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Originally posted by ElizaQ:
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You've made your points about why you think he isn't progressive. As I said in previous comment, I get what you are saying on that reasoning. I have no interest in debating beyond that, especially if it has to do with any sort of discussion about sexism which will just completely derail this thread if it hasn't already been.[/b]
This is a discussion about Keith Olberman. I introduced a clip of Olberman pretending to know something about WWII in response to some statements made by Condeleeza Rice on how congress funds its wars. I charachterized those comments as sexist, in the way that he used them to dismissed Rice's academic achievements, and repeatedly refer to her as having high school qualifications. Both the presumption of superiority, and he manner were sexist, imo.
I also said its possible, but I thought unlikely, that he would have said such things, and been so sure about his "facts" had Rice not been female. But that was an aside to the main issue. The main issue was how Olberman used his false premise to smear Rice, in what I thought was a sexist manner.
I found this annoying on three counts:
1 The manner in which he presented his case was sexist, imo.
2 He presumed a position of authority and shot his mouth off about something that he was wrong about.
3) He was trying to assert that Rice was an idiot. Rice, may be a lot of things, but she is not dumb.
I found all of those things annoying, and in the case of the first it was annoying because it was sexist. And his sexism led to the other two which I also found annoying.
[ 02 November 2008: Message edited by: Cueball ]