President Obama's faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when "a dozen female members of the House," all Democrats and "the majority of them African American like Rice," held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that "Republican senators' angry criticism . . . over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of sexism and racism":

Meanwhile, feminist media critics are faulting journalists for an alleged double...