Catfights in Washington

On the Feministing blog this week blogger, Jessica, was very upset by the fact that ABC did a story on Nancy Pelosi. The problem being that the headline stated "Pelosi: Clinton Camp Played Gender Card." To add insult to injury, this was accompanied by a really fun graphic that seems to have really upset Jessica. She really believes that ABC is trying to create a catfight among these two powerful women.

It would seem that she is right. None of the quotations used from an interview with Pelosi indicate that she believed Clinton was playing the gender card. So why would ABC, a reputable news source spin the story this way? That pretty simple...It sells. Whether it is a man or a women surfing the net they are bound to click on that story. This post sort of paints this as a male generated tactic against Hilary and Nancy. This is where I would have to disagree with her. It would seem to me that these two fighting is much more interesting than what they actually believe.