I like Brian Williams - at least, he hasn't given me any reason to dislike him. Of course, I am not a regular viewer of his, but the times that I have seen him in action weren't an indicator that he was trying persuade his viewers of his point of view. He seems like a regular guy to me.
Then there's New York Times Prime Time Whiner, biting critic, and downright mean Maureen Dowd - still looking at the world through her feminism filters - quoting Brokaw: "I honestly thought, eight or nine years ago, that when we left," Mr. Brokaw said, referring to himself, Peter and Dan Rather, "that it would be the end of white male anchor time."
Dowd's reaction? Nah. Those guys are hard to kill off. Indeed, white men are ascendant in Red State America.
What is it with that woman? She seems like she is stuck in some kind of time warp with no way out.
Dowd does shed a little light on how her belief system has become so entrenched in hating men: her mother. As my mom said, discussing her belief that Martha Stewart had been railroaded by jealous men, "If men could figure out how to have babies, they'd get rid of us altogether."
uh, NO Maureen, it is a little more complicated than that...~g
you gotta almost feel a little sorry for Dowd, she must be feeling like someone that just walked into an empty room, seeing all the empty beer bottles and potato chip bags, wondering where the party moved to.
Dowd, trying desperately to raise the feminist alarm: Even if I felt like raising a ruckus about Boys Nation, who would care? Feminism lasted for a nanosecond, but the backlash has lasted 30 years.
....Where would you even lodge a feminist protest these days?.... I checked around for feminist outrage, but couldn't find any. Women told me the nightly news was an anachronism, so why shouldn't the anchor be? "Caring about having a woman in the showcase or figurehead role seems so 80's," one said.
Maybe it's time to let her know that women have moved out of the victim era and onto something much more powerful: embracing their feminine side.
Hey, if it worked for men, why shouldn't women have the same opportunity?
DR
