Hillary Clinton
Unintentionally terrifying email from Hillary Clinton
Email from Hillary Clinton: Dear Violet, Sixty is the magic number. If we reach 60 Democrats in the Senate, then the days of Republican obstruction are over. With Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. Holy shit. Because this is what [...]
Ridiculing Palin to make up for the sin of liking Hillary
Whenever women in a patriarchal society buck male opinion, there’s hell to pay and they know it. Women in America really went out on a limb this year by backing Hillary in the face of withering derision from men (and from young women attempting to curry favor with men, consciously or not). Now they’re making [...]
When misogyny masquerades as feminism
One of my favorite Onion headlines from recent years was, “Women now empowered by everything a woman does.” A similar headline could be written as the summary (and, I hope, the epitaph) of the Third Wave: “Feminism is anything a woman says, thinks, or feels.” I hate to break it to the Third Wavers out [...]
And we thought the woman-hating couldn’t get any worse
You know the argument: the Hillary-haters don’t really hate women; they just hate Hillary. All the sexism and misogyny thrown at Hillary is for her alone, not for all women. Yeah, right. The Crucifixion of Sarah Palin is one of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen. After the Trashing of Hillary I thought the [...]
Comment of the Day
From Ciccina: My jaw dropped when I read that Obama’s text message announcement went out at 3am – 3am being the name of the Clinton ad that apparently really got under the Possum-in-Chief’s skin. Here he’s supposed to be riding the unity pony into Denver, and what does he do? Flips the bird to 18 [...]
Chris Matthews says something that makes sense
I know, it’s crazy. But it happens sometimes. My theory is that Matthews just talks so damn much that purely on a statistical basis he’s bound to burble out something true once in awhile. This is a transcript of his remarks on Morning Joe a couple of days ago, forwarded to me on a PUMA [...]
