the statistics the president used to day were thrown back at jay carney. after according to an analyst, the median salary of women working in the white house is 88% of that of men working in the white house. you would say there is no pay discrimination here at the white house, right? there is no pay discrimination at the white house? is that your it is absolutely the case there is equal pay for equal work. but you are using the same metric to argue there is pay discrimination in the work force at large? explain to me why the metric works in the economy at large but doesn t work here at the white house. again, the fact that there is, indisputable census data that women earn 77 cents on the dollar that men earn. a lot of things go into the discrepancy. discrimination, lack of transparency, inability of women to find out what they re paid
cents for every dollar a man earns. the statistics the president used to day were thrown back at jay carney. after according to an analyst, the median salary of women working in the white house is 88% of that of men working in the white house. you would say there is no pay discrimination here at the white house, right? there is no pay discrimination at the white house? is that your it is absolutely the case there is ookabequal pay for equ work. but you are using the same metric to argue there is pay discrimination in the work force at large? explain to me why the metric works in the economy at large but doesn t work here at the white house. again, the fact that there is, indisputable census data that women earn 77 cents on the dollar that men earn. a lot of things go into the discrepancy. discrimination, lack of
the congressman s embrace of religious values in his campaign. he says i know his beliefs when he ran one of his commercials he said i need your prayers. i asked, when did you get religious? he said when i needed votes. he broke out the religious card. he is about the most nonreligious person i know. e.j., another component of this. running on religion. itch voters are going to make voting decisions based on religious claims by guys like this, they are simply begging to be lied to. you know, talking. i think both of us have known politicians who are genuinely religious. some occasionally talk about it. some don t talk about it at all. and i think that what, the problem, the line that has been crossed is, we seem, at least in some districts, some voters, don t want to vote for somebody unless they are religious. unless they make public displays
he says i know his beliefs when he ran one of his commercials he said i need your prayers. i asked, when did you get religious? he said when i needed votes. he broke out the religious card. he is about the most nonreligious person i know. e.j., another component of this. running on religion. itch voters are going to make voting decisions based on religious claims by guys like this, they are simply begging to be lied to. you know, talking. i think both of us have known politicians who are genuinely religious. some occasionally talk about it. some don t talk about it at all. and i think that what, the problem, the line that has been crossed is, we seem, at least in some districts, some voters, don t want to vote for somebody unless they are religious. unless they make public displays of religion. when people talk too much about how religious they are.
realizing he is focused on traditional marriage. puts his family values front and center in every aspect. in by yoe in his bio. campaign issues. every aspect of becoming a politician and getting to congress. so you look at that. you say this guy is a hypocrite. and, there is that piece. and then the other piece that i think is a sort of extenuating circumstance here, the fact it is a staffer. this is some one who is underneath him in terms of the power structure. so, it is, a typical sort of power dynamic that we don t know what went into this relationship. it is a troubling circumstance. i think for a lot of people. e.j., dion, you are here, we need french sophistication when a subject like this comes up. you know, i don t want to retreat into the provincial american, puritanical view of these things. but here is, here is the guy coming fresh off a political campaign. he was campaigning on supporting