Y’all.
If you’re happy, please don’t read below the fold. Also, trigger warning like whoa. I know Red likes to keep things cheerful, but I really can’t let this one go.
Three times in the last six days, some asshole has, on national television, joked about the murder of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. That’s less than a week. None of these f*ckers have been fired or suspended. Olbermann has grudgingly offered a half an apology. That’s all you have to do if you suggest killing someone, or that the prospect of such an event is funny to you, if that someone dares to walk and talk and go out in public while in possession of a vagina. If anyone stumbles on a reporter, journalist, or Lefty Dood blogger who gives a raving sh*t whether or not a US Senator lives or is violently murdered, please let me know; in the meantime, I’m going to consider them all useless f*cking hypocrites.
Anglachel, as usual, breaks down how much this matters.
Oh. And also via Shakes, the people charged with protecting her from the lunatics who are hearing these jokes? Are busy planting nooses
all over training centers.
Shame.
I’ll be actually thinking and posting after my international law exam. On which I want to do really well now, so I have the option to get the f*ck out of here. Because if they’re coming for Hillary, they’re coming for me too.
Filed under: Sexism & Misogyny, The Media
It’s funny because I think in real life people wouldn’t describe me as “cheerful” or “perky” but aloof, cool or skeptical.
Pocochina - I read this on your blog too. Thank you for x-posting.
Tonight, Stoller who’s somewhat feminist said Obama needs a killer instinct against Hillary because Obama is in freefall. Six weeks before Clinton’s champion knockout blow in PA, and right after polls said she was going to deal the knockout blow, Bowers said Obama was going to deal the knockout blow in PA. Maybe that’s why she won. Sexism makes women mad.
I haven’t seen anyone discussing this, but then again maybe I missed it,
or perhaps no one bothers to read Counterpunch…
from here-
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04262008.html
The only two substances that definitively get someone to quit running for President are gold or lead. In Mrs Clinton’s case even their potency might fail. Gold, in this case the lack of it in the form of campaign funds, wouldn’t stop her tottering into the next round of primaries on a shoe-string.
And even if – perish the thought – an assassin retained by the Democratic National Committee stepped from behind a shrub and laid Mrs Clinton low, we’d have Bill Clinton insisting that a generic Clinton family candidacy for the Democratic nomination be kept in play, while he simultaneously sought repeal of the 22cnd amendment which bars US presidents from serving more than two terms. Clinton’s already on record as saying that while no president should serve three consecutive terms, a two-term president should be able to clamber back into the White House for a third stint after a respite in private life.
That’s kinda creepy.
Cyrene, you’re responding to my post about how fantasizing about the murder of a US Senator is vile by…..telling me about how you personally fantasize about her murder and the fallout? Disgusting.
Oh I thought she was a fan. Sorry.
SHAME ON YOU, CYRENE!
Oh, I like yours better. I thought she was trying to get us to read the bad article because she liked it. If I was wrong, sorry, Cyrene, and shame on that blog!
By the way, I totally clicked through, and I need a shower after that post.
Counterpunch is usually cool so I thought she was a Hillary fan.
I love the fact that even Obama skeptics like Cockburn and liberal feminist Obama supporters like many of the women from The Nation have the need to climb aboard the creepy sexist train. If they can’t make a case against her or for him without going there, you’d think the lightbulb would go off.
Do I just not remember the degree of angst that a second Bush running for office provoked? Because I sure don’t remember anything close to this level of concern. People from the same family running not exactly unprescedented. It was more like, we don’t want the *stupid* son, than o noes, monarchy! Dynasty!
Totally, Gavche. Pizza Diavola wrote a great post explaining exactly why that’s bullshit.
2 Bushes, 1 Clinton, they can’t wait for the best out of 4. TOTAL IDIOTS WITH THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A FLEA.