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Look for NOW to be setting up picket lines outside Rush's Southern Command, protesting the way Limbaugh has demeaned mature women, writing them off as the "hot-flash cohort." What an outrageous slur! You know, these right-wing men just don't -- What? It wasn't Rush? It was that avatar of elite liberal thought Tina Brown, writing in Newsweek? Never mind. Here's how Brown put it in Hillary and the Invisible Women [emphasis added]:

March 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This past Monday Oprah Winfrey, considered by many to be the world's most influential woman, began a ten-week long online course on the best-selling book, "A New Earth," by New Age guru, Eckhart Tolle. "A New Earth" has already sold some 3.5 million copies worldwide, thanks largely to the publicity given to it by Oprah. According to Oprah, 500,000 people from across the world signed on to the first segment of the online course, to spend an hour and a half listening to Ekhart and Oprah talking about chapter 1 of the book, and taking calls...

October 17, 2004BETA MALEFor Women Who Count on Men to Be Jerks By RICK MARIN EN are mysteries. We do inexplicable things, like not calling after a "really great date." Or dropping off the radar for no reason whatever. Sometimes we appear unwilling to commit, but then a year later marry another woman! Go figure. If only women could, many seem to believe, wedding bells would ring across the land. But what if women don't want to know the real reasons we won't call or suddenly vanish or marry someone else? What if — and I realize that I could...

Hyperbole of the day. Celebrating Oprah Winfrey’s 50th birthday, on Friday’s Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts proclaimed that she has “changed the way Americans think of themselves and the world.” For the “Picture of the Morning” segment at the end of the 7am half hour on the January 30 show, Roberts played a clip from Oprah’s syndicated program with scenes of John Travolta and Jay Leno saluting Oprah at her 50th birthday party during a taping of her show. Setting up the video, Roberts gushed: “Well wishers from all over the world weighed in with birthday greetings for the...