Fox News: Conservative women are more scrutinized by the media

Not only is Fox News doing ridiculous high school popularity polls between Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin (in which shockingly, Fox News viewers favored Palin over Pelosi), but co-host Gretchen Carlson adds that Pelosi still doesn’t get much “scrutiny” because “if you’re a conservative woman, you get more attacks.”

In response, Media Matters put together some of the lovely references that Fox has made towards Pelosi, rehashed by Think Progress. Let’s see…

– On the November 10 edition of Fox and Friends, for instance, radio host Laura Ingraham said that “Pelosi basically did everything except sell her own body” to pass health care reform.
– On Nov. 4 on the O’Reilly Factor, Dennis Miller said Pelosi had a “sub-reptilian intellect” and likened her face to a “lizard laying on a hot rock.”
– On October 30, Fox and Friends laughingly re-enacted protesters calling for Pelosi to “burn in hell.”
– On October 21, Bill O’Reilly mocked Pelosi, saying, “If there wan’t Botox involved, with all due respect, there might have been more expression” on her face.
– On August 6, Glenn Beck joked about putting poison in Pelosi’s wine.
– On May 20, Hannity guest Jay Thomas said, “I think if you waterboarded Nancy Pelosi, she wouldn’t admit to plastic surgery.”
– On May 19, Dennis Miller called her a “train wreck” and a “shrieking harridan magpie.”

Just to further debunk this “liberal woman are attacked less” nonsense, let’s also not forget about our Hillary Sexism Watch during the primaries. Not to say Palin wasn’t subjected to sexist bullshit too, but come on, Fox – this one was just too easy.