Rachel Maddow Is Right

[babylonsister]

[MichiganVote]

1. K&R

[orpupilofnature57]

2. +1

[hedgehog]

3. Once again - if my wages had kept pace, we'd be out of debt!

[Little Star]

4. k&r

[AtomicKitten]

5. Of course she's right and all the while the GOP claim there is no war on women.

It's a magic trick I tells ya.

[midnight]

6. K&R

[malaise]

7. ReTHUGS lie and lie and lie

He wouldn't even give her a minute to talk.

[Icicle]

8. Castellanos HAD to talk over her!

If he let her speak and make her point, it would make him look like an ass. Therefore, babble over the person who is speaking the truth.
Obstruct, obfuscate, lie, lie lie. That's all the Repubs have.

[malaise]

9. True - she's light years ahead of him

[pinboy3niner]

12. She handled him beautifully

Rachel is always sharp and on point. Well, except when she's talking about 'Boat Jail.'

[DCKit]

24. Yeah, I was shouting at the TeeVee.

Just goes to show how afraid they are of Rachel, or anyone else with those liberally biased "fact" thingies.

He was there to waste as much time as possible in order that the show would end before Rachel was able to make the argument. However, Rachel is smart enough to now realize how important this issue is to them, and she's going to use the hell out of it. They are struggling mightily with women, and "Teh War on Women" is going to hurt them badly in November.

Oh, and David Gregory is totally useless. He should be on the road "Rappin' With KKKarl Rove" instead of hosting what used to be one of the most prestigious Sunday shows - but that's his reward for cheerleading the WH based war criminals assess for eight years.

[thesquanderer]

10. It's a pretty uninformative headline...

...because basically you could post a new topic with that headline almost every day.

[babylonsister]

17. So sorry you found it uninformative. I'll try better next time. nt

[malaise]

18. Rachel is about to tear them a new one

Oh yes in 19 of the 20 jobs women lag behind

[malaise]

11. on Ed now n/t

[Brigid]

14. It was great!

You don't talk down to Rachel Maddow.

[Buns_of_Fire]

13. She usually is.

Of course, that's like saying "Mitt's a Twit" -- it was true yesterday, it's true today, and I'm pretty sure it'll be true tomorrow.

[burrowowl]

15. K&R

[krispos42]

16. Well, obviously, the women need to make more babies to boost their income.

The Romneys tell me this is employment, so it must be true.


Or something.

[hfojvt]

19. except she's not

comparing medians is not comparing people who are doing the same job. Reading an article yesterday, I found this

"It is worth noting that economists and sociologists who have examined this issue across a wider range of firms have tended to come to a similar conclusion: pay differences between men an women in the same narrowly-defined occupational categories within the same firm tend to be small. (Blau, 1977; Groshen, 1991; Peterson & Morgan, 1995; and Bayard, Hellerstein, Neumark, & Troske, 1999) However, even when men and women are in the same occupation, they tend to be segregated by firm, and such establishment segregation contributes substantially to the gender pay gap."

http://www.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/key_issues/gender_research.pdf

Except that comparing two people working for different companies is not comparing people who are doing the same job.

Of course "small" is a qualitative term. Does it mean 95 cents on the dollar, 99 cents on the dollar, 102 cents on the dollar, or what?

But no matter what, the 77 cents on the dollar is an apples to oranges comparison that is not generally accurate if one compares apples to apples.

[mopinko]

20. you might be able to sell that except for

that 275 to 1 (or whatever the exact number is) professions where women make less than men.
and working for "different companies" is easily influenced by gender. go to the ihop some time and see how many men are waiting tables there, and then go downtown and see how many women are working in the top tier restaurants. same job different companies? sure, that explains why they don't hire women to wait tables downtown.

[plcdude]

32. Rachel was referring

to equal pay for the same job not the graphic above. Forbes, the bastion of the liberal press had an interesting article on this during equal pay day, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/04/17/today-women-need-to-demand-equal-pay/

[stevedeshazer]

21. + Freaking One.

Sending to my daughter.

These men who believe that women don't deserve the same pay as men are ignoring that they have mothers, sisters, girlfriends, daughters and by the look of most of 'em, granddaughters included. And grandsons.

There are more women than men. Frankly, the only reason I can think of to keep women's pay down is because you really believe women should make less. Period. You think males are worth more. Sorry, my mom, grandmothers, aunts and cousins don't agree. They all worked just as hard as my nearly-as-industrious dad, uncles and grandmas.

Rachel is right.

[lonestarnot]

22. Yes she is!

[got root]

23. it's a sign of the times, and the miserable state of our M$M that this is even debatable

:shakes-head:

[pinboy3niner]

25. Of COURSE Rachel is right

She is almost always right. If she weren't, we'd probably have to send her to Boat Jail.

[malaise]

27. Here that segment from last night

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#47240009

[opihimoimoi]

26. KnR #50

[shcrane71]

28. It's unbelievable that anyone disputes this. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. Where are the manly men who are always showing up to tell us

that we women don't know what we're talking about?



stick it, dudes.

[bullwinkle428]

30. Fuck Alex Castellanos and the elephant he rode in on.

[felix_numinous]

31. I worked alongside men

for years (except for a government job that gave us a Gs rating) who made significantly more per hour than I did.

The ERA is past due!!!!! President Obama would totally rock if he passed this amendment, right?