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Thread #109224   Message #2282612
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
07-Mar-08 - 09:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
Subject: RE: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
FTR there Beedub, you got me VERY wrong.

But then, if you are trying to suss me out politically based on my comments about two candidates I've been very clear about NOT supporting, more power to your typing skills.

I have never said Obama's supporters were misogynist. I said a lot of the MSM coverage of Clinton especially, has been. I'm not referring to the SNL skit. I'm referring to paid professional media people bantering about and saying things like the Clinton campaign was 'pimping' Chelsea.

You know, I have an African American volunteer working in my library, who is a staunch Dem, 72 years old, worked as an office manager for a local bank--not a conglomerate bank--for most her working years. We talk politics, and got around one day recently to why she was hoping Obama would win, but she is fine with Clinton too. One thing she said has stuck with me--if Clinton were a man, the pundits would never dream of making a crack like the one about Chelsea. Never in a million years.

That is the 'misogynist' difference. There is a portion of the MSM, just like there is a portion of voters, who will attack Clinton below the belt, because since she is a woman, they know they can get away with it.

My volunteer's comparison? The nappy headed ho comment by that asshole who was out of work for 15 minutes, got his hand slapped by the MSM in order to innoculate themselves, and now is working again for what is likely a new, tidy 6 figure sum.

But that is the key difference. They will say Clinton pimps Chelsea, but do you think there is a single media person working in the MSM who would make a reference to Michelle Obama being a 'ho' or a prostitute?

Not on your life. They simply would never say something like that because Obama is a man, and they would never risk it.