Keller @ Large: Spare Us The Useless, Repulsive Nonsense

April 13, 2012 12:00 AM
Keller @ Large: Spare Us The Useless, Repulsive Nonsense
" BOSTON (CBS) – Hilary Rosen, the Democratic talking head who made a fool of herself on CNN Wednesday night by suggesting that stay-at-home mom Ann Romney has “never worked a day in her life” and, thus, has “never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues a majority of women in this country are facing,” is a classic example of the type of smarmy partisan that dominate the cable TV political debate these days.

Listen to Jon’s commentary:

You can find plenty of them on the right, crowding the set at Fox News with their pre-fabricated talking points smearing the Obamas every bit as unfairly as the likes of Rosen are trying to do to the Romneys.

These are the water-carriers for the politics of resentment, knee-jerk stereotyping, character assassination, and gratuitous over-simplification of complicated issues.

And while slack-jawed partisans on either side seem to gobble this gruel up, I can assure you, it nauseates the rest of us.

Yesterday, for my report on Channel 4, I went over to the Fresh Pond Mall in Cambridge to sample reaction to the spat from mothers and other women "

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