Sherry Chandler

Once upon a time in America

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Update: One good thing to come out of this long primary is that I’ve developed a new network and found some women whose work I admire greatly. One of them is the woman who posts as Frenchdoc at Corrente. She said just exactly what I’ve been thinking:

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel like a battered woman, and tonight is the night I decided to walk away and not look back.

Tomorrow, if HRC is still in the race, I’m contributing as much as I can.

I might back off the battered a bit but definitely abused and expected to keep quiet about it and put a good face on things for the good of the party.

The news media and pundits gave us 8 years of George W. Bush and now they’re trying once again to pick our president. They played Obama’s game last night, refusing to call Indiana for Clinton until after midnight and robbing her of the chance to make a primetime speech, giving Gary’s mayor a chance to grandstand and hold votes hostage, calling Obama’s win in North Carolina a loss for Clinton when she was never expected to win in North Carolina. And once again calling and calling and calling for her to drop out because she just can’t possibly win.

I quote Eric Boehlert of MediaMatters:

Here’s another first: the press’s unique push to get a competitive White House hopeful to drop out of the race. It’s unprecedented.

Looking back through modern U.S. campaigns, there’s simply no media model for so many members of the press to try to drive a competitive candidate from the field while the primary season is still unfolding.

Why am I so angry? Because perfectly “respectable” magazines print dreck like this from Michael Wolf:

The Hillary story is—and how could it not be?—largely a sexual one. This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here? What’s the unsaid saying? What’s the vibe? Although it’s not discussed in reputable commentary, it’s discussed by everyone else: so what exactly is the thing with Hillary and sex, with the consensus being that she simply must not have it (at least not with her husband; there are, on the other hand, the various conspiracy scenarios of whom else she might have had it with). It’s partly around this consensus view of her not having sex that people support her or resist her. She’s the special-interest candidate of older women—the post-sexual set. She’s resisted by others (including older women who don’t see themselves as part of the post-sexual set) who see her as either frigid or sexually shunned—they turn from her inhibitions and her pain.

Susie Madrak calls this the dry pussy demographic and responds in the only reasonable way:

Well, for starters, this is right in line with my theory that the men who really, really hate Hillary Clinton are men with Serious Mother Issues. Because it’s not just about the idea of Mommy having sex (”Not MY mother! No way!), it’s this sexually immature (not to mention shallow) illusion that only firm, tight, photogenic youngsters are worthy sexual beings.

Honey, you have no idea.

Obviously Vanity Fair has no idea, being the magazine that has given us the Lolita posturings of Miley Cyrus so Humbert Humbert aka Michael Wolf can drool over her.

I have been chided for not being fair to Obama, but in my view, I am being fair to Obama. I’ve said what it will take for me to vote for him and one of the things is for him to speak out against the sexism and politics of personal destruction that is being waged against his DEMOCRATIC opponent.

Update 2: For the record, I agree with this analysis from Anglachel:

…I don’t consider [African American] support of Obama to be pernicious. Electorally frustrating, yes, but, unlike the Hillary Haters who want to attribute the worst possible motives to her supporters, I don’t think that is so of the majority Obama’s black supporters. They see an opportunity to vote for a candidate who reflects them, and they will do so, no matter the odds. Given my unwavering support of Hillary despite the long nomination odds, I can’t really cry foul on someone else’s supporters who feel just as strongly as I do. Obama’s campaign is certainly doing pernicious race-baiting, but mostly to initimidate critics and shame wavering white voters. I don’t think it’s earning him more than a few slivers of votes from the [African American] community, and is probably costing him more votes on the whole when white attrition is counted against black gains.

It is not the black community that is crying racism against the Clintons or against Hillary Clinton’s supporters, as far as I can see. They are voting for their favorite son.

1. The voters, not the press, pick the winner
2. Character assassination
3. Clinton’s speech
4. The race card
5. Why I remain angry…

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