Methinks she protests too much
I frankly find it pretty disgusting that Hillary is complaining that she's being picked on because she's a woman. I find it equally disgusting that many liberal bloggers are climbing on board with that.
She's being picked on because she's running for president and there are other people running for president too. It's what happens when you run for president - or pretty much any other position. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the blast furnace (I would have said "kitchen" but that might sound sexist).
If she thinks she's being picked on now, just wait till she starts to confront the Thuglican candidate directly.
This is nothing but hiding behind her sex.
She's being picked on because she's running for president and there are other people running for president too. It's what happens when you run for president - or pretty much any other position. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the blast furnace (I would have said "kitchen" but that might sound sexist).
If she thinks she's being picked on now, just wait till she starts to confront the Thuglican candidate directly.
This is nothing but hiding behind her sex.
posted by walldon | 12:18 PM
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I think Bob Somerby, The Daily Howler, has a much better take on this. From a tactical standpoint I'm not a fan of saying it's men ganging up on a woman, but what NBC did was unconscionable. It was one long commercial attacking her, in the wording of the questions and the continuing invitations to Obama and Edwards to attack her credibility and her integrity. Richardson had the balls to challenge the process himself. On the NBC nightly news the next day, Russert was given a few minutes, I suspect the longest part of the show, to keep promoting the "evasive" meme, even with the absurd view that she has been avoiding stating her. (Somebody needs to tell Russert flat-out on national TV that he hasn't a clue what's talking about, that he's just been a complete sucker for the GOP scam.) Most immediate commenters I saw, including some who have not been big fans of hers, thought she acquitted herself fairly well as the target of everyone's character attacks, staying cool and knowledgable throughout. Yet last night, both Leno and Conan (NBC, of course) were saying she "imploded" or had her "worst" performance the night before. The impression that they were expressly instructed to say this by Robert Welch was overwhelming. Somerby is right. NBC News is the creature of the right-wing Welch lock-stock-and-barrell. Russert, Williams, Matthews and the others (only Olberman is kept on as a token) are flat-out partisans who go out to get Democrats. If Obama or Edwards pulls ahead, they will go after him just as hard, doing a Rovian analysis for his tender spot. Somerby does a masterful review showing they pull back from any such attacks on the leading Republican. We know ABC is lost, and Fox, of course, is simply the Goebbels Network. If liberals don't take on the networks, with protests, boycotts or whatever it takes, at the homes of these jerks or otherwise, naming names, forcing confrontations into the media by making them impossible to ignore, with little "chats" for Welch and Company from Warren Buffett, Steven Spielberg and the like demanding that they play it straight, and holding press conferences announcing that they are demanding they play it straight, Democrats are going to get killed again in the media, just like 2000 and 2004. If we cannibalize our own candidates, including a candidate with the most liberal voting record of any of them, we deserve what we get.
Couldn't agree with KissWeb more. Walldon's dislike for Clinton is nudging him into "useful idiot" territory -- although I don't mean to be too insulting. It's just that this sort of meme-buying-into is not only misguided but harmful. And as a woman, Clinton is talking to other women who know damn well what it's like to be attacked by men (like walldon) for their supposedly thin female skins.
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