Just this week, notorious camera hog Sen. Chuck Schumer said perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician say.
In attempting to make a point about how the organs of power on Capitol Hill need to work together to prevent a government shutdown, Schumer reconfigured the three branches of government. “You know,” he said, “we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.” It should be noted that this isn’t the model described in most civics textbooks, which list the three branches as legislative, executive and judiciary.
Now imagine if a Republican had said that. Better yet, a Republican woman. She would be called stupid. She would be mocked on cable news and spoofed on “Saturday Night Live.” Her credibility would be questioned, and if she were attractive, she’d be discounted as a dingbat or a bimbo.
But that’s not the case here. Schumer’s gaffe was met with little fanfare or ridicule from the mainstream media. His interviewer, Candy Crowley, a shrewd veteran journalist, didn’t even question his error.
Granted, mistakes are made on live television. And Schumer was probably tired. People in the public eye talk so much that they are prone to more verbal flubs than the rest of us. For example, when President Obama said there were 51 states, and mispronounced corpsman (“corpse-man,” he said). But while Republican women like Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have been impaled for lesser missteps, Schumer and Obama can always expect a pass.
GOP women have been called names for doing a lot less than Schumer, or for doing nothing at all: Former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, for one, was called a whore during the midterms. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was accused of having an affair. Lurid details of Christine O’Donnell’s grooming habits were related in a breathless account of a one-night-stand that was posted on Gawker, along with demeaning photographs of the then-Senate candidate from Delaware. Chris Matthews has insinuated that Bachmann is illiterate (“Good thing she doesn’t have to take a literacy test”). And that’s just the tip of the hateful iceberg.
Read More: ANDREA TANTAROS, NY Daily News
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It was 57 states he had visited 51 had 6 to go
In truth, Obama said there are 57 states! Yes there are, that is…57 ISLAMIC STATES…not our beloved United States. Hey people…can you not see the writing on the wall??? Guess what HE wants for America! WAKE UP!!!
Obama never did think he said anything wrong when he talked about 57 states! Schumer would be the most arrogant SOB politician in the world, if not for Anthony (Wiener) Wiener, or, for that matter Obama!!
Tantaros got it right – but to take it a step further, are there any attractive liberal women..Hmmm.- don't think so, can't think of one in the political arena. And with all this rampant sexism coming from the libs, where are the feminist with NOW, et al?? My guess is the women that were in there in the
70's are still running the show and now are a bunch of old dried up jealous prunes.
COnservative women are highly intelligent and that just seems to escape the left.
We will get the last laugh..
Hello,
I love what Mark Levin calls him. He calls him Chuckie. This man is a total, and complete MORON. End of the story. I have more faith in the service of one conservative women than I do in ten thousand like this human scum bag.
Let us see if Jon Stewart or the other wienny Colbert makes fun of Chunky Schumer because you know if it was a republican the would be all over them.Where is Saturday Night Live and that hysterical comic Tina"Tammy"Fey oh thats right Sarah Palin didn't say it.Can anyone answer me as to why Stewart changed his name wasn't he proud to be a jew.
Not only did Tantaros get the states comment wrong, she apparently has forgotten that it was a conservative who claimed to have had an affair with Haley. Since Tantaros took the time to write it down (and gets paid for it), "tiredness" shouldn't be an excuse for such carelessness with the facts. But rest assured, I know that the fact that she's dumb or lazy has nothing to do with her gender.
What would Ellen have to say about it?
Ellen thinks Jimmy McDuck is the smartest person in the world.He's the best thing since the condom was invented.
"He's the best thing since the condom was invented."
Thanks, Ed.
Good job of staying on topic, Ed & Gary. But then, little more need be said about Tantaros or her article, since we've probably given it more thought than she did before writing it.
Jimbo where in the statement did Tantaros claim a liberal such as you said Haley was having an affair.Are you starting to make things up,I'm appalled good God you wouldn't put words into someones mouth.
Nor did I claim that she made such a claim, of course–surely you wouldn't put words in my mouth?
She simply buried that bit between complaints about liberals, leaving gullible readers (unlike you and me, of course) to assume that evil liberals had done that, as well.
This is called "DOUBLE STANDARDS," if it were not for these DS, the Progressive / Marxist / Democrats would have no standards at all.
Oh and as there is no longer a political party called Democrats, please call them what they are, "PROGRESSIVE MARXIST." Lets not lie about it anylonger come on you DemO's at least tell the truth about something.