Imus, Wallace react to Cokie Roberts comments

I wrote yesterday about Cokie Roberts' reaction to some locker room humor on the Don Imus radio program. (I'm shocked - shocked! - to learn that there is such low brow material on the Imus show.)

Today, Imus and his guest Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday tried to explain their joke, and in the process managed to insult Cokie by calling her measured comments on the issue "hysterical."

NPR's Cokie Roberts talks gender politics

Interesting interview with Cokie Roberts today on Tell Me More, an NPR program we don't air here in central Arkansas.

The topic: why so many male politicians keep getting caught up in sex scandals while so few women encounter the same fate. Roberts also discusses why female lawmakers can get along civilly when their male counterparts seem able only to shout insults across the aisle during contentious debate.

The program delved into some media analysis, with Cokie offering her reaction to a little locker-room humor engaged in by Don Imus and Fox News' Chris Wallace during a recent discussion of Sarah Palin:

It's appalling. It's just appalling.