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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 08:38 AM

Another article on sexism from Joan. How surprising.

What's the matter, Joan, didn't you get enough reader hits from your last "stir it up like Limbaugh" rant on how badly your precious little Hillary has been treated? I guess you just can't resist trying to get those ad revenues up some more, can you?

Oh, yes, Joan, I watched the video. What garbage.

Even the worst movie in the world can put out a trailer that's convincing enough to make you go out and see it. Just as anyone can slap together enough footage to make Hillary seem like a victim of sexism. Not that it worked. In fact, through ninety percent of all that propaganda, I simply saw people reacting to a candidate -- not a gender.

I guess Paglia (someone you'd probably call an Obamabot, Joan) said it best today:

"With her outlandish fibbing and naive self-puffery, her erratic day-to-day changes of tone and message, her glassy, fixed smiles, and her leaden and embarrassingly unpresidential jokes about pop culture, she has started to seem like one of those manic, seductively vampiric patients in trashy old Hollywood hospital flicks like "The Snake Pit." How anyone could confuse Hillary's sourly cynical, male-bashing megalomania with authentic feminism is beyond me."

Word.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 12:06 PM

The Notorious W.E.S. -- "I Can't Imagine Maragaret Thatcher Or Golda Meir bowling a 37.

And I Can't Imagine Maragaret Thatcher Or Golda Meir playing the gender card.

Friday, April 11, 2008 05:30 AM

Another Limbaugh-like article on sexism from Joan.

What's the matter, Joan, didn't you get enough reader hits from your last "stir it up like Limbaugh" rant on how badly your precious little Hillary has been treated? I guess you just can't resist trying to get those ad revenues up some more, can you?

Oh, yes, Joan, I watched that unwatchable video. What garbage.

Even the worst movie in the world can put out a trailer that's convincing enough to make you think it must be good. Just as anyone can slap together enough footage to make Hillary seem like a victim of sexism. Not that it worked. In fact, through ninety percent of all that propaganda, I simply saw people reacting to a candidate -- not a gender.

Face it, Joan, somepeople don't like Hillary as a PERSON. Want to know why? I guess Paglia (someone you'd probably call an Obamabot, Joan) said it best today:

"With her outlandish fibbing and naive self-puffery, her erratic day-to-day changes of tone and message, her glassy, fixed smiles, and her leaden and embarrassingly unpresidential jokes about pop culture, she has started to seem like one of those manic, seductively vampiric patients in trashy old Hollywood hospital flicks like "The Snake Pit." How anyone could confuse Hillary's sourly cynical, male-bashing megalomania with authentic feminism is beyond me."

I know you need reader hits to generate advertising revenue, Joan, but please, not at the expense of exploiting your audience. We've really had enough.

Friday, April 11, 2008 06:44 AM

@ Uberblonde -- You're right.

"So the special prosecutor, impeachment hearings, relentless press coverage and the dozens of books written about them were - what? Just another day in Paradise?"

You're right. That's the kind of baggage the Clintons carry. And that's the kind of baggage Hillary would carry as a nominee. Only you're just scratching the surface. It ain't pretty.

Friday, April 11, 2008 09:29 AM

@ RealityCounts -- Ball busters

Ball buster is not a sexist term. Men bust balls too.

Friday, April 11, 2008 10:09 AM

@ RealityCounts

Yes, a Barack doll eating watermelon would be racist despite the fact that white people eat watermelon too. This is because black people eating watermelon has beeen a stereotype for a hundred years or more. White people eating watermelon has not.

No, the Hillary Nutcracker isn't sexist. This is because women haven't been stereotyped as nutcrackers any more than men have been stereotyped as nutcrackers. Both are equally capable of being or not being nutcrackers. It isn't a matter of gender.

So nanny-nanny-na-na.

(I can't believe I'm having this conversation.)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 02:49 PM
Original article: John McCain's bad week

No, Joan, because of Hillary, GOP woes are gone and forgotten.

"When voters start paying real attention to the race between McCain and a Democrat, probably Obama, this week will go down as a very, very bad one for the GOP." -- Joan Walsh

I don't think so, Joan. If no one is paying attention, it's gone and forgotten. And you know why no one is paying attention, doncha, Joan? They're too busy watching the Hildabeast capitalize on Obama's latest gaffe, despite the fact she has no chance to win the nomination. By the time Obama is finally named the Democratic nominee, he'll be so poisined by your precious little viper that John McCain will skate, yes, skate into the White House. Isn't she wonderful?

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 09:28 AM

The fact that Obama made the gaffe in San Francisco isn't silly, Joan.

"Of course that's silly. Clearly, Obama could just as easily have made his gaffe at a fundraiser on Wall Street or K Street." - Joan Walsh

The fact that Obama made his gaffe behind closed doors while addressing the Chablis-and-brie crowd in San Francisco is important, Joan. Yes, he could have made the gaffe on Wall Street or K Street. But he didn't. He made it in a place that amplifies the "elitist" argument -- and therefore it becomes an even bigger problem for him.

"Personally, I hope the campaign moves to higher ground soon."

Uh huh. I guess that's why you steered your readers to the John Judis article that's so skeptical of Obama's chances against McCain. Honestly, Joan, your readers are not a gathering of idiots. We understand you're a Hillary supporter. And we can read between the lines. BTW, you must really be enjoying Hillary's relentless drubbing of Obama over this. But beware -- it just may backfire. Watching her in the unbridled political beast mode is really rather revolting.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 01:38 PM

Hey, Obama's flag pin is back.

Back in his lapel that is. It returned after the gaffe. But why?

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 02:11 PM

Quick! Before Rufus11 gets back from lunch...

Let's all chip in and buy him spell check.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 02:41 PM

@ Carol Richards -- Could you possibly suck up to Joan any more?

Jeeze, Joan responds to one of your questions and you turn into one of her obedient little droids. Please, stop the apple polishing already -- and take it down a notch or two or three. You're making me nauseous.

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