Sexist Email Lands Brigadier General In Trouble

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“After meeting with Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) a commander of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division sent out emails describing the congresswoman as “smoking hot” and joked in another email to a male colleague that he had masturbated while thinking about her after their meeting. Those emails and other details of top military commanders “behaving badly” came out in a document dump reported by The Washington Post. In the case of Ellmers, the Post report details how Brigadier General Martin P. Schweitzer, then a colonel, described Ellmers as “smoking hot.” “Briefing went well . . . she was engaging . . . had done her homework. She wants us to know’ she stands with us and will work/push to get the Fort Bragg family [redacted],” an email from Schweitzer read…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/renee-ellmers-general-smoking-hot-emails

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