ATLmalcontent

numbers don't lie; hillary does

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, no doubt. But, as Ryan J. Davis proves, voters have been much more amenable to female candidates than African-Americans. Strangely, I haven't heard Obama whine about that.

There are currently 14 female U.S. senators: Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). There is currently a single African-American senator, Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who is only the third elected since Reconstruction.

There are currently eight female governors in America: Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii), Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.), Janet Napolitano (D-Ariz.), Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.), Kathleen Blanco (D-La.), M. Jodi Rell (R-Conn.), Christine Gregoire (D-Wash.), and Sarah Palin (R-Alaska). There is currently a single African-American governor, Deval Patrick (D-Mass.).

*Blanco is no longer Louisiana's governor.

it's a thin line between sexism and truth

Clinton sycophant Taylor Marsh is offended by this statement from Obama: "I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal."

Clumsy verbiage at worst (especially when you consider the source), though Tay-Tay sees it differently:

According to him, we women just can't handle the stress of the big time. We get depressed, and lash out ..."

Especially when a MALE candidate says this: "You challenge the status quo and suddenly the claws come out."

Seems innocent to me. Maybe I'm just being insensitive. Maybe I require enlightenment from an indignant female:

Senator Hillary Clinton is a woman running for president. Not some emotional menopausal diva popping pills because she's depressed she broke a nail.

Good thing he didn't call Hillary shrill. Use it, and you're automatically branded a misogynist. But what if a woman is, in fact, strident and intemperate? I suppose there's a sexist connotation, but I've yet to find a more appropriate adjective.

And I don't use it loosely. Dianne Feinstein, for example, is not shrill. Neither is Nancy Pelosi. Hillary is.

noted and quoted, hillary's gonads edition

The old-guard feminist establishment has also rushed out of cold storage to embrace Hillary Clinton via tremulous manifestoes of gal power that have startlingly exposed the sentimental slackness of thought that made Gloria Steinem and company wear out their welcome in the first place. Hillary's gonads must be sending out sci-fi rays that paralyze the paleo-feminist mind -- because her career, attached to her husband's flapping coattails, has sure been heavy on striking pious attitudes but ultra-light on concrete achievements.

--Camille Paglia

Desperate Feminists

Hard to tell what's more flawed: Gloria Steinem's thesis (gender is to blame for Hillbot's struggles) or her supporting argument. Just another case of the BLACK man keeping the woman down.

A Hillbot-Free Zone, After This

As you've no doubt noticed, I have a propensity to rhetorically beat, pound and pummel people I don't like. As you've no doubt noticed, I can't stand the Clintons.

But I realize my maniacal zeal can get a bit, um, tedious. So nothing from me today on Hillbot, unless a severed horse's head turns up in Wolf Blitzer's bed (context).

In the meantime, here's Camille Paglia's take on Clinton's sputtering campaign:

Hillary's stonewalling evasions and mercurial, soulless self-positionings have been going on since her first run for the U.S. Senate from New York, a state she had never lived in and knew virtually nothing about. The liberal Northeastern media were criminally complicit in enabling her queenlike, content-free "listening tour," where she took no hard questions and where her staff and security people (including her government-supplied Secret Service detail) staged events stocked with vetted sympathizers, and where they ensured that no protesters would ever come within camera range.

That compulsive micromanagement, ultimately emanating from Hillary herself, has come back to haunt her in her dismaying inability to field complex unscripted questions in a public forum. The presidential sweepstakes are too harsh an arena for tenderfoot novices. Hillary's much-vaunted "experience" has evidently not extended to the dynamic give-and-take of authentic debate.

Hillary's Enablers

Any respect I might've had for Geraldine Ferraro just went out the window:

“John Edwards, specifically, as well as the press, would never attack Barack Obama for two hours they way they attacked her,” said Geraldine A. Ferraro, the 1984 vice presidential candidate who supports Mrs. Clinton. “It’s O.K. in this country to be sexist,” Ms. Ferraro said.

“It’s certainly not O.K. to be racist. I think if Barack Obama had been attacked for two hours — well, I don’t think Barack Obama would have been attacked for two hours.” ...

“We can’t let them do this in a presidential race,” she said. “They say we’re playing the gender card. We are not. We are not. We have got to stand up. It’s discrimination against her as a candidate because she is a woman.”

I guess Ferraro prefers Hillbot be patronized.

News with feeling

It's not Katie Couric's fault that her ratings are abysmal. Viewers are to blame -- apparently Americans can't handle a perky woman reading a teleprompter.

According to a former CBS producer, "I'm afraid that Katie's paying a price for being the first woman. But I think it's a great trail she's blazing, and I think if the broadcast continues to be as good as it has been ... people will start to watch. It takes time, I think. But I was surprised that there was an obvious connection between a woman giving the news, and the audience wanting to watch it."

Never mind that Couric is a journalistic lightweight. Of course, manufactured indignation and facts rarely mix.

Look what Cameron Diaz hath wrought

A trio of twats overly comfortable with bodily functions pretend to fart loudly in front of "unsuspecting" elevator riders -- and they have their own show. Watch here and weep for feminism ('cause, you know, these grrrrrls are all empowered and stuff).

Girls gone stupid

Each of the cable news channels led with the same story last night. Immigration? The war in Iraq?? Try the battle between the fat toad and the cheerleader on "The View".

If this is modern feminism, then please, cancel the movement. And cancel Rosie, who predictably wallowed in her fans' sympathy after the sophomoric howdown (fat toad's self-pity in italics):

elizabeth writes:

Rosie, Please remove yourself from all that makes u unhappy. U deserve better. I am just sick about what has happened. U can fix it. Move on, Surround urself w/ good. U r important and LOVEDknowthat.

indeed

Donna writes:
WOW! I felt the pain in you today, she didn’t even get it, it is about a friend sticking up for a friend. You will be missed!
Vermont loves you!

sad

Vickie writes:
ro
Watch. Stunned. wow cubed.
I would walk.
work isn’t worth that battle

agreed

Sher writes:
Your hurt feelings by EH are an example of your geniuneness and why I applaud your decision to leave. The fight today was painful for anyone who cares about you. Please walk away. It’s not worth it.

well u know
when its time 2 go

pokey writes:
Dear Ro..Wow what a hot topic segment today.Was stunned the way EH was going at u. U have said she is ur friend-.I would not want a friend like her.
I could hear in your voice the pain u feel PEACE2U

shock mostly