Via Lambert, Marie Cocco’s column today:
I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan “Bros before Hos.” The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and are widely sold on the Internet.
I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker.
I won’t miss episodes like the […]

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He later apologized.

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Or not:

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Via Lance, I read this Michael Wolff piece in this month’s Vanity Fair:
The Hillary story is—and how could it not be?—largely a sexual one. This is not so much a sexist view as a sexualist view: What’s up here? What’s the unsaid saying? What’s the vibe? Although it’s not discussed in reputable commentary, it’s discussed […]

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In a piece called “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit writes about a man who, introduced to her as a writer, starts pontificating about a book she “should” read. Despite Solnit and another woman mentioning several times that Solnit is actually the author of the book she should read, the man still goes on […]

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David Corn, who’s already made it quite clear that he’s invested in an Obama win, is still trying to say Clinton had no significant role in the Northern Ireland peace process. You can read this if your memory needs refreshing.
I mean, really, David. David Trimble, the hateful Ulster Unionist? Quotes from the notoriously right-wing Telegraph, […]

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What do you think about this? Obviously, I’m not the best judge because I’m not shy about these things:

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Somerby on Ferraro:
“This is a very emotional campaign for me,” she said. As she said this, she described a problem which has plagued this Democratic campaign on various sides. Beyond that, we disagree with a few of the things she said in these excerpts—but then, we strongly agree with some others. And we think these […]

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Digby’s right. Go read it.

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Now, Susie, it’s not a break when you’re sending me articles! Not that I blame you - this one’s worth posting.
Perhaps the next time Beltway pundits are tempted to romanticize the blue-collar working man in all his rugged, unpretentious, Saroyan glory, they might want to remind themselves of some of the less savory baggage being […]

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Eric Alterman:
NBC was forced to issue an apology this week after Jane Fonda said the word “cunt” in a discussion of the play The Vagina Monologues. “We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology,” Today co-host Meredith Vieira told viewers.
What the network has not yet apologized for, nor is it […]

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Not everybody’s a sexist.

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Via Corrente, this post from the Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford pretty much explains the use of the sexist dogwhistles (”Why would he say something like that deliberately? It doesn’t make sense!”)
Does it make sense now?
The corporate media and most Blacks with access to a mass public never seem to seriously examine the meaning of […]

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From BTD:
FINEMAN: . . . [T]he problem that Hillary‘s got is in certain ways her whole candidacy is an act of ventriloquism from her husband. Or at least, some people view it that way. And Hillary isn‘t always known as the most authentic candidate that you‘ve ever seen that come down the pike, very calculating, […]

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I suppose this means if I see a seriously wounded right-to-life extremist official in the street with no one else around, and my conscience tells me society would be better off without him, it’s perfectly okay for me not to call 911:
Pennsylvania: Sen. John Eichelberger (R) on Monday introduced a bill that would allow health […]

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Talk about dog whistles! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it’s considered okay for a presidential candidate to talk this way about female opponents. After all, the only people it upsets are, you know, other broads:
“[OBAMA] I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to […]

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Yeah, I thought this Eugene Robinson column (in which he argues that of course the media isn’t guilty of covering Clinton differently from Obama!) was a tad disingenuous. So did Bob Somerby. Go read it all:
In the passage about Edwards, note the perfect gong-show logic when Robinson discusses the treatment of wardrobe and appearance. It […]

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Before I went to bed last night, I was over at Echidne’s place, where I read this and this. And then I had the strangest dream. Hillary Clinton was the Wicked Witch of the West, and the Kossacks had crashed the gates to kill her .. and MoDo was there, and you, and you, and […]

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We know, of course, that middle-aged white women no longer have a legitimate say in the Democratic party. But I thought this was interesting, anyway.

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Did you know that until we got our hands on Iraq, it was a modern, secular country where women felt free to live out their lives?
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; […]

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Link:
“I remember once being on a search committee with several men, and the group told me that the woman with pants should be disqualified,” recalled Juliet Sallette, marketing director for LaBovick & LaBovick law firm, in an e-mail. “I couldn’t get over it. They felt that the fact that she wore pants stated that her […]

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I had lunch with a co-worker today - a Republican who’s very passionate about politics, if not as informed as she thinks. (For one thing, she’s utterly convinced that Saddam had WMDs and funded the World Trade Center attack.) Nonetheless, she’s watching events somewhat closely, and she informed me today she was voting for Hillary […]

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I wonder why these men who are so traumatized by abortion continue to affiliate with a political party that, when it literally comes to putting money where their mouth is, consistently chooses tax cuts for the wealthy instead of housing, day care and health care for the poor - you know, those things that make […]

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On what far-flung planet does Anne Applebaum live? When she writes silly crap like this (which is almost all the time), I have to wonder why I don’t have a Washington Post column.
For one thing, feminists are fighting situations like this. Just because Applebaum can’t find a story about something on the NOW website doesn’t […]

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I can’t figure out exactly what it is that I find so utterly offensive about this trend. You demand an expensive piece of jewelry for giving birth?
Maybe it’s the transactional, quid pro quo disconnectedness of it. Who knew? Apparently giving life to your child is like working a lot of overtime, and as a result […]

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