Sexism

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough suggests there is bigotry behind Republican criticism of White House spox Karine Jean-Pierre, a gay, black woman. Scarborough says: "there have been a lot of Republicans who have been critical of Karine Jean-Pierre, of course they have been from the beginning. I'll let people draw their own conclusions as to why, it seems pretty obvious to me."

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert tried and failed during his Tuesday show to use Republican infighting during the Speaker battle to play the sexism card by suggesting there was a double standard present.

On Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC show, guest host Melissa Murray leads a segment on "the glass cliff." The notion is that women, particularly women of color, tend only to be appointed to prestigious positions at institutions that are in crisis, and thereby are being "set up to fail." Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Claudine Gay, recently named as Harvard's new president, are cited as…

Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, recently directed a much-hyped documentary about her mother called Pelosi in the House, which debuted Tuesday night on HBO. The rather obvious conflict of interest created a gushing look at Pelosi’s career with plenty lowlights from the cringe worthy to the outrageous.

GOP Rep. Vicky Hartzler opposed Congress’s same-sex marriage bill which led ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel to attack her looks, specifically claiming she looks like a lesbian, while also telling to “get over” her religious beliefs.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and the rest of the Morning Joe cast clearly feels threatened by the possibility of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launching a 2024 presidential campaign because Scarborough is already suggesting his attacks on the media are sexist.

As part of a larger CNN Tonight panel discussion on the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting, former NYPD detective Tom Verni declared the United States to be a “racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic country.” Neither host Alisyn Camerota nor any of Verni’s co-panelists bothered to raise objections to this broad denunciation of over 300 million people.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul finds herself in an unexpectedly close race with less than one week to go until Election Day so she stopped by MSNBC’s The 11th Hour on Friday to be asked by host Stephanie Ruhle if the reason for her struggles is “sexism by voters” and “we give you enough credit” on crime.

Saturday’s edition of The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross was a combination of outrageous and tragic as Republican women and minorities were accused of being tokens by former RNC chair Michael Steele and former GOP strategist Lucy Caldwell. Both missed the fact that their host is the same kind of person who would lobby such accusations at them not that long ago.

HBO Real Time host Bill Maher continued to call out the anti-scientific and excessively woke Democratic Party on Friday as he labeled the party “the party of no common sense” for thinking that separating sports by sex is problematic.

On Tuesday night’s Alex Wagner Tonight, the eponymous MSNBC host brought her viewers back into the early 1990s by dragging sexual assault hoaxer Anita Hill on the show to help her sell a book she wrote. During this interview, Wagner predictably asked Hill if she sees chauvinism and misogyny in the Dobbs decision and the subsequent pro-life legislation that it gave rise to. 

The same petulant Washington Post columnist who became notorious for doxxing the user behind the Libs of TikTok Twitter account and misrepresenting her dealings with two YouTube content creators is back whining about “harassment” on social media.

With Mikhail Gorbachev dying earlier in the week, Walter Isaacson wondered on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS, how the fall of the Soviet Union has impacted conservatism. To get his answer, he turned to author Nicole Hemmer who claimed that conservatives are attempting “to attract voters through racism.”

NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali has a new book entitled Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House… Yet and to promote it she traveled over to Wednesday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC. The answer Vitali settled on was that voters are biased against them.