Olbermann began by…attacking a woman, saying that one of the “desperate false equivalencies” to the Limbaugh controversy has been leveled at him by “one of the house tamed liberals at Fox News, a supposed Democratic strategist who hasn’t been able to get a job as a Democrat since 2004.”
He’s referring to Kirsten Powers, who wrote a piece for The Daily Beast excoriating the media for applying a double-standard to liberals where sexism and misogyny are concerned. There are a great many things to disagree with in that piece (for example, there have been efforts by liberals to hold these figures accountable), and I do believe her piece gave the false impression that the two sides are equal in this, while ignoring relevant political context, but her overall point is valid, and she wasn’t seeking to excuse Limbaugh. That conservatives have seen fit to do so only underscores the need to hold figures on the left to account.
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