It is blatantly obvious that the media have been misreporting the Google memo story that broke earlier this week.
The memo, written by now-former Google employee James Damore on "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," dared to question his company's commitment diversity before pointing out the natural differences between men and women. However, the media has been pitching his statement as a "manifesto" against women in the tech industry.
Mary Katherine Ham of The Federalist was not about to take it. In an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, she gave an epic eye-roll to CNN host Brook Baldwin's wildly inaccurate statement regarding Damore's alleged sexism.
— Brian Willett (@brianjwillett) August 8, 2017
The interview started out normally. Ham answered Baldwin's question by saying that she did not think Damore should have been fired from Google for his innocuous memo.
"I actually quibble a bit with the characterization of this piece of writing that I don't think was either anti-diversity or a screed," she said. "That doesn't mean I agree with all of it. There were some eye-rolling parts of it."
After Baldwin heard the counter point from Liz Plank of Vox, she returned to Ham. Baldwin actually said Damore "was essentially saying 'I don't really like women anywhere near a computer,'" to which Ham gave the most epic of eye-rolling, confused faces, as if to say "oh my gosh, what are you even talking about, girl!?"
And really, a statement like that deserves it.
When Baldwin doubled down on her remark, Ham responded a bit more formally "I totally disagree with the characterization that that is what he is saying."
With statements like Baldwin's, it is really getting difficult to take the media seriously.
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