...Oh, and the “young coed” turns out to be 30, which is what less evolved cultures refer to as early middle age. She’s a couple of years younger than Mozart was at the time he croaked, but, if the Dems are to be believed, the plucky little Grade 24 schoolgirl has already made an even greater contribution to humanity. She’s had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else (and this is where one is obliged to tiptoe cautiously, lest offense is given to gallant defenders of the good name of American maidenhood such as the many prestigious soon-to-be-former sponsors of this column who’ve booked Bill Maher for their corporate retreat with his amusing “Sarah Palin is a c***” routine...)
◼ I’m with Patty Murray - Kathryn Jean Lopez/National Review Online
Don’t be dismayed and don’t buy the pile-on. Fight back with information to counter the misinformation.
Women, and men with women in your lives, counter the women of the Senate and their talking points by sharing — over e-mail, over Facebook, with handouts at Church — any of these links just from the past 24 hours or so:
◼ Pray for the Mandate - Yuval LevinThere’s more and will be more. But that’s a start. Fight back if you’ve had enough of the insults to our intelligence.
◼ The ‘Accommodation’ That Isn’t - James Capretta
◼ Obama’s Contraception Spin Machine - George Weigel
◼ The Contraceptive Mandate and the Indignity of the Law - Q&A with Grace-Marie Turner
◼ No More Contrived Victims - Ed Whelan
◼ Birth-Control Agitprop - Jonah Goldberg
◼ The Devil & Daniel Brenner - Mario Loyola
◼ The left’s respect for women: a look back - Jim Treacher/Daily Caller
◼ Hey, Remember When NBC Thought Calling Someone a 'Slut' Was Hilarious? - Kyle Drennen/Newsbusters
As Andrea Mitchell began an interview with left-wing activist Sandra Fluke on the March 2 edition of her MSNBC show, the NBC correspondent denounced Rush Limbaugh for having, "attacked her [Fluke] with language that we will not repeat on the air."
Well, it turns out that Andrea Mitchell thought use of the word "slut" – one of Limbaugh's offending remarks – was perfectly fine when it was to get laughs for a network sitcom. Back on the September 30, 2010 episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Mitchell made a cameo playing herself and called Tina Fey's character Liz Lemon a "slut" following rumors of an office romance.
Mitchell wasn't the only NBC News personality in the scene, her nasty remark was set up by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, a comedic genius in his own mind who has made regular guest spots on the show. Mitchell and Williams proceeded to laugh and fist bump each other after the insult.
