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MAY 23, 2008

Deggans on Fox News Saturday, talking sexism, black columnists and Geraldine Ferraro

Ferraroheadshot_2  In case you missed it, former VP candidate Geraldine Ferraro is now blaming black journalists for unfairly attacking Hillary Clinton and taking marching orders from Barack Obama's campaign.

Here's part of what she told Shepard Smith on Fox News Tuesday: "All the surrogates that they had out there, from the black journalists — you know, have you read Bob Herbert recently in the past six months? There wasn't one column that had anything decent to say about Hillary."

Fox News is going to have me on their air at the ungodly hour of 4:40 p.m. Saturday (tomorrow) to talk about it. So if you can't get into the new Indiana Jones movie, feel free to check it out.

Ferraroheartbutton What I will say, basically will regurgitate what I've written about sexism and polics and Ferraro before: she's a token who assumes that other political candidates who aren't white males are tokens; she's uninformed about the fact that black columnists have been writing about sexism on the campaign trail for a while (Here's my column on the issue) and she's insulting both supporters of Clinton and her detractors by implying that the choice to support her is entirely about race and gender -- particularly when it's a choice made by people of color or women.

Worst of all, the one columnist whose work she mentions as an example of sexism is the New York Times' Bob Herbert, who wrote a column decrying sexism in politics and America in January, begging journalists and pundits to dig into the subject as a campaign issue.

No wonder she's declined an invitation to show up for this debate tomorrow night. Here's a clip of her comments:

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