Fyrefoxxe
03-05-2008, 06:36 PM
The blatantly biased media has been Hillary Clinton's worst enemy in this entire campaign. It's very depressing, and infuriating, because I had thought that women had come a lot closer to social equality during the past few decades. I had thought a lot of these battles against the demeaning of women in our society were long since won.
Wrong. I have never in my life seen the media so openly biased against any one candidate, or been so astounded to see this sort of bigotry just silently accepted by so many people.
From the beginning, it was clear that nothing that Sen. Clinton did was right, and Sen. Obama could do no wrong.
I believe this take of the situation was confirmed when the media finally actually started to ask Sen. Obama some hard questions over just the past few days.
Then, given a halfway fair fight, Sen. Clinton actually won Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island. I wonder how many other states she might have taken if she had been treated fairly?
Funny that so much of this media bias toward Hillary was brought to people's attention by satires on Saturday Night Live.
I have been outraged to watch as Hillary Clinton was, to quote "Keith Olberman," savaged by all sides, but most especially the media.
If she "cried," which actually consisted of misting up and having a momentary quiver in her voice, she was called weak.
If she mentioned that she was the first woman to have come this far in the "old boys netwark" of presidential candidates, she was asked to explain this! Duh, maybe it's because in over 200 years the US has never had a woman president? Ya think?
Maybe it's got something to do with that word we're not ever supposed to use, sexism. No, don't say that, but many of Sen. Obama's supporters feel perfectly free to call Sen. Clinton's supporters racist, any time at all. Racism is often brought up in the media as well, but not predjudice against women.
Why?
Sexism has been on full display, in "full flower" for some time now, most esp. in regards to Sen. Clinton. It seems that the idea of a mere woman running for president is just too much for some folks to deal with.
While not daring to even critisize Obama, the media and many people I know feel perfectly free to bash both Hillary and women in general. On Bill Maher, they said things like, Oh, Hillary is just doing all the things women do to get their way. First they cry, then act nice, then get mad.
Imagine if they said that about any other group of people? Maher would probably lose his show. No great loss IMO.
If Sen. Clinton got angry, no matter how rightfully, she was "unstable." But when any male candidate gets angry, their anger is just expected to be somehow valid, justified.
Why? Why aren't women allowed to get angry when they are unfairly attacked, as Sen. Clinton was?
I'm also still waiting to hear even one retraction of the wide-spread media claim that Sen. Clinton's camp was behind the Obama in a turban photo, posted on the right wing "Drudge Report." They sure didn't mind spending an entire news day endlessly carrying on, and on, about the photo and blaming Sen. Clinton for it. Yet almost none of these brave media pudits has the backbone to admit they were wrong?
One exception has been Dan Abrams, who took the people's cries of Hillary bashing serious enough to actually do a study on it. Turns out that we were right, that the media had been making roughly twice as many anti-Hillary comments than negative remarks about Obama, who seemed for so long above reproach.
Thankfully, that "above reporach" era seems to have come to an end for Obama. When faced with the same sort of scrutiny and hard questions Sen. Clinton has faced all along, Sen. Obama all but fled from the news conference.
This guy just plain isn't ready to be president, if he can't even handle a news conference. We need someone who can handle the pressure of being president, who is ready now.
We need Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Clinton has carried herself with astounding grace throughout this entire campaign, despite the incredible bashing she has been taking. If the news meida had one iota of decency, the very least they could do would be to set the record straight, maybe even apologize? I wont count on it though.
The meida has been singing the same wrong song for far too long.
Time for a new tune.
Wrong. I have never in my life seen the media so openly biased against any one candidate, or been so astounded to see this sort of bigotry just silently accepted by so many people.
From the beginning, it was clear that nothing that Sen. Clinton did was right, and Sen. Obama could do no wrong.
I believe this take of the situation was confirmed when the media finally actually started to ask Sen. Obama some hard questions over just the past few days.
Then, given a halfway fair fight, Sen. Clinton actually won Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island. I wonder how many other states she might have taken if she had been treated fairly?
Funny that so much of this media bias toward Hillary was brought to people's attention by satires on Saturday Night Live.
I have been outraged to watch as Hillary Clinton was, to quote "Keith Olberman," savaged by all sides, but most especially the media.
If she "cried," which actually consisted of misting up and having a momentary quiver in her voice, she was called weak.
If she mentioned that she was the first woman to have come this far in the "old boys netwark" of presidential candidates, she was asked to explain this! Duh, maybe it's because in over 200 years the US has never had a woman president? Ya think?
Maybe it's got something to do with that word we're not ever supposed to use, sexism. No, don't say that, but many of Sen. Obama's supporters feel perfectly free to call Sen. Clinton's supporters racist, any time at all. Racism is often brought up in the media as well, but not predjudice against women.
Why?
Sexism has been on full display, in "full flower" for some time now, most esp. in regards to Sen. Clinton. It seems that the idea of a mere woman running for president is just too much for some folks to deal with.
While not daring to even critisize Obama, the media and many people I know feel perfectly free to bash both Hillary and women in general. On Bill Maher, they said things like, Oh, Hillary is just doing all the things women do to get their way. First they cry, then act nice, then get mad.
Imagine if they said that about any other group of people? Maher would probably lose his show. No great loss IMO.
If Sen. Clinton got angry, no matter how rightfully, she was "unstable." But when any male candidate gets angry, their anger is just expected to be somehow valid, justified.
Why? Why aren't women allowed to get angry when they are unfairly attacked, as Sen. Clinton was?
I'm also still waiting to hear even one retraction of the wide-spread media claim that Sen. Clinton's camp was behind the Obama in a turban photo, posted on the right wing "Drudge Report." They sure didn't mind spending an entire news day endlessly carrying on, and on, about the photo and blaming Sen. Clinton for it. Yet almost none of these brave media pudits has the backbone to admit they were wrong?
One exception has been Dan Abrams, who took the people's cries of Hillary bashing serious enough to actually do a study on it. Turns out that we were right, that the media had been making roughly twice as many anti-Hillary comments than negative remarks about Obama, who seemed for so long above reproach.
Thankfully, that "above reporach" era seems to have come to an end for Obama. When faced with the same sort of scrutiny and hard questions Sen. Clinton has faced all along, Sen. Obama all but fled from the news conference.
This guy just plain isn't ready to be president, if he can't even handle a news conference. We need someone who can handle the pressure of being president, who is ready now.
We need Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Clinton has carried herself with astounding grace throughout this entire campaign, despite the incredible bashing she has been taking. If the news meida had one iota of decency, the very least they could do would be to set the record straight, maybe even apologize? I wont count on it though.
The meida has been singing the same wrong song for far too long.
Time for a new tune.