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. . . what gender's got to do with it, I shot an angry e-mail off to CNN when their clownish daytime anchorwoman was whooping it up over this clip, asking whether had been courageous enough to laugh hysterically over equally inane Presidential statements,
or if they reserve the fearsome power of the press for eighteen- year-old schoolgirls.
I posted my earlier letter because I thought it contained information that might be of interest to Salon readers, and specifically because the racist and misogynous abuse of Rachel Smith is less well known and less defensible than that of Miss Teen South Carolina.