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Rhiannon12866

(204,804 posts)
Fri May 10, 2019, 12:32 AM May 2019

The Daily Show: Female Candidates Fight to Break the Airtime Glass Ceiling



Desi Lydic examines why female presidential candidates receive less air time than their male counterparts and still have to deal with misogynistic media commentary in the run up to 2020.


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The Daily Show: Female Candidates Fight to Break the Airtime Glass Ceiling (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2019 OP
If there is one thing that will keep me watching the Daily Show... kag May 2019 #1
Desi and Roy Wood Jr. are my favorite correspondents Rhiannon12866 May 2019 #2

kag

(4,078 posts)
1. If there is one thing that will keep me watching the Daily Show...
Fri May 10, 2019, 02:49 AM
May 2019

it's Desi Lydic. She is awesome!

Okay, Trevor is pretty great too, but...

Rhiannon12866

(204,804 posts)
2. Desi and Roy Wood Jr. are my favorite correspondents
Fri May 10, 2019, 02:58 AM
May 2019

Smart and funny! And of course I really like Trevor, too - I particularly like when he gets a chance to show off his talent for impressions, LOL.

And I remember the first time I saw Desi. It was a very unusual show during the campaign when Trevor was broadcasting from an underground basement - saying this was what the world had become because Trump was elected - and he was still doing the show, just in case anyone could still hear him. Desi was his lone correspondent, reporting on the fate of women under a Trump presidency. She said she was allowed to eat something that day because she had risen in status from a "5" to a "6." I'd love to see a repeat of that show...

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