MSNBC's Giant [Honorary] Lesbian: Actually Giant Misogynist
Olbermann Calls Malkin A Mashed-Up Meatbag
By Megan Carpentier
Last night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann named conservative blogger Michelle Malkin the second-worst person in the world for her work on the now-infamous "Obama song" sung by children at a New Jersey school. Malkin apparently fingered the wrong woman for having written the song and posted about her, resulting in the woman receiving death threats and harassment.
One can say a lot of things about Michelle Malkin's politics, her tactics, her strained relationship with reality and her commenters' propensity to embody the worst of the Internet. Or you could do what Keith Olbermann did.
[Note: Source has MSNBC embed. MSNBC embeds don't work on LJ, so I replaced it with YouTube.]
Olbermann starts with a recitation of Malkin's emails, belittling her voice and putting on a "Valley Girl" accent--i.e., an unintelligent female voice. But it's only after that unfortunate display of sexism that Olbermann hits it out of the misogynist park. He said:
[Malkin's] total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.
For the record, on average, once every 24 minutes in this country, a woman does become a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." Nearly 1.3 million American woman will be a victim of domestic violence this year, and one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
A liberal, progressive critique of Malkin need not and should not resort to an attack on her looks or her gender or rely on silly stereotypes or imagery that brings to mind victims of domestic violence.
By attacking Malkin's politics with an assault on women of every political persuasion, and then indicating a desire to see her physically harmed, it suggests that Keith Olbermann only likes women if they agree with him.
And if they don't? They're obviously just stupid Valley girls who deserve a good beating.
Liberal Source
IDK about this one. Keith Olbermann is generally a good feminist. Sometimes he fails -- like when he destroyed an Ann Coulter doll in 2005, which made me cringe hard at the implications -- but I don't think this was one of those times, since he was giving Malkin the identical treatment (unflattering voices, the phrase "big bag of mashed up meat/jackass/other noun") he has been giving everyone else lately. I take more offense at him calling Ann Coulter unattractive, and, believe me, I take very little offense given the context in which he did so.
By Megan Carpentier
Last night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann named conservative blogger Michelle Malkin the second-worst person in the world for her work on the now-infamous "Obama song" sung by children at a New Jersey school. Malkin apparently fingered the wrong woman for having written the song and posted about her, resulting in the woman receiving death threats and harassment.
One can say a lot of things about Michelle Malkin's politics, her tactics, her strained relationship with reality and her commenters' propensity to embody the worst of the Internet. Or you could do what Keith Olbermann did.
Click to view[Note: Source has MSNBC embed. MSNBC embeds don't work on LJ, so I replaced it with YouTube.]
Olbermann starts with a recitation of Malkin's emails, belittling her voice and putting on a "Valley Girl" accent--i.e., an unintelligent female voice. But it's only after that unfortunate display of sexism that Olbermann hits it out of the misogynist park. He said:
[Malkin's] total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.
For the record, on average, once every 24 minutes in this country, a woman does become a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." Nearly 1.3 million American woman will be a victim of domestic violence this year, and one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.
A liberal, progressive critique of Malkin need not and should not resort to an attack on her looks or her gender or rely on silly stereotypes or imagery that brings to mind victims of domestic violence.
By attacking Malkin's politics with an assault on women of every political persuasion, and then indicating a desire to see her physically harmed, it suggests that Keith Olbermann only likes women if they agree with him.
And if they don't? They're obviously just stupid Valley girls who deserve a good beating.
Liberal Source
IDK about this one. Keith Olbermann is generally a good feminist. Sometimes he fails -- like when he destroyed an Ann Coulter doll in 2005, which made me cringe hard at the implications -- but I don't think this was one of those times, since he was giving Malkin the identical treatment (unflattering voices, the phrase "big bag of mashed up meat/jackass/other noun") he has been giving everyone else lately. I take more offense at him calling Ann Coulter unattractive, and, believe me, I take very little offense given the context in which he did so.