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Susan Bordo
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OK, Hillary-bashers, which is it? Did she lack a “message” (unlike Elizabeth Warren)? Or was she too “unlikeable” (unlike Beto O’Rourke)? Or are you just determined to attach any praise for a current contender to some (tired, old, unjustified) criticisms of Hillary? Sick of it!
And yes, I’m watching Morning Joe this morning, and yes I’m talking to you, Mika and Joe. Hateful, stupid, totally gratuitous trashing.
Agh!!!!!! And here it is again: washingtonpost.com/opinions/eliza…
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Sanders looking for running mate “not of my gender.” Can’t he even bear to say the word “woman”? May seem trivial but I see it as deep.
He also has a problem with saying “Black.” He doesn’t want to highlight what is obvious: he’s a very white GUY. And gender and race, for him, are abstractions rather than lived realities. (2)
In his “I’m running” ad, he also didn’t mention “reproductive rights” in the list of inequities he would fight for. Once again, revealing.
These are his vulnerabilities. These will bump him out of the race if played smartly by his opponents. Let’s get to work!
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@AriMelber I’m trying to recover from watching Ken Starr argue “no obstruction” from Nixon and “no collusion” from Trump while justifying the impeachment of WJC for lying about a consensual affair. You did a great job, though!! (1)
Starr didn’t like the term “leaked”. So how about we say instead that he splashed” intimate details all over public space? (2)
And by the way, Clinton did not intimidate Lewinsky. The FBI did. Clinton and Lewinsky mutually wanted to keep the affair private. The FBI terrified Monica and Starr humiliated her. (3)
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Amazing that the mainstream media continues to see itself as having been immune to the disinformation ecosystem that turned voters against Hillary. Fact: the msm disseminated in more polite form many of the same unfounded attacks and caricatures as the Enquirer—and continue to!!
You’d think I’d be used to it. But it’s all the more infuriating now that they’ve “exposed” the Enquirer. Except for Hillary’s alien babies and 100-lb weight-gains,they may as well have been working in concert with that rag.
And where do they think the Russians got their ideas about who and how to target? Sanders, the Right, and decades of media trash against the Clintons.
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