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Trump's sexist strategy gets assist from Matt Lauer (Boo-hoo!)
CNN Opinion ^ | September 8, 2016 | Peggy Drexler

Posted on 09/09/2016 1:47:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Throughout the campaign, it has been a core strategy for Donald Trump and his surrogates to play on and heighten existing American sexism and racism. Everything about his platform has been about taking down Hillary Clinton for her gender. Is she too soft or is she too angry? Is she fit for the job or does she not smile enough?

But on Wednesday night, Trump got some help. Clinton and Donald Trump were making dueling appearances in New York in a live forum hosted by NBC's Matt Lauer to address subjects including national security, veterans' welfare, and sexual assault in the military. Here, Clinton was called upon once again to defend her emails, her hawkish foreign policy record — and ultimately answer for her femininity.

In the aftermath Lauer has been widely called out for what many saw as an unfair, sexist approach to moderating.....

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; debates; hillary; lauer; mattlauer; trump
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Editor's Note: Peggy Drexler is the author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family" and "Raising Boys Without Men." She is an assistant professor of psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
1 posted on 09/09/2016 1:47:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I’m actually getting bored with the smell of liberal fear.


2 posted on 09/09/2016 1:50:14 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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A “gender scholar” looks at a candidate she doesn’t like and - mirabile dictu! - finds sexism. Whaddaya know.


3 posted on 09/09/2016 1:50:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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sorry we just couldn’t keep reading this .. it is SO DAMNED FUNNY we are having LAUGH Attacks (like HilLIARY has coughing attacks)

the author must be EXTRMELY afraid of HilLIARY losing...
bombing.... to come up with (projected) BS like this... WOW!

thanks for sharing you made our day!
ha ha ha ha ha ha


4 posted on 09/09/2016 1:53:50 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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Actually, from the beginning it is liberals who accuse every conservative who runs for office of being sexist and racist.

The well has run dry, and the liberals are panicking!


5 posted on 09/09/2016 1:53:58 PM PDT by Dave346
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If Hillary assumes the Oval Office, you may as well go get fitted for a burka Miss Peggy, because she’s already on record wanting to bring in another million refugees. You know what that means Peggy? That means the number is really many times more than that.

Take a look at Europe Miss Peggy - therein lies your future if ‘sexist’ Donald J. is not POTUS.


7 posted on 09/09/2016 1:55:08 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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Well Layer can forget about invites to the cool parties now


8 posted on 09/09/2016 1:59:09 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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Layer, Lauer - skru ottospell!


9 posted on 09/09/2016 2:00:46 PM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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These liberals think that lauer was bad? He asked hillary sofballs for only 20 minutes because he was afraid she would start that coughing he argued with Trump 28 minutes and double the questions!! DOUBLE!!. Trump was better so liberals blame Lauer as if he was at fault. Hillary is a criminal . She is a horrible campaigner and human being. Don’t defect the blame for that to Matt Lauer. I look for a real sand bag job on Trump as bad or worse than MyGYN kelly but Trump will dance on hillary\holt in that debate. He will be very calm in asking her some questions knowing she won’t answer. We can all think of several that are obvious.


10 posted on 09/09/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary emailed Jake Sullivan to remove 'The security headers" !!)
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If people can VOTE for someone BECAUSE they are female, then I can make accusations based on the same reason. One approach is as sexist as the other, so that label doesn’t get anywhere. It’s even, Stephanie.


11 posted on 09/09/2016 2:13:44 PM PDT by vrtom (Just an observer of the political scene, learning what I can.)
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“Raising Boys Without Men.”
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Not a good idea if it can be avoided


12 posted on 09/09/2016 2:19:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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Have these journalist scum seen who The Donald has running huge junks of his empire?

These scum are idiots, liars, or both.

Screw them.


13 posted on 09/09/2016 2:23:13 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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Dr. Peggy Drexler
14 posted on 09/09/2016 2:23:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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“Clinton was called upon once again to defend her emails, her hawkish foreign policy record — and ultimately answer for her femininity.”


Ha! Poor Hillary. She wants so badly to be the first female POTUS, but yells and cries whenever she has to actually stand up ad take the heat for her dishonesty and failures as SoS. It is an insult to women if that is the expected behavior of a female candidate. It is obvious that the most militant feminists are trying to hide behind Hillary’s so-called ‘femininity’. Who ‘would’ve thunk it’ - that is, that Hillary has femininity? lol


15 posted on 09/09/2016 2:23:40 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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It’s so disgusting that the leftists and media denizens (I repeat myself) think that Clinton shouldn’t be attacked for her wrongdoing because she’s a woman. They are pushing the most obvious sorts of bias against women. I thought the lefties didn’t like the pedestal, special treatment approach for women; yet that’s exactly what they are pushing for in the 21st Century! How backwards they are.


16 posted on 09/09/2016 2:24:05 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: piytar

I assume you meant chunks, and not junks.


17 posted on 09/09/2016 2:24:29 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Reiterating the Liberal axiom: Truth is racist and sexist and therefore impermissible.


18 posted on 09/09/2016 2:24:49 PM PDT by arthurus
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Yup. Got iPhoned.


19 posted on 09/09/2016 2:26:24 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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heighten existing American sexism and racism

and heterosexualism and Americanism and goodversusevilism and thisism and thatism too!

20 posted on 09/09/2016 2:26:30 PM PDT by IronJack
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