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You know what I hate? That liberals get to DECIDE what’s offensive. Janeane Garahatemonger spews a bunch of nonsense on a mainstream program about how I’m a huge redneck racist with Stockholm Syndrome, and this is O.K. to air.  Because she’s a liberal, after all, and she’s talking about conservative people – who obviously fall into a different category when it comes to being slung a giant pile of flaming poo.    If I held my breath to wait for an apology for that one, well, you get the point.

Jeff Poor and Colleen Raezler did an interesting piece on Culture and Media Institute’s site about how there’s a blatant double-standard when it comes to the way the media addresses liberal women as opposed to conservative women. It all started from a February 7, 2008 MSNBC program, where David Shuster said something about Chelsea Clinton and how she was being “pimped out” by her Mom, Hillary, during her presidential campaign.

Well, NOW and some other groups got all offended by this, claiming it was disrespectful, yadda yadda yadda. So, the network gave an apology and suspended the guy for doing it.

So, fast forward from that grave day in 2008 and let’s look at the highlights pointed out by Poor and Raezler:

• On March 27, 2009, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews called Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) “the Mata Hari of Minnesota” for her efforts in the House to statutorily defend the U.S. Dollar.”
• “Florida’s Katharine Harris was called ‘Cruella De Vil’”
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been referred to as “blond and witchy”
• Ann Coulter has been called, well, lots of things that I don’t think I can type here without being filtered.
• Sarah Palin – holy crap, this one should get its own chapter in this book of namecalling.  For starters, Keith Olbermann referred to Palin as “‘fire breather’ during a rant on his August 29, 2008 “Countdown” program. Of her stance on issues, he stated, “she’s this side of ‘melt the Arctic,’ this side of ‘imprison abortionists,’ she’s run up the debt, ‘purge the lefties’ fire breather.”  Chris Matthews referred to her as “John McCain’s Girl Friday” and a “dolt.”  And, then there was that whole incident when Obama used Palin’s “lipstick on a pitbull” reference and twisted it to fit his own jab, saying “lipstick on a pig” when talking about Palin’s policies.

The big takeaway for me from this article?

“MSNBC has now compared outspoken conservative women to a dog, a dragon, an exotic dancer, a mail-order bride, and implied that a female governor and vice-presidential candidate carried less weight on the ticket than her male counterpart.”

Honestly, you can just read that paragraph alone, and if it doesn’t irritate the hell out of you as an intelligent American female, then, um, you’re probably a liberal American female. 

I can’t believe women, as a collective group, are allowing jerks like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann to spew a bunch of sexist crap out of their pieholes against anyone, really.  Liberal OR conservative. 

Feminism, shmeninism.  Nice job of setting our gender back about 100 years….really.