Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

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  • Posted By: bammer @ 09/14/2008 12:44:19 PM

    WHEN THE LIBERAL ELITE "MAIN STREAM MEDIA" INJECTS ITSELF INTO A NATIONAL US ELECTION, IT LEADS TO THE "LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES"

    IF THERE'S WAS NO "MSM" BIAS AGAINST HILLARY, HILLARY WOULD BE THE US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND OBAMA WOULD BE THE VP CANDIDATE

    IF THE TICKET IS CLINTON/OBAMA.....THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN EFFECT

    IF THERE IS NO SARAH PALIN, THERE IS MCCAIN/ROMNEY REPUB TICKET

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF CLINTON/OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

    THEREFORE, THERE WOULD BE 8 YEARS OF OBAMA/KEANE ADMINSTRATION


    BY US LIBERAL ELITE MEDIA BACKING OBAMA AND TRASHING HILLARY, THEY LOSE A POSSIBLE 16 YEARS IN POWER AND WILL PROBABLY NOW LOSE 8 OUT OF THE LAST 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

    THE MSM DESERVES WHAT IT GETS

  • Posted By: sirhc @ 09/12/2008 6:42:44 AM

    THIS LADY IS OUT THERE. YOU KNOW SHE WAS PREPPED LIKE HE DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS FOR THIS INTERVIEW........THE THINGS THAT JUST WEREN'T WRONG BUT ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING

    1. LINKING 9-11 AND IRAQ. BUSH DOESN'T EVEN DO THAT ANYMORE!!
    2. WAR WITH RUSSIA
    3.NOT KNOWING THE BUSH DOCTRINE BUT BASICALLY BEING ALL FOR IT W/O HER OWN KNOWLEDGE.

    SHE'S NOT JUST RIGHT OF BUSH, MCCAIN AND REAGAN.................................SHE MAY ACTUALLY BE RIGHT OF BUCHANNON. THIS IS THE ABSOLUTELY LAST PERSON WE NEED AT THIS MOMENT BEING LITERALLY A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/12/2008 11:08:35 AM

      Let's see the entirety of this interview and subsequent ones she will be doing before coming to judgement. She sounded a lot like Barack Obama sounded eighteen months ago

      • Posted By: sirhc @ 09/13/2008 2:09:39 PM

        NO-OBAMA SOUNDED UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE BEGINNING. NOT TOTALLY CLUELESS AND OVERLY PREPPED. LOOK- GIBSON WAS TRYING TO HELP HER OUT AND YOU HEAR THESE REPUBLICANS TALKING THIS "CONDESNDING" CRAP. HE WAS TRYING TO COACH HER-HE IS A WELL KNOWN MAIN STREAM REPUBLICAN. THAT'S WHY THEY AGREED TO THE INTERVIEW, THAT'S WHY HER NEXT INTERVIEW IS WITH SEAN " I DO NOTHING BUT CONTINUALLY LIE, DISTORT AND MISREPRESENT THE FACTS IN THE NAME OF CONSERVATISM" HANNITY.

  • Posted By: Pat from Hendersonville @ 09/08/2008 1:07:45 PM

    I continue to find it amazing that we are arguing gender, sexism, race, and other non-essential factors in selecting the leader of our nation. I think we should vote for the most educated person, the person willing to realize that not all of America is white and rich or a large corporation, that service takes on multiple descriptions, and that people should have choices and control in their own lives. Look at the facts. McCain graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at Annapolis, Palin took years and 6 colleges to ultimately get a degree in journalism...Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard on scholarships and grants; turned down high paying legal jobs to support the underpriviledged in South Chicago, and the only criticism is that he planned to go into politics. That's a career choice!. Biden has served the U.S. equally as long as McCain and has a record equal to McCain in serving his state and constituency. Let's stop the hyperbole and try to make a choice based on who is the most likely to restore our country to economic security and and an appropriate role in the global economy, and not use all of our scare resources to be the world's policeman unless we are directly threatened.

    • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/08/2008 1:14:11 PM

      Civil Rights lawyers get six figure salaries and higher -- so I don't know where you think Obama sacrificed anything. In fact his job selection was motivated by politics and political power. He knew how to get onto the Daley/Emil Jones, Jr. bandwagon. And when Emil Jones, Jr. decided to be a kingmaker and throw credit for state legislation to Obama, so he would be electable to the U.S. Senate, Obama learned his lessons well.

      It's all about the power for Obama. And elitism is not the same thing as being rich. Beware of "smart" people who think they know what's better for you than you do. Those are the ones who start taking your money and telling you how it should be spent.

      • Posted By: arcsc @ 09/08/2008 2:13:23 PM

        I am glad you pointed this out. The law firm he worked for in Chicago was in very tight with the Chicago political machine. While he did work on some "civil rights cases" while in private practice, he was certainly getting paid. Quite well. Folks think "civil rights" and they think do-gooder attorney who makes no money. That ain't quite the case (I am in private practice and represent parties in "civil rights" cases. We get paid by the hour.

        • Posted By: sirhc @ 09/13/2008 2:05:48 PM

          HE WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER FOR 3 YEARS(THE SAME WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING) AND C.O.'s ARE BROKE! THEN HE WENT TO BECOME A CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY AND A CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR. BEWARE OF SMART PEOPLE?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU F'N KIDDING ME?
          BECAUSE WE HAVE A MILDLY RETARDED S.O.B. IN THE WHITEHOUSE NOW INTELLECT IS AN ISSUE? AREN'T YOU THE PARTY "AGAINST" AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? HILARIOUS

  • Posted By: DaProf @ 09/13/2008 12:44:59 PM

    Uhhh... Sarah Palin is a vice-presidential candidate, not a presidential candidate. So a word is missing from the article where it discusses PTA membership.

  • Posted By: llikavec @ 09/13/2008 10:08:37 AM

    Anna Quindlen's statement about Hilary supporters voting for McCain/Palin based on the fact that Palin is a woman is right on. "Biology trumps ideology" is exactly the kind of ignorance that will get McCain elected. Sarah Palin is a scary person who is NOT in the least qualified to be president. The Republicans can say all they want about how Palin is a breath of fresh for their party. She spouts her qualifications in every speech she makes (the PTA makes her qualified?), but she has yet to address the campaign issues of McCain's platform. I'm tired of hearing about "the bridge to nowhere" and "earmarks". Let's hear about what John McCain plans to do to fix this country.

  • Posted By: llikavec @ 09/13/2008 10:08:20 AM

    Anna Quindlen's statement about Hilary supporters voting for McCain/Palin based on the fact that Palin is a woman is right on. "Biology trumps ideology" is exactly the kind of ignorance that will get McCain elected. Sarah Palin is a scary person who is NOT in the least qualified to be president. The Republicans can say all they want about how Palin is a breath of fresh for their party. She spouts her qualifications in every speech she makes (the PTA makes her qualified?), but she has yet to address the campaign issues of McCain's platform. I'm tired of hearing about "the bridge to nowhere" and "earmarks". Let's hear about what John McCain plans to do to fix this country.

  • Posted By: llikavec @ 09/13/2008 10:07:22 AM

    Anna Quindlen's statement about Hilary supporters voting for McCain/Palin based on the fact that Palin is a woman is right on. "Biology trumps ideology" is exactly the kind of ignorance that will get McCain elected. Sarah Palin is a scary person who is NOT in the least qualified to be president. The Republicans can say all they want about how Palin is a breath of fresh for their party. She spouts her qualifications in every speech she makes (the PTA makes her qualified?), but she has yet to address the campaign issues of McCain's platform. I'm tired of hearing about "the bridge to nowhere" and "earmarks". Let's hear about what John McCain plans to do to fix this country.

  • Posted By: grusso @ 09/13/2008 9:56:48 AM

    I'd very much like to see an interview of Sarah Palin by Katie Couric. Why did the Palin camp reject this ? Too even a match?

  • Posted By: imoose @ 09/13/2008 6:31:03 AM

    I find it ironic that the only people I hear "suggesting" that Palin was picked to woo weak-minded Democratic women are, in fact, Democrats and pundits. Republicans, on the other hand, see that Palin was picked to give a much needed shot in the arm to the rather boring Republican campaign. She is exciting to Republicans and conservatives in much the same way Obama is to Democrats--she is sexy in ways that are so much more than skin-deep: she is self-reliant, tough, sharp, savvy and sassy. She is the very opposite of Ivy League elitism.

    I also find it sad that you cannot at least acknowledge that, from the point of view of a great number of Americans, abortion is an issue of human rights, akin to child abuse and murder, and that government intervention into the family life is morally necessary in such cases. There is nothing sexist about protecting the helpless.

  • Posted By: one-world @ 09/13/2008 12:30:19 AM

    Anna Quindlen, Are you are journalist? When I grew up I was taught that journalists were not biased. Bernard Goldburg is right! Why don't you get a new occupation? Maybe you could be a hair-stylist at the Gossip and Go.

  • Posted By: SeanT007 @ 09/11/2008 1:41:09 PM

    Simply put, Hillary Clinton is a $20,000,000.00 political prostitute, owned by her "race baiting poverty pedalling pimp," Barrack Hussien Obama Bin-Liberal. Hillary and the rest of the left wing femi-Nazi's like the author of this article beleived they were owed. But they soon found out about the realities of the Real Good-Old Boy DNC network, it is the DNC and their male surrogates who are sexist and chauvenistic. I think it is funny you femi-nazi's took you panties off for nothing in the end but another heartache. Like they say, you can ride the DNC bus, but you can't drive it. Unlike at the RNC, it is a real 50/50 deal they can own and drive it anytime they want.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 3:00:44 PM

      Hillary is a competent, tough, gracious woman. Obama and the DNC have made a mockery out of her, and she does what she has to do to help them out anyway. Class act from start to finish. Hillary may have put the primaries and being passed over for VP behind her, but some of her supporters are still struggling.

      • Posted By: busby @ 09/11/2008 5:55:21 PM

        I agree with you totally. She could show the dnc and the Obama something about grace and class if only they were capable of understanding it.

        • Posted By: sirhc @ 09/12/2008 1:54:41 PM

          C'MON NOW LET'S KEEP IT REAL. I WOULD'VE VOTED FOR HRC IF SHE WAS THE NOMINEE BUT SHE RAN ONE OF THE MOST NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNS I'VE SEEN AGAINST A FELLOW DEMOCRAT. HECK, HER CAMPAIGN OPENLY ADMITTED TO THE "KITCHEN SINK" SCORCHED EARTTH CAMPAIGN. THE PEOPLE WHO RAN HER CAMPAIN DID HER IN ALONG WITH HER RIDICULOUS VOTE FOR THE WAR. SHE LOST ALOT OF DEMOCRATS WHEN SHE QUASI ENDORSED MCCAIN. I SAW DEMS. FLIP IMMEDIATELY THAT WERE SOLIDLY IN HER CORNER. SHE CAME IN WITH THE MONEY, FAME, MACHINE, NOTERIETY.........................I LIKE HER. I LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE GET A LITTLE GRIMY.......OTHERS DIDN'T. IF YOU WANT TO BLAME ANYONE LOOK AT MARK PENN....................HE THOUGHT CALIFORNIA WAS A WINNER TAKE ALL.................

    • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 10:50:21 PM

      Are you sure about that. The RNC being fair I mean. It really doesn't matter. There is 2% of the population that is running this country. Always has and always will. The two political parties are pawns in thier game.
      Revolution now!

  • Posted By: Knittysong @ 09/11/2008 2:20:23 PM

    Hillary supporters who vote for Palin are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. And no amount of lipstick will cover that up!

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 3:01:17 PM

      That is an oversimplification

      • Posted By: sirhc @ 09/12/2008 6:45:56 AM

        NO IT'S NOT. SHE IS AGAINST A WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE EVEN IN INCEST AND RAPE...................THIS CHOICE SHOWED MCCAIN RALLY THINKS LOW OF WOMEN. I'LL PUT SOMEONE ON MY TICKET THAT YOU SHARE A CHROMOSOME WITH BUT SHE IS OTALLY AGAINST EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR. IT'S A PATTERN WITH HIM. HE ATTACKED A 13 YEAR OLD CHELSEA CLINTON, JANET RENO AND HAS A 0 RATING ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS..............SERIOUSLY.......THINK ABOUT THAT.

        • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/12/2008 11:10:14 AM

          Show me where Sarah Palin has said she wanted her personal view on abortion to be the law of the land. Let's give her a chance to clarify

  • Posted By: ozlen1974 @ 09/11/2008 8:43:45 AM

    I applaud Quindlen for this article, could not be said any better.

    Mother of 3 children, a former Clinton supporter woman voter supporting Obama

    • Posted By: colddeadhands @ 09/11/2008 9:04:26 AM

      What does it matter that you are a woman and mother? You're a sexist for saying so. Does that qualify you somehow? None of the men in this blog are saying that they are men or how many kids they have.

      • Posted By: Wistful witness @ 09/12/2008 2:34:41 AM

        She mentioned her background because of the widely broadcast notion that Palin will win the "women's vote" for McCain. That's why. And by the way a sexist is someone who thinks someone of a particular gender is not qualified to do something/be something. Back before you were born (I'll bet), women were told that they were not "fit" to do any number of jobs, from truck driver to plumber to architect to bureau chief to company president. They weren't big enough, their bodies were supposedly shaped wrong, their brains were (it was claimed) too tiny; many rather quaint excuses were put forth. Look even further back, they wouldn't even take women musicians into the premier orchestras because there was deemed something "wrong" with women's playing - that is, until someone had the bright idea of screened auditions, and when women couldn't be seen, suddenly their playing sounded pretty good after all and women players finally began to get hired. Women have made lots of little victories like that in your lifetime, overcoming all sorts of hurdles. The hurdle Sarah Palin has cleared is something pretty different from those - she was picked, by men, to sell a campaign that was not appealing on its own terms. She was not chosen for her accomplishments, otherwise she would be allowed to speak freely with the press without fear of screwing up the carefully crafted message. So say I, a person of some gender, with some or perhaps no children.

  • Posted By: tender @ 09/11/2008 10:39:43 PM

    Busby............ How could you hut the country?
    We have lived through the last 8 years of the most worthless administration in history.
    A war started and not ended, and Bin Laden still not brought to justice.
    thousands dead on both sides...... for WHAT!
    Thousands of jobs going overseas (China / Mexico).
    Republicians force their ideas and values on everyone, and on nations around the world.
    It doesn't work, and it's not smart.
    Forget it... go ahead and cast your vote.
    This country will once again get what it deserves.
    What on earth are you thinking.

  • Posted By: itsjustmyopinion @ 09/11/2008 8:10:55 AM

    OK Hillary supporters - do you think it will be easier for her to win in 2012 if you give Sarah Palin four years in Washington to act as the Republican Party Barbie Doll, with the party leaders parading her to fund raisers and events? I know it hurts, but you won't help Hillary by voting for McCain/Palin.

    • Posted By: busby @ 09/11/2008 6:01:13 PM

      But I might hurt the country by voting for Obama. That's my quandry. I see things in him that do not a good president make.

  • Posted By: Consejol @ 09/11/2008 11:10:30 AM

    Anna is right - if Sarah Palin can't stand the heat of political scrutiny without hiding behind the skirts of women, then she needs to return to Alaska. As a professional woman for over 30 years in a male-dominated field, I have yet to see a single executive promoted because of PTA service or ability to juggle family and work or because she is a hockey, soccer or just plain mom. In the working world, you are judged on your ability to perform the task at hand - regardless of whether you are a man or a woman. Seeking answers to legitimate questions is not being sexist - it is exercising good sense. And I would bet that many of these same conservative men who are now conveniently crying "sexism" are the same men who helped build the glass ceiling.

    • Posted By: LMAO @ 09/11/2008 2:53:45 PM

      Careful now - it is Obama who hides behind other people's skirs and pants. His grandmother, Rev. Wright, Emil Jones, The Media. Now he is looking to the Clintons to prop him up and take across the finish line. What weak pathetic figure ...

      • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 2:59:00 PM

        Obama thought he was too good for the Clintons, but now that is arrogance has gotten the best of him, he is begging for them to help him out. Hillary has done exponentially more to help Obama than he deserves, and the only gratitude she gets is to be snubbed. The Clintons don't owe Obama or the DNC squat

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 09/09/2008 3:08:33 PM

    There were any number of qualified women in the republican party McCain could have picked, such as Elizabeth Dole, staunch conservative, well-liked by the evangelical right, with a helluva lot more experience than Sarah Palin - who better to answer the phone at 3 am besides the former head of the Red Cross?

    But McCain chose the motherhood apple pie beauty queen with little experience.

    Why not chose someone like Dole? Because he couldn't manipulate her. Because he would have had to compete with her record.

    Republicans have taken sexism to a new low.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/09/2008 3:16:16 PM

      McCain didn't want both the President and Vice President to be 72 years old

      • Posted By: socalsue @ 09/10/2008 2:56:05 AM

        I don't think Lieberman is 72. Wasn't that his real first choice? The choice of Palin is a gimmick, and an amazingly successful gimmick.

        • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 11:29:00 AM

          Sorry - LIeberman is 66

        • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 11:28:39 AM

          Lieberman is 68. Palin was a good strategy. Whether she is a good choice we'll have to wait and see

    • Posted By: bwlear @ 09/09/2008 3:46:11 PM

      You are exactly right. Isnt Sen McCain the person who said that he put the country first and not winning an election? That experience is needed in these troubled times. That he is ready to lead from day 1. Yet he nominates Gov. Palin for V.P. , a person who fills NONE of these qualities? How can you not question his judgement when he decides to run with a person who is already under investigation?

  • Posted By: jacksmart @ 09/10/2008 11:38:42 AM

    I am a Democrat who will vote for McCain/Palin because of the viscious attacts. My party has always preached empowerment of women until they run- then look out!

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 11:24:02 AM

      Obama is kicking himself for not putting Hillary on the ticket. It is his own fault

  • Posted By: MrBear @ 09/10/2008 12:23:07 PM

    Please....we have 3 people on the tickets whom the American public have known for years. To suggest that people not bend over backwards to figure out who this new person is with only a few weeks before an election that might put her near (or even in) supreme power strains credulity past endurance.
    Thank goodness Obama has proven to have far better judgement on that score, as in many others. But that aside, getting back to the actual article, it does indeed seem hypocritical in the extreme to laud choices - yet seek to deny them to others, to benefit from a long struggle which your own party vilifies & opposes, and to make "family" a primary qualification for supremem executive power but to decry all attempts to examine just how that family is being run. No, that is not the hallmark of someone who is serious about such candidacy nor who has any respect for the American people

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 11:23:04 AM

      We have 2 people we know incredibly well - McCain and Biden. Obama should have done more debates with Hillary, town hall meetings with McCain,and more tough interviews.

  • Posted By: annieG @ 09/10/2008 1:10:03 PM

    Thank you, Ms. Quindlen, for saying what needed to be said. I am absolutely livid about the response to Sarah Palin. If she's ready for the limelight of such a candidacy, she needs to be ready for the focus on her life, personal and professional, that follows for anyone who makes such a choise. The republicans' "outrage" at the way she is being mistreated is a joke - yet another veiled attempt to manipute and misinform the majority of Americans who don't take the time to understand the issues and positions of the candidates. There was a time when I thought John McCain might be an interesting option, someone who stood his ground and stood up for what he believed in, even if it was contrary to his party line. No more - he's shown himself to be a consumate politician, plain and simple - he'll say what he thinks he needs to say to get the vote, period. And his selection of Sarah Palin as running mate, in an attempt to pull "Hillary supporters" to his party indicates his true disdain for American women - any knowledgeable Clinton supporter would run, as far and as fast as possible, from Palin and what she stands for, which is totally contrary to what Hillary Clinton has spent her adult life fighting for. No, Mr. McCain, we're not all quite that stupid. Thanks, Anna, for pointing that out.

    • Posted By: News and Notes @ 09/11/2008 11:21:53 AM

      Hillary has been raked over the coals by her own party, time and time again, all the way up until Obama passed her over as his VP. Despite that, Hillary still comes up fighting and advocating for democrats and Obama. Hillary is a true leader, and she has put aside her differences for the sake of party unity. However, not all of her supporters are able to do that as quickly and completely. Let's see how this thing plays out.

    • Posted By: sayles70 @ 09/10/2008 3:16:15 PM

      hillary herself said we weren't supporting her personally, but a greater good for the american public.
      breaking the glass ceiling is good for the american public!
      all the 'issues' are far more complicated, and can't be swept around as weapons. each one is a slippery slope running down both sides of the hill. all four candidates will try to balance them to some degree with the help of the three branches of government.
      in the meantime, call me stupid all you want but i am a believer in affirmative action, and it is ABOUT TIME there is a woman near the president who doesn't have to be called 'lady'!

      • Posted By: annieG @ 09/10/2008 4:17:42 PM

        By "the greater good", I don't believe that Hillary Clinton was implying that we should support her because she was female, but rather because of what she stands for. Voting for McCain/Palin because it's time to see a woman in the White House is the equivalent of voting for Barack Obama because he is a black man - it's just idiotic. It's the positions that the candidates take, and their history of supporting such positions, that will determine my actions in the voting booth. It will not be their race or sex... Call me an educated, attentive voter if you must - I can take it.

        • Posted By: sayles70 @ 09/10/2008 4:29:57 PM

          many of my friends say they are voting for obama because he is black and it is about time. why else? hope? change? c'mon! then they knock me for caring that palin is a woman. the u.s. population is 13% african american 51% female. as a majority of this country, we got the vote 40 years after black men. our liberals who bleed chardonnay are much more concerned about racism than sexism. obama can call hillary annie oakley and nobody blinks, but when bill compares him to jackson we get a witch trial. and i'll call you an inattentive voter, because if you'd been paying attention you would know that democrats tend to lose elections with arrogant change-minded do-gooders from the north.

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