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  I moved to a rural area in December. We are still waiting for Comcast to get cable internet run to our house. They told us that it would be done by February, so even though it would make me miss the Super Bowl, I decided to hold off on getting cable until broadband was available. When Comcast failed to deliver, I realized that I didn't really miss TV that much. So I have gone this entire primary season without the nuisance of TV pundits, except when there was something noteworthy enough to view it online.

  So I missed the MSNBC coverage that has been described as sexist here. If these allegations are true, two important questions come to mind.

  1. How is it Obama's fault if some blowhards at MSNBC were sexist? I know I read accounts of racist comments made in the media and Hillary either ignored them or piled on. Why is it different for Obama? Why should he suffer for the sins of Chris Matthews?

  2. Why the fuck did you not turn your TV off or change the channel? Pardon my French, but you are all grown-ups who had a choice to watch Hardball or not watch it. Appparently a lot of Clinton supporters watched it. Why? Did it make you feel better to feel that you were being somehow victimized? Did part of you enjoy the righteous indignation that you could get from the sexist comments? I was never one of the Democrats who tuned into FOXNews just so I could get mad about the BS coming from Hannity's mouth, so I don't understand the victimhood culture that those screaming SEXISM are so caught up in. If what I am reading here is true, then this was a consistent, perstistent problem with the coverage on MSNBC. After the pattern became clear, it was YOUR decision to not change the channel. When I had cable, FOXNews didn't even pop up when I channel surfed. Why risk being annoyed?

  I prefaced that with a big IF because a lot of people here and in the Clinton team seem to paint sexism with an extra wide brush. The comments that the priest made from the pulpit were inappropriate. They were not sexist. They were about racism and Hillary's sense of entitlement. That has nothing to do with feminism or women's issues. Hillary's tears were FAKE, just like W's were after 9/11. What the priest said was actually pretty damn funny, but had no place coming from a pulpit. But, Obama not only denounced them, HE LEFT THE CHURCH!

  The Flying Monkeys™ need to get over themselves. Not everything is about sexism. Not everything is about YOU. Hillary ran what may have been the nastiest primary campaign EVER. She threw everything she had at Obama, but couldn't pull out a win. Losing is always hard, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. She chose the wrong way and further hurt the party. She should be called to task for her actions and there is nothing sexist about it.

  I don't recall anyone attacking Rangel or other black politicians for backing Clinton. I never once heard that they were "betraying their people" for supporting Clinton, who had a strong following in the black community before becoming a Dixiecrat. Yet, Oprah Winfrey -a BLACK woman- was attacked by women for not backing Hillary. That speaks volumes about where the real sexism was and who it helped.

  Permalink Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:50 PM