CNN reported on some who say single women voters are "stupid," "slutty, anxious female[s]"

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200711020014?f=h_latest

Summary: Discussing young female voters' support for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, CNN's Carol Costello asserted, "{I}f Hillary Clinton can persuade these young, single women to vote for her, many say she will win. And those who oppose Clinton know that. That's why they're calling these young women voters stupid." She added, "{T}he online magazine Jezebel dubbed them the elusive, slutty, anxious female, that's slutty in a political sense of course," a reference to a June 14 Jezebel item with the headline: "Barack Obama Lures Elusive Slutty Anxious Female Demographic."

[dipsydoodle]

1. Can you send some over here

please.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. yeah!

CNN editorial policies are truly bogglers of the mind.

[radfringe]

3. you sure you didn't misread that?

and they were actually talking about Ann coulter? :rofl:

[RainDog]

4. Amazing "don't get it" reporting from CNN

This is from the link to the magazine, Jezebel:

We were brought into the convo when we covered the Obama girl video and said that he has "The Elusive Slutty Anxious Female Demographic" behind him. First of all, like, duh, it's a joke...kinda. But secondly, we don't really sling around the term "slutty" as an insult around these parts. It's more of a qualifier. Oh, and also, some of us actually are slutty (and proud of it!), but none of us, regardless of who we're gonna vote for, are
stupid.

Hey, CNN, the magazine was JOKING. Females were joking about perceptions created, frankly, by people too ridiculous to warrant serious attention.

Maybe you didn't get it because Ann Coulter, Lynn Cheney or Michelle Malkin are, strangely, considered worthy sources of information and commentary. (psss, wanna know why females do not, overwhelmingly vote Republican? Because we're NOT stupid.)

See, among ourselves, females will talk to each other in ways we won't talk to others. Like "locker room" talk that everyone knows happens. You don't know that also happens with females?? You can't tell the difference between a joke and reality? I guess not, when Ann Coulter is considered a viable news program guest.

If this is what passes for journalistic credibility on CNN...

To make things worse, CNN had a film clip from Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and her trailer trash hairdo before she works her way through the b.s. and gets a good hair stylist (for women in film, a good haircut and conditioning symbolize sainthood or epiphany.)

I am really stunned that this little tidbit made it to one of the biggest tv news sources for the U.S. (and represents the U.S. to much of the world.) I think I need a little retail therapy. (btw, that's also a joke.)

[RainDog]

5. p.s.- news tip for CNN

apparently they have no real knowledge of females beyond Desperate Housewives, so I would advise Costello to go to a bookstore and buy copies of Bust and Bitch...even Adbusters. might give a clue.

[Gman]

6. Like a lady in public

and a slut in bed?

[undeterred]

7. Well that certainly makes me want to listen to CNN.

[Lisa]

8. elusive? CNN will have to revise that when we start picketing their building

"slutty in a political sense" -- oh, is that their new term for "undecided"?

[Elspeth]

9. Sounds like they were describing their own reporters. Glen Beck is a real slut

and so many of them at CNN are stupid.