Heh. Above headline courtesy of Reason’s Matt Welch, who writes:
After I appeared on a PBS panel about Tea Party racism last week, some commenters here wondered why I didn’t object to moderator Gwen Ifill’s use of the term “teabaggers” (answer: I didn’t even notice it, such is the general filth-content of my brain). Anyway, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler says the Corporation received a lot of complaints, and Ifill has now apologized:
Ombudsman’s Note: Ifill says, “Turns out I am the only person with access to email who never knew this was a term with a sexual meaning. I used it in an offhand manner as a shorthand referring to the ‘tea party’ movement. It was a slip I was unaware of, and I regret it.” I would add that I didn’t know that either.
Of course they didn’t. Still though, I gave Ifill plenty of grief last year for her gross conflict of interest in hosting the vice-presidential debate last October when she had a pro-Obama book already scheduled for publication due out in early 2009. And back in 2005, Kaus noted her subtle anti-Bush bias during the Hurricane Katrina.
But like the rest of us, Ifill doesn’t watch Anderson Cooper. And that’s definitely to her credit.
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