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Midge Rendell: 5 Facts on Pa.'s Former First Lady and Ed's Soon-to-Be Ex
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIn an e-mail sent to friends today, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and his wife, Midge, announced they are separating after 40 years of marriage. NBC Philadelphia reports the couple called the split "amicable" and asked their friends to continue inviting both of them to social events. Surge Desk has learned more about Marjorie "Midge" Rendell, whose impressive career has earned slightly less recognition than the former governor's. 1. She has a distinguished legal and civic record Midge Rendell became a U.S. District Court judge in 1994, then joined the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in ...
Michele Bachmann is a 'Balloon Head' in Chris Matthews' Book
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics Daily"Balloon Head" isn't the name of the upcoming Seth Rogen movie. But that's really what MSNBC's Chris Matthews called Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann for comments in a recent speech about when slavery ended in America. I don't disagree with Matthews' decision to call Bachmann out on her remarks that slavery was ended by the tireless efforts of the Founding Fathers. It's fair game to question elected representatives about whether they have a grasp on our country's history, as well as current events, to decide whether they're really qualified to represent their constituents. Bring on ...
'Morning Joe' and Eliot Spitzer Know How to Keep Women Quiet
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyIn her book "All Things at Once," Mika Brzezinski recalls fondly that getting her gig on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was like being "back at the Brzezinski family dinner table, fighting to make myself heard." We all know families where everyone must fight to have their voice register above the mealtime din. While news talk shows aren't the on-air equivalent of that family dinner table, two high-profile newswomen may as well be kids eating meals in their parents' homes again, because they're having a hard time getting a word in edgewise as they co-host shows. On "Morning Joe," the show's namesake, ...
John Boehner: Weeper of the House
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyOhio Congressman and House Speaker-elect John Boehner is our town crier. Not a cry-baby crier, but an 'It might be politically expedient to show my softer side' kind of crier. He cries when he talks about his childhood, his family, Iraq war veterans, schoolchildren, and how he's pulled himself up by his bootstraps to achieve his version of the American dream. He cried when he became the most powerful Republican in America and, most recently, he choked up when he was interviewed on "60 Minutes." So when did weepiness become the new power tool on Capitol Hill? Gone are the days when a man ...
Weren't Republican Women Supposed to Like Men -- and Act Like Ladies?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyAs others have noted, the hot trend among candidates on the campaign trail this year is questioning the other guy's sexuality. But that it's female candidates who are doing most of the ridiculing has me wondering whether those of us who've argued that more women on the political stage would raise the level of discourse weren't just plain wrong. And shouldn't we at least be asking whether there's any connection between these increasingly common taunts, from candidates who act like they're in the seventh grade, and the heartbreaking recent spate of bullying of and attacks on gay kids? Of ...
Brett Favre and the Sex Factor: Who's at Fault?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – By now the bombshell allegations involving Brett Favre and the graphic pictures and suggestive voice-mail messages he sent to a female New York Jets employee are the focus of an N.F.L. investigation, but a side issue is simmering once again: Do women ask for it? Last week, on Oct. 7, the Web site Deadspin.com reported that in 2008 when he was the Jets quarterback, Favre sent salacious photos and messages to Jenn Sterger, who at the time was a Jets game-day hostess. The accusations rippled through the sports world, where rumors about the Favre-Sterger episode had circulated ...
Girls With a Past? Christine O'Donnell and Krystal Ball Make No Apologies
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWe now live in a brave new world where the past – or the night before – catches up with you fast. Take the best name in politics – Krystal Ball, a Democrat who is running for Congress in Virginia. She's in hot water, but she might be emerging as the new face on the feminist front. Last week, photos of Ball, 28, were found on Facebook and posted by conservative bloggers. They showed Ball in a creative Santa outfit at a post-college Halloween house party. Tsk, tsk. In one, she wore a spaghetti-strap tank top, a skirt and a Santa hat while holding a sex toy. In another, she led ...
Krystal Ball: 'Making Female Politicians Into Whores Is Nothing New'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAbout a year ago, the nice people at Aol.welcome screen, who let so many of the site's users know about interesting stories here at Politics Daily, wondered if, as an uppity blogger at our ladies' blog WomanUP, I might want to make an argument that (future Sen.) Scott Brown had a sexist advantage. Brown, then a political newcomer, had posed in his 20s for Cosmopolitan Magazine in re-revealed naked pictures, but he had suffered no political damage. Could a woman in a public position have survived the news of such brazen sexuality in her past? Even with his Y-chromosome advantage, I wrongly ...
Meryl Streep on the Battle for a National Women's History Museum
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyThe scene: D.C.'s posh Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The event: A fundraiser for the National Women's History Museum, which exists in virtual form only, for now, but has been the dream of a number of ambitious, connected Washington, D.C. women for 14 years. Tuesday night, actress Meryl Streep, the museum's official spokesperson, wowed the audience with a sometimes winsome, sometimes angry, and other times hysterically funny speech about why it's taking so long for the women in Congress (all of whom support the museum) to convince the men in Congress to sign on. The museum's backers' sole desire ...
Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': They're Just Not That Into Lame Female Comics
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMeritocracies are brutal. You should know, since you yourself practiced a kind of meritocracy. As a child, you were bigger than the bug. Splat! Too bad for you, bug. How dare you exist. In the adult world, however, distinguishing between a true meritocracy and a prejudicial pattern of hiring is not so clear cut. In the last couple of weeks the Internet has been rippling with controversy over "The Daily Show's" lack of women -- "The Daily Show's Woman Problem," by Irin Carmon on jezebel.com, "Outrage World: How Feminist Blogs Like Jezebel Gin Up Page Views by Exploiting Women's Worst ...
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