Begala Begins the Healing: "Hillary and Jackie"

... Her presence in the presidential campaign has not only been impressive on the merits, it's been historic for what she has had to overcome just to do her job. The sexist signs: "HEY, HILLARY: IRON MY SHIRT!" "QUIT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND MAKE ME A SANDWICH!" The Hillary Clinton nutcracker (get it?), and all the rest.

I expected that. What I did not expect was for the so-called mainstream media to behave little better than the bigots on the streets outside her events. ...

To be sure, she's made her share of mistakes. As a strategist I have long seen her effort as an example of a candidate outperforming her campaign strategy at every critical juncture. Still, Jackie Robinson struck out hundreds of times.

The Democratic Party has decided, wonderfully, bravely, remarkably, to double-down on history this election. And so Hillary's struggle against sexism has played out parallel to Barack Obama's graceful and courageous rise above racism. He, too, has endured taunts and threats and bigotry. He, too, has answered hatred with dignity. He, too, knows how Jackie must have felt.

So when Barack praises Hillary's tenacity, her trailblazing spirit, it is not patronizing, as some Hillary supporters have suggested. It is, I think, an empathetic expression of a powerful truth. Nobody -- not even her husband -- can fully appreciate what Hillary has overcome. Except Barack. ... Huffington Post

really quickly after it happened, I thought it was a nice gesture.

two dudes who were totally joking, for publicity. Yeah, that's REAL sexism. :eyes:

he could be as intransigent as some here are.

... has been highlighted since New Hampshire as being representative of the sexism Hillary endured throughout this race. :eyes: Those morons don't deserve any kind of credit, even Howard Stern went off on them, and ever since, they're just laughing at all of us.

MADE it happen...

obviously many of those agree with this sentiment.

You have not seen anyone telling Obama "shine my shoes," now, did you?

I've got more if you really want to go there.

You are so RIGHT.

Even after the events of the 2000 election I am still mortified by the number of times our entire MSM gets it wrong (the New Hampshire Democratic Primaries).

And not just about politics, either. Remember those miners that were trapped in a West Virginia coalmine in February, 2006 (I think)? they fell over each other in a hurry to print that only one miner had perished when in fact ALL but one miner had perished.

It's not like Anderson Cooper went down there with a lantern and a canary his damned self. Didn't it eventually get blamed on "stray cell phones" or some other such horseshit?

He doesn't have a life outside of being one of their errand boys.