Comments on: Did the Secret Service Director Get Pushed Off the Glass Cliff? http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: a http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594749 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:19:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594749 Colombia, no U.

]]> By: lol http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594497 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:12:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594497 unlike your mom

]]> By: Bill R http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594488 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:54:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594488 That’s even more silly than the straightforward sexist argument.

]]> By: Larry Charles Wilson http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594487 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:38:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594487 Thinking that women are better problem solvers than men is sexist.

]]> By: Larry Charles Wilson http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594486 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:37:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594486 Does gender affect the credibility of the article?

]]> By: Dave http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594481 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:46:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594481 Yup, that was my point.

]]> By: starryharlequin http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594479 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:50:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594479 And how was “she was handed a broken organization and didn’t fix it” a counterargument to what is written in the post? The argument is not “she was pushed out because she is a woman”; the argument is “because she is a woman, she was more likely to get a chance at the job when whoever took it next–male OR female–would probably fail.”

]]> By: Bill R http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594469 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:22:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594469 Thanks. A typo. The remainder of my post stands.

]]> By: DLX http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594468 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:00:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594468 That the pronouns used to describe her in the post are incorrect, one surmises…

]]> By: Larry Charles Wilson http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594467 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:40:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594467 And your point is…?

]]> By: Dave http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594466 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:34:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594466 Bryce Covert is a woman.

]]> By: Bill R http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/11/05/did-the-secret-service-director-get-pushed-off-the-glass-cliff/comment-page-1/#comment-594464 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:48:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=64582#comment-594464 Please. My 6-year old Shepherd won’t let anyone on “his” lawn he doesn’t know. Why can’t a couple million dollars of trained talent do that?

The Secret Service is a national embarrassment and a second-rate operation, and Pierson didn’t fix it–or at least didn’t fix it in time to save herself from the crash of the political machine.

Philosopher-social critic-“journalist” types like Bruce Covert writing articles like this for papers like the New Republic make me laugh. They sell mind games to the faithful and related wing-nuts who want to believe everyone’s got a specific ulterior motive.

Pierson is out of there because the operation is a failure and politicians on the right had the power to force the issue to embarrass the administration. Period.

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