Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PansyGate


I googled pansy and all I got was a bunch of flowers. Nevertheless, the Obamazombies are horrified and aghast and pointing their grievously offended fingers at Hillary Rodham Clinton for the heinous crime of PansyGate.

Did you hear about Hillary's latest shockingly grievous crime? If not, then you haven't been to Obamablog or the Daily Clinton Derangement Syndrome today. John Aravosis has the scoop. To make a long story short, when the Governor of North Carolina endorsed Hillary today, he said:

“This lady right here makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy.”

Obviously, I'm out of the loop. I had no idea that using the word pansy in this way means you are homophobic. Admittedly, I'm so accustomed to the everyday insults and slurs aimed at all things feminine that it's difficult for me to summon sufficient outrage over PansyGate. Women are called far worse things than pansies everyday and no one bats an eye.

John Aravosis doesn't have that problem. John is bursting with outrage. But John's outrage is NOT directed at Governor Easley (D-N.C.). Nope. On Obamablog, the worst offender is always the All Powerful & Always Evil Hillary Rodham Clinton. Hillary's crime? She laughed. She didn't renounce and reject the Governor on the spot. Worse yet, Hillary actually made the Governor say pansy! The bitch!


Think I'm exaggerating? Take a look at the headlines of 3 of John's hottest posts:

Pansies for Hillary

VIDEO: Hillary laughs while NC governor says anti-gay slur

Hillary's top NC surrogate bashes gays in front of her this morning, she does nothing

John writes:

I am amazed that Team Hillary seems to think that in order to woo votes in North Carolina they need to pander to bigotry. Talk about an elitist attitude. We still haven't heard Hillary reject and denounce the anti-gay slur said right in front of her, said while she laughed about it. Maybe that will be coming tomorrow. Or maybe Hillary doesn't want to say the word gay, and worse yet, do something pro-gay right before the North Carolina primary. Tick tock tick tock. . .


Andrew Sullivan weighs in...
. . [H]er surrogate is accusing her opponent of being a "pansy." Classy - but vintage Clinton. Never miss an opportunity to exploit homophobia.

From John again:

[E]verything in the Clinton campaign is scripted - so who wrote that line, and why?

Ah yes, the Obamazombies have a new mystery to solve. Exactly who in the Clinton campaign is responsible for writing Governor Easley's hateful line? And why did the bitch order them to do it? And how many homophobic votes will Hillary get because of PansyGate?

Gawd. What has happened to the reality based community?

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PastorGate: More Clinton Derangement Syndrome


And you thought Drudge was bad. The crazed Obamazombies, who continue to call themselves progressive (instead of deranged), over at ObamaFlash have an OBAMAFLASH NEWS ALERT for you.

Did you know that Hillary Rodham Clinton is behind the Jeremiah Wright scandal? Cause when you reside in Obama-la-la-land, all your woes are the fault of Hillary.

Naturally, Obama Post has the story: Clinton Backer "Organized" Wright's Press Club Event

Raw Obama has it: A Hillary supporter organized Rev. Wrights National Press Club appearance

ObamaBlog has it: Speculation grows that Hillary was behind Rev. Wright's loony Press Club appearance

Obama Underground has the ObamaFlash story at the top of their homepage.

A gawdzillion bloggers have it. Of course, some of them are conservative and some of them are progressive (sic) bloggers, but who can tell the difference? They all tell the story the exact same way. Thousands of words written about Hillary's latest evil conspiracy.

What evil thing will Hillary do next? One thing is certain. With all the power wielded by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama is so losing this primary!!!

Graphic via Clyde's Place

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Change You Can Believe In: Obama Denounces His Pastor


In a bitter press conference, Barack Obama denounced and disowned his Pastor of some 20 years. Senator Obama denounced and rejected Reverend Jeremiah Wright because Obama is a unifier who transcends the differences that divide us.

Obama was so outraged by the words of Jeremiah Wright, so very outraged that Barack Obama has not even spoken with his pastor. Obama said that someday perhaps he will again talk to his pastor. But in the meantime, Barack Obama will definitely talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obama builds bridges in his heroic quest to end the bitter partisan divisions that were caused by Hillary and Bill Clinton in the disturbingly bitter 1990s.

But some bitterly partisan pastors just can't be saved.

Oh well.

Maybe the Precious will have better luck building bridges on Fox News.

"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother."
--Barack Obama

Obama Dumps Wright
Obama Denounces Wright
Obama Says He's Outraged by Ex-Pastor's Comments
Obama Strikes Back, Denouncing Wright
Obama On Wright: “I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought”
Obama strongly denounces former pastor
Obama Cuts Wright Loose
Making it personal — The shift in Obama's approach
Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments

Cartoon by John Klossner via Lost Nation

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The Kind of Change Obama Brings (Video)


Driving the bus over his own grand-mama . . . Giving the finger and being quite sexist - this is the kinda change Obama brings . . . Pulling the race card and losing in Texas . . Crying about reporters asking you things - this is the kinda change Obama brings . . . When Axelrod bites, when the pundits sing, when I'm feeling sad . . . I simply envision Clinton winning this thing, and then I don't feel sooo bad . . . .


via HillBuzz

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MSNBC Sexist Smear of the Day: Hillary is "Skanky" (Video)


Politico has confirmed that it was indeed MSNBC guest commentator A.B. Stoddard of “The Hill” who took the adolescent liberty of referring to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as "skanky."

Hillary-hater, A. B. Stoddard then proceeded to laugh and laugh about it, like some adolescent who was caught. Stoddard actually denies it. Watch the video and see if you believe her. Stoddard is off camera when she utters the word. Hating Hillary Rodham Clinton is pretty well a requirement for being a guest on MSNBC. Media Matters has more on Stoddard.


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Wright: Barack Obama Will Say Anything to Get Elected (Video)

At his National Press Club spectacle yesterday, Reverend Jeremiah Wright expressed the view that Barack Obama is a phony. Among other outrages, Rev. Wright said that Obama criticized the Pastor's controversial views merely because Barack Obama wants to get elected. In other words, Barack Obama will say anything to get elected! Why does Reverend Wright hate Obama?


Dana Milbank at WaPo: Wright's Voice Could Spell Doom for Obama Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama's presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. . Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks ("God damn America") and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.

In front of 30 television cameras, Wright's audience cheered him on as the minister mocked the media and, at one point, did a little victory dance on the podium. It seemed as if Wright, jokingly offering himself as Obama's vice president, was actually trying to doom Obama; a member of the head table, American Urban Radio's April Ryan, confirmed that Wright's security was provided by bodyguards from Farrakhan's Nation of Islam.

TNR: Wrightmare
Time: Jeremiah Wright Goes to War
Democratic Daily: Wright Throws Obama Under The Bus & Steps On The Gas

"[Barack Obama] didn't distance himself. He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American. Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls."
-- Jeremiah Wright
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Poll: Hillary Has Best Shot at Beating McCain


Hillary Rodham Clinton "now leads McCain, 50 percent to 41 percent, while Obama remains virtually tied with McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent," according to the new Associated Press-Ipsos poll.

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Reverend Wright Mocks JFK, LBJ, 'Stupid' People, & Damages Obama's Campaign (Video)


"[Barack Obama] can be the first black man to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue legally."


MSNBC -- First Read: At this point, no matter one's political inexperience, Wright has to know he's not helping his friend; his decision to go public and defend his reputation at this point in the campaign is doing nothing to help Obama, if anything, it's leading some to believe he's actually trying to sabotage him. He's hurting him and hurting him very badly. Frankly, it’s as selfish of a move as we've seen in some time.

The Moderate Voice: Jeremiah Wright: Obama’s Root Canal
ABC News: Rev. Wright Delivers Fiery Address to NAACP
Swampland: The Reverend Wright
American Digest: Surprise, There is a Difference Between Black Brains and White Brains: Obama's Pastor Explains It All to You

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Why Obama is Afraid to Debate Hillary (Video)

Barack knows that Hillary would make "mincemeat out of him." Does Barack dream that he could also refuse to debate McCain?

Hillary's Challenge


Obama: No, We Can't

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright on All Cable News Channels


The media is giving Reverend Jeremiah Wright extensive coverage. He got 3 hours (!) on CNN last night for his speech at the NAACP. No mere excerpts, they ran the entire speech. And the audience of 12,000 gave Reverend Wright a long and loud standing ovation.

Reverend Wright is now speaking at the National Press Club and you can see it on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News too. This speech marks Reverend Wright's 4th media-covered event since last Friday.

While I find some of Rev. Wright's rhetoric harsh and hard to stomach, I am not unsympathetic to Black Liberation Theology, nor Feminist Liberation Theology, nor Queer Liberation Theology. I am certain, however, that there are far better forums for Liberation Theology than presidential campaigns.

I wouldn't mind a bit if Hillary Rodham Clinton was involved in Feminist or Queer Liberation Theology. But I would mind quite a bit if it came to light during her bid for the presidency -- because we are living in a conservative country. The longer Jeremiah Wright stays in the media spotlight, the greater the damage to Barack Obama. Is Wright campaigning for Hillary? Already, right-wingers are positively howling with glee.

See videos of the NAACP speech.

Update: Rev. Wright was just asked to respond to the charge that he is unpatriotic. He replied: "I served six years in the military. How many years did Cheney serve?" Heh. The audience loved it.

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Obama Ends Fox News Boycott & Lies About It To Adoring Netroots


First Barack Obama broke the hearts of his netroots flock by ending the Fox News boycott. Then Barack rubbed their faces in it by throwing Lord Kos under the bus -- again.

Oh, and after Obama's campaign reassured the netroots that the Chosen One was only going to appear on Fox News for the express purpose of "tak[ing] Fox on," Barack, um, forgot to do that.

Instead, Barack Obama went on Fox News and distanced himself from the progressive netroots who love him so.

In other words, the Obama campaign deliberately lied to the progressive netroots. Does Barack Obama have any idea what the netroots have done, or become, for him? I don't think so.

Over at Open Left, Obama supporter Matt Stoller reminds us of the netroots we used to know:

It is very difficult to acknowledge that your candidate deals with you in bad faith, and so I understand the emotional inability of Obama's most ardent supporters to realize that is what happened. I am an Obama supporter, but I don't think he's particularly trustworthy. The issue at hand is that Obama's campaign simply gave out false information to Greg Sargent to placate bloggers. . .

If you don't like that Obama steps on you, speak out. Clinton at least has a reason to step on us since many of us have openly called her a Republican. It's a fight, and we didn't back her. Instead we back someone that openly lies to us and thinks nothing of it.

Graphic via Clyde's Place: Progressive Blogs Try to Disparage Hillary: End up stinking the blogosphere up themselves

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Polarizing Obama Stars in Mississippi Attack Ad (Video)


Here's yet another ad using Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or PastorGate footage, to attack a Democrat who has the apparent misfortune of being endorsed by the polarizing and divisive Barack Obama. This ad's running in Mississippi. Similar ads are set to run this week in North Carolina.

Gee, I can hardly wait for the general election to begin. Is Barack going to destroy the entire Democratic Party?

But I thought Obama was going to put an end to the terrible partisan divisions in this country. Barack said he was going to end the cultural war -- the one that's all the fault of that polarizing and divisive Hillary and Bill Clinton! Whatever happened to Barack's post partisan narrative? Has anyone seen Barack's pillow?



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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Keith Olbermann, You are a Misogynist, Not a Progressive (Video)


The outrage over Keith Olbermann's latest misogynistic missive -- directed at Hillary Rodham Clinton -- cries out for a little context. Keith Olbermann is the darling of "the progressives," or as they are more aptly termed these days: the Obamaphiles.

That an overt misogynist is the hero of "the progressives," strongly suggests that a little intensely critical introspection is long overdue. Because you certainly cannot be progressive while espousing blatantly misogynistic views of women.

Who is Keith Olbermann? With the aid of the in-your-face caption: A Slut and Battery, Keith Olbermann reports in the video clip (2006) below that Paris Hilton was "punched in the face." To the laughter of the boys in the background, Olbermann opines that Paris Hilton has "had worse things happen to her face." Taking vicious shots at young celebrities is a routine feature on Olbermann's show. But there is one rule, Keith's shots are always fired at women. Cuz, just like in the 1950s, girls are sleazy sluts and boys are honorable studs.

Keith Olbermann: A Slut and Battery

Back in 2006, Sandi Burtseva noted Keith's unconscionable use of "a slut and battery" -- the "'cleverly' invert[ed]" phrase "associated with domestic violence."

At WIMN's Voices, Burtseva wrote:

[T]o Keith Olbermann:

There is no excuse for how irresponsibly you are using your position of influence. The fact that you are a petty, disrespectful misogynist discredits you. You are not a progressive and you never will be, unless you drastically alter your attitude toward women. All of the brutally honest political criticism in the world does not make up for the shallow, sexist tripe you use to boost ratings. You, sir, are no Edward R. Murrow.

[video via Feministing]

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More MSNBC Misogyny from Olbermann: Beat the Bitch Until She Quits



Not that anyone who has been paying one iota of attention needs it, but as "proof" that "there's an ugly strain of misogyny running through Hillary Clinton's media coverage," Rachel Sklar offers "an unbelievable statement" from Keith Olbermann:

Olbermann was discussing the election with Newsweek's Howard Fineman, a frequent guest. They topic was, how can a winner finally be determined in this never-ending Democratic race for the nomination? Of course, the assumption was that it was Clinton that should be shown the door (despite clearly still earning her spot in the race thanks to, um, voters). Fineman said that, all the delegate math aside, ultimately it was going to take "some adults somewhere in the Democratic party to step in and stop this thing, like a referee in a fight that could go on for thirty rounds. Those are the super, super, super delegates who are going to have to decide this."

Said Olbermann: "Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out."

What does that mean? Really, it can only mean one thing: Beating the crap out of Hillary Clinton, to the point where she is physically incapable of of getting up and walking out. Do I really think Olbermann thinks Hillary Clinton should really be violently beaten to the point of physical incapacitation, or worse? No. . But it is an unmistakably violent image . . If David Shuster can be suspended for likening Chelsea Clinton to a prostitute, then what happens when Keith Olbermann implies that the only way to stop Hillary Clinton is to inflict some sort of physical harm on her?

This latest swipe at Hillary Rodham Clinton by the towel-slapping, anti-woman frat boy at MSNBC is viewed somewhat differently by Delilah:

Olbermann: How To Snuff Out Hillary Clinton

"Metaphor, my ass. If 2 white guys suggested that "somebody" take Obama into a room and Obama doesn't come out, how would that sound to you? If it sounds more...um, outrageous to say such a thing about Obama than it is to say it about Clinton, then you need to take a long look at your personal beliefs about human rights."

The misogyny at MSNBC is driving me crazy. When the MSNBC men aren't being misogynistic creeps, they're bashing the Clintons with charges of racism. Most everyday the boys at MSNBC like to talk about racism. That's the only ism MSNBC can handle. Because if any of mainly male pundits on any of the networks had to talk about the misogyny directed at Hillary Rodham Clinton, the story would be about them!


Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, David Shuster, and everyone on the Misogyny Network who doesn’t speak out against it, YOU are the perps.

Day after day, in a million ways they tell the world that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a cold calculating dishonest and polarizing bitch. Then the male pundits sit and pontificate about all the possible reasons for Hillary’s “unlikeability.” Gee, the perps wonder, why don’t people like the bitch?

Women are largely voiceless in this country. We can bitch on our blogs day in and day out, but it does precious little good. We are tokens in the media. We are tokens in the government. Wherever the important decisions are made in this sorry sexist nation, women are tokens. The lowly token women on MSNBC won't talk about the daily misogyny for the same reason Hillary Rodham Clinton won't talk about it.


Every now and then a reporter will try to get Hillary to talk about it. But it's a trap, and she’s knows it.

If she talked about it, if she gave a gender speech, the mainly male media would laugh and call her a crazy bitch in a million media stories. And they would do it for weeks!! OMG! Hillary Played the Gender Card!!!!

The women at MSNBC have seen what happens to Hillary. We've all seen it.

The feminists of the ‘60s and ‘70s would never have put up with this crap.

Where is the feminist leadership?


Shakesville: Hillary Sexism Watch: Part Eighty-Three
Anglachelg's Journal: Olbermann Calls for Clinton's Murder
TalkLeft: Olbermann Comments on Hillary Causing Stir
The Confluence: Keith, what are we talking about here exactly?
Buck Naked Politics: Olbermann's Hillary Derangement Syndrome Takes Him Over the Top and Over the Line
No Quarter: Olbermann Wants Hillary Taken Down NOW, and Forcibly
RedState: It's like every day is Christmas.
MISOGYNY NETWORK Transcript
memeorandum
The Real Spiel: Olbermann's answer to WWTSBQ
No Blood for Hubris: Thomas a Beckett's Ghost Asks: "Who Will Rid Me of This Meddlesome Female Candidate for U.S. President?"
Corrente: Misogyny, thy name is Media

Enough is enough you ignorant men photo: Women hold up signs demanding equal rights during a demonstration for women's liberation, New York City, circa 1968. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
MSNBC Photos: Stop the Media Bias! Protest

Keith apologized last night. It was as quick and understated and insincere and insignificant as is this acknowledgment of it.

"To the refrain of Hillary cackling, let's start with predictions tonight."

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Count Our Votes: Florida Protests Begin this Week


Disenfranchised voters will begin taking to the streets all over Florida tomorrow, and in D.C. next week, to demand that the state's disqualified January primary results be counted.

The Miami Herald reports:

Rallies are planned Saturday in seven Florida cities, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale, to demand that the national party count Florida's delegates. Hundreds of activists are also expected to ride buses to Washington to rally Wednesday. . "This has to do with our civil rights," said Millie Herrera, a potential Clinton convention delegate and the president of the Hispanic Democratic Caucus of Florida. "No one has the right to invalidate our votes."

Look out Howard Dean! Busloads of Floridians will arrive in D.C. next week to protest outside the DNC headquarters:

Buoyed by the results in Pennsylvania, bus loads of Floridians -- mostly backers of Sen. Hillary Clinton -- will head to Washington for an April 30th rally before the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The group is looking to confront party leaders and argue that the Sunshine State's disqualified January primary results should be counted. They are asking that all 2ll Florida delegates be seated at the August convention in Denver, a decision that would help in the delegate-numbers-game for the New York senator.

Florida Demands Representation and the League of Latin American Citizens are organizing the protests.

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Rev. Wright: Obama Says What He Has to Say As a Politician


Jeremiah Wright is in the news again, and he is doing Barack Obama no favors. Wright's interview will air tonight on Bill Moyers Journal.

Already, the msm is broadcasting Reverend Wright's decidedly negative assessment of Mr. Hope's New Politics:

“He’s a politician, I’m a pastor,” he said. “We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they’re two different worlds.”

He added, “I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound bytes, he responded as a politician.”

From Michelle Malkin, we learn that conservatives are gearing up for a little 'patriotic' protest: Passing along a message from my friends at FreeRepublic: They’ll be protesting Jeremiah Wright’s appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday at 8am. I’m told they plan to sing “God Bless America.”

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Republican Attack Machine Fires At Obama (Video)


Barack Obama is circulating a memo to superdelegates which argues that he's The One because, among other things, people like him better than they like Hillary. The Obama memo reads: "His ability to expand the Democratic base, and his ability to capture the crucial Independent vote, make him a stronger general election candidate than Senator Clinton, who would enter the fall campaign with the highest unfavorable ratings of any nominee in half a century."

Barack Obama is too modest. The unity candidate hasn't been on the receiving end of the Republican attack machine for 16 years, but already he is well on his way to giving Hillary some real competition in unpopularity. Help is on the way. The Republican attack machine will be running anti Obama ads across the country beginning next week. Here's the attack ad the GOP plans to air in North Carolina next week. The ad condemns Democrats Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue for the crime of endorsing Barack Obama.


This next sleazy ad will also air in North Carolina. It will be "e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message." The creator is Floyd Brown, who manufactured the infamous Willie Horton ad that brought down Michael Dukakis in 1988.


Yes, we know Republicans and Obamaphiles don't like Hillary. The unity candidate has told his fans many times that Hillary is polarizing. She thinks she's Annie Oakley. She attacks him when she's feeling down, periodically. She has claws. She's divisive -- unlike all those other uppity women who've had a shot at the presidency. If the unity candidate hadn't spent quite so much time trashing Hillary and Bill Clinton and numerous other Democrats, maybe there wouldn't be quite so many Democrats who vow to stay home if Obama gets the nomination. Republicans had nothing whatsoever to do with much of Obama's declining popularity among Democrats.

Media Matters: Cable news nets run ad attacking Obama over and over

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Krugman: Obama's Negative & Dishonest Fear-Mongering on Health Care


We've seen many unsettling changes throughout the insanity of the Democratic primary, but, thankfully, Paul Krugman is still wise and still liberal. In today's column, Krugman notes that Obama's campaign continues to tear down the idea of universal health care in its overriding mission of tearing down Senator Clinton:

“Yes we can” has become “No she can’t.” . . Tellingly, the Obama campaign has put far more energy into attacking Mrs. Clinton’s health care proposals than it has into promoting the idea of universal coverage. . During the closing days of the Pennsylvania primary fight, the Obama campaign ran a TV ad repeating the dishonest charge that the Clinton plan would force people to buy health insurance they can’t afford. It was as negative as any ad that Mrs. Clinton has run — but perhaps more important, it was fear-mongering aimed at people who don’t think they need insurance, rather than reassurance for families who are trying to get coverage or are afraid of losing it. No wonder, then, that older Democrats continue to favor Mrs. Clinton.

Paul Krugman: Obama Won't Deliver Universal Health Care

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Whoopi: That a Woman Could be in Charge is So Insanely Huge (Video)


Transcript -- GOLDBERG: It’s a very- and I say this with a huge amount of love. It’s a very white way to look at it. . . HASSELBECK: Let me take off my "white" goggles. . . GOLDBERG: But you can’t. That’s what I’m trying to explain. This, for us, is totally- it’s not an experience I can explain to you. I can’t explain why black folks are saying "oh my God."

HASSELBECK: Look at the woman factor then. . GOLDBERG: I was going to get to that because it becomes a cross groove for me because black and a woman. You know, I’m just like "put them both in." The hell with it. But the, but the idea that this is a very specific kind of thing. Now, you are not old enough to remember when women decided that the best thing that they can do is burn their bra in public and that was a huge deal. But for women to say "I’m taking it off and I’m actually going to get a job." The idea that there is a woman that could be in charge is so insanely huge.

Watch more at ABC.

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Chelsea Clinton at Duke On Hillary's Position On Feminist Issues (Video)


In the video clip below, Chelsea Clinton campaigns at North Carolina's Duke University (on Equal Pay Day) and points out that numerous feminist, um, human rights bills fail to pass in even a Democratic Congress. (Case in point, the Fair Pay Act. Compute your own pay gap at Hillary's website.)

Chelsea addresses concerns such as Hillary's 'leftwing radical' feminism, equal pay, teen pregnancy, sex education, etc. Feminist issues are human rights issues? Women are human? Really? Is the security guard rolling his eyes?


Duke Chronicle: Chelsea Clinton campaigns at Duke

Reuters: Republicans block pay discrimination bill -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that makes it tougher for workers to sue for pay discrimination. Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton interrupted their campaigns to return to the Senate to vote for the bill.

Think Progress: McCain dismisses equal pay legislation, says women need more ‘training and education.’-- Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) skipped the vote on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which “restores the longstanding interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act,” overturned last year by a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling. . he added that instead of legislation allowing women to fight for equal pay, they simply need “education and training.“

Photo: President Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- back in the day when white women worked for 59 cents to the white male dollar. Today white women are paid 77 cents, African-American women are paid 63 cents, and Latinas are paid 52 cents for every dollar paid to white men. Forty-five years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, some of us have gained a staggering 18 cents! Woohoo!!!

"My mother would be a better president than my father," she said. "She is more progressive and more prepared."


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Hillary: I'm Taking Back the White House (Video)

Awesome! And funny!


via The Red Queen who got it from Donna Darko

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

NY Times Whines: Hillary Made Politics Mean!


Incredibly, the New York Times editorial board whines that Hillary Rodham Clinton is "demeaning the political process" and making politics mean!

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

In other words, Why won't the bitch quit? What voters are really getting tired of is the Whining Obama News Network!

Oh, the irony.

Never mind that it was mean of Obama to take the low road of making heavy use of 16 years worth of rightwing anti Clinton propaganda. Never mind that it was mean of Obama to promote the lie that Hillary and Bill are racist. Never mind that it was mean of Obama to repeatedly attack Hillary Clinton's integrity and character. Never mind the mean media bias! Never mind that Obama has greatly benefited from the downright mean misogynistic media coverage. Never mind that more people have voted for Hillary Clinton than any other candidate. Voters must be mean! Especially women voters!

Most ironic of all is the fact that the New York Times once opposed women's suffrage along with the vast majority of the boy media because politics was too mean and nasty for the sweet and delicate little women. The thought being that if women were ever allowed to participate in politics, it would simply be too hard on the men, because the little docile angels might become mean like the menz!! Or as the Anti-Suffrage Review opined in 1910:

Woman, as mother, sweetheart, inspirer and friend, man accepts and welcomes. But once she begins to invade his province, to do his work – then his latent jealousy will burst into flame, and everywhere there will be a great revolt.

So now the boy media is revolting ad nauseam and complaining that the bitch is mean!!!

Well, boo-f%@king-hoo! Like Hillary says, if you can't stand the heat . . .

The comments at the revolting New York Times are closed. Probably some of them were mean. Contact the Times at the addresses below, but do be careful women, don't be mean! You might make somebody cry.

Editorial page editor: editorial@nytimes.com. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: letters@nytimes.com; Public editor: public@nytimes.com

Progressive Involvement: Who wrote that stupid New York Times editorial?
TalkLeft: NYTimes Jumps the Gun: Does Not Wait For The Votes
Shakesville: I Write Letters
Buck Naked Politics: Apparently, the person who wrote that editorial hadn't read the New York Times two days ago, when the Times slammed Obama for going negative in Pennsylvania.

Graphic: "This cartoon (drawn by a man) stereotypes Suffragettes as bitter old crones engaged in a gender-war against men."

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Hillary Wins PA Big: Tide Is Turning OR Here Comes the Sun! (Video)


Hillary Rodham Clinton won in Pennsylvania by 55 to 45 percent -- a double-digit victory in spite of the fact that she was outspent by three to one!

The Democratic voters who turned out in Pennsylvania were 59% women! Or like the pundits say:

Obama can't close the deal because of problematic white women. And we aren't going away. Go Hillary!!!

Hillary's Victory Speech: The Tide Is Turning

"This has been a historic race and I commend Senator Obama and his supporters tonight. We are, in many ways, all on this journey together to create an America that embraces every last one of us. The women in their nineties who tell me they were born before women could vote and they’re hopeful of seeing a woman in the White House. The mothers and fathers at my events, who lift their little girls on their shoulders and whisper in their ears, 'see, you can be anything you want.'" via No Quarter

Here Comes the Sun

via TalkLeft

Via SusanUnPC comes this gem: POPULAR VOTE NUMBERS: ABC News Delegate Tracker (down one screen) notes that, if you count Michigan, Hillary has taken the lead in the popular vote:
Hillary - 15,005,761
Obama - 14,893,607

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Record Turnout in Pennsylvania


PA Exit Polls: Only 50% of Hillary Supporters Will Vote for Obama If he's the Nominee

Exit polls just confirmed what women on this blog and all over the net have been saying. Women are fed up. Only fifty percent of Hillary supporters say they will vote for Obama if he gets the nod -- according to Pennsylvania exit polls, via CNN. Nearly six in ten Pennsylvania voters are women!

Fifty Percent.

This comes as a surprise to the clueless media because the male pundits are Not in the habit of listening to women. Many of them prefer to leer. As the women of America are painfully aware, women are represented in the media as pathetically as we are represented in Congress.

Sixty-seven percent of Obama supporters say they will vote for Hillary.

Here's that infamous in-your-face arrogant Obama quote again:

"I am confident I will get her votes if I'm the nominee. It's not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee."

They're reporting 'extremely heavy' voting going on in Pennsylvania. The Democratic primary of 2004 saw a 26% turnout.

Today's turnout is predicted to be double that or to more closely rival the turnout in November 2004 (73%).

From CNN to MSNBC, the coverage is already pathetic. They really hate it when she wins.

CBS reports: 'Obama reported spending $11.2 million on television in the state, compared with $4.8 million for Clinton. (See the latest campaign finance reports.)' Wow. Those are some expensive votes.

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Olbermann Asks Hillary If the Sexism Is Real


If you watched Countdown (MSNBC transcript with ugly rightwing photo of Hillary) last night, you saw Hillary Rodham Clinton demonstrate once again that she can talk to assh@les like Keith Olbermann, and Richard Mellon Scaife too. Meanwhile, Barack Obama wants us to believe that he can talk to Ahmadinejad, but, oh dear, Obama can't handle Fox News or any more debates with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Keith proved himself to be a first class coward. The jerk waited until Hillary was safely gone before trashing her.

One of the funniest moments was when KO asked: How in the world could you sit down with your longtime political enemy, Richard Mellon Scaife? In KO's view, when Obama talks to Republicans, it's called being the unity candidate. But when Hillary talks to Republicans, it's called selling out.

Keith, why didn't you just ask her how she could talk to a creep like you?

Keith also wanted to know if Hillary thought there was such a thing as sexism in the media. I kid you not. The entire point of the question being Keith's most fervent hope that he could run 2 weeks worth of hysterical stories accusing the woman of "playing the gender card." Recall that Keith named Elton John as a Worst Person for the hideous crime of speaking the forbidden word: MISOGYNY! (Watch the video for her answer.) Hillary wasn't the only one laughing at Keith!


Big Tent Dem weighs in: One of Hillary Clinton's best moments in the Olbermann interview (ironically, Olbermann revealed the limitations of his abilities in his discussion of the answer later in the program with Richard Wolffe, he has no knowledge at all of deterrence theory), was her answer about the "umbrella of deterrence" against future potential Iranian attacks, especially nuclear, against its neighbors. . Keith Olbermann seemed unable to understand the answer, and his after comments with Wolfe were an embarrassment for him imo.

Video clip of the full interview
Clyde's Place: Keith Obamaman busted: Gets his questions and talking points from Daily Kos

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