Pretty clever having that insert of Strathairn-as-Murrow giving his speech about the fatuousness of the media while Olbermann drones on and on with his usual, tiresome pedantry. KO's voiceover in the Network clip actually makes him sound like a mouthpiece for authoritarianism, 1984 style.

And those striped jeans Hillary wore in college? I had those same jeans in 6th grade (1971) and let me tell you, I thought I was hipper than s*** wearing 'em to school.

Universal health care hangs by a thread. The economy crashes into recession. The war in Iraq grinds on. And this is the press and the Democratic Party we have to help us out of it.

for Sen. Clinton, the sexist pig media never even gave her a chance

should sen. obama be the eventual dem. nominee (an issue yet in doubt, regardless of what BTD thinks to the contrary! :)), the media will turn on him in a heartbeat. i guarantee it.

at that point, we'll all get to see if sen. obama is made of sterner stuff than he's shown so far.

If only his campaign at some point had come out powerfully and sincerely against this.

And it is bad.  

I hope the Obama supporters are paying attention, because if he is the nominee, this is the treatment your guy is going to get.  There is no way on earth that the McCain-Obama reporting/commentary is going to magically elevate to serious and thoughtful discussions of the issues - no.  

And when your guy gets hit with this kind of sewage like it was being blasted out of a firehose, you may regret cheering it on when it was directed at Hillary.  You may regret that if he wins the nomination, he will have won it, in part, with the help of these people.  You may regret not holding the Olbermanns and Becks and Hannitys and Matthewses and Russerts - not to mention the blogs - to a higher standard, but it will be too late, and regret is sad and painful place to be.

I was disappointed in the spin, too. One article was headlined, "Firefighter Sees Little Difference Between The Two Democrats", but when you read further, what he actually said was:

"Dan Cotrell, a Billings firefighter, said he thought Obama was a very dynamic speaker, but believes that Clinton's speech dealt with more real-life, Montana-specific issues."

But I do think Sexism is a smaller part of this compared to something else.

They couldn't tear down Clinton when he was president.

So this gives them a chance to tear down his legacy.

But I could be wrong.  Maybe it is just sexism.  I think it's sad that the primary can be distilled down to a competition of victimhood, but I can't escape the fact that Imus was fired for being insulting towards blacks.

One would think that we were watching some underground video. But it was all right out in the open. And acceptable.

She is an inspirational figure--maybe not in words, but in spirit.

Donations may not be enough, though. I think we should start a project: we need to start lobbying the superdelegates, getting them to see this Hillary--our Hillary. A superdelegate email bank, if you will. A constant wave of (politely) firm letters asking them to endorse Hillary.

What is so surreal about it all is that I used to be an HRC detractor back in the day.  I always thought she was smart and capable, but I thought she lacked humility and that'd she sell her soul to the devil for a vote, oh and steal the White House china on the way out the door too.  In short, she was an ordinary corrupt pol.  But the more I saw of her the more I came to respect her incredible guts and admire her smarts and her skill.

All this is just warm-up to say that I was once one of those who would say, "I would vote for a woman - just not that woman."  But now I see right through that line.  Because it is just a line.  It's a line meant to excuse the glass ceiling that we can all see bearing down on us but don't want to face because isn't it past time not to have to?  And a line to make us all feel better about the gleeful demonstrations of misogyny that are everywhere this election cycle, that we just can't bear to believe with our own eyes.  It's a line to reassure us that the boys can just be boys, because it is after all Hillary Clinton we are talking about.  That they wouldn't behave that way if it was any another woman making this run.  Right.  Sure.  

Oh and yeah the guy running against her hasn't done anything yet and can't compete with her on the merits, but you know "he's the one! he's the healer! he's America's future not its past!" and it is just her bad luck to be running against him.  We'd pick her if it was anybody else but this once in a lifetime leader running.  Yup.  That's it.  

What is being done to Hillary Clinton is wickedly cruel, and I am having much difficulty in comprehending it--is this coming only from Democrats?  Is this part of a concerted attack by both the right and the left?  What the hell is going on?

When I began reading the comments - especially those of athyrio, eleanora, cream city, esmense, tree, and so many others - I was laughing and crying at the same time. Thank you so much for your voices.

But then... along comes the usual suspects, trying to tear down these voices of reality again. We all know who they are. It's just so necessary to point out that some criticisms of Hillary are not sexist, even though the point of this post is about all the sexism that HAS happened. It's just so necessary to imply that she deserves at least some of what she's been given. So much for those good feelings.

I will never, ever forget what I've learned this primary season - sexism is no less prevalent on the left than the right. It is NOT part of the democratic progressive platform. Not only will many many progressives go along complicitly with the most egregious sexism, they will backpedal away from any indignation against it as fast as they can. If you point out Olbermann's pigginess, you get impassioned defenses of him as a liberal savior. Same for so many others. It just does not matter to most progressives.

But there should be a warning that it starts out with Obamamann.  

Maybe why we keep coming back to sex and race is because it's the only way to tell the 3 stooges apart.  They all support foreign occupation and unsound fiscal policies that will lead to the ruination of our republic.  I take no solace in whether an old white man, black man, or white woman is leading us on the road to a bloodstained bankruptcy...the end result is the same.

There are plenty of strong, capable American women prepared to take on anything in public life.  

Hillary, with the decidedly non-feminist way she has built her (non-existent) résumé, isn't one of them.