Posted on 02/10/2008 8:57:08 AM PST by Cagey
News organizations often publish photos of Hillary Clinton, above, that make her look crazy, while pictures of Barack Obama, left, portray him as cool and reflective.
The Clintons were rightly indignant about MSNBC reporter David Shuster saying they had “pimped out” 27-year-old Chelsea by helping her campaign and calling Democratic superdelegates on behalf of her mother, Hillary.
No word on what they think about MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson saying that whenever Hillary comes on television, “I involuntarily cross my legs.” He first said this last summer when his producer talked about a Clinton doll advertised on the Web site HillaryNutcracker.com. It features “serrated stainless steel thighs that, well, crack nuts,” said producer Willie Geist, who introduced the story this way: “I think the metaphor in this next story, Tucker, is pretty clear.” Then came Carlson’s “cross my legs” response.
Implying an MSNBC pattern, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson noted that another MSNBC star, Chris Matthews, apologized just last month after saying Hillary Clinton was elected senator because voters felt sorry for her nonstop humiliations by philandering husband Bill. “She didn’t win there on her merits,” Matthews said.
Now I’m no fan of Hillary. But surely it’s not just MSNBC who covers her with more than a smidgeon of negativism and downright sexism.
Complaints are everywhere online: “Sexist Media Lynching of Hillary Clinton!” You hear constant complaints about her being picked on, too - both from regular women voters and political fans, like state Senate President Terry Murray.
Take a look at the pictures news outlets run (shown here). Typically, Hillary looks like a crazy person, her mouth agape, her eyes as bug-eyed as the runaway bride’s. Meanwhile, Barack Obama typically looks cool, calm, collected - or, better yet, pensive and reflective.
Look at the constant references to the struggling, older white women and the struggling, younger single women (as if they’re somehow sawed-off, unfulfilled and slightly pathetic) who are going to vote for her.
Then there’s comparisons between Hillary and the “nagging housewife” or “everybody’s first wife.” There are the constant adjectives: angry, shrill, divisive, polarizing.
They’re really just “code words for bitch,” said Hillary supporter Andrea Cabral, the sheriff of Suffolk County.
And how many times have you heard the infamous Hillary “cackle”?
Not as often as you heard the infamous Howard Dean scream. But here’s the difference: A nation of white men did not identify with and feel mortified by the Dean scream. Lots of women identify with and feel mortified by the Hillary “cackle” replays, or the derisive “first wife” jokes. Many are derided first wives themselves.
Some say Hillary Clinton can’t have it both ways: portraying herself as the history-making woman, then playing the sexism card. But here’s another difference: women voting for Hillary, particularly older women, endured legitimate sexism. When she gets trashed, they feel trashed.
It’s analogous to the reaction among blacks when Bill Clinton was running around South Carolina making racist remarks. Thousands reacted by voting for Obama. Women’s reaction to sexist slurs is just as visceral. And they’re voting in record numbers for Hillary.
Meanwhile, the unspoken rules say you can still publicly trash women in a way you can’t publicly trash African-Americans. “Imagine if somebody said Barack Obama was pimping out his wife,” says Andrea Cabral. “What would never be said about race is the sport of kings when it comes to gender.”
It’s one thing for a bunch of women to sit around lamenting or joking about themselves. It’s something else again when a bunch of men with microphones on TV - no woman in sight - start doing it.
I am no Hillary fan. But I know exactly why so many women get enraged at this. So keep it up Chris, Tucker, David, et al. You’ll elect her yet.
It’s so bizarre to realize that most of these Democrats have no clue about either candidate’s positions, agenda, voting records, etc. All they see is race or gender. I had a woman from New York City (where they’re oh-so-sophisticated) tell me the other day that, “You have to vote for Hillary because the only other choice is a n-——r”. I figure this ignorant woman thought she was talking to a Southerner so her comment wouldn’t raise my hackles. Boy, was she wrong!
When someone is not genuine it’s very obvious and the camera lens does not lie.
I had an Illinois red neck tell me the same thing only he added that he would never vote for a woman either. Who will the racist women hating rats vote for now that the white male (male?) candidate John Edwards is gone?
And that's what makes it so easy for the press to come up with pictures like that!
Well, too damn bad. It's not my fault if some moron "identifies" with that bugeyed hag.
Nice dig by the author at the good old bogeyman of "white men", BTW.
Funny how the rock-solid ignorant bigotry seems to come from those “enlightened northern states”. It reminds me of the Randy Newman album that came out sometime around “72-74 entitled “Rednecks”.
But not enough to counteract all the DemocRAT white men going to Obama. It wasn't the black vote that crushed Hillary in Nebraska and Washington.
LouisianaBarak Hussein Obama 57%
Hillary Rodham Clinton 36%
NebraskaBarak Hussein Obama 68%
Hillary Rodham Clinton 31%
WashingtonBarak Hussein Obama 68%
Hillary Rodham Clinton 32%
Virgin IslandsBarak Hussein Obama 90%
Hillary Rodham Clinton 7%
I got these shots of Bush, and this is really what he looks like. The deranged photos of Hillary are, IMHO, really what she looks like.
The mainstream media pandered to them and kissed up to them for 15 years.
They wouldn't dare be critical of the Clintons now if they believed there would be a payback.
They don't think Hillary will win or they would not be speaking out.
That is why they are all jumping on the bandwagon.
And it will become more brutal.
The media knows they sold their souls and lost their credibility by bowing to the Clintons for 15 years.
Now they are bitter because they are exposed as corrupt fools who were played by a couple of second rate grifters.
Sing, Sob Sister Sing!!
Look.....this “PIMPED OUT” phrase wiped the BIG scandal off the news...Just WHERE DID HILLARY GET THE 5 MILLION DOLLARS she “LOANED” to her campaign?
Bump!
HAHAHAHA.....hey, I thought I’d better tell you I stole one of your comments off another thread and put it on my Facebook....this one....(hope you don’t mind)
Republicans and conservatives are discussing their candidates ideology, ethics, policy, attitudes about enforcement of the law, spending, social issues, etc.
Democrats and lefists [!-redundancy alert-!] are discussing their candidates sex, skin color, appeal to various victim groups and the scope and amount of taxpayer funded handouts they promise their supporters.
RELEASE YOUR TAX FORMS, HILLARY!!! Obama asked you nicely, now he must DEMAND it!
I always thought the bug-eyed gape-mouthed look was the media’s attempt to make her look like a strong woman.
It’s like, when I see those pictures I am personally horrified, but I imagine millions of feminists looking at her and smiling and clenching their fists and whispering, “You go, girl!”
Her ankles will give her away.
My son-in-law tried to get me one for Christmas but they were sold out. Instead, I got a more practical gift, a Hillary Clinton toilet bowl brush. My daughter commented that I would have the cleanest toilet in town.
Hillary Melts In Kansas
A bucket of cold water for her campaign
And they would have quoted someone saying "It was like a house fell on her".
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