but I believe you and some other "progressives/liberals" have failed to understand something. The Bill O'Reilly's, the Rush Limbaughs, the Sean Hannity's of the world are autocratic bullies who cannot see nor hear anything that does not support their world view.

I recently wrote to Ed Schultz about the same thing. We need to stop giving these pigs a voice. I am sick of seeing the likes of Tancredo, Gingrich etc getting time on mainstream news shows; on cable shows. They lie and they spin and GET AWAY WITH IT. The Brian Williams of the world, the Matt Lauers really do not challenge these lying phonies. But they challenge a Michael Moore. Moore who has never called for violence ever is treated like an "extremist" and all he does is make movies. Limbaugh on the other hand gets the respect of people like Williams!

We, the progressive community, need to stop engaging close minded, violence preaching sexist, racist bullies. And that is what O'Reilly is....a sexist, a racist, a sanctimonious hypocrite.

Like you, I was raised catholic. Unlike you, I have no respect for the catholic church, a paternalistic bully organization that continues in 2009 to treat women as if they are second class citizens; that stands up for the wrong all too often.

We need to stop this.

misogyny persists but it is ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE.

I disagree that the left gets outraged when it is a woman from the left.

There was nothing but silence from the left when rampant sexist jokes were going on and on about Hillary. And even after the primary was over, after Hillary conceded, after she and Bill made their speeches showing their 100% support for, the left continued its silence about misogyny.

After the primary, Favreau, Obama's speechwriter, was shown at a party cuddling the breasts of a lifesize Hillary cardboard cut out. Was anything said anywhere? Did the media speak out? NOPE!!!

And when the "Pussy Galore" commercial against Nancy Pelosi came out, barely a peep in the media.

Letterman's jokes were beyond sexist, misogynistic and stupid. He deserves to be taken to task for them. But to say there's no outcry because Palin is a right winger just does not fly.

Tucker Carlson still works; Chris Matthews got a pass from the left despite years of misogyny; Olberman's misogyny gets a pass still and got a pass when it used it against Hillary.

Misogyny and sexism get a pass across the board.

If your comment was not so hysterically over-the-top ridiculous; if the fear of white males losing their absolute power over the country was not so ridiculous, it would be worth discussing.

Sir or Madam, PLEASE do some research.

White males still control 98% of all the money and the power in this country. Women and minorities still struggle to have a voice and you consider this woman a threat; a voice for supremacy????

Seriously, did you even read her speech, read the context? I am betting not. Sad for all that so many people in the republican are like you; ignorant, close minded and in need of education.

For years, starting way back in the 80's with the election of Reagan, many of us wondered "How did this happen?" When and how did the press become part and parcel of the corporations and get so much control over what we Americans were supposed to know, supposed to think? Maybe it was always that way. Maybe it shocked me as I came of age in the late sixties and found my voice (along with millions of others) in the form of protesting the institutionalized racism, sexism, class warfare.

Whenever I hear the myths about Reagan, whenever I remember the elitism that allowed the status quo to continue for decades after the sixties, I realize how much the internet has now, finally, given regular citizens, the opportunity to enact change, REAL CHANGE. Still not sure if President Obama will be the one to really help us push for real change, but he is a start. In the end, it is voices like yours, like the many bloggers, with nothing to gain in terms of money and power, who will keep us all fighting for real change, and real democracy.

against those two.

Matthews is and has always been an elitist type Irish Catholic, who looks his nose down at the rest of us. Having grown up a few miles from Matthews at the same time, I remember the mixers where boys from the all male prep school sent for girls from the local parishes. My town was the poor steel town filled with lots of immigrants and it was clear that certain ethnic groups were OK and others....not so much. Matthews comparison of the Irish "fire fighter" tradition with his "do people complain about the Italian barbers???" was pathetic....insulting and laughable.

My Italian American father was a cop, not a barber. In fact there were no barbers in our family....law enforcement, steel workers, pipe fitters...factory workers. All of my uncles went to war and two of my Aunts worked in the Pentagon during WWII. Matthews needs to get off his Irish Catholic elitist pedestal he climbs upon. His bigotry is every bit as obnoxious as his misogyny.

I got his snotty comparison loud and clear.

Women and minorities and other ethnicities other than Irish could be firefighters and would have been years ago had they not been blocked out by the nepotism and controls.

Buchanan is a racist....and always has been and will be.

I wish you would boycott those shows Joan. You are so much above them.