Letters to the Editor
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Devil in a Pantsuit
Re : "so forgive me if I don't pity clinton and her mean word search and whining about the media. Obama has much bigger worries than being called bad names."
What Huckabee said was wrong, and the media quickly condemned him and he apologized. The media didn't laugh and make more jokes like they would have if the same thing were said about Hillary. I'm very sorry that you don't understand sexism or take it seriously.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-fempower-0518may18,0,4333714.column
Devil in a Pantsuit, Julia Keller, May 18, 2008
Revealed in the coverage of Clinton's campaign is the persistence of an ancient and distasteful cultural theme: the powerful, ambitious woman as cackling fiend, as fantastically terrifying ghoul threatening civilization. And because this creature (or "she-devil," as MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews called Clinton) is not human, the only solution is to kill it. Not just derail its career—obliterate it. Smash it to smithereens. Vaporize it. Leave not a trace of the foul beast behind.
Hence the appalling preponderance of violent, death-infused imagery in conversations about Clinton, smuggled into otherwise ordinary political discourse like a knife taped on the bottom of a cake plate: On CNN, pundit Alex Castellanos said democrats must realize that "it's time to take the family dog to the vet." Matthews' MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann expressed the hope that "somebody will take her into a room—and only he comes out." CNN's Jack Cafferty gleefully floated the specter of Clinton being run over by a flatbed truck. A recent Tribune editorial compared Clinton to a euthanized Kentucky Derby contender.
She is, according to author Andrew Sullivan, akin to the zombies in the film "28 Days Later" (2002), as well as that knife-wielding harpy in "Fatal Attraction"—the one with the relentless, rapacious, inhuman will: "It's alive!" Sullivan wrote, adding, "Whoosh—She's back at your throat." The comparison between the Close character and Clinton also seemed apt to U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who wrote, "Glenn Close should've stayed in that bathtub." Translation: Death. Comedian Chris Rock loves the "Fatal Attraction" link as well. Ditto for blogger Wil Wheaton, who played Wesley in the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," who dubbed Clinton "the psycho ex-girlfriend of the Democratic party."
And we know, don't we, what to do with psycho ex-girlfriends? Drown them, club them, electrocute them. Meanwhile, analogies between Clinton and that flat-eyed, metallic, multimovie franchise character "Terminator" are copious to the point of cliche. You may or may not like Clinton—or any other female candidate. You may or may not agree with their policies. But is it really necessary to order a hit? Isn't it enough just to vote for somebody else?
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Molly Ivins column on Hillary Clinton before her death
http://freepress.org/columns/display/1/2006/1304
This was written in January 2006. Has anything changed?
AUSTIN, Texas --- I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.
Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times. There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.
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A Brief History of Fascism
A BRIEF HISTORY OF FASCISM!
First they came for the eggheads, and I wasn't one so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for the Blacks, and I wasn't one so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for "San Francisco", and I didn't live there, so I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for the elite, and I, certainly not being one of those, I kept my mouth shut. Then they came for all the men(who didn't vote for HRC), but I lied about that one and then kept my mouth shut.
Then they came for the DNC--Oy vay! Now she cries that Howard Dean is like the Robert Mugabe stealing the votes of Fla. and Mich. as if they were Zimbabwe. Very bizarre!
Hillary loves to play the victim, but even more, she likes to blame and demonize. Making the DNC--"Vote Stealers", "Oppressors", "Anti-Democracy"--into her newest model SCAPEGOAT! Of course she had agreed to the very rules she now distorts and diminishes. Does she really think this helps her with superdelegates? Even more bizarre. (Not to mention: selfish and self-serving.)
Very sad and very ugly that these two good people, Hillary and Bill Clinton, are so driven by themselves winning that there is nothing that they will not do. The severity of their moral disability has rendered them politically bankrupt! American's estimation of both has substantially declined. Why can't she get out of the blame game and out of the gutter?
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don't care how they covered it
"What Huckabee said was wrong, and the media quickly condemned him and he apologized. The media didn't laugh and make more jokes like they would have if the same thing were said about Hillary. I'm very sorry that you don't understand sexism or take it seriously."
this is a jailable offense? Is it not? why do other people not threaten politicans with death, especailly after the last eight years? I don't hear people calling for bush to be killed, even after all he has done. Why not? Because their are laws, it is a criminal offense. I don't care how the media reports it. I care he had the balls to say this, knowing nothing would happen to him.
Two america's indeed. It would be nice to be a republcain for one day and have no rules or laws apply to you, wouldn't it? Naw. The cost far out weighs the reward. I value my soul