Look! Wimmins Can Do Stuff Like Real People!
By Mitch Berg
Ann Coulter, noting the paucity of mainstream media coverage of Condi Rice’s achievements, wonders why Nancy “First Woman Speaker” Pelosi is big news at all:
But when Nancy Pelosi — another Democrat who married a multimillionaire — achieves the minor distinction of becoming the first female speaker of the House, The New York Times acts like she’s invented cold fusion.
There were two major articles breathlessly reporting Pelosi’s magnificent achievement as first female speaker and an op-ed by Bob Herbert, titled “Ms. Speaker and Other Trends.” Beatifying Pelosi as “the most powerful woman ever to sit in Congress,” Herbert began: “Sometimes you can actually feel the winds of history blowing.” There was a major Times profile of Pelosi, gushing that Pelosi was “on the brink of becoming the first female speaker.” (Isn’t she just the most independent little gal?)
So in addition to bringing back a cut-and-run national security strategy, tax-and-spend domestic policy and a no-enforcement immigration policy, the new Democratic Congress is apparently ushering in a return to feminist milestones.
Democrats: You women had better just be grateful!
November 16th, 2006 at 7:52 am
I guess when Time magazine notes Rice’s achievememnts with the title “Condoleezza Rice, Master of the Universe” that’s still not enough.
November 16th, 2006 at 8:39 am
I believe Coulter was writing about the New York Times, not Time.
Close enough? Perhaps, but let us strive for clarity, shall we?
Note Coulter’s Lexis/Nexis counts, and get back to us.
November 16th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Shouldn’t the star and trib be running a huge story about Michelle Bachmann storming the ramparts of bigotry and sexism to become the first female congress-person from the North Star State? Heh. My congressional district sent Patsy Mink to congress way back in 1966, which I reckon means that Hawaii is forty years more progressive than Minnesota. Wait a second. We’ve got a jewish lesbian republican governor. That makes us at least, gosh, a hundred years more progressive than Minnesota.
How can you stand living in the company of neanderthals, Doug?
November 16th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Mitch, I wasn’t offering my observation because of the Times – NY or Time magazine. It the headline would have been in People magazine, I would have cited it. I was offering it because of the line “paucity of mainstream media coverage of Condi Rice’s achievements” which is of course absurd.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:56 am
I repeat: Note Coulter’s Lexis/Nexis counts.
To the MSM, Pelosi’s ho-hum promotion is the biggest thing since Rover had puppies.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:03 am
Terry said,
“How can you stand living in the company of neanderthals, Doug?”
I grew up in Green Bay Wisconsin. I’m used to it.
November 16th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Doug-
There’s a guy a few streets over from me from greenbay. Every sunday during football season he’s an all day drunk. He slaps about a hundred ‘packer power’ bumper stickers on his beat up mazda pickup and drives back and forth in front of my house wearing a green hat and screeching the packer fight song. He brags about getting 86’d from the Kilauea Military Camp lounge because he got wasted and vomited goldschlager all over the bar.
Sometimes at night I go over there and pee on that f’n neanderthal’s truck.
November 16th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Terry,
I’m sorry. I’ll have a talk with my brother.
I knew lending him the money to move off the mainland was a bad idea.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Terry: Minnesota sent a woman to Congress 11 years before Hawaii did. Coya Knutson served from 1955-1959.
November 16th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
I should have wrote ‘republican female congressman’. Anyway I thought Coya was a masculine Finnish name.
November 16th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Doug said:
“I’m sorry. I’ll have a talk with my brother.
I knew lending him the money to move off the mainland was a bad idea. ”
I tip my cap to a great line…made me laugh pretty hard!
November 16th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Gee Mitch, Having a woman be “three heartbeats away” from the Presidency is just a little bit historical, isn’t it?
Do you think one will get closer in our lifetime?