He may be witty, he may be intelligent...

But in the end, Brian Williams is just another rich white male who doesn't get it and doesn't care. When asked by Hemisphere magazine to comment on the scarcity of women and non-whites in top jobs in news organizations, new NBC anchor replied: "We have bigger problems. There are no black members of the U.S. Senate. We should keep some perspective on this."

That is exactly the kind of thing that the "new" racist/sexist white man always says. "Women in this country don't know how good they have it." "Look how much money black entertainers and athletes make." And so on. The presumption that we will have black Senators (I guess Senator-elect Obama doesn't count) without first having black business and professional leaders is as big a piece of idiocy as you'll hear. Besides, most women and minority people don't want to be Senators. They want to rise in their chosen professions of teaching, banking stock brokerage, construction, pharmacy, and--yes-- radio and television.

There are no bigger problems for women and non-whites than being dismissed by people like Brian Williams.