Earlier this morning, Norah O'Donnell and MSNBC White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie opined that Nancy Killefer, who was withdrawing her nomination to be performance director at the Office of Management and Budget, faced a double standard because she was a woman.
O'Donnell mused that Killefer, who failed to pay about $1,000 in taxes, was being forced to withdraw because of her gender, while Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle, two other Obama nominees who also had failed to pay taxes, got to stay because they were men.
Now that Tom Daschle has withdrawn his nomination, O'Donnell's remarks seem even more ridiculous than they were when she first made them, even though they were pretty silly even then. Killefer withdrew her candidacy not because she was a woman, but because she was the THIRD Obama nominee who had failed to pay taxes! Had Killefer been the first presidential nominee whose tax problems had become public, she probably would have made it through. But this was about timing, not sexism. Three strikes and you're out, as they say.
Norah O'Donnell and Savannah Guthrie should know better than to cry sexism - which is a foul and reprehensible thing - when no such misbehavior exists, at least in this case.
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