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Dowd has hammered the anvil

moat — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:03:13 +0000

In reply to When Maureen Dowd Lost Hillary Clinton

Dowd has hammered the anvil shaping HRC as some kind of man thing for decades now. I don't get it on an important fundamental level. What is this other kind of female politician that is being imagined?
There is this implied alternative model that the article treats as a given. I need more by way of an explanation.

http://fivethirtyeight.com

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:51:03 +0000

In reply to They've all been hard on

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-you-more-likely-to-vote-for-a-wo...

They've all been hard on

Ramona — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:07:36 +0000

In reply to An analysis of MSM in general

They've all been hard on Hillary for decades now. I'm not sure they could turn it around if they wanted to. Those stories against her have long legs. Even the Democrats use them against her.

An analysis of MSM in general

rmrd0000 — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:04:13 +0000

In reply to I wish I had seen this before

An analysis of MSM in general may find a similar skew to articles about Hillary, The media then wonders why Hillary is not trusted. The racist Trump gets rewarded with a dog and pony show like the one put on last night by MSNBC with Scarborough and Mika B. Hosting a "hard-hitting" town hall with the Donald. The media then wonders why the bigot has staying power.

I wish I had seen this before

Ramona — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:37:33 +0000

In reply to When Maureen Dowd Lost Hillary Clinton

I wish I had seen this before I wrote my column. I didn't realize it was THIS bad!

For more than twenty years, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has been attacking Hillary Clinton from a shallow well of insults, routinely portraying the former secretary of state and first lady as an unlikeable, power-hungry phony.

Media Matters analyzed 195 columns by Dowd since November 1993 containing significant mentions of Clinton for whether they included any of 16 negative tropes in five categories (listed in the below methodology). 72 percent (141 columns) were negative towards Clinton -- only 8 percent (15 columns) were positive. The remaining 20 percent (39 columns) were neutral.

For example, Dowd has repeatedly accused Clinton of being an enemy to or betraying feminism (35 columns, 18 percent of those studied), power-hungry (51 columns, 26 percent), unlikeable (9 columns, 5 percent), or phony (34 columns, 17 percent). She's also attacked the Clintons as a couple in 43 columns (22 percent), many of which included Dowd's ham-handed attempts at psychoanalysis.

Thanks, Dick - I was going

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:35:23 +0000

In reply to hahahahahahahahahh

Thanks, Dick - I was going for "There's a special place in hell for women who are dicks", but something held me back. (obviously not in reference to you)

Sandra Day O'Connor comes out

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:18:40 +0000

In reply to It bears repeating - go,

Sandra Day O'Connor comes out today re: Scalia, reminding us she stepped down from the Court early to take care of her sick husband. How often do men do that? When we talk about health care, for men it's often more about cost and decisions, for women It's about their own sweat and involvement - from babies to kid's health to birthing to greater chance of personal health issues (outside accidents) to care for the old.

It bears repeating - go,

barefooted — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:02:30 +0000

In reply to Great article. I remember it

It bears repeating - go, Hillary, go.

Great article. I remember it

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 06:44:59 +0000

In reply to Fixed the Vogue link.

Great article. I remember it being nice that she articulated abroad great positive ideals for the US, the Beijing speech and on and on, and still getting dinged back home - there was some flare-up about her using a psychic or believing in some new age something. Could hardly catch a break, but abroad people loved her.

And yeah, women advocating for themselves - what a big topic. Go, Hillary, go.

hahahahahahahahahh

Richard Day — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:24:22 +0000

In reply to Mo Dowd is simply a childish

hahahahahahahahahh

I do not know where to begin?

Maybe 'Mo' was angry that she did not marry Bill?

hahahahahahah

This comment is so very very vitriolic that I must award PP the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me.

I cannot stop laughing.

Hell, only Peggy Noonan pisses me off more than 'Mo' hahahahaha