Imus is gone, for a while anyway. Let the matter not die along with interest in yesterday’s dead in Iraq.
Jameson Foser has a good summary at MediaMatters.org
With Rush Limbaugh ranting about “femi-Nazis” and Don Imus calling people “hos” and Ann Coulter calling people “faggots,” few speak out when three seperate CNN reporters — including Emmy Award winners Wolf Blitzer and Tom Foreman — describe the first woman to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives by referring to the Girls Gone Wild video series.
Or when Chris Matthews compares Hillary Clinton to a stripper and refers to her as an “uppity” woman. Or when he says she looks “witchy.” Or when he regularly asserts that “Midwest guys” are “not up to modern women as president” — an assertion which, given his other comments about Clinton, one can only assume is a classic case of projection.
Or when countless mainstream journalists dismissively refer to John Edwards as the “Breck Girl.” Forget for a moment the propriety of journalists’ repeating GOP talking points in order to derisively describe a Democratic presidential candidate. What do these journalists imply about women when they use “girl” as a pejorative description?
See the whole piece for links in the above excerpt, and much more.