Jill Abramson on Hillary Clinton: ‘She does get more scrutiny’ than men'
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/jill-abramson-hillary-clinton-2016-221017She does get more scrutiny than other candidates especially male candidates, Abramson told me during a 50-minute interview for POLITICOs Off Message podcast last week. When I asked her whether Clintons arch-defender, David Brock, had a point when he lashed the Times for giving the Clintons an unfair level of scrutiny, she interrupted to agree.
Yeah, I do, said Abramson, who was ousted in 2014 after reportedly complaining that her compensation package was inferior to that of her male predecessor, Bill Keller.
We, for some reason, expect total purity from a woman candidate, added Abramson, who rose to the Times top job in 2011. I did not feel, during my regime, that we were giving her way more scrutiny than anyone else. But, she said, Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies shes been in are immediately labeled, you know, travelgate or emailgate. If you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they dont know anything specific about any of them.
Abramson now pens a reporters notebook column heavy on voter interviews, light on Beltway punditry on the 2016 campaign for The Guardian. Not surprisingly, her Clinton columns are her most incisive. For all of Trumps hourly oratorical outrages, his ersatz beef-and-wine inventory and the activities of his thin-lipped mashers at rallies, shes just as focused on Clintons likely role as the first woman to win the nomination of a major American political party.
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Trajan
(19,089 posts)Jill Abramson graduated from Harvard with a degree in History, after attending Fieldston prep school (current tuition = over $42,000 per year) ...
Before Jill's stint as executive editor at the New York Times, she was an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal ...
According to Trajan ... Jill Abramson lived a very rich life ... A live without need or want ....
Accordingly, Trajan rejects any notion that Jill Abramson speaks for anybody outside of the 1% ...
Just like the object of her infatuation - she has lived a pampered existence of which regular folks can only imagine ....
I reject Jill Abramson's desires or concerns ...
swag
(26,487 posts)I bow down.
Rock on.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,917 posts)I guess Im still thinking that through.
A remarkable degree of understatement there you have to admit.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)But, she said, Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies shes been in are immediately labeled, you know, travelgate or emailgate.
If you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they dont know anything specific about any of them.
Labeling does not equal scrutiny.
Try this as a mind experiment.
Assume that Obama would have named Holbrooke as his Secretary of State and he found out, maybe from his chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel that Richard Hollbrooke had set up a private server to use for his State Department work and he was getting advise from a person, Obama specifically ruled out using. Now, Holbrooke was considered a diplomat's diplomat and he had been key in the Canton agreement that helped end the war in the former Yugoslavia. He had a splendid resume.
Would Obama have ended that practice quickly - possibly asking for a resignation? Now imagine he didn't, would it - if it became known - become a scandal. I think it would and it would have reflected on Obama. I certainly do not think it would not have become a scandal.