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PMs & J-School Students

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

From Rabat, Morocco

Yesterday I had the great opportunity to meet with, and do some teaching to, women members of the Moroccan Parliament and, a little later in the day, the journalism school students who want to, one day, cover them.

This trip is sponsored by Legacy International through a grant from the U.S. Department of State.

It was not all that long ago that women members of Congress in the U.S were still an oddity, and women members of the Senate were a rarity. In the 113th Continue reading →

Civility Isn’t Easy

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

This will be a test. A civility test. I want to talk about this Rush Limbaugh v Bill Maher business of using really bad words to describe people they don’t agree with.

This is not a discussion about contraception or Obama-care or Women’s reproductive rights or free speech.

It will be a discussion about civility. Of which we are in dreadfully short supply these days.

Those of us who are professional political hacks – Republican and Democrat – have been taught since kindergarten that the way to win is to draw the starkest possible distinction between your candidate and your opponent.

If your opponent says it’s dawn, you claim the man was probably up partying until all hours and can’t tell day from night. If your opponent says it’s a nice day, you turn it into a full-blown attack on his belief that global warming is killing baby seals. Continue reading →