That explains a lot

Other blogs have noticed that MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann seems to have a very wide streak of misogyny. James Taranto explains the reason for this seemingly cowardly character trait:

The liberal blogger Bob Somerby is no fan of MSNBC ranter Keith Olbermann, and that much we have in common with Somerby. He goes too far, however, in a recent post blasting Olbermann for a "buffoonish" segment on Carrie Prejean.

Prejean, whom Somerby unchivalrously describes as "an insignificant 21-year-old," competed as Miss California in the Miss USA beauty pageant. A kerfuffle ensued when a contest judge, Perez Hilton, asked Prejean what she thought of same-sex marriage. She gave what seemed an anodyne, if somewhat disjointed, answer:

Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. You know what, in my country, in my family, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.

But Hilton, who apparently wanted a full-throated blessing, lashed out at Prejean. Later, as we learn from Somerby, so did Olbermann.

Meanwhile, as the Washington Post reported, Marion Barry, a Washington city councilman and former mayor, cast the council's lone dissenting vote on a measure to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states. Then--in a city with a history of race riots--Barry said: "All hell is going to break lose. We may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this." (At this writing, most hell has not in fact broken loose.)

Somerby contrasts Olbermann's viciousness toward Prejean with his silence on Barry:

Barry is an older man, not a younger woman. As Olbermann has made dumb-foundingly [sic] clear, he seems to live for the opportunity to ridicule young women. He never says boo about older man [sic]--perhaps understanding they could come to his studio and engage in conduct which might require him to obtain a sphincter implant.

As a rule, it is cowardly for a man to pick on women, especially young women. But Olbermann is exceptional, as New York magazine made clear in a 2007 profile:

It probably won't come as much of a surprise that when Keith Olbermann was a kid, he got the tar kicked out of him on a regular basis. And not by the football team. "I got beat up by girls all the time," says Olbermann. "They literally posted a sign-up sheet and would take turns. I think that's why I've always been such a fan of Mencken's [actually Finley Peter Dunne's] line, 'Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.' I've been afflicted."

Olbermann's affliction began at age 5 . . ."

If you're outmatched by 5-year-old girls, taking on a grown woman requires at least a modicum of courage.

Actually, the Left's readiness to embark on what Leftists often decry as the "politics of personal destruction" against women who leave the Left's political reservation is all too common. Michelle Malkin, for example, is far too often bashed by Leftwing blogs in terms that are explicitly women-hating. Ann Coulter - no stranger to Leftwing attacks explicitly premised on her gender - speaks to truth to power in this column:

Liberals used the divorce papers to argue that Prejean had some deep-seated psychological disturbance causing her to oppose gay marriage. Symptoms of this debilitating illness include a belief in some sort of "god" and a reverence for the Bible.

It's not as if Prejean's special talent in the Miss USA contest was to perform an opposite-sex marriage. (Or, as the president and I call it, "marriage.") She didn't even volunteer her "controversial" views on marriage. Rather, she was asked for her opinion on gay marriage and gave it -- in an answer wrapped in so many layers of sugar it took 10 minutes to get to the point.

"Well, I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. You know what, in my country, in my family, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised, and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman."

What a vicious hate-monger! Any second there I was expecting her to bust out a "by golly!" or an "oh my gosh!" Angry gay-marriage supporters should be happy they didn't get my version of that answer. It contains some terms you won't find in your Bible.

Liberals wouldn't attack James Dobson with the amount of bile they've directed at a 21-year-old beauty contestant. It's not just Christianity -- it's women liberals hate.

From Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso and Bertrand Russell, who treated women -- mostly their mistresses -- like dogs, to Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton in our own day, liberals are ferocious misogynists. They share Muslims' opinion of women, differing only to the extent that liberals also support a women's right to have an abortion and to perform lap dances.

You'd be better off in a real burqa than under the authority of a liberal American male.

I'm not sure we needed a psychological profile of Prejean to figure out why she holds the same position on gay marriage as: the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards and his mistress, and the vast majority of the American people.

But what is crying out for an explanation is why every bubble-head TV news anchorette from a nice, churchgoing red state ends up adopting the political views of Karl Marx.

From Katie Couric on CBS to Norah O'Donnell on MSNBC, the whole stable of TV anchorettes weirdly have the exact same politics as their liberal masters. It's the ideological burqa women are required to wear to work in the mainstream media. As with a conventional burqa, it enforces conformity and severely restricts the vision.

The only way to protect yourself is to do the liberal male's bidding, as the bubble-head anchorettes do, or stand on the rock of Christianity.

Now, another beautiful Christian has thrown off the liberal burqa, thereby inciting mass hysteria throughout the liberal establishment. Prejean doesn't care. She is blazing across the sky, as impotent nose-pickers jockey for a piece of her reflected light by hurling insults at her.

Here is a video of Coulter taking on a mob of suddenly puritanical leftists who suddenly think that it is alright to pry into privacy.



Bunch of hypocrites.