suspect Milbank and Cilizza saw that Stewart & Colbert are much more popular (and trusted) than the outlets they work for, which their primitive and lethargic brains interpreted as "funny=credible!" Unfortunately, when you use humor not to cut through polite fictions and challenge the powerful but to reveal the aspects of your own vile personality that your industry's concept of professionalism otherwise prohibits you from displaying, the results can be...not so funny.