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Showing posts with label Sexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sexism. Show all posts
Friday, October 10, 2008
Posted by Metavirus at 10/10/2008 12:06:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , General Election , Humor , Media , Sarah Palin , Sexism , Video
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Sarah Palin: "a Bigot, a Racist, and a Liar"
Wow, Sarah Palin must have a huge closet because there such are an enormous number of skeletons pouring out of it. Apparently, in addition to being corrupt and unqualified, Sarah Palin is actually a really mean, vindictive person with a strong racist streak:
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination...
“She’s a bigot, a racist, and a liar,” is the more blunt assessment of Arnold Gerstheimer who lived in Alaska until two years ago and is now a businessman in Idaho.
“Juneau is a small town; everybody knows everyone else,” he adds. “These stories about what she calls blacks and Eskimos, well, anyone not white and good looking actually, were around long before she became a glint in John McCain’s rheumy eyes. Why do I know they’re true? Because everyone who isn’t aboriginal or Indian in Alaska talks that way.”
“Sambo beat the bitch” may be everyday language up in the bush. Whether it – and the outlook, politics and worldview Palin reflects when she says such things in public – should be part of a presidential campaign is another thing altogether. The comment says as much about McCain as it does about Palin, and it says a lot of things about Americans who overlook such statements (as well as her record) and vote anyway for McCain.
Posted by Metavirus at 9/06/2008 12:20:00 PM 1 comments
Tags: Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , Race , Sarah Palin , Sexism , Stupidity , Veepstakes
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Whitman: Media Vetting 'Fair'; No 'Sexism'
Well, I guess Republican eBay CEO, and former VP short-lister, Meg Whitman didn't get the McCain's campaign's "Bash the Media!" and "Play the Gender Card!" memos today:
Fox News' Chris Wallace, responding to McCain campaign charges, asked Whitman, "Is it fair to call it 'sexism'? I mean, sometimes there are legitimate questions." Whitman responded, "I actually think it's completely fair for the media to vet Sarah Palin, just as they did Barack Obama and John McCain and everyone else who's running for office. I mean, you are running for the second highest office in the land, so I think it's the right thing to do."
Wallace followed up, asking about possible sexism in the reaction to Palin's candidacy. "I wouldn't say there really has" been sexism, Whitman replied.
Posted by Metavirus at 9/03/2008 04:16:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Distortions , Distractions , Experience , John McCain , Judgment , Lies , Sarah Palin , Sexism , Veepstakes , Women
Cry 'Sexist!', and Let Slip the Dogs of War!
Maureen Dowd is in excellent form recently with a scathing piece on Sarah Palin in yesterday's Times. She addresses both the perils of picking an unvetted Palin and the specious cries of sexism emanating from the McCain camp these days.
When you make a gimmicky pick of an unknown, without proper vetting, there’s bound to be a sticky press conference sooner or later. I watched it happen with Ferraro and Quayle, and I watched Mondale and Poppy Bush curdle with embarrassment but plow through.
The political unknowns, of course, want that tantalizing brass ring, so they’re not always completely forthcoming about their skeletons, if they’re lucky enough to be ineptly vetted. This is ironic, since the nominee who gets blindsided with these crises — Did McCain really know that this Palin reality show was about to pop and swallow his convention — is presenting them to voters as the most trustworthy people to inherit the nuclear codes.
Because Ferraro grabbed at the chance, without revealing to Mondale’s incompetent vetting team how damaging some of her husband’s financial imbroglios could be, she went from being a female icon to part of the reason it’s taken a quarter-century for another party to take a chance on a woman.
When McCain gets in trouble, he pulls out the P.O.W. card. Now Republicans are pulling out the sexist card.
Hillary cried sexism to cover up her incompetent management of her campaign, and now Republicans have picked up that trick. But when you use sexism as an across-the-board shield for any legitimate question, you only hurt women. And that’s just another splash of reality.
Posted by Metavirus at 9/03/2008 12:26:00 PM 0 comments
Tags: Distortions , Experience , John McCain , Judgment , Lies , Sarah Palin , Sexism , Veepstakes , Women
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Poisoning the Well
I'm pretty significantly depressed this evening.
I went to a going-away function some friends at work threw me and I chatted with a friend of mine who I haven't talked to in months. As it turns out, she was a huge Clinton supporter and launched into a tirade about how Obama was terribly sexist throughout his campaign and that she planned on not voting in the general election as a result.
I have read a bunch of pontificating about how Clinton supporters are wounded and hurt that their candidate didn't win. I have read a bunch of commentary arguing that the benefits of Clinton's gender (in terms of her strong female following in the primary) were far outweighed by the rampant negative sexism employed to tear her down. I have bought into the general notion that most of this anger and grief over Clinton's fall was centralized among so-called "low-information" voters.
Well, I got a dose of reality tonight. My work friend is a highly informed, highly intelligent corporate litigator. She is the first truly engaged friend of mine I've come across to hold the views I noted above.
My conversation with her makes me depressed because a lot of the anger and vitriol that my friend (and thousands of other Clinton supporters out there) holds in her heart could have been mitigated somewhat by Clinton bowing out more gracefully without launching a months-long umbrage campaign about how all the horrible sexism in this country was the main thing holding her back.
Look, there was sexism in this campaign and there was racism. All true. But, let's be honest. Clinton didn't win the nomination for much more enormous reasons than her gender.
She ran an antiquated 1990s campaign in the 21st century.
She failed to attempt to leverage online donors until it was too late.
She relied on the profoundly flawed advice of Mark Penn, who will likely go down as one of the worst campaign strategists in modern memory.
She failed to contest the caucus states.
She ran an "experience" campaign in a "change" election season.
And the list goes on and on.
It really galls me to think that a strong progressive women like my friend will be turned off enough to either not vote (like my friend) or vote for McCain due in large part to Clinton choosing to pour gasoline on the simmering flames of sexism among her supporters.
I won't sleep well tonight.
Posted by Metavirus at 6/24/2008 10:21:00 PM 1 comments
Tags: Barack Obama , Election 2008 , Hillary Clinton , Primaries , Sexism , Women
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