The Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday that women who work in the Obama White House made 18 percent less than their male colleagues in 2011.

The Republican National Committee is appropriating the Democrats’ “war on women” attack line being used against their candidates and throwing it back in their opponent’s faces jujitsu-style with a chilling new ad that features many female media personalities grilling the Obama administration over Bill Maher and his controversial remarks about women.

On Friday night’s Real Time, host Bill Maher punctuated his dissection of Thursday night’s Fox News/Google Republican Presidential Debate with a nasty sexist slam of moderator Megyn Kelly. Recapping one of Kelly’s questions, Maher referred to her simply as “this blonde twink.” Former Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman called Maher out over the remark, prompting him to resort to the familiar, idiotic defense that it’d be sexist for him not to insult Kelly.

Author Ron Suskind appeared on The Daily Show last night to promote his controversial new book Confidence Men which takes a pretty critical look at the first two years of the Obama administration. Host Jon Stewart continued the discussion beyond the time allotted for the third segment of the show, eventually publishing some very interesting dialog that never made air, like the following discussion of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Wall Street’s seemingly strange perception of President Obama.

Ron Suskind‘s new book Confidence Men has been making waves for its unflattering portrayal of an Obama White House replete with sexism and incompetence. Now, Suskind himself is in the spotlight… along with CNN’s Erin Burnett and a singer from Detroit. Sit back, grab a box of Jujubes, give us some, and then allow us to explain the strange, sad saga of Erin Burkett….

Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to defend his work against furious pushback from the White House. Host Joe Scarborough wondered what the White House was thinking with its denials, and Mika Brzezinski tried gamely to cross examine Suskind, which oddly paralleled the book’s complaints about the treatment of women. Embedded deep into the piece, though, was a factoid that could help explain why so many administration officials honestly feel they were given a raw deal by Suskind.

The pushback against Ron Suskind‘s upcoming (but leaked) book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President continued today, as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney fielded questions about some of the book’s tales of intrigue. Geithner flatly denied that he disregarded an order from the President, while Carney attacked the book as fundamentally unreliable, and possibly plagiarized from Wikipedia.

So far, it appears that ABC News is the only network to cover a controversial new book shedding a harsh light on the goings-on within Obama’s White House. On Monday, Good Morning America‘s George Stephanopoulos intoduced a segment on the book by calling Ron Suskind‘s Confidence Men nothing short of a “bombshell.” Jake Tapper then outlined the allegations contained therein, including charges of sexism, in-fighting among aides and general incompetence within the administration.