"Yes Tucker, you heard that right. Hillary wants to be on your show tonight."
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.
Contrast them to how the Clintons LIVE THEIR LIVES DAILY: NO social graces, poor comportment, no sense of proportion or balance, no sense of anyone but selves, catty, shrill, pushy, always in a panic about power, berating, belittling, FAKE, money-grubbing, scary angry, scary vindictive, lying, cheating, backstabbing, paranoid, and out-of-touch. Always on some emotional roller coaster and HUGE DRAMA QUEENS.
The HillBilly family is ALL drama, ALL the time. A real-life, sorry soap opera.
And Hillary ALWAYS does that pyscho-pointing to (a fake) "someone" in the crowd, while contorting her face and eyes in that WILD PSYCHO-SURPRISE.
Scary stuff.
If she cross-dressed, how could one tell?
Donna Brazile, an African American strategist, said last week: "If 795 of my colleagues decide this election, I will quit the Democratic Party."
But the Clinton camp fears that a failure to engineer a deal could lead to bitter battles at the Democrat convention in Denver in late August, which could even end with Al Gore, the former vice president, emerging as a compromise candidate.
"There's a five per cent chance of that happening, but that's five percent too high," the Clinton source said.
It's going to be a Gore/Obama ticket. Gore holds the womens vote O holds the blacks and the dems are done with Billary once and for all.
Psychotic Break Alert! Wait until we get a load of what Hillary is willing to do to destroy Obama.
That exactly it! Exactly. It is scary and bizarre.
You hit the nail on the head; they smell blood in the water.
Yet another reason to question giving the gentle sex the right to vote. Flame on.
"Yes Tucker, you heard that right. Hillary wants to be on your show tonight."
Let’s stop the code words and call a B**ch a B**ch.
I've noticed the MSM press has shown her in this snappy model blouse on a number of occasions recently.
I believe she was in the process of accessorizing, but the curtain rod shoulder pads kept getting hung up on door frames.
exactly. I was thinking, “wow, that deputy must be descended from Einstein.”
;^)
The victim du jour.. Actually, they find a new way to portray her as a victim everyday.
Just a brief anecdote. I work w/a group of totally apolitical people...they don’t follow politics and would be surprised to find that their co-worker (me!!) was a long time poster at a political forum such as FR. Politics just aren’t discussed...until a few weeks ago when the ‘Hillary’ photos showed up on Drudge (the one where she looks like wrinkles were photoshopped and chins added). The ladies I work w// were outraged...they wouldn’t comment on (or alter) any man’s appearance like that...the Hillary supporter was amazing...none of these ladies would have even given the primaries a second thought (PA’s is in April) but all of a sudden they were thinking of (and feeling sorry for) Hillary.
As a strategy to hit middle aged woman...that move was brilliant (on the Clintons part). Poor picked on Hillary.
It’s easy to show crazy pictures of Hillary because she is crazy.
It’s easy to call her “shrill” because she is shrill. The sound of her voice sends shivers up my spine.
It’s easy to portray her as cold - because she has said some pretty cold things, and has done some pretty cold things.
And I’m a woman.
I’m a woman who doesn’t like bitchy power-hungry women.
We’ve seen the term “McInsane” tossed around this forum by both men and women...becuase it has a ring of truth in it.
But even McCain’s voice doesn’t send shivers down my spine like Hillary’s.
“she has little or no control over her emotion of the moment,”
You’re exacty right, and you reminded of that brief “moment” during the debate when she lashed out at Edwards and Obama - talking down to them and flashing that condescending psychotic look of hers.
I thought to myself “that must have been the last thing Bill saw before his face got scratched up on inaugeration day”
There are very good reasons why Hillary is being treated this way by the press.
SO right. She gives women a bad name.
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