Gallup asks Black Americans who should speak for them and if I were being asked my No. 1 answer would be nobody should speak to me, those weren’t Gallup’s results. 29 percent replied Barack Obama, 6 percent Al Sharpton, only 4 percent Jesse Jackson, and coming in next, the first black couple in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton, each with 3 percent, beating Oprah with 2 percent.
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We are only now — a bit late — beginning to face up to sexism as a factor in the Democratic race and as an ongoing problem in America.
Katie Couric spoke out:
Sound bite: “It isn’t just Hillary Clinton who needs to learn a lesson from this primary season, it’s all the people who crossed the line and all the women and men who let them get away with it.”
The New York Times today delivers the stock on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand, try-to-say-nothing roundup that comes to no conclusion but does, at least, compile a few of the sins:
Cable television has come under the most criticism. Chris Matthews, a host on MSNBC, called Mrs. Clinton a “she-devil” and said she had gotten as far as she had only because her husband had “messed around.”Mike Barnicle, a panelist on MSNBC, said that Mrs. Clinton was “looking like everyone’s first wife standing outside a probate court.” Tucker Carlson, also on MSNBC, said, “When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs.”
The establishment news media were faulted too. The New York Times wrote about Mrs. Clinton’s “cackle” and The Washington Post wrote about her cleavage.
Ken Rudin, an editor at National Public Radio, appeared on CNN, where he equated Mrs. Clinton with the actress Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.” “She’s going to keep coming back, and they’re not going to stop her,” Mr. Rudin said. He later apologized.
Howard Dean comes out to decry the sexism. Why didn’t he do this during the campaign?
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, who says he was slow to pick up on charges of sexism because he is not a regular viewer of cable television, is taking up the cause after hearing an outcry from what he described as a cross-section of women, from individual voters to powerful politicians and chief executives.“The media took a very sexist approach to Senator Clinton’s campaign,” Mr. Dean said in a recent interview.
“It’s pretty appalling,” he said, adding that the issue resonates because Mrs. Clinton “got treated the way a lot of women got treated their whole lives.”
Mr. Dean and others are now calling for a “national discussion” of sexism.
Howard Dean doesn’t watch Chris Matthews? Yeah, sure.
: And here’s The Times’ Nick Kristof writing the speech on sexism he wishes Obama would now deliver.
In another last “thank you” to her supporters, Hillary Clinton channels Aretha once again. It’s all about “respect” for the “18 million people who have voted for me.” (And, like all things Clinton, it’s really all about her and her “future viability,” as Bill used to say.)
Now that Hillary Clinton’s gone, Jackie Broyles and Dunlap lament the comedic possibilities for the general election.
Here’s Hilary Clinton’s rousing speech handing the baton over to Barack.
On a podcast interview with the Guardian, Jimmy Carter says that making Hillary Clinton his candidate for VP wold be a big mistake for Obama. What we really have here is one former president getting downright catty about another.
Top 10 things heard in Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters.
Sound bite: “No. 2. It’s not the end — you can always get fat and make a global warming documentary.”
John McCain reads his Teleprompter from New Orleans as he welcomes Obama to the race and defends Hillary against that darned media.
She comes in summa cum laude. No cigar.
Barack Obama says that if elected president he would talk to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both Hillary Clinton and John McCain say that’s a bad idea. According to a recent Gallup poll (May 19-21), a majority of Americans favor Obama’s approach. 59% think chatting up Ahmadinejad is a “good idea.”
A disgruntled, gravel-voiced Hillary Cinton supporter makes a reasoned argument about race and gender outside the DNC Rules Committee meeting. (Geraldine Ferraro would be so proud.)
Sound Bite: “The Democrats are throwing the election away. For what? An inadequate black male?”
The final two Democratic primaries are scheduled for tomorrow and Hillary Clinton is going down fighting. Her latest ad pushes the popular vote argument. (Ask President Gore how well that’s going to work.)
Sound Bite: “17 million Americans have voted for Hillary Clinton. More than for any primary candidate in history.”
Harold Ickes, representing Hillary Clinton, at the DNC committee meeting yesterday:
Sound bite: “Is the process flawed? You bet your ass it’s flawed. It’s hard to find an election in the United States that’s not flawed.”
Sound bite: “Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee.:
One more (last?) Hillary ad, this one bragging that she is the only candidate (how many are there?) who voted against the Bush energy bill and the only one who’ll get health care coverage for all.
Sundays are never dull at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Reverend Jeremiah Wright may have retired but Father Michael Pfleger picked up the slack last week when he took the pulpit as guest preacher. He talks about exposing “white entitlement and supremacy” and lays into Hillary Clinton.
Sound Bite: “I really believe that she just always thought this is mine. ‘I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said ‘Oh damn! Where did you come from? I’m white. I’m entitled. There’s a black man stealing my show.”
Judging by the standing ovation, the congregation seemed to enjoy the sermon.
