From Lisa DeMoraes' column in today's Post. It truly baffles me that anyone with enough money, influence and power to get a show on the air with a major network would display such a lack of knowledge of history, both of the U.S. and the world.
Link: ABC's 'Chief,' Politicked Off.
[Rod] Lurie thinks it a shame there are no "iconic" women in history because women do have greatness in them. Apparently he skipped the Elizabethan era in English history, but we took his point that there are fewer such women than men. Lurie named George Washington, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln as examples of iconic men.
So far so good.
If only he hadn't followed it with:
"Try to find an iconic woman. There aren't any. The most iconic woman is Oprah Winfrey, and she deserves it."
Even someone who paid next-to-no attention during high school history classes should be able to toss off a couple of iconic women from the past couple centuries. Madame Curie. Mother Teresa. Margaret Thatcher. Eleanor Roosevelt. Susan B. Anthony. Sacajawea. Queen Victoria.
Of course, none of them had Tom Cruise jumping up and down on their couch.
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