NOW Blasts Fox News For Only Caring About Sexism Against Sarah Palin
LatestLast Friday, on his HBO show Real Time, Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “dumb twat.” Since then, Fox News—home of Palin’s political commentary—has apparently been harassing the National Organization for Women to come out against Maher in defense of Palin. Yesterday NOW told the network, that it’s a “known fact” that it does not correspond with FOX News. But in her blog NOW’s communications director Lisa Bennett said, “Listen, supposedly progressive men (ok, and women, too): Cut the crap! Stop degrading women with whom you disagree and/or don’t like by using female body terms or other gender-associated slurs.” But Bennett went on to call out the right-wing media for its duplicitous interest in sexism after years of ignoring the matter: