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From Walsh to Shapiro this faulty charge of demonization is a ludicrous crybaby refrain that is overripe and factually wrong. She and Bill weren't demonized; they did it to themselves and got called out on their behavior much less often than they should have been; apologists like Walsh acted as enablers for their awful tactics and words. For examples, imagine the reaction, if:
*Michelle Obama had made comments about hillary sending people out to slime Barack they way Bill accused Barack of doing?
*Imagine the reaction if Barack had mocked Hillary and her supporters the way she did with the "the skies will open up" speech? She was portrayed as a fighter while he gets slammed by Walsh for having a priest he knows mock her.
*What if the current roles were reversed and the losing candidate (Obama) was DEMANDING this and that while refusing to acknowledge the winning candidate? In fact, Obama would have had to leave the race long ago. But Hillary has been given pass after pass because she is a Clinton and because she is a woman. Sexism didn't hurt her; it enabled her, though her campaign's cynical use of women's fears and experiences, to stay in the race longer than she should have. The Clintons demonized themselves, no matter how much yellow journalists like Shapiro and Walsh want to try lie about the facts.
