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Yesterday NBC Nightly News called for an interview. They were producing a segment on the White House’s newly released report on Women in America â€" “a statistical portrait” of “how women are fairing in the United States today.”

Despite a lengthy interview with Savannah Guthrie, I later learned that NBC cut me from the segment. It’s television, I g! et it, and things change. My ego is less bruised, however, than my respect for network news. The segment that ensued was terrible.

The show included a rundown of the report, clips from an interview with White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett, and a series of ill-informed “woman-on-the-street” opinions about the “wage gap.”

Good grief. Really?

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