It's not shaping up to be a big Brian Williams Fan Club day for me here at NB. Earlier, I noted how the Nightly News anchor seemed to suggest Sarah Palin was playing the race card. Here I am again, back on the Brian beat. Interviewing former GOP governor of Massachusetts Jane Swift at the top of MSNBC's 1 PM EDT hour, Williams hid behind unnamed feminists to make the "who's looking after baby?" charge against Sarah Palin.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Are the women who consider themselves feminists, and are perhaps working women with several children, are they wrong when they express fears or doubts that she should be able to do this, that she should be doing this?
Swift, who gave birth to twins while serving as governor, made quick work of Williams' question. FWIW, I hadn't seen Swift in action before and found her impressive
View video here.
JANE SWIFT: Well, I think what is wrong, we don't ask guys that question. It is not wrong for her to make choices for how she wants to meet her dual roles as a mother and as a vice-president. Seems to me what we saw last night is that she's handled it very well as she's gotten involved in politics and worked her way up to be the most popular governor in America, and let's judge her on her performance.
If Williams wants to take these snide shots, shouldn't he have the courage to do so in his own name, rather than hiding behind feminist pantsuits?
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Braying donkeys
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:46 ET by CarlosSTo Brian Williams and all the MSM (ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS, & CSPAN) news anchors:
Your relentless braying of the DNC's talking points IS NOT journalism.
Signed
Francis, the talking Mule
Williams...the wittle
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:55 ET by bigtimerWilliams...the wittle wussy!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Williams will not be happy...
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:57 ET by HeavyChevyuntil he finds someone...anyone to agree with him especially if its a republican then he can say "See...see even one of your own agree with my ludicrous statements!"
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
I'd like to see the name of
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:55 ET by usinkoreaI'd like to see the name of the feminists who said Palin shouldn't be going for the VP because she has kids to take care of.
Name them....
....and then follow them to the next feminist club meeting to see them get b-slapped out of the membership....
"Some feminists" huh? Who? Name one......just one we can check on....
names, names, give us the names
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:03 ET by tejanodiablonames, you want their names .. i'll give you their names you nazi pigs .. : jane doe; doe, jane; j. doe; doe, j.; et al
never look a gift skunk in the tail ..
I feel a tingling....
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 12:56 ET by sawing battaDear Brian,
Please give us a call. Based on your performance recently, we feel it's now time to reach out to you. We wish to feature you in an upcoming episode...lots of face time and pure excitment!
Look forward to hearing from you soon,
Fonzi and Chachi
ps. do you know how to ride a motorcycle? are you afraid of sharks?
Gentlemen, your timing's a bit off
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:22 ET by Mike BrattonBrian and most of his NBC cohorts have been jumping sharks for quite awhile now.
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport.com
Christmas for Williams
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:03 ET by Mica the MagnificentI have a feeling this Christmas Brian Williams will be visited not only by the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future - he'll get a visit from the ghost of real journalism.
Bri-annnnn!
I am the ghost of real journalisssss-mmmmm!
You killlll-ed meeeee!
You suhhhhhh-kkkkk!
"You
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 15:02 ET by stratmanThe funniest things have truth to them.
Thanks for the great laugh!
You read entirely too much
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:04 ET by balboaYou read entirely too much into the simple asking of a question. If Williams had asked this question in regards to a female Democrat, you'd say he was pooh-poohing a criticism for the candidate, dismissing it as a non-issue for the candidate.
We'll never know, Bal
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:08 ET by Mica the MagnificentWe'll never know, Bal.
He'd never ask that concerning a dem female candidate.
GMTA, Mica! You beat me to
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:09 ET by Mark FinkelsteinGMTA, Mica! You beat me to it.
That's a first
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:15 ET by Mica the MagnificentIt was an obvious response, Mark, I'm surprised we didn't tie dozens of similar posts.
When's the last time a
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:08 ET by Mark FinkelsteinWhen's the last time a member of the MSM ever asked such a question of a Democrat, male or female?
Well Mark - probably never.. but where's the basis of the Q.?
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:07 ET by Gary HallWell Mark - probably never.. but where's the basis of Williams Question? Look again (I'm changing the bold):
For more insight on the "imaginary 3rd person" (I borrowed the term from Noel?) see the link. The women, my arse.. the women are named Klein, Williams, Matthews, Olbermann, etc.
The question here for Williams is, "who are they - the women, Brian?
Isn't it that the voices you are actually hearing here, those whom you seek to represent, simply came from sources like the Daily KOS, the tabloids, and your friends and associates in your media? Women out there on the street were not saying this Brian (well, not until you folks indoctrinated them with the thought). This is the making of an angry activist leftist media, willing to pull out any and all forms of smear and deceit to defeat what you always see as the enemy - the R's. That's all there is to it. (;~> gary
So then is it fair to ask Obama
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:16 ET by c5thenIf the demands of the Presidency will make him the same as an absentee father? That is deplorable of him. To take his two young children and subject them to the same hardship that he himself had to endure as a child. Unconscionable.
See how it works, Bal?
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
not so much bal
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:37 ET by candanceNo woman in America has had to face that kind of question since the days of Clare Booth Luce. We never spoke like that about Landrieu, Blanco, Ferraro, or any other female.
There is simply no excuse for it, and your efforts to insist that we'd go along with the shoe on the other foot, it's a total red herring.
Bal, the press has done a
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:26 ET by Hunter12Bal, the press has done a lousy job of getting answers to any question they may have the actual temerity to ask a lib, especially in this election cycle. Case in point, Larry King had some senior Obama advisor (Robert Gibbs?) on last night and King showed him a clip of part of the Palin speech and this clown's answer was stolen right from Clinton himself, "This type of talk won't feed a child.". No answer to the question asked, just some puffery. King let him skate, but in all honesty, he's so out of it, he may have forgotten the question by then. How is an electrorate supposed to educate themselves when one party is castigated from all sides and the other allow to spout platitudes as answers to serious questions?
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
What debate?
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:08 ET by SickofLibsNice chyron title there: SEXISM DEBATE
Maybe we can also debate on whether the sun revolves around the earth or vice versa.
Other famous MSM debaters: Campbell 'The Debater' Brown.
How embarrassing
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:26 ET by txcoHow embarrassing it must be for Brian Williams to be led in discussion by keith olbermann....If he has any journalistic pride, it sure must be hard to swallow.
txco... I agree...I think
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:34 ET by bigtimertxco...
I agree...I think the same exact thing too when it comes to Olbie being the lead in with Brokaw.
Seems so demeaning....I'd be embarrassed, would never lower myself...but heck, these guys are lefties...they'd do anything, including sell their pride...if they ever had any to begin with.
Of course as far as I'm concerned their accolades are usually from their own kind...they are self-serving egotists...with no real good reason to be.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Yes. All Must Bow To The
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 15:47 ET by SickofLibsYes. All Must Bow To The Omnipotent OlberGod. No exceptions.
You know, I have had it...
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:33 ET by PrairieSkyup to here with the sexist, hypocritical twits on the left (and the right), who keep brining up this "...as a mother, should Gov. Palin be pursuing a job like VP..." crap! Why is it no man in the same situation, who is also a father, is ever asked a question like this???
As for the those lamebrains on the left who push this garbage, if Sarah Palin were a liberal Dem, they would be erecting statues in her honor. But because she is a Republican, and a conservative to boot, she is villified as not being a good mother because she has the temerity to run for VP. The hypocrisy of all of this is almost more than I can stand.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
PS... I know..it is past
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:42 ET by bigtimerPS...
I know..it is past maddening....
that is why I was and am still so happy about last night...she hit them all..pow right in the kisser!
...and she has had some excellent help...
Talk about the speakers being on fire...
the msm are burying themselves...with their own shovels and helping us...the good guys/gals..let them carry on...as they will anyway, they are too narcissisticly stupid to know better.
..and we the people will prove it on the fourth of Nov. from sea to shining sea...especially a lot of women.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Hi bt! As galling...
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 13:59 ET by PrairieSkyand frustrating as it is to listen to and read all their garbage, if it helps McCain/Palin, I hope the Dems and the MSM continue to blather on. I am more than happy to hand them all another shovel, and then stand back and watch.
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
Remember that one time, and
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 14:50 ET by Hunter12Remember that one time, and Brian Williams was on the Today Show and Anne Curry was doing the news and he asked Anne Curry why she was working and not home with her kids? Remember? And then there was that time, he was on the Today Show and Katie Couric was still one of the hosts and Brian Williams asked her why she wasn't home with her kids? And remember that one time, when Brian Williams was the host of NBC Nightly News and Campbell Brown was the Washington correspondent and Brian Williams asked her why she wasn't home with her kids? Remember?
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill