June 16, 2009
Hardball – barama matthews, roger simon & Tina Brown are discussing the Palin-Letterman saga and Palin’s talking point acceptance of letterman’s apology.
BROWN: I think she won round one but I don’t think she’s won the subsequent ones…except she’s kept herself as catnip for cable, which really seems to be her goal right now. That’s my problem with it, actually.
MATTHEWS: You calling me a cad?
BROWN: No. I said catnip.
MATTHEWS: You’re calling me a cad.
Brown then talks about how she was in the room with Secretary Clinton last Friday, marveling at how she has been able to handle all of the things that have been thrown at her and how she keeps at it.
MATTHEWS: We’re talking about the governor of Alaska because she’s catnip.
I got the message Tina. I’ll never forgive you.
MATTHEWS says to porca maximus roger simon, whose eyes light up: She’s the editor of my favorite organ.
His emphasis. Yes, technically, her website could be referred to as”organ” but it doesn’t take Freud smoking opium to know which exact organ he was referring to or why. Well, little lady, you put me on the spot and call me out for talking about catnip? Well I get the last laugh because your organ doesn’t have the power my organ does. barama at his most juvenile and so crudely obvious that even porca got it – but Brown smiled away completely oblivious.
What makes women think men can selectively direct their sexism?
That men only think that way about “Hillary” because, c’mon, she really IS a bitch?
If Michelle Bernard was chatting with matthews and he proceded to call barry a ni*ger – would Bernard laugh?
Would she join in and add a few names of her own?
Would she just assume he doesn’t feel that way about her because, c’mon, everyone knows barry really IS a ni*ger?
Would she really believe matthews could be selectively racist?
Do you see the madness?
It’s what’s been made perfectly clear during this election — The Double Standard.
Racism is the only ism that matters.
Sexism is whining and ageism is a punchline.
Is there a single person on this planet who believes David Letterman would still have a job if he talked about Michelle Obama’s sluttiness or said she picked up a kilo of crack on her visit to NYC?
And if he made a sexual joke of whatever degree you want to delude yourself it wasn’t about Malia and Sasha?
What’s the difference between nappy headed ‘ho and slutty flight attendant?
Why is one worse than the other?
Prejudice is prejudice. Bigotry is bigotry.
They are absolute — either both are wrong or neither is.
So why does Wanda Sykes get away with whitey jokes and why did barry get away with laughing at them?
The Double Standard.
I find it interesting to hear women like Brown trash Hillary Clinton for who she is and what she does when it’s convenient or when she needs more hits on her websites or when she needs her own cable catnip fix. But then when it’s no longer politically expedient to trash Clinton – as in now when she’s doing a job barry is about as qualified for as Palin – Brown marvels at what an extraordinary woman Clinton is for handling all the disgustingness thrown her way. And while she’s marveling, Brown shows zero insight as to her and her website’s role in slinging the disgustingness.
And if she were to be so enlightened would she have the integrity to admit to it?
Men would not have been able to attack Secretary Clinton for the last 30 years without the Tina Browns laughing along with them, saying the same things themselves or simply sitting back and doing nothing. The extra-cowardly ones are the Gloria Borgers, Peg Noonans, Kathleen Parkers, Mo Dowdys and Arianna Huffingtons, who join in so they can be “one of the guys” ignorantly thinking the pigs view only some women that way. I often wonder if they really are that uninsightful and how they feel and what they truly think of themselves the first time they hear the pigs they were just laughing with say the same things about them.
Do they still think it’s hilarious? Do they consciously make the connection? And if they do, how do they feel when they continue to join in?
Someday it will dawn on them that the way Secretary Clinton is and has been treated is an indictment of their own inhumanity, insecurity and lack of integrity. And that they have absolutely no right to outrage when a pig calls them Catnip or a Nutcracker with a Penis or a Dumb Blonde Frumpy Ass Foreigner.
Tags: chris matthews, citizens against proobama media bias, DAVID LETTERMAN, double standard, governor sarah palin, hardball, misogyny, MSNBC, palin - letterman feud, quote of the day, racism, sarah palin, Secretary of state hillary clinton, sexism, the daily beast, tina brown
