WASHINGTON -- Two Washington Post journalists are apologizing and their satirical online video series has been canceled following criticism of a joke they told about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
When I first read this head line, I thought it was some remark about Bill Clinton initiating the two female journalists into the mile high club on the way back from North Korea. After all, he did free them.
But it wasn't!
In the video, columnist Dana Milbank and White House correspondent and blogger Chris Cillizza appeared in smoking jackets to discuss the kinds of beer politicians might drink. Milbank said he couldn't reveal to whom President Barack Obama would serve a drink called "Mad B---- Beer." That line was followed by a brief picture of Clinton.
32 women from a special interest group signed a letter complaining...that's all it took to get an apology. Now I have not heard where these people complained about the media's treatment of Sarah Palin, but then S.P. does not fit the stereotype of a leftist liberal woman who drives a Subaru, if you know what I mean.
Isn't it ironic that this liberal, interest group whose supposed mission is "to to strengthen the voice of progressive and marginalized women in society", does so by complaining and nagging just like the stereotypical woman?
Special interest groups have the most of media in chains. The media goes right along with it. Funny how history repeats itself. It is fascinating to stand back and watch this. So much so, I am going to do a thesis on it.
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