GIVE 'EM HELL, HILLARY!
Never thought it would be true, but Hardball
was a thrill to watch following the Philly debate. It was because Craig
Crawford stood up to, and beat down Chris Matthews who claimed that "Hillary
played the gender card" and he "had the sound-bite that proved
it".
Crawford insisted,
even as Matthews typically tried to yell him down, that she did not play
the gender card in that sound-bite. This forced Matthews to play it again
and it was obvious that all Hillary said was that her college trained her
to compete with the boys in the presidential race.
The people who called
the debate a pile-on and gender driven were ALL OF US out here in the electorate
who called, e-mailed or wrote to the Clinton campaign and NBC protesting
Russert's actions. It was the media that instigated a pile-on and misrepresented
what happened afterwards by blaming their own press reports on the Clinton
campaign.
Anyone who forms
their opinion on anything reported by a media, that intentionally intends
to run the race to make as much nasty news as possible, is brain dead.
The post debate
game show put on by Obama himself is noteworthy only because the media
amplified it without any of the critical comment it reserves for other
Democratic candidates. Edward's disingenuous ad showed Clinton giving somewhat
different answers but did not include the questions that elicited those
answers; the media ignored that.
Obama came out
with a back slapping; "look what I did to Hillary" bragatude
that belied the fact that he had to be coached by one of the moderators.
To paraphrase, he was carried to third base on the misleading attack questions
by Russert, Edwards and Dodd and now he claims he hit a triple.
All he really demonstrated
in that debate was how easily he is led from his declared path, showing
that he is a follower, not a leader who can think and operate by himself.
When Barack declared
that he had been piled-on because he was different in a former debate and
did not protest, he and the ass kissing media failed to report that whereas
he endured for around 15 minutes with NO black code words used against
him; Hillary endured for two hours with plenty of gender code words used.
And following the
debate, facing a barrage of gender code
words that every woman recognizes having heard them so often; code words
such as "you're overreacting" and "taking this personally",
from the media and fellow candidates.
In addition, Barack
was not attacked by one of the moderators. Wonder what trick or misleading
questions the media will dig up for the next debate and if the moderator
will join in to coach Obama like Russert did.
Russert was characterized
by the New York Times on October 31 as "arguably" Clinton's "third
toughest opponent on the stage" during the October 30 debate
If the media disregards
the facts brought forth by the archivist of President Bill Clinton's papers
and continues to claim Senator Clinton is hiding them, voters should get
angry and insist that the truth of this situation be reported.
So much is made
of Hillary's votes yet Barack is not censored for missing three times as
many votes as Hillary. Is avoiding voting
Barack's way of avoiding leadership or showing no courage of his convictions?
Governor Bill Richardson
got it right in that debate when he described what the Times called "a
withering attack". He scolded the others. "You know what I'm
hearing here, I'm hearing this holier-than-thou attitude toward Senator
Clinton. It's bothering me because it's pretty close to personal attacks
that we don't need."
The problem is it
was just what the media ordered and orchestrated.
gapperserve-at-peoplepc.com
http://gendergappers.blogspot.com
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2007 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished
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