Push Us Around at Your Peril
Ask any woman over 35, Clinton supporter or not: the media hate Hillary. After all, reliable voices of the left—Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd—have launched scathing critiques of her campaign, her ethics or her motives. Samantha Power, a Time contributing editor and hero of the human-rights crowd, was forced to resign from the Obama campaign last week after calling Clinton a "monster." Rolling Stone endorsed the Illinois senator with an almost beatific painting on its cover. And then there's Chris Matthews. If just half the people who have bashed Matthews for anti-Clinton rhetoric had ever actually tuned in to his program, he'd have ratings to reckon with.
Even to some conservatives, the prejudice is unmistakable. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly charges that a biased media are trying to engineer the election in Obama's favor. According to the nonpartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs, O'Reilly might actually be right: from December to mid-February, 83 percent of network-news coverage of Obama was positive. For Clinton, the number was 53 percent. After Super Tuesday, the study says, even as Clinton supporters demanded more-balanced coverage, Obama's proportion of good press dropped only to 67 percent, while Clinton's remained at about 50 percent.
So is the press really ganging up on her?
If Hillary Clinton hopes to be president, the answer had better be yes. Voters young and old—particularly women—have rallied to her side when what they see as the drumbeat of anti-Clinton rhetoric beats loudest. After her humiliating loss in Iowa, female voters in New Hampshire rushed in to save Clinton's candidacy. Hillary's support among women jumped from 30 percent in the caucuses to 46 percent in the Granite State.
The pattern repeated itself in Ohio and Texas. After a losing streak in 11 states, much of the press had given her up for dead. On Monday, editors around the nation began querying their Clinton embeds: where and when will the withdrawal speech take place? Then women rallied again, with 67 percent of Ohio's white females and 63 percent of Latina women in Texas casting a ballot for Clinton.
These voters were energized by relentless campaigning by Clinton and a cycle of bad news for Obama—not just what they saw as the negative coverage. But it was a bit by "Saturday Night Live" guest host Tina Fey and Clinton impersonator Amy Poehler that helped send the sisterhood to the polls, armed and outraged.
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Posted By: Rogers_mb @ 04/02/2008 4:50:45 AM
Comment: Funny, I just came upon this one... Does anyone remember that the Republican Party of Lincoln was the Party to end slavery? Doe anyone remeber their history and that the DEMOCRATS were against abolition? My point? Party means nothing and the Demoncrats are not the "cool" party. Either John McCain, OR Al Gore would have made a better president the last eight years, and if the Democrats had perhaps nominated John Edwards in 2004 instead of a Douche Bag ( or was he the giant turd...I forget ) they would have taken back the white house. I voted for Bush in 2004 sadly, but will vote for Barack Obama, I hope, because Hillary Clinton is not ENTITLED to the White House. The woman is blue blood in every cell of her body, she only cares about saying what people want to hear to get what she wants but her true self in a snide whiny liar ( I hears the bullets whizzing past me" umm or was that one orf my daydreams of granduer... ) The is a big business blue blood lawyer through and through. Elect her and she will intentionally scr*w the middle class. Bush just was incompetant and let it happen, she could care less about the middle class. Typical Democrat do goody for projects the middle class taxpayer shoulders while she congratulates herself for being a hero, and that dont save the poor. The poor need training and jobs, and we need better access to education for American Citizens of all races and fewer non citizens sitting in the classrooms of US Colleges. 50% of our students arent graduating from High School let alone college. This is a crisis. This needs to be fixed. MIddle income Americans need transition skills and technical and industrial jobs to maintain middle class status. No more rhetoric filled speeches. "I believe in change" ummmm "I'm a better leader at 3am" . We need more than HOT AIR soundbites, we need a plan to turn america around. Hillary wont do that. She is as much an old boy as Bush, just on the other side of the aisle. And do you think she and Putin will be fast friends? She push the military button, albeit in smaller doses, faster than any male, just to prove she can. One person does not run this country. It takes a machine. Obama is an intelligent man, and would be surrounded by intelligent people BUT he would bring younger ideas and politics to the white house. Wake up and stop bickering and think about what is best for america for the next 8 years. Hillary's high profile white house divorce when she catches bill doing another strumpet? I dont think so.
Posted By: harriet mandriani @ 03/14/2008 5:39:12 PM
Comment: Dear Ms Depke. Thank you for your thoughtful argument. Refreshing.
Posted By: harriet mandriani @ 03/14/2008 5:37:04 PM
Comment: Dear Sir. If you would like to truly inform your son, please go to YouTube and watch the hate-filled Anti-WHITE American rants by your honorable candidate's 20 year "spiritual leader". Read the mission of his church. Inform yourself on Black Separatism and decide for yourself. Listen to this "man of god" blame 911 on the murdered Americans. Listen to him scream the N word (the most offensive word to the black community
) and deicee for yorslef. thank you