Consider it from another angle... attacking an opponent based on irrelevant information is a shitty thing to do. It’s doubly shitty when she’s implying his intelligence and composure is somehow affected when he’s doing better than his peers - regardless of age.

“When the football players see this, what do you think they see? They see your breasts. It’s seductive,”

Since when is “coddling” simply acting like a decent person —i.e refraining from mocking a minor who survived a school shooting because he got rejected from a few colleges?

But she wasn’t mocking his stand on an issue. She was mocking a teenage boy’s tweet of disappointment at a college rejection letter. Nothing to do with any issue whatsoever but her desire to demean him.

They can disagree on the policy, but why is it a given that they should be allowed to attack him personally?

When it’s from an adult with her own television show and is meant to harass and mock a teenager who recently experienced and survived a tragedy.

What do you mean, the — oh, let’s not get into this.

I’m not “insincere” when I’m polite and civil to my customers. I’m polite and civil because after 30 years experience I know it makes my job easier and reduces the amount of bile in my stomach. It may not be ‘necessary’ but life is more than the basics and honestly, I think having a gentle tone of voice with a…

No, it’s that we are rude. We are bad people.

No, it’s that we are rude.

You have to be some kind of evil to go after a teenage girl who survived a school shooting. Like you truly have to be the worst type of person. Monsters.

That doesn’t mean its not a problem.

I see what you’re saying but it’s like... kind of objectively stupid, no? Look at this backlash. This incident has made them look HORRIBLE and audiences are not likely to forget it any time soon.

Of course they did not HAVE to give her a raise but it would have avoided this PR nightmare and actually made them look…

Yes, and all of that occurs in a vacuum, completely uninfluenced by gender politics. And definitely there are no examples of well known women making less than lesser known men.

Santorum wasn’t making a good-faith argument. He knew he was full of shit the entire time, and he continued to spew bullshit, and CNN allowed him to continue to spew bullshit.

Nah, I disagree. If you weren’t old enough to vote for Reagan, yet your career opportunities and chances for financial comfort were ruined by him and his policies, you’re Gen X. First generation to have to fund our own retirement via the scam knonw as 401(ks)z

I keep hearing she was ‘overwhelmed by nerves,’ etc. I think it’s more likely that she’s dealing with PTSD- puking is a common symptom especially when reliving the event. It undermines the seriousness of the situation to say she’s just got charming ‘nerves’ or ‘stage fright.’

Nope. X isn’t so taken with it either, even though we had a high-octane indoctrination. I’m an old Xer and graduated into the first job desert caused by Boomers slashing US professional workforces to prop up share prices. Upside: we had little college debt (till we got suckered into giant loans for useless master’s…

Good lord, if I had interest from NASA or SpaceX I would be there in a minute. You can keep in touch with friends and family with Facebook until you have new friends where you are.

Also, STOP HOVERING and let her grow up already.