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Gwen Ifill Appears on Meet the Press 4/15/07
Be sure to catch Gwen in all her brilliance on Meet the Press during the second segment of MTP. If you missed the stimulating conversation, look below for how to download the podcast or view the streaming video online.
During this 'roundtable discussion/episode' of MTP, Gwen is incredible, courageous, honest, brilliant and terrific.
Other guests include: Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post (who wrote a great column entitled "Why Imus Had to Go"); John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal (a white guy who seems to 'get it'); David Brooks of the New York Times (a white jewish conservative opinion pundit who obviously DOESN'T get it).
As Gwen challenged David Brooks: it's not so abstract or funny or cute when you are the actual target of the racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, cruel and bigoted slurs. When Gwen asked if he had actually personally been the target of Imus (and his henchmen/lynchmen — McCord, McGuirk, Rosenberg's) anti-semitism, Brooks admitted that "no" he had not — and then sputtered and stumbled and changed the subject — he clearly had no understanding much less a relevant response to that reality while continuing to defend Imus.
Gwen is amazing. David Brooks is another privileged, entitled, clueless white male defending other entitled, privileged developmentally arrested white males. Defending racism, sexism, homophobia, hatefulness, bullying and cruelty as a "joke." Gee, what a peach.
Schedule: MTP (hosted by Tim Russert who appeared dozens of times on Imus, and who still doesn't get it) is shown at different times throughout the day and evening, plus broadcast on radio Sunday mornings and late evenings (early Monday mornings) on most local NBC stations; MTP is also broadcast at various times during Sunday evenings/late night on both MSNBC and CNBC. To check your local listings, click here.
Downloads: You can also view the streaming online video or download the podcast (usually available later in the day on Sundays) here.
Related: Anna Marie Cox (former Wonkette, now Washington Editor for Time.com) appears on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz, media critic of the Washington Post (who doesn't get it), and discusses her own personal regret for wanting to be part of the 'Boys Club' while providing stats on the overwhelming numbers of white males who appeared on Imus — Anna Marie Cox gets it. Another excellent column regarding the topic is by Colbert King also of the Washington Post. You can download the Reliable Sources Video podcast (wmv/m4v - 204MB) here or access the iTunes podcast here.
And although Gwen doesn't come right out and say this directly, the white southern webmanager of this site will tell you a not so secret fact: when white people tell you it's not about racism, or 'it's' not racist, you can bet it almost certainly is. White people are mainly cowards and in denial when it comes to confronting racism.
Footnote: Be sure to watch the first third of MTP with retired General Anthony Zinni discussing the failures and possible future strategies regarding the chaotic, miserable failure of a war in Iraq.
Related: Washington Post 4/17/07 E.J. Dionne "The Ills Behind that Slur"
Gwen Writes a Beautiful Guest Editorial for the NY Times about the Most Recent Racist Sexist Misogynist Ugliness by Don Imus
April 10, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
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By GWEN IFILL
Washington
LET’S say a word about the girls. The young women with the musical names. Kia and Epiphanny and Matee and Essence. Katie and Dee Dee and Rashidat and Myia and Brittany and Heather.