Part 2 of Destroying Hillary Clinton is up at The Guardian. This much needed piece documents the relentless misogyny of the "progressive" blogosphere in its primary war against Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all women really. Kudos and my deep and heartfelt gratitude to authors Melissa McEwan and Maureen McCluskey, who are also bloggers at Shakesville. (Part 1)
"Billary", the two-headed monster created by the rightwing to demonize the "two-for-one" presidency of Bill Clinton and his feminist, advisor wife Hillary Clinton, also stumbled out of its grave, given new life by liberals who defended the Clintons against the very same attack when it was her being used against him during his administration, but now found it politically expedient to use him against her. Billary was back in vogue, and infamous Clinton-haters in the media like Maureen Dowd or Chris Matthews (who remains as fixated on Clinton scandals, especially the Lewinsky matter - the scandal that made his career - as ever) accused Hillary of being nothing without her husband, only having come within inches of the presidency because her husband had cheated on her. The progressive blogosphere largely remained silent, or, worse, acquiesced by suggesting there was some truth to the categorisation.
read the full article . . .
Part 1
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