Katie Couric's Notebook: Sexism And Politics
Like her or not, one of the great lessons of Hillary Clinton's campaign is the continued—and accepted—sexism in American life...particularly in the media.
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See all 108 Comments"We" includes my husband and I. He is 69 years old and he recognizes sexist remarks. How is it that all of these young male commentators, vps and presidents of media companies don''t get it yet?
Katie, your remarks make so much sense. You have new viewers in our house. Thank you!
Instead of apologizing Obama had regrets about having to distance himself from his church and his low life buddies and mentors, Reverend Wright and Father Pflaeger.
This is the first time in my life, along with my entire community, that I will be voting for a Republican or as an Independent.
Senator Clinton does not need Obama. Obama needs Clinton. I pray that she will not accept a VP role if he offered the position.
Obama is a complete embarrassment to this country as a potential candidate for the President of the United States.
I would hope that the DNC would wake up to the abuse that Senator Clinton endured from the media.
This has been an unfair primary and Clinton supporters and most of Americans are well aware of all of it.
Cafferty files a segment of CNN went so far as to read a belittling question about Senator Clinton and then Jack Cafferty would cherry pick his blogs with vicious answers. This was done twice daily. The questions were sarcastic, rude and nasty most all of the time.
This coverage misrepresented Senator Clinton and undoubtedly swayed the public into a dislike of our former first lady. For CNN to state that they are %u201Cthe best political team on television%u201D only reinforced Mr. Cafferty%u2019s biased views of hatred towards Senator Clinton.
For the first in my life, I am completely embarrassed of our country%u2019s reporting tactics and the unfair judgment of the Democratic Party towards a woman, our First Lady.
I also cannot understand how Obama could not be embarrassed of himself.
How dare Senator Obama not apologize to Senator Clinton for the cruel remarks screamed in pews about whites, Senator Clinton and President Clinton.
As a woman, a Democrat and a firm supporter of Democracy, this has been the worst media coverage of a primary election ever. Senator Clinton was mocked daily and the world watched.
I have never seen such poor and biased reporting by media in my entire life.. 20 million Clinton supporters have had it with the media and injustice of this whole primary nominating system. This was not reporting, it was %u201CClinton%u201D bashing. I felt like I was hearing headlines from the %u201CEnquirer%u201D tabloid newspaper.
Criticism towards Senator Clinton was daily and all day long. ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, Cafferty Files, CNN and slews of others networks followed each other down a lane of inaccurate reporting and vicious attacks against the entire Clinton family.
Clinton supporters don''t want Obama:
They don%u2019t want a candidate that feels sorry to leave a church that is anti American and that preaches hatred and racial views that are cruel and nasty.
They don''t want a candidate that is inexperienced.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that considers it a loss to not to be able to attend his anti American, racist Church.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has a Muslim father.
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that can%u2019t win a debate
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that misleads the youth with an %u2018Obama girl and her behind in their face%u201D
They don%u2019t want a candidate that says he%u2019s an African American and missed the MLK Remembrance Day and the Louisiana Black Caucus meeting
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has done nothing for humanity except talk about it.
They don%u2019t'' want a candidate named; Barack Hussein Obama
He scares them to death.
He is embarrassing.
He is unelectable.
Clinton supporters don''t want obama
They don%u2019t want a candidate that lies about his relationship with Tony Rezko, the Syrian Criminal that sold his property to Obama and supported his campaign.
They don''t want a candidate that could work with a domestic terrorist, William Ayers.
They don%u2019t'' want a candidate that didn''t stand up for the voters of Michigan and Florida.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that Hamas supports.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam support
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has a wife that has just now realized she was proud of our country.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that denies Florida and Michigan their voices
They don%u2019t want a candidate that mentions 57 states in his speeches. 50 states in the USA and 57 states in the Nation of Islam (IOC website)
They don%u2019t want a candidate that fights unfair and steals Michigan delegate votes from his opponent.
The reason Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama is because they are embarrassed of him, his life, his unfair tactics and his beliefs. And they still don''t know all about him.
They don''t want a candidate that has been in a twenty year relationship with Reverend Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ.
They don%u2019t%u2019 want a candidate that has a twenty year relationship with Father Pflaeger as his compass in life
They don%u2019t want a candidate that went to a church that supports Louis Farrakhan, an anti Semitic racist.
They don''t want to defend Black Liberation theology.
They don%u2019t want a candidate that says he%u2019s an African American and missed the MLK Remembrance Day and the Louisiana Black Caucus meeting
They don%u2019t want a candidate that has done nothing for humanity except talk about it.
They don%u2019t'' want a candidate named; Barack Hussein Obama
He scares them to death.
He is embarrassing.
He is unelectable.
I adore Matt Lauer, but even he used the word, "clawed," when talking about Hillary. I cringed, but by that time, I had had it with NBC and MSNBC. Only Tim Russert stayed professional. I am so sad about his death. But he would care about this, too.
Now, what to do? I am one of the 18,000,000 who voted for Hillary. I will vote for Obama. But I want to do it with pleasure. I want to see if Barack can stand up to the talking heads who are telling him not to pick Hillary. Is he smart enough to pick a person who will bring him 18MM votes? If he doesn''t, is he smart enough to be President?
My first blog. Thank you, Katie. I think you''re great!
I adore Matt Lauer, but even he used the word, "clawed," when talking about Hillary. I cringed, but by that time, I had had it with NBC and MSNBC. Only Tim Russert stayed professional. I am so sad about his death. But he would care about this, too.
Now, what to do? I am one of the 18,000,000 who voted for Hillary. I will vote for Obama. But I want to do it with pleasure. I want to see if Barack can stand up to the talking heads who are telling him not to pick Hillary. Is he smart enough to pick a person who will bring him 18MM votes? If he doesn''t, is he smart enough to be President?
My first blog. Thank you, Katie. I think you''re GREAT!
I adore Matt Lauer, but even he used the word, "clawed," when talking about Hillary. I cringed, but by that time, I had had it with NBC and MSNBC. Only Tim Russert stayed professional. I am so sad about his death. But he would care about this, too.
Now, what to do? I am one of the 18,000,000 who voted for Hillary. I will vote for Obama. But I want to do it with pleasure. I want to see if Barack can stand up to the talking heads who are telling him not to pick Hillary. Is he smart enough to pick a person who will bring him 18MM votes? If he doesn''t, is he smart enough to be President?
My first blog. Thank you, Katie. I think you''re GREAT!
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