Stanley Fish’s special pleading for Hillary! is getting old and stenchlich:
The responses to my column on Hillary Clinton-hating have been both voluminous (the largest number in the brief history of “Think Againâ€Â) and fascinating. The majority of posters agreed with the characterization of the attacks on Senator Clinton as vicious and irrational, but in not a few posts the repudiation of Hillary-hatred is followed by more of the same. Lisa (No. 17) nicely exemplifies the pattern. She begins by saying “I agree that there is a rabid nature in the manner in which numerous conservative groups attack Hillary Clinton,â€Â, but in the very next sentence she declares that “most of Hillary’s reputation is well earned†and then she spends nine paragraphs being rabid.
What Stanley cannot do, try as he might, is to demonstrate that Hillary! is treated more unfairly than other high-profile politicians, such as the one presently in the White House. If Hillary!-hatred is driven by misogyny, then to what do we attribute BDS? Of course, his point is rhetorical rather than intellectual, so perhaps that’s expecting rather too much.
Am I a hater? Bite me, Stanley. (To the tune of “Help Me, Rhonda”)
Look, he even opens up a can of Phobe: “Clintonphobe.” So, you see, to dislike anything that someone else approves opens one up to the charge of being a Phobe–which, as everybody knows, is tantamount to being a racist sexist fascist.
And spare me, please: Hillary is no Fred MacMurray. If people are unfairly enamored of Barack Obama, perhaps it is a reflection of their having internalized the lessons of affirmative action.
More academic blarney: “Appropriately, serving the College in the wake of such a decision is beyond my imagining.”
Clinton’s rapid response team must be on overdrive –
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Phone home!
You should be thinking about replacing Hillary! with Hillary?
All my issues with Hillary are visceral, irrational, and free-floating; same with Bush. I fully acknowledge that.
Yikes! It’s bad enough that the Progressive Multicultural Juvenile Psychologists Guild© elected to hand out “diagnoses” of Homophobe! and Islamophobe! but now criticism of an individual politician will cause new phobias to be found.
I see her in my dreams!!!!!! Good grief, Stanley Fish!
I think Fish suffers from Collinsphobia!, a condition exasperated by excessive quaffing of liberal lattes.
I’m not sure that a fear of having Hillary as President is irrational.
Jim:
Does that fear make you sweat, tremble and seek out small, furry animals to strangle with your bare hands?
CLINTONPHOBIA!!!!
Although I think a great deal of the criticism leveled against Hillary and her husband Bill has been mean-spirited, I also think that THEY have been the architects of actions that have led to many of the criticisms. I think there is a trust factor, a character factor, and a deceit factor. Do we want another co-presidency?
BJTexs, nah, I like small, furry animals.
It does make me weep for the stupidity of some of my fellow Americans, though.
Weep in a hyper-masculinist way, of course.
He sets the fascinating bar kind of low I think.
Stan’s a simple man.
There are quite a few Hillary-rabies that can be fittingly spat at Fish.
He’s noticed this, whether he’s noticed or not.
Dishonest as he unfailingly is, since he didn’t mention it, he’s noticed.
And noticed.
I’m not a big Hillary fan. Oh, who am I kidding? If she fell through the ice I’d just park my shanty over the hole. Save me the auger work.
The thing I hate about the whole Hillary thing is that all her people constantly say she’s brilliant, like it’s fact. Of course I just heard her bit about “first thing I’m gonna do is take away the big oil companies tax credits.” BRILLIANT!! That makes gasoline even more expensive. Hey I can afford my monthly gas nut. It’s a small percentage of my cash outlay. But the people in town who may be less-fortunate than me? Their fuel costs are 40% of their monthly expenses. Now it’s 50%. Sublime.
She’s been running against George Bush this whole time. Guess what Frau Kankleheimer, he’s not running. Genius.
She’s not smart.
<evil, maniacal cankle>
…a reflection of their having internalized the lessons of affirmative action.
Or else just plain born-bigoted and phobic vs/against the individual’s free-thought capacity? Whatever, it’s all the same, “racist”, and it’s permanent.
Alppuccino, there is something to be said for helping those for whom necessities are an appreciable fraction of their income. I’m not sure subsidizing the big oil companies is the most cost effective way to help them though – if you just gave them cash they might find ways to drive less without losing ‘your’ (advocated by you, though not all paid by you) assistance.
…there is something to be said for helping those for whom necessities are an appreciable fraction of their income.
There is also something to be said for people living within their means. Necessities are an appreciable fraction of my income, I deal with it. It gives me incentive to try to increase my income.
Yup, dave, giving them cash would reduce the percentage of their incomes they spend on gas. How freaking brilliant.
As long as it’s a two-digit percentage, they’ll get by.
Unless getting by has become a lost art thanks to government subsidies.
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Oh, crap.
A short morality quiz: