New Rule: All Pundits should be muzzled for a year prior to a presidential election. This outright misogyny is going to motivate woman to vote for Clinton despite her policy, her shift further to the right, her sudden concern for the economy, and her expert chameleon like qualities.
Media Matters is calling for help in ending the public and chronic misogyny of the dick-less Chris Matthews. Well, he is a misogynistic pig, and his dislike for Hilary is even stronger than his dislike of woman in general. You all know I despise him as much as Doug despises Lou Dobbs. Why can’t we all just shut those cable news shows off for a month or forever?
Clinton is now playing on the anger of woman, many unaware of her history and her politics. I’ve spoken to my mother about this, she agrees. The queen of the twin sets is both observant and thoughtful when it comes to politics. She has yet to decide where her vote will go, but she sees a lot of woman her age, incensed by the misogyny, are falling for “this weeks Clinton”, without actually having a logical reason other than she is a woman, and she’s getting beat up by the boys.
Senator Clinton is doing a good job of gathering the girls, and whipping them into a frenzy. My mother is not sure if this is the path to electing the first woman president. I on the other hand am positive this isn’t the way to go.
Mr. Matthews is a good barometer as to how far we haven’t come though, so by all means gag him.
Then vote for Obama.
Addendum:
Speaking of sexist assholes, Bill Maher sucks without his writers. I thought he’d be better off the cuff, but it seems his waning charm and wit are studied after all.
Cool find of the week:
P.P. Arnold
Discogs
Making Time
Bill Maher is extremely uncouth. Could you imagine if he and Dennis Miller formed up some sort of Hannity & Colmes show? Yikes.
I can see how a women would view this as offensive enough to gather the forces.
Something …shaggy.
I’ve never heard of PP Arnold, cool.
She was with the Ike and Tina Turner review when it started.
I forgot Maher was even back on the air. I’ll have to catch him without writers.
Absolutely, Cooper. I don’t want my president to do anything about outsourcing, subprime mortgages, the recession we’re surely in, merging two America’s, prosecuting the war on terror, healing racism or sexism or putting shiny bows in the hair of grouchy 40-year-olds. The above policy proposal, however, is a change I’m willing to vote for.
Cooper for President!
By the way, I hope you know what you’re saying. On another blog I once took a strict position against waterboarding, but offered to relax it if they’d start with Dobbs. I even offered to be second.
You pretty much covered the ass hole that is Chris Matthews so I don’t have anything to say about him. And I’ve seen Bill Maher off the cuff.…..yeah, he pretty much sucks. A few years ago he was better. I think that he’s run out of material.
Cooper, I agree both with your disdain for Matthews and your approval of Obama. The Hardball anchor and his talking head colleagues get more annoying to me with each passing election cycle: I have grown so sick of their prognostication and cynicism, while they offer virtually zero substantive analysis of real policy issues. This is why I get most of my information on politics – outside of debates and election returns – from C-SPAN. Cheers, –J
Why can’t we all just shut those cable news shows off for a month or forever?
It’s that little red button on the black thingy. I did it. You can do it. We all can do it. Of course, the hit that the economy will take when we all stop buying the garbage (some of it masquerading as “content”) might catapult us all back to the Stone Age — but then we won’t have to worry about frankenfood, now will we?
I’m with Doug. Too bad most of We the People find actual administrative ability boring.
I hear disturbing signs that people won’t vote for Hillary because she’s female. Or Obama because he’s black. Or Edwards ’cause he’s a Southerner. And a philanderer. We’d best be careful, or we’ll wind up with a Republican. Or Michael Bloomberg. Now there’s a thought …
Well, this is exactly why I generally hate politics. Wanna shovel them all out. And I’m so glad that I don’t live in US, it’s definitely more complicated over there then in our little Sweden
I just dream about getting normal, ordinary people up on those positions instead.… that would be something! People that know how it is out in the REALITY.
DaveJ: I used to find him a tad more insightful but his charm started to wear thin a couple years ago.
jake: Eh, Don’t bother it’s not worth the time.
Doug: i think that they make up what they are going to do on the spot according to whatever is popular with the people at the moment. She is particularly good at that.
it is clear that credentials do not necessarily make a good president and at the same time it is clear that the most credentialed can’t afford to get elected I suggest the government pay for campaigns and then we see what happens.
Shelia: He uses the same material, frankly I’m bored with it all and usually bored with his guests as well.
Jason: Disdain is the keyword here. It’s funny how so many people feel this way, about not only Matthews but many of the pundits, yet for some reason they still watch them. Sometimes I watch only to feed my disdain.
OC: I think there are still a few people who are really trying to figure it out logically. hopeful there will be more of them in the future.
Lifecruiser: Here the people with the most money are the ones who get to the end. That is the root of the problem. Not that the candidates with money are not possible the best candidates but one can really never tell because we tend to see the ones with the most money more often, making the full picture rather murky
Re your mother: I am of her generation though refused to don twin sets except for one preppy stage
I see women my age – except for my close friends falling for the Hil act of the week.
It’s frigging effective.
Then I ask them what Hillary has done for them as Senator from New York?
This is a loaded question as the most of the women I know have much greater incomes than they had seven years ago but even greater expenses
When women begin to think they see how Hillary given the clout she claims to have could have done a lot to help New York
9/11 belongs to Rudy. The truth is that 9/11 changed the New York metro area and nobody wants to admit to that
Manhattan shouldn’t be out of the reach of most of us including those of us who live here
Where was Hillary? Pandering to upstaters. She helped pass a bill to give aide to New York but didn’t stay around to see that it came in a timely manner
There were job fairs in Madison Square Garden. The lines took up many blocks
Hillary had the clout to let the rest of America know the true conditions here then but she chose not to
She chose to do many stupid things that didn’t help the people of New York City, and hence people like me have left or are leaving
It upsets me greatly that ten years ago I thought I was set for life. Now the only way I can be is if I sell my apartment for an immense profit. As a born do gooder I find that morally wrong, but have to put myself first because God knows people like Hillary have no compassion
What happened to the Hillary of health care reform? I can go on.
True we see the candidates with the most money. Dodd who is beloved in CT didn’t stand a chance
Hillary is a machine candidate. I have begun to think of her as evil and hate myself for that
Gloria Steinem is one of my idols and an idol of most women my age. I met her on the subway one day and every woman in the car except for me went crazy – like she was a rock star
Between her endorsement of Hillary – Hillary crying and the woman has never had an unscripted moment and the mud being slung about Obama I’m very scared that Hillary will win.
I hope the people of New York remember what bad shape NY was in. While personally I never want to think about 9/11 again her actions or non actions should be talked about
It hurts to dislike her so much as once I loved her – the Hillary that cared about health reform. The Hillary that wanted a better America for everybody
The sad fact is that she and Bill were put through too many unnecessary scandals. I think they hardened her to the point where she’s completely out for Hillary
I have said this before and I will say it again, I’m sure, your mother is a very smart woman
I very much want a woman president. I can’t help but believe that this woman, Hillary Clinton, sold NY out
I have much more to say about Hillary. But I truly hate disliking her this much. I feel disloyal to the people we both once were.
we have recently had a changeover in government and now have a female Deputy Prime Minister.…who is excellent.…
the time has come for woman to be elected as leaders.…I just hope that for the Americans they will wait until the right one comes along…
pia: I knew where you’d stand on this.
laketrees: It really is about electing the right one.
I don’t disagree. I’m tired off the pundits and everything else these days.
It’s such a miserable day out there. I’m happy to have made it here fro you to make me smile and shake my head.
The pundits need to fill the time when there isn’t any news.
Then they create the buzz that fills the news, and the tail wags its dog.
If you want the real truth… there is a small group of manipulative puppet-masters who play games with our politics. Half run the DNC, and half run the RNC, and they play little games just like the Duke brothers from “Trading Places.”
It’s all mirrors and manipulation, and the pundits are the unwitting help that provide the smokescreen. We get so wound up in the moment-by-moment horse-race that we lose sight of the big picture.
I just wish I lived in a society that would allow a white male like me to vote against certain candidates *without* it being about race or gender, or anything else. Can’t I disagree with Obama’s proposals without being a racist? Can’t I disagree with Clinton without being a sexist? For that matter, can’t I disagree with Biden for having zero tact, or with Lou Dobbs for being a scary populist manipulator?
If we can clear the puppeteers from behind the scenes, maybe each election will be something other than the least of many evils.
Well it looks as if Clinton seems to trot out Barack bashers, pointing out the cocaine use as a way to reflect his inherent flaws.
I think you can only vote on your own research. Listening to the TV requires you ffilter through the B.S. (which is 90% or greater) and make whatever informed decision about the choices you have been given.
Imagine how I feel when my mother really likes Mr. Matthews.
If you want to change it, and you are 20-somethings, continue these blogs, make your own “political show” discussing what you really want.
I was away, so late.
Both videos made my night. CM reminds me of many of my fraternity brothers, you get the picture.
I’ve just viewed every version of “Angle of the Morning” available on you tube.