[See NewsBusters for more.] Given the chance to press Nancy Pelosi on her fellow Democrat’s shocking sex joke at the expense of Kellyanne Conway, the journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday punted. Instead, they stuck to other topics as they talked to the House Minority leader. At a dinner last week, Congressman Cedric Richmond remarked on a photo of Conway kneeling on a couch in the White House, saying, “She really looked kind of familiar there in that position.”
Despite six and a half minutes of air time, the co-hosts never challenged Pelosi on the comments. In contrast, when Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in 2014 wrote a book detailing sexism from fellow colleagues, co-host Gayle King expressed outrage on her behalf: “Polls show that Americans have a very low opinion of Congress and this next story is probably not going to help that very much. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says fellow legislators made rude and sexist comments to her about her weight.”
