Our friends at Business Insider make note of an interesting exchange on “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning regarding former “Parker Spitzer” host Kathleen Parker:

[Host Mika] Brzezisnski: “I’m so glad to see her emerging on a number of different fronts.  Obviously she has her column.  I‘m so glad she’s done with that, blech! That situation wherever she was before.  An unnamed network.”

Said Mike Barnicle: “She was brutalized in her prior professional experience!”

Said Tina Brown: “She was wearing her abaya on that show and it was pretty tough.”

If you’re not familiar with the term “abaya,” Merriam-Webster defines it thusly:

a loose-fitting full-length robe worn by some Muslim women