{"id":1267,"date":"2004-12-17T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T01:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/17\/must-be-a-male-with-republican-stripes\/"},"modified":"2004-12-17T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T01:43:54","slug":"must-be-a-male-with-republican-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Must be a male with Republican stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a column in today’s Washington Post<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Job Alert! There’s an excellent job opportunity at media giant Viacom International Inc., which owns CBS among other things, judging from an e-mail we just got from Gail MacKinnon, Viacom vice president for government relations.<\/p>\n

MacKinnon sent the note Tuesday to House Republican offices and to the offices of GOP Sens. John Ensign (Nev.), Gordon Smith (Ore.) and George Allen (Va.).<\/p>\n

“Subject: Looking to fill a position in our office<\/p>\n

“Importance: High We need to hire a junior lobbyist\/PAC manager. Attached is a job description. Salary is $85-90K. Must be a male with Republican stripes.<\/p>\n

“If you know of anyone who might be interested in interviewing for this position, would you please let me know? Thanks so much. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday.”<\/p>\n

Unclear where the stripes are to be located.<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember, this sort of thing never happens anymore, and hasn’t happened for decades, if you listen to the anti-feminists. That aside, three things are particularly striking about this:<\/p>\n

First, Viacom isn’t worried about emailing a request for collusion in breaking anti-discrimination laws to three Republican sentator. Viacom sees no danger anyone in that corner will object, I presume.<\/p>\n

Second, a Washington Post <\/i>columnist reprints the Viacom email and says nothing about the illegal sex discrimination.<\/p>\n

And third, this is one hell <\/i>of a great job, and it’s open to applicants only through back channels. And only if they’re male, of course. It’s the old-boy network in action (in this case a little oddly, since the VP who wrote <\/i>the request is a woman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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