Washington Post Staff Writer Libby Copeland bemoans “poor Hillary” — or rather, that people say it of Hillary Clinton’s seemingly Quixotic quest for the White House:
“Poor Hillary,” write the op-ed writers and the bloggers and the newspaper letter-writers. “Poor Hillary’s done,” writes a gleeful reader in Portsmouth, Va., on Mother’s Day. “The Billstone Around Poor Hillary’s Neck,” reads a New York Daily News headline yesterday. The talk show host Bill Maher has used the phrase, and the occasional CNN anchor, and, of course, the conservative yakkers who like the pure, distilled schadenfreude of those two words.
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Hillary hate is something profound, something that may never be fully unraveled. It is her very name, so polarizing; it is Slick Willy and Vince Foster and Whitewater and that nickname “Shrillary” and her supposed unending ambition and . . . something else, something ancient. It is Hillary Clinton stretched like taffy, the photos you see of her on right-wing Web sites with her eyes all big and crazy:
Is it about her womanhood? Or is it about this woman? Is that a false distinction? (“Poor Hillary: right gender, wrong woman,” goes the headline on the Web site of a Scottish newspaper, as if you can separate the two. But it’s all mixed up. And you don’t find too many references to “poor Johnny” or “poor Barry,” even when their campaigns hit black ice.)
Poor Libby apparently is unable to grasp the concept that many people might vote for a female candidate, but not for Hillary Clinton, due to many things Clinton has said and done in her past. Poor Libby lives in a parallel dimension (i.e., the newsroom of the Washington Post) where conservatives yakkers would not lift up an American reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher.
Poor Libby lives in a special place where no one has ever referred to poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor Barack Obama.
Poor Libby may not even know what a search engine is. Poor journalism.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
P.S. – “Black ice,” Libby? Poor word choice.
BLACK ICE!?
Karl, how long did it take you to post that last line?
I count 28 links. Wow.
ranox,
28 links is fewer than 150+ links.
I’ve come to conclude that skeevy crack whores have more honesty and integrity than a typical MSM “journalist.”
The identity politics, eet dies hard!
I suspect this won’t be the last ofd this sort of sob story. The Clinton’s heavy handed use of the press finally came back to haunt them when she lost her inevitability and, as a result, lost any hold over future access and favors. Rather than look at this objectively, those mebners of the media still hanging on to Hillary’s apron strings and dreaming the electric dreams of teh womyn power in the white house will continue to crunch the “Why do they hate teh Hillary/womynz?” slogan while ignoring the lies, deceptions, heavy handedness, arrogance and downright unpleasantness of herself.
Oh, well, keep ’em coming because the Schadenfreude, eet is thick, juicy and tastes like chicken.
“eet is thick, juicy and tastes like chicken.”
Have you been sampling the cankles again?
Is it about her womanhood? Or is it about this woman? Is that a false distinction?
I get it. The personal is political. Does it work in reverse? Can we say of all the BDS-addled Leftists out there that they hate manhood, since Bush is a man?
I mean, I’m sure Greenwald (for example) doesn’t hate men per se, but this hypermasculinity that he sees in every right-wing policy does seem to drive him batshit crazy.
(said in Colonel Klink’s voice)
BERGENBUILDER!!!! YOU VILL BE SHOT FOR ZAT!!
probably pure pandering predisposed per plain
political passable phenomenal predicament
Damn. I couldn’t make it through more than a few paragraphs of (poor) Libby’s post so I skipped to the comments. Think DU without the viciousness and profanity but plenty of…earnestness.
Right, I’m sick of the equation of disliking Hillary with raging misogyny.
I’m a Dem, and I wouldn’t vote for her because she’s unprincipled, sneaky, and has no real interest in advancing any political agenda beyond her own (and eight more years of Bill? No thanks. I’m know people here don’t think much of Obama, but faced with the two of them the choice is pretty damn easy.
I’m a wonderful typist, really. Should read:
…No thanks). I know……
“but faced with the two of them the choice is pretty damn easy”
Well sure – rope/bullet, gonorrhea/syphilis, leprosy/lung cancer – but it’s still just a matter of preference.
I don’t think much of Obama as a candidate. As just a human being, he’s probably okay. I’ve known worse.
– “….But not many…..” – (Bill Murry – Ghost Busters)
Poor Hillary is going to end up cackling all the way to the bank.
“Okay! This chick is TOAST!!”
And believe it or not, BBH, this post put me in mind of Ghostbusters before I saw your comment. The blog must be haunted or something….
#4 Karl
Whoa Nelly! You’ve got 2262 spam trackbacks on that comment thread. The last one was yesterday.
I don’t know how to fix it, though. I only know how to talk about technology, not how to make it go.
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