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David Schuster on NBC news made this comment about Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea: "Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?"
Chelsea doesn't give interviews and it seems his beef is that she wouldn't talk to him. Maybe that's why the word "pimp" was used; he felt the entitlement that of course a woman needs to accommodate him, and if she doesn't, she a ho. What else could be the reasoning for a man on network news be thinking to toss out a thought like that?
And on the entertainment program that mentioned the story, they led with "how did Hillary get a newsman suspended?" and I tell you, it was all implied, what did this bitchy woman do now?
I tell you, I am sick of all the misogyny I'm hearing as this race gets tighter. The pro-Obama people think anything goes to make sure he gets the nomination. The anger/aggression towards women that foments just below the surface in our culture is bubbling over. Even the Left Wing radio show I sometimes listen to use all sorts of techniques to undermine, ridicule and slander her. Strangely the Right Wing radio show is much more respectful and fair to her (though they did just have to mention her big ass being a hard target to miss. Ain't it telling that I consider that remark 'mild.' Oh the laughter at their witty ways!)
Oh yeah, this will get really ugly and the usual rules apply: if it's YOUR side slinging the mud, it's not mud it's Righteous Truth.
Uh huh.
ETA: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/08/msnbc-reporter-begrudging_n_85706.html
Chelsea doesn't give interviews and it seems his beef is that she wouldn't talk to him. Maybe that's why the word "pimp" was used; he felt the entitlement that of course a woman needs to accommodate him, and if she doesn't, she a ho. What else could be the reasoning for a man on network news be thinking to toss out a thought like that?
And on the entertainment program that mentioned the story, they led with "how did Hillary get a newsman suspended?" and I tell you, it was all implied, what did this bitchy woman do now?
I tell you, I am sick of all the misogyny I'm hearing as this race gets tighter. The pro-Obama people think anything goes to make sure he gets the nomination. The anger/aggression towards women that foments just below the surface in our culture is bubbling over. Even the Left Wing radio show I sometimes listen to use all sorts of techniques to undermine, ridicule and slander her. Strangely the Right Wing radio show is much more respectful and fair to her (though they did just have to mention her big ass being a hard target to miss. Ain't it telling that I consider that remark 'mild.' Oh the laughter at their witty ways!)
Oh yeah, this will get really ugly and the usual rules apply: if it's YOUR side slinging the mud, it's not mud it's Righteous Truth.
Uh huh.
ETA: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/08/msnbc-reporter-begrudging_n_85706.html
