Some excerpts of a good piece brought to my attention courtesy of
Ms. Dorothy Snarker

"We want certain things from our newscasters. We want them to be honest, we want them to be fair, we want them to be intelligent, and we want them to be just attractive enough to spend an hour or so in our living rooms every evening. This poses a bit of a problem for CBS foreign correspondent Lara Logan.

If you read The Washington Post earlier this week, all you'd really know about Lara is that she is pregnant by a married man. Columnist Howard Kurtz wrote what amounts to a tawdry tabloid tell-all masquerading as serious journalism. We learn that she has been separated from her husband for a long time, and then started seeing her current partner, a federal contractor who is also separated from his wife...He then reassures us that Lara and her partner “plan to get married eventually.” Whew, what a relief — I couldn't possibly get my news from an unwed mother who was living in sin.

The trouble for Lara really started last month with her appearance on The Daily Show. Watch the whole interview and you see a smart, strong, tough, tenacious, passionate and pointed woman who represents everything you want in a good reporter. She's also funny and cusses like a sailor.

If I were to watch the news that you hear in the United States, I'd just blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts.

Of course this kind of real straight-talk express didn't sit well with the right-wing pundits. They started to go after Lara in droves after her Daily Show appearance. I guess when they couldn't find any flaws in her actual reporting, they went straight for her private life. Ah, the old “Don't listen to her, she's a tramp” defense. That Madonna/whore complex just never goes out of style.

You know, it's not like there aren't countless male newscasters with complicated private lives. Bill O'Reilly (loofah, anyone?), Keith Olbermann (a 25-year age difference with his 24-year-old live-in girlfriend) and Anderson Copper (come Out, come Out wherever you are) spring immediately to mind. But do they get the Woodward and Bernstein treatment from The Washington Post about their bedroom behavior? Of course not. Men have clearly separated personal and professional lives. That is just understood.

The sad truth is that some men simply don't know what to do with a beautiful woman who insists on having brains, so they either dismiss her as dumb or brand a hussy. Lara is neither. She's just a damn good reporter."

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