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Authors: Kirsten Powers

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34
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Jim Morrill, “Barber defends ‘Dummy’ remark,”
Charlotte Observer,
January 23, 2014, available at
NCSpin.com
,
http://www.ncspin.com/barber-defends-dummy-remark/
.

35
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Ben Terris, “The Undercover Senator: Tim Scott Goes Anecdote Shopping in South Carolina,”
Washington Post
, May 7, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-undercover-senator-sen-tim-scott-goes-anecdote-shopping-in-south-carolina/2014/05/06/98e534b0-cbb9-11e3-93eb-6c0037dde2ad_story.html
.

36
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Adolph L. Reed Jr., “The Puzzle of Black Republicans,”
New York Times
, December 18, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/opinion/the-puzzle-of-black-republicans.html?_r=0
.

37
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Michelle Malkin, “Blocked by Alec Baldwin; Plus: Laughing at Liberal Hate,”
MichelleMalkin.com
, September 23, 2011,
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/23/blocke/
.

38
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Andrew Johnson, “Spanish-Language Paper Calls Gomez a LINO,” National Review Online, June 4, 2013,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/350132/spanish-language-paper-calls-gomez-lino-andrew-johnson
.

39
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Sean Sullivan, “New Mexico Dem Criticized for Saying Gov. Martinez ‘Does Not Have a Latino Heart,’”
Washington Post
, September 10, 2014,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/10/new-mexico-dem-criticized-for-saying-gov-martinez-does-not-have-a-latino-heart/
.

40
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Z. Byron Wolf, “Harry Reid Doesn’t Get Hispanic Republicans,” ABC News, August 11, 2010,
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/08/harry-reid-doesnt-get-hispanic-republicans/
.

41
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Juan Williams,
Muzzled
:
The Assault on Honest Debate
(New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2012).

42
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Michelle Malkin, “Conservative Women Finally React with Force to Attacks of Feminists,”
Lubbock Avalanche
-
Journal
, April 13, 2012,
http://lubbockonline.com/editorial-columnists/2012-04-14/malkin-conservative-women-finally-react-force-attacks-feminists#.VOqvEylUXjQ
.

43
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Naomi Wolf, “Are Opinions Male?”
New Republic
, November 29, 1993.

44
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Derek Hunter, “Progressives Make Sexist Twitter Smears about Combat Veteran Joni Ernst,” Daily Caller, January 20, 2015,
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/20/progressives-make-sexist-twitter-smears-about-combat-veteran-joni-ernst/
.

45
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Katie Glueck, “Tom Harkin: Joni Ernst as Pretty as Taylor Swift? So What?,”
Politico
, updated November 3, 2014,
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/2014-iowa-elections-tom-harkin-joni-ernst-taylor-swift-112433.html#ixzz3PgSeeW1
.

46
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Howard Kurtz, “A Blogger, a Baby, a Cry of Concern,”
Washington Post
, September 2, 2008,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/01/AR2008090102983_pf.html
.

47
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Paul Farhi, “Ed Schultz suspended from MSNBC after Calling Laura Ingraham a ‘Right Wing Slut’,”
Washington Post
, May 26, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ed-schultz-suspended-from-msnbc-after-calling-laura-ingraham-a-right-wing-slut/2011/05/26/AGOcV2BH_story.html
.

48
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Keith Olbermann, “On So Many Levels She’s a Perfect Demonstration of the Necessity of the Work Planned Parenthood Does,” Twitter, April 14, 2011,
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/58582265495683072
.

49
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Brad Wilmouth, “Olbermann: Without ‘Fascistic Hatred,’ Malkin Is Just a ‘Mashed-Up Bag of Meat with Lipstick,’” MRC NewsBusters, October 13, 2009,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/10/13/olbermann-without-fascistic-hatred-malkin-just-mashed-bag-meat-lipsti#sthash.EORqTsri.dpuf
.

50
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“Maher Refuses to Apologize for Calling Palin C-Word,” Fox News, no date,
http://nation.foxnews.com/sarah-palin/2011/03/29/maher-refuses-apologize-calling-palin-c-word
.

51
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Kate Sheppard, “19 Percent of Congress Is Female. Why Not Half?,”
Mother Jones
, November 20, 2012.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/19-percent-congress-women-why-not-half
.

52
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See Kirsten Powers, “Rush Limbaugh Isn’t the Only Media Misogynist,” Daily Beast, March 4, 2012,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html
.

53
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Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, “FCC Should Clear Limbaugh from Airwaves,” CNN, March 12, 2012,
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/10/opinion/fonda-morgan-steinem-limbaugh/
.

54
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egalia, “Gloria Steinem on Bill Maher’s Real Time Tonight,”
Tennessee Guerilla Women
, March 4, 2011,
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2011/03/gloria-steinem-on-bill-mahers-real-time.html
; Alec Jacobs, “Ezzy Klein Goes to Hollywood,” FishbowlDC at Adweek Network, March 4, 2011,
http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/ezzy-klein-goes-to-hollywood/33696?red=dc
.

55
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“Jeffrey Meyer, Andrea Mitchell to GOP Strategist: You’re Anti-Abortion, Not Pro-Life,” MRC NewsBusters, January 9, 2013,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/01/09/andrea-mitchell-gop-strategist-you-re-anti-abortion-not-pro-life
.

56
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Nina Burleigh, “The Best and the Rightest,”
Elle
, August 12, 2011,
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a12323/female-conservativism/
.

57
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“Carter again Cites Racism as Factor in Obama’s Treatment,” CNN, September 17, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/15/carter.obama/index.html?eref=ib_us
.

58
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Alan Duke, “Redford: Women, Young People Must Save U.S. from Men ‘Behaving Stupidly,’” CNN, October 16, 2013,
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/showbiz/robert-redford-all-is-lost/index.html
.

59
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Edward Walsh, “Panel Split Over ‘Scumbag’ Comment,”
Washington Post
, April 22, 1998,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/burton042298.htm
.

60
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Bob Nightengale, “40 Years Later, Hank Aaron’s Grace a Beauty to Behold,”
USA Today
, April 8, 2014,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/07/hank-aaron-40th-anniversary-of-715-home-run-babe-ruth/7432225/?sf24769494=1
.

61
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Geoffrey Dickens, “The Top 20 Worst Chris Matthews Quotes Calling Obama Critics Racists,” MRC NewsBusters, November 7, 2013,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2013/11/07/top-20-worst-chris-matthews-quotes-calling-obama-critics-racist
.

62
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Chuck Todd and Carrie Dann, “Landrieu on Obama: South Not Always ‘Friendliest Place for African-Americans,” NBC News, October 30, 2014,
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-voters/landrieu-obama-south-not-always-friendliest-place-african-americans-n237826
.

63
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Linda Feldmann, “Landrieu’s Last Stand: Why Deep South White Democrats Are Vanishing,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 5, 2014,
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1205/Landrieu-s-last-stand-why-Deep-South-white-Democrats-are-vanishing
.

64
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Melinda Deslatte and Bill Barrow, “Senate’s Last Deep South Democrat Ousted in Runoff Election,” PBS, December 7, 2014,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/senates-last-deep-south-democrat-ousted-runoff-election/
.

65
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Deirdre Walsh, “Last White Democrat from Deep South Loses Congressional Seat,” CNN, updated November 5, 2014,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/05/politics/last-southern-white-democrat-in-congress/
.

66
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Aaron Blake, “Louisiana Democratic Chair: Opposition to Obamacare Is about Race,”
Washington Post
, May 29, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/29/louisiana-democratic-chair-opposition-toobamacare-is-about-race/
.

67
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Andrew Kaczynski, “Democratic Congressman Makes Shocking Racial Comments about Republicans, Clarence Thomas, Mitch McConnell,” Fox News, no date,
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/04/30/democratic-congressman-makes-shocking-racial-comments-about-republicans-clarence-thomas
.

68
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Burgess Everett, “Jay Rockefeller, Ron Johnson Duel over ‘Race Card,’”
Politico
, updated May 23, 2014,
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/jay-rockefeller-john-johnson-race-106983.html
.

69
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Kathryn A. Wolfe, “Jay Rockefeller: Some Obama Foes Think He’s the ‘Wrong Color,’”
Politico
, updated May 21, 2014,
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/jay-rockefeller-barack-obama-106401.html
.

70
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Robert Scheer, “Racism and Cruelty: What’s Behind the GOP’s Healthcare Agenda?,”
Nation
, October 8, 2013,
http://www.thenation.com/article/176540/racism-and-cruelty-whats-behind-gops-healthcare-agenda#
.

71
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Sarah Kliff, “It’s Official: The Feds Will Run Most Obamacare Exchanges,”
Washington Post
, February 18, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/18/its-official-the-feds-will-run-most-obamacare-exchanges/
.

72
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Robert Schlesinger, “DNC Chair: Romney Welfare Attacks Are Racist,”
U
.
S
.
News
&
World Report
, August 30, 2012,
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/08/30/dnc-chair-romney-welfare-attacks-are-racist
.

73
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Al Sharpton, “Attorney General Eric Holder Has Been ‘Stopped and Frisked,’” Huffington Post, August 20, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-al-sharpton/eric-holder-contempt-fast-and-furious_b_1613079.html
.

74
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Tom Kertscher, “In Context: Were Paul Ryan’s Poverty Comments a ‘Thinly Veiled Racial Attack’?,” PolitiFact, March 14, 2014,
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/mar/14/context-paul-ryans-poverty-comments-racial-attack/
.

75
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Paul Krugman, “That Old-Time Whistle,”
New York Times
, March 16, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/opinion/krugman-that-old-time-whistle.html
.

76
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Paul Krugman, “The Town Hall Mob,”
New York Times
, August 6, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07krugman.html
.

77
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Noah Rothman, “Matthews on Tea Party Claiming Will of ‘American People’: ‘Do They Still Count Blacks as 3/5ths?,’”
Mediaite
, October 17, 2013,
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/matthews-on-tea-party-claiming-will-of-american-people-do-they-still-count-blacks-as-35ths/
.

78
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Elias Isquith, “Charlie Rangel: Tea Party Is Made Up of ‘Mean, Racist People’ from Former ‘Slave-Holding’ States,”
Salon.com
, March 19, 2014,
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/19/charlie_rangel_tea_party_is_made_up_of_mean_racist_people_from_former_slave_holding_states/
.

79
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“Olbermann: Racism Is in the Tea Party’s Heart,” RealClearPolitics, March 23, 2010,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/03/23/olbermann_racism_is_in_the_tea_partys_heart.html
.

80
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Ryan Grim and Luke Johnson, “Is the Tea Party Racist? Ask Some Actual, Out-of-the-Closet Racists,” Huffington Post, updated November 5, 2013,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/tea-party-racist_n_4158262.html
.

81
.
    
Colbert I. King, “The Tea Party Resurrects the Spirit of the Old Confederacy,”
Washington Post
, October 4, 2013,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/colbert-king-the-tea-party-resurrects-the-spirit-of-the-old-confederacy/2013/10/04/95b37f6e-2c7b-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html
.

82
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Kenneth T. Walsh, “Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests,”
U
.
S
.
News
&
World Report
, March 2, 2011,
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/03/02/obama-says-race-a-key-component-in-tea-party-protests?page=3
.

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