Conservative Pop Culture Fail, part eleventy bazillion:

Newsbusters Fails to Grasp Chris Hayes ‘Girl Talk’ Reference

An off-hand reference to music mashup artist Girl Talk from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Tuesday night somehow turned into a scathing article on conservative media watchdog site Newsbusters, all because writer Mark Finklestein was unfamiliar with such classics as this combination of Jay Z and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Hayes was discussing some Republicans’ tendency to conflate terrorist threats with border security and told his guest, “In the last 13 years since September 11, there have been occasional stories of this type. Sort of, a kind of Girl Talk mash-up of the fear about the border and the fear about terrorism being fused together into this story. It’s not a new thing.”

To Newsbusters’ Finkelstein, this comments screamed sexism.

“Paging the MSNBC PC police!” he wrote. “On his All In show this evening, Chris Hayes used some decidedly un-PC language to dismiss concerns that ISIS or other terrorist groups might be infiltrating across our porous southern border.”

Finkelstein went on to denounce Hayes’ “frankly unfeminist phrase” and express his dissatisfaction with the argument even beyond its “political incorrectness.”

Heh.