This is the first in a series of post-campaign snapshots of the biased and sexist media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic bid for the presidency. It will be a real shame if NBC and CNN don't suffer consequences for what they have done. This one's from blogger, Falstaff:
Olbermann, Andrea Mitchell – and, of course, Chris Matthews – piled on with glee. The basic storyline was never even questioned, and they all kept congratulating each other on their metaphoric exuberance in repeating it: Hillary’s gonna lose! She’s one of the great losers in history. She’s like the Turks, and Obama’s like Lawrence of Arabia coming at them from across the desert! Loser, loser, loser. Ha ha ha. The reporter covering the Obama campaign for MSNBC described nothing but huge crowds, euphoria and history. Mitchell, supposedly covering the Clinton campaign, was simply and overtly scornful of it – spending her entire “report” talking about how phony and manufactured their events are.
All the networks played the clip of Hillary misting up over and over, and NBC in particular congratulated itself that it had played the whole thing, which demonstrated conclusively that her moment of exhaustion and pain was either inauthentic and calculated, or woefully insufficient to trump her inhuman ambition and viciousness, in the estimation of any decent human being.
"If Hillary's not respected, none of us are respected."
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