My Zen Arcade

So Campbell Brown took a remark from a politician and really twisted it around.
Whats unfortunate is that many of her points are absolutely spot on. They just have nothing to do with the actual remark.

Rendell: Janet’s perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day to it

Calling this sexist, without any context is just silly. For all we know, he might have said the same thing if a single man was nominated. For all we know, he might have then gone on about how qualified Janet is for the job.
Now, she could have just used the comment as a jumping off point, sort of saying “this makes me think about…”, but she doesn’t. In fact, she makes it very clear that she sees the remark as sexist.

Again Gov. Rendell, I don’t mean to rake you over the coals.

And, in fact, she’s practically deceptive:

But it is fascinating to me that that is the quality being highlighted here as so perfect. C’mon. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is married with two grown children. His predecessor, Tom Ridge, had a family. Anybody remember a debate about whether they would have trouble balancing the demands of work and family?

I’m sorry, did I miss this debate? Because I’m pretty sure Ms. Brown just implied that handful of words was a debate.
Campbell makes a number of good points about how women are treated differently based on their age and relationship status. These are things that DO need to be talked about, these are things that are real problems.
But, lets talk about them, not point fingers and cry ’sexism’ for no reason.