Quote from CaptainObvious:
Yes, it is a double standard and a necessary one. Public figures should be expected to act in a professional manner, not like a bunch of adolescents in a locker room. In private...whatever.
I can't go to a company meeting, step up to the mike and call someone a fag, even as a joke. That'd be my job, and in a heartbeat.
But she HAS NO JOB...She is a commentator...if people don't like what she has to say, turn it off...don't like what she writes, don't read it.....Its kind if like the Rush Limbaugh debacle...I mean, what did you REALLY expect him to talk about? RACE or the Tampa 2 defense?
