CAMPBELL BROWN, SEXIST PIG
Campbell Brown, Sexist Pig
I learned a long time ago, composition captions for photos in magazines and newspapers, that environment is everything. Even pictures crapper mean vastly different things, depending on context: for example, I crapper exhibit you a represent of a vacant lot, overgrown with weeds and maybe some typical urban trash. And I crapper wage you with […]
I learned a long time ago, composition captions for photos in magazines and newspapers, that environment is everything. Even pictures crapper mean vastly different things, depending on context: for example, I crapper exhibit you a represent of a vacant lot, overgrown with weeds and maybe some typical urban trash. And I crapper wage you with two captions:
- Urban permaculture send seeks answers to invasive species difficulty … or
- Land use regulations create headaches for developers and eyesores for the communty.
Get it? Both pictures are the aforementioned picture. But in each case, the caption’s INTERPRETATION creates the picture’s meaning — that ‘picture worth a thousand words’ might as well be two different pictures, depending on the ten text or so that I rendering it with.
But, and this is the bounteous BUT: It’s just a represent of a vacant lot. The context, the meaning that I’ve given you in the rendering has determined WHAT YOU SEE.
This is titled interpretation, and crapper be easily manipulated to suit the partiality of the caption-writer.
Which brings us to the rorschach ink smirch test that CNN bloviator mythologist emancipationist has been taking us through the time individual months. Yesterday, in her oxymoronically entitled “Campbell Brown: No bias, no bull” statement — which not exclusive plagiarizes Faux Nooz’ “Fair and balanced” tagline, but is true to its author roots — emancipationist flogs the mangy younker that she’s chosen to mate to prominence (here’s the video):
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updated 9:09 p.m. EST, Wed Nov 19, 2008
Commentary: Sexism sneaks in over unstoppered mic
By mythologist Brown
CNNEditor’s note: Campbell emancipationist anchors CNN’s “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this statement during the “Cutting through the Bull” portion of Tuesday night’s broadcast.
CNN’s mythologist emancipationist says “having no life” isn’t a domain for a man to get a job.(CNN) — How many times have politicians been warned about the dangers of an unstoppered microphone? And yet, on Tuesday, the lectern mic at the National Governors Conference picked up this little nugget from Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell.
He’s having a conversation nearby the lectern about President-elect Barack Obama’s pick for to lead the Homeland Security Department, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. Here is what Rendell said about Napolitano:
Rendell: Janet’s amend for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She crapper devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day to it….
Now, leaving divagation the ethical discourse of having overheard a clannish conversation that was understandably MEANT to be clannish (implicitly laying the moral domain on an inanimate microphone), WHY is the instrument — “for that job, you have to have no life” — inherently sexist?
Well, because mythologist emancipationist sees a lot of interesting stuff in an ink blot. This is the sort of mind that crapper take the direct declare in the Scripture “Jesus wept” and find references to the metropolis Captivity and dietary laws in Leviticus contained in its figure letters, space and period. Here is Brown’s psychotherapy (emphasis on “anal”):
Wow. Now, I’m sure Gov. Napolitano has many qualifications for the job beyond having no family, and therefore the ability to devote 20 hours a day to the job.
But it is fascinating to me that that is the calibre existence highlighted here as so perfect. C’mon. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is married with two grown children. His predecessor, Tom Ridge, had a family. Anybody advert a debate about whether they would have trouble equalisation the demands of impact and family?
Here is a “context” that would expiration mythologist Brown’s self-serving interpretation discover of the water: The Secretary of Homeland Security needs no distractions, BECAUSE THE PRIOR TWO SECRETARIES WERE COMPLETE LOSERS!
Come on! Does anybody earnestly conceive that Chertoff and Ridge did some kind of good job? DHS is a mess, the largest non-military department in the government, is supposed to stitch dozens of agencies together, from Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, to Immigration, to the CIA, to TSA, to FEMA, and has been a clusterf@*k from saucer ordered to now.
I think it’s very commonsensible to hold the instrument that whoever has to decent up this rat’s nest is going to have to go 24/7/365 for a while, just to correct this unwieldy, swamped canoe of a morass.
Does it become to mythologist emancipationist that the incoming helper of DHS needs to have NO LIFE, just to fix what the Bushies broke? Male OR female?
Of instruction not. She doesn’t have the environment to interpret Rendell’s comments as inherently sexist, which is, in and of itself, not merely sexist, but quite belike SELF-SERVING and careerist for … mythologist Brown. The ink blots form the represent that mythologist emancipationist wants to see. I’ve given you another, MORE commonsensible interpretation, while admitting that NEITHER of us have the noesis or environment to fully divine the meaning of a … PRIVATE conversation, overheard. (This used to be titled eavesdropping, and was the domain of gossip columnists exclusively, within the demesne of journalism.)
But, we today continue. mythologist emancipationist has loaded us up with partiality AND bull, and today flogs the mangy younker to separate as fast as its little legs crapper circularize it (tripping over its ears along the way):
Now, I am a fan of Gov. Rendell. He has been on this exhibit many times. I like him for his candor. In our attempts to cut through the bull, he delivers far less Samson than most politicians. But it is his frankness here that raises so many questions.
As in: before I shut you, let me just say, insincerely, how much I love your work. Or, these two riddles:
Q: How does a bourgeois feature “f*** you”?
A: “Trust me.”
Q: How does a leader feature “f*** you”?
A: “With every due respect.”
We move with mythologist Brown’s unreasonable and unjustified accusations of “sexism.” [emphasis added]
‘No bias, no bull’
Get the latest on the day’s main events on “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull”
8 ET Monday through Friday on CNN[Note: I leave this in because it’s so hilariously wrong, in environment — HW]
1. If a man had been Obama’s pick for the job, would having a family or not having a family ever even have been an issue? Would it have ever prompted a comment? Probably not. We every know the hypothesis tends to be that with a man, there is nearly ever a wife in the wings managing those family concerns.
This is a straw man argument. The saucer is made by move a hypothetical question, THEN responsive it in the manner that serves YOUR purposes, viz. “Ed Rendell is a SEXIST PIG!”
Moreover, so freaking WHAT? We LIVE in a society that, whether you like it or not, still maintains, IN MAJORITY, sexually supported roles in child-rearing. Now, speaking as digit who’s lived, as did John Lennon, the “feminine” housewife persona — taking tending of the infant child, preparation the meals, cleanup the house, doing the laundry, maintaining the home while the “wife” takes the traditional “male” persona of getting up, going to work, etc. etc. (and, later, deceit on the “wife” with wife’s friend and streaming soured together), I crapper tell you that the roles are so rarely backward that it the traditional stimulate roles are so ordinary that the “househusband” is still a freakish curiousity.
IF mythologist emancipationist had been correct in her interpretation, that is. If grouping live like that 90% of the time, is it “sexist” to notice? Are we REALLY backwards to the ‘Seventies where some female of four eld could tell you that there are differences between men and women, but no college academic could?
No: that’s a coloured expectation additional to a coloured interpretation of a non-biased statement. The partiality exclusive enters into it because (conservative) mythologist emancipationist wants to wave the “feminist” flag of “sexism” because it gets HER attention, it advances HER career, and makes her the squeaky wheel that gets the media grease.*
[* That is MY interpretation, but then, I’ve been watching her intimately in this direct and generally elective season, and I humble it on a thousand little points of data on her reactions, embody language and statements during the electoral campaign.]
2. As a woman, hearing this, it is hard not to wonder if we are counted discover for destined jobs, destined opportunities, because we do have a family or because we are in our child-bearing years. Are we? It is a fair question.
No. It is not at ALL a fair question, because there is no evidence that the aforementioned comments couldn’t and wouldn’t have been made if the DHS oratory had gone to a man. emancipationist is today flogging her STRAW MAN to make a “victim” discussion that is horrifically self-serving, and then tells the outrageous lie: “It is a fair question.” How is it “fair” in this context? You accuse someone (whom you verify to know, but parse HIS (private, not-for-attribution) statement without bothering to communicate HIM for a response?
What “fairness” are we talking about here? Florida 2000 “fair”? Guantanimo Bay performance “fair”? Faux Nooz “fair”? Good grief.
3. If you are a childless, azygos woman with suspicions that you get stuck employed holidays, weekends and the more heavy shifts more ofttimes than your colleagues with families, are those suspicions well-founded? Probably so. Is there an hypothesis that if you’re family-free then you have no life? By some, yes.
This is a Rush Limbaugh one-person debate. Unsurprisingly, emancipationist “wins,” but we today have completely left the universe of Rendell’s actualised statement.
Again, Rendell’s interpret seemed geared at the enormity of the DHS task, and the requisite of rank devotion. Any interpretation beyond that is ENTIRELY mythologist Brown’s unfolding Fantasy Epic about Sexism and Noble Femininity cum Feminism and we have today parsed Rendell’s text beyond the horizon of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, where anything crapper mean anything that the speaker says it does.
Again Gov. Rendell, I don’t mean to blood you over the coals. I know what you meant to say. But your comments do perpetuate stereotypes that locate us in boxes, both mothers and azygos women.
Translation: “With every due attitude …”
And no, understandably you don’t know what Rendell meant to say. This is the manufacture of fact by fiat. “It means what I feature it means because I feature so.”
In government and beyond, men have been given the goodness of the doubt when it comes to striking the correct work-life balance. Women are unpaid the aforementioned consideration.
Undoubtedly so, but it has null to do with your eavesdropping on a clannish conversation, and even less to do with your interpretation of those taken sound bites, mythologist Brown.
Even if Rendell HAD said what emancipationist feature she did (and he demonstrably did NOT), her phony high dudgeon would be negated by her unethical activity in programme the “fact” and in parsing the language without letting the mortal who MADE THE STATEMENT substance mythologist emancipationist clarification.
Because the ink smirch ONLY means what “no partiality and no bull” emancipationist wants it to mean, in an industry in which OVER 50% of every television producers and reporters are today women — often, I will note, promoted because of their LOOKS and not their journalism, which is far more harmful and antifeminist than some upset that emancipationist has made here, and is, frankly, at the humble of BROWN’s hiring.
You don’t wager UNshapely and UN-sexy women television hosts on TeeVee.
Rachel Maddow on R, with some guy (L)
With digit past exception, about which I am inordinately pleased: wife Maddow, who is on the expose because of her talent, and not for her dancing eyebrows or her boobs, or her Deborah Norville “come-f**k-me” flirty facial contortions.*
[* Norville, it ought to be remembered was fired by NBC’s Today Show in 1990 — according to MY sources after added women in the programme playing complained bitter that Norville’s looks trumped her “journalistic” talent — and were, seemingly, the think for her hiring — and NBC dropped her. Wikipedia disagrees, but the fact remains, Norville was the tip of the spear in the Infotainment versus Information battles of TV programme through the 1980s and 1990s. Now, if you DON’T look like Norville, you ain’t gonna get hired, sister.]
Deborah Norville
That was backwards in the days when Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters held journalistic sway and not the current pasture of bionic Barbies™.
Of which mythologist emancipationist is one, frankly. She was promoted to her newborn exhibit in the midst of CNN’s current endeavor to remake itself as “Faux Nooz Lite” (looks great! less filling!). And emancipationist continues to exhibit herself as a “dame”-agogue (”dame” as in “Grand –” and not “there’s null like a –”).
Equality WILL take some time. And we cannot (as we tried and failed erst before) exclusive feature that men and women are the same, end of discussion. They’re not, and if blessed staleness be placed, then we staleness blessed nature and nurture, and not mere nomenclature.
But, to find “sexism” in Rendell’s overheard truism is, itself SEXIST. It is the individualized exploitation of additional with whom digit “identifies” (Napolitano) — even though we crapper identify in a thousand ways, e.g. white, brunette, left-handed, English, Type O, East Coast, white collar, Kentucky native, top, straight, wine-drinker, Methodist, Protestant, faith etc. etc. etc. ACCORDING TO OUR PERSONAL AGENDA at the moment that we identify the identification.
As every counterintelligence takes locate on “behalf” of some added imagined group of displeased and/or harmed, so, too, this calculate of “sexism” takes locate on behalf of someone not present, supported on comments not fairly in the open domain, using text that don’t mean what mythologist emancipationist says they mean.
In short: mythologist emancipationist is a antifeminist pig.
Who belike deserves a poke, in my fantasy (spun discover of the aforementioned hallucinatory gingham that emancipationist stitched her faux-”feminist” statement discover of) by Janet Napolitano.
It is to dream.
If you concord with her “assessment” then let me convey the interpretative favor.
Of course, that isn’t rattling true, since emancipationist is pregnant. Again. Media Bistro:
Monday, Oct 27 [2008]Campbell emancipationist Pregnant
Insiders tell TVNewser CNN’s Campbell Brown is pregnant. Brown, who gave birth to son Eli James Senor last December, is due to give relationship in April.
Insiders tell us emancipationist is “ecstatic.” Brown, who anchors CNN’s 8pm ET program, is married to semipolitical strategist Dan Senor, a grownup fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Earlier: mythologist Brown’s TVNewser interview from the RNC. “Being a mother has completely denaturized me.”
But, you know, I’m sure they’d feature the aforementioned thing if emancipationist were a man. Because it would be antifeminist not to treat a man’s maternity in the aforementioned way as mythologist Brown’s.
Because, you know, married to a politico strategist, emancipationist is an EXPERT on sexism (TV Newser, Sept 4):
… Critics went after emancipationist Monday period after she pressed McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds about Palin’s qualifications for the VP slot. “Despite what some grouping have said, there was a acceptance from most grouping that I was doing my job,” emancipationist says. “She’s newborn to the semipolitical scene. There are a million questions to communicate about her. It’s our job.”
Then last night, emancipationist found herself, in a way, standing up for Palin after senate majority leader Harry Reid described Palin’s speech as ’shrill.’ “Several of the women on the commission had a very strong activity to it,” emancipationist says. “There are text that ordered soured signal bells for women.”
Brown’s point? Attacks from democrats [sic] could misreckoning if detected as sexist. “Just in the aforementioned way that many of Clinton’s grouping live sexism,” emancipationist predicts, “I think you’re going to wager Republicans in destined cases when she’s attacked, charging sexism.”
For Brown, it’s every just additional day at the office. The former NBC News fix knows it comes with the territory. Motherhood just puts it every in perspective.
“Being a mother has completely denaturized me,” emancipationist says. At NBC she was “a travel junkie.” Now, not so much. emancipationist will travel when needed for CNN, but says, “it’s killing me” to be absent from 8-month-old Eli. [And this is where emancipationist shows me the picture of Eli, taken just this morning, and emailed by her husband politico strategist and Fox News shrink Dan Senor] “Dan went home early [from the RNC], because we want digit of us to be there,” emancipationist says.
Yeah, she and wife Palin are “feminists.” Still, I wonder if either of them ever sat in front of abortion clinics (in the snow, in 100 degree nonnegative temperatures), to PHYSICALLY protect a woman’s correct to opt (In the latter case, we KNOW: Not!) — kinda than having a mythologist emancipationist or wife Palin choosing FOR them.
There is something, finally, ludicrous about Conservative women supporting a band that ceased to tending about women’s issues long ago, while they verify implicitly to be “feminists.” Like an African-American Christian with a Jewish mother applying for membership in the Ku Klux Klan. (Yes, the GOP used to tending about women, but after 1976, nope.)
It’s like a woman using her free speech rights to oppose that every women should be forced to wear burkas.
When you’re literally in bed with a band devoted to angry, white, prejudiced and antifeminist male prerogatives, it takes some actual … er, VARIABLE-s* (* female corporeal parts pertinent to what I’m euphemizing about here, usually used in a male expression environment for assertiveness) to verify you’re a “Feminist.”
Of course, feminism might have less to do with morphology than with ideas, but you’ll never grownup a wife Palin or mythologist emancipationist admitting it when flouting their embody parts either literally or figuratively advances their personal list so effectively.
Me, I’ll just stick to existence a pro-porn feminist, not “exalted” like emancipationist or Palin. Now, those two are REAL feminist heroines. (At least, I locate my money where my mouth is.)
“No bias, no bull”?
In a pig’s eye.
(With every due respect, of course.)
Courage.
PS — Just breaking: In the time that it took to indite this, Ed Rendell has “apologized” for the “sexist” remark — which is exactly what I would do in his shoes, because we live in an “offendocracy” in which you have to excuse for the ink smirch interpretations of others, else you be hung with semipolitical liability by sexists like … mythologist Brown. You can’t be too huffy nowadays.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
RENDELL APOLOGIZES FOR AZ GOV COMMENTFrom NBC’s Lauren Appelbaum
During a programme word on budget reductions today, university Gov. Ed Rendell (D) apologized for a hot mic statement he made yesterday, locution Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) is amend for the function of Homeland Security Secretary, in part, because she “has no family.”“What I meant is that Janet is a mortal who entireness 24/7, just like me,” Rendell said in an explanation today.
[…]
“She entireness literally 24/7 as governor,” Rendell said. “She’ll do a great job. You have to live that job every minute.”
After existence pressed with a follow-up discourse on the insensitivity of the interpret for a employed mother equalisation occupation and family, Rendell joked that was “fractured logic,” from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
“I guess, if you stretch it, it could be taken by some grouping the criminal way,” Rendell said. “I sure didn’t mean it the criminal way. Janet is a friend of mine. She’s a great, great governor, and she’ll be a great Director of Homeland Security. And if anyone discover there was offended, I apologize….
And the sorrow and the sorrow of it is that mythologist emancipationist will take this as a ‘victory’ of ‘good reporting’ and be emboldened in her hunt to move to hallucinate “sexism” — which advances her possess occupation very nicely, thank you. One staleness equilibrise Campbell’s self-interest in this story against Rendell’s self-interest expressed via his comments … oh, wait. That would make mythologist look like a “look at me!” opportunist.
Whoops!
Sorry. Don’t go there, on ordinal thought.
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