Milbank Recommends ‘Mad Bitch’ Beer to Hillary, WaPo Pulls Video

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank brewed up a mess of trouble for himself, yesterday, when a satirical video he appeared in stepped way over the line. The subject of the video was President Obama’s Thursday “Beer Summit” with Professor Henry Gates, Sgt. James Crowley, and Vice President Joe Biden.

In the clip, Milbank and Chris Cilizza crack wise about their beer choices, congratulating Gates for having the sensitivity not to order a “Big Black Stout,” and extend the premise to pair other politicians with quirkily-named lagers. In keeping with the juvenile tone, Cilizza spends the entire clip sitting in front of a sixpack of Hoegaarden.

Then, Milbank drops this line: “And we won’t tell you who’s getting a bottle of ‘Mad Bitch,’” followed by a picture of Hillary Clinton.

The Washington Post has since apologized and taken the video down.

It’s hard to imagine what Milbank was thinking, especially after the heat he took for allegedly calling Nico Pitney a name off-camera last month. That he targeted Secretary Clinton with such a powerful epithet could make this resonate far beyond an off-camera whisper.

While the video may have been taken down by WaPo, it will never truly disappear down the memory hole. Dana Milbank has some heavy-duty apologizing to do. Both Cilizza and Milbank ought to do some soul-searching, as well, about their feelings toward women. Earlier in the clip, Cilizza recommends that a former congressman, who’s being sued by his wife, drink some “Bitter woman.”

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