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Obama pays women in the White House LESS than men.
And Alan Colmes says it isn’t Mr Obama’s fault.
Of course it isn’t. Mr Obama is perfection personified.
From TownHall.com:
Alan Colmes: It Isn’t Obama’s Fault His White House Pays Women Less Than Men
by Katie Pavlich
During his State of the Union address last night, President Obama said it was an “embarrassment” that in today’s American society women get paid less than men, ignoring the fact that his White House pays women less than men. Obama even went so far as comparing today’s offices with those of a Madmen episode. If you’re not familiar, Madmen is a show based in the 1960s.
Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
Immured on video, it is:
Listen to the video. Brain surgeon Alan Colmes says that — as per normal — Mr Obama is blameless (clueless, is more like it) because he isn’t setting the salaries for the women working there. Let me guess: one mention of this disparity in any public venue at all would have the HR bean counters resetting their salaries for women. One mention. That’s all it would take.
Instead, Obama either 1) doesn’t know, and/or 2) couldn’t care less. Ignorance or arrogance. Take your pick.
And the IWF — Independent Women’s Forum — weighed in:
Fortunately, however, this commonly repeated claim is false. There is no evidence that women are routinely paid a fraction of what men make for the same work, or that discrimination drives statistical differences between men and women’s earnings.
The Department of Labor statistic underlying the “wage gap” claim simply compares a full-time working man’s median wages with those of a full-time working woman, ignoring the many factors that affect earnings, including number of hours worked, industry, years of experience, and education, to name but a few. When such information is taken into account, the wage gap shrinks, and in some cases even reverses.
Feminist groups disserve women by promoting the false idea that the U.S. workplace is overwhelmingly sexist. It encourages unnecessary meddling from the federal government, which could limit women’s job opportunities and workplace flexibility, and discourages women from fully pursuing their ambitions.
Check that: “it encourages unnecessary meddling from the federal government.”
Bang ding ow! A resounding slap in the face to Leftists from the IWF.
Nicely played. And true.
BZ
P.S.
I’m very sorry about the graphic above. Very, very sorry. I apologize. It’s rude and I apologize from the bottom of my heart, most sincerely.
Obama’s State of the Union speech, 2014:
A comment from a journalist who happens to be black:
Great Caesar’s Ghost
On the nauseating spectacle that is the State of the Union address
The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen to a speech with no content given by a man with no content, to rise and to be seated as is called for by the order of worship — it is a wonder they have not started genuflecting — with one wretched representative of their number squirreled away in some well-upholstered Washington hidey-hole in order to preserve the illusion that those gathered constitute a special class of humanity without whom we could not live.
It’s the most nauseating display in American public life — and I write that as someone who has just returned from a pornographers’ convention.
It’s worse than the Oscars.
Many times worse, I’d posit. Because it’s not about a number of so-called “artistes,” but about ONE MAN.
Please read the entire article here.
BZ
P.S.
Full text of the speech is available here.
Obama: my approval ratings are down because Caucasoids are racist
[And isn’t this a perfect post for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day — a situation that dishonors MLK.]
From Bloomberg.com:
Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports
President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today.
“There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition.
But this time it’s not an Obama Minion claiming this.
It’s Obama Himself, throwing down the pettiest and cheapest card ever.
I am so tired of the hackneyed, puerile, obvious, cheap and patronizing old saw that Caucasoids are racist simply because of their melanin. I’d posit the reverse about blacks, having voted skin color over competence in 2008 and again in 2012. I am so over that trite card — the race card.
It’s what gets played when Obama — and his sycophants — have no other move. It’s what defense attorneys do in court when they lack a cogent argument and the facts and the case go against them: the cheap and personal attack.
Which is why I shall continue to point out the obvious on my blog: blacks can be every bit — or more — racist than Caucasoids.
And: they’ve got the GOWPs and the AMM in their pockets.
BZ
Senior UK Defense Advisor: Obama Is Clueless About ‘What He Wants To Do In The World’
Facts in evidence, I’d say.
From TheDailyBeast.com:
Sir Hew Strachan, an expert on the history of war, says that the president’s strategic failures in Afghanistan and Syria have crippled America’s position in the world.
President Obama is “chronically incapable” of military strategy and falls far short of his predecessor George W. Bush, according to one of Britain’s most senior military advisors.
Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the Defense Staff, told The Daily Beast that the United States and Britain were guilty of total strategic failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Obama’s attempts to intervene on behalf of the Syrian rebels “has left them in a far worse position than they were before.”
The extraordinary critique by a leading advisor to the United States’ closest military ally comes days after Obama was undermined by the former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who questioned the President’s foreign policy decisions and claimed he was deeply suspicious of the military.
Mr Obama is an uninvolved “leader” of the Western World, who believes that the WW and in particular the United States needs to atone for past “sins” up to and including the simple guilty possession of heretofore unmatched power on the planet.
Obama is an overpaid and over-esteemed empty suit.
BZ