Anita Dunn, Obama’s former White House communications director who got in trouble after she revealed that Chairman Mao was one of her heroes, said that Obama’s White House met all the requirements of a “hostile workplace”:
A new book claims the Obama White House is a “hostile workplace” for women and a “boys’ club.”
“Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President” by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind discusses pervasive infighting within the administration, and quotes former White House communications director Anita Dunn as saying, “this place would be in court for a hostile workplace.”
“It actually fit all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women,” Dunn said.
You remember all the hell George Bush got when one of his communications people turned against him??? The media was ALL OVER THAT.
But of course a woman saying that Obama’s White House was a hostile workplace against women didn’t blame Bush. So who cared in the mainstream media??? You know, even though it was TRUE.
Hostile Workplace
Obama White House pays women less than men, records show
BY: Andrew Stiles – April 11, 2012 2:52 pmFemale employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
Calculating the median salary for each gender required some assumptions to be made based on the employee names. When unclear, every effort was taken to determine the appropriate gender.
The Obama campaign on Wednesday lashed out at presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney for his failure to immediately endorse the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, a controversial law enacted in 2009 that made it easier to file discrimination lawsuits.
President Obama has frequently criticized the gender pay gap, such as the one that exists in White House.
“Paycheck discrimination hurts families who lose out on badly needed income,” he said in a July 2010 statement. “And with so many families depending on women’s wages, it hurts the American economy as a whole.”
It is not known whether any female employees at the White House have filed lawsuits under the Ledbetter Act.
The president and his Democratic allies have accused Republicans of waging a “war on women,” and have touted themselves as champions of female equality. Obama’s rhetoric, however, has not always been supported by his actions.
White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters last week that Obama believes it is “long past the time” for women to be admitted to the traditionally all-male Augusta National Golf Club, site of the Masters golf tournament.
But the president has demonstrated a strong preference for all-male foursomes in his frequent golf outings, a bias that extends well beyond the putting green and into the Oval Office.
“Women are Obama’s base, and they don’t seem to have enough people who look like the base inside of their own inner circle,” former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers told the New York Times.
In a 2011 article titled “The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama Has a Woman Problem,” TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan detailed the president’s fondness for male-dominated environments.
“There’s a looseness to Obama when he’s hanging out with the boys club that doesn’t appear in co-ed gatherings,” she wrote. “The president blows off steam on the golf course with male colleagues and friends. He takes to the White House basketball court with NBA stars, men’s college players, and male cabinet members and members of Congress.”
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama was criticized for paying the women on his campaign staff less than the men, and far less than GOP opponent John McCain paid his female staffers.
Obama is such a hypocrite it is utterly unreal. But he doesn’t have to worry about being exposed; he’s got the most hypocritical media propaganda since Joseph Goebbels was running Hitler’s press to take care of him.
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Start Thinking Right 
April 12, 2012 at 5:30 am
I’m going to assume you dislike President Obama from the angle of this post. However, does he decide what pay scale his employees are paid on?
April 12, 2012 at 1:02 pm
mlcharles,
I’m going to assume that you are a true hypocrite and if women in the GEORGE BUSH White House were paid only 4/5ths of what men were paid you’d be beyond outraged.
I have a feeling we are very probably both correct in one another’s assumptions.
It’s amazing the ocean of hypocrisy I get from those who hated Bush. Your messiah Obama’s soul swims in that hypocrisy: this is a man who demonized George Bush as “irresponsible” and as “unpatriotic” and as a “failed leader” for seeking a debt ceiling extension – which is pretty amazing given that Obama then turned around and demanded THE THREE HIGHEST DEBT CEILING INCREASES in the history of the entire human race. Just as one example.
It’s long past time for you Democrats to eat your own poisonous porridge, mlcharles.
P.S. I guess because those underpaid White House women are working rather than “not living in the real world” by attending to their homes and their children at least makes them worthy of life in your mind – unlike “the current Democrat war on women” via Ann Romney.