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Hillary Clinton & Sexism In The Media
Now that the Presidential primary race is over and the general election is underway, members of the media are looking back on their coverage of Hillary Clinton and trying to decide if they were sexist or not. Clark Hoyt, a writer for The New York Times takes his own employer to task and places a large amount of blame on Maureen Dowd, a columnist for the paper. Dowd was also named on the National Organization for Women’s Hall Of Shame list for her coverage of Clinton, which Hoyt describing as “loaded with language painting [Clinton] as a 50-foot woman with a suffocating embrace, a conniving film noir dame and a victim dependent on her husband.”
Click on our link to get the rest of the story. Do you agree or not? Let me know... Now that the Presidential primary race is over and the general election is underway, members of the media are looking back on their co... more -
Mincing Up Michelle
There are some who think it will be harder for America to accept a black first lady — the national hostess who serenely presides over the White House Christmas festivities and the Easter egg roll — than a black president. There are some who think it will be harder for America to accept a black first lady — the national hostess who serenely presides over ... more
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Clinton's recent win surprised and angered many people
Maureen Dowd's column criticizing the type of women who are supporting Hillary Clinton, saying that Clinton doesn't make it look very fun to be a woman. But much of Clinton's recent support has come from the comedy world. Maureen Dowd's column criticizing the type of women who are supporting Hillary Clinton, saying that Clinton doesn't make it ... more
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Jump on the Peace Train
After subverting diplomacy in his first term, now W. does drive-by diplomacy, taking a playboy approach to peace. He wants to look like hes taking the problem of an Israeli-Palestinian treaty seriously when his true motivation is more cynical: pacifying the Arab coalition and holding it together so that he can blunt Irans sway.
First, Condi missed the scorching significance of the August 2001 presidential daily brief headlined Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. An explosive title on a nonexplosive piece, as she later dismissively described it.
Then she and W. failed to fathom that if Iraq went wrong, Iran would benefit. After subverting diplomacy in his first term, now W. does drive-by diplomacy, taking a playboy approach to peace. He wants to look lik... more -
Hillary Clinton: Better as a flight attendant?
Is Hillary's White House run doomed because men don't want to date her?
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