The sexist right-wing attack on Hillary Clinton picks up steam

As I suggested a few days ago it would seem that some high-placed Republicans may very well be the best friends Hillary Clinton has. The idiot who passes himself off as the Republican National Chairman (sic) accused the Senator of "anger" when she expresses differences with the Bush administration. The only surprise in the Chairman's sexist outburst was somehow he restrained himself from calling her "an angry bitch" - that is after all what he meant. This whole "label her angry" had obviously come from the top (ie. political commisar Karl Rove).


Since then the N.Y. Post reported that "top presidential adviser Karl Rove is getting directly involved in the effort to defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton."

The administration spokespaper further reports that "while national Republicans don't expect [former Yonkers Mayor John]Spencer beat Clinton they hope he can do enough to bloody her in anticipation of a possible 2008 presidential run." A run which the mainstream media and the Right-wing Republicans (redundant?) have virtually conceded to Clinton.

If there was any doubt about the sexism of dismissing the criticisms of a U.S. Senator and a major political figure as simply "anger," now that the anti-Clinton campaign has dribbled down to paid right-wing flacks like Post columnist Dick Morris, it has become even more obvious. He says: "In her speeches and interviews, she has two speeds: bland and shrill." Now she's not only angry, but also shrill.

"He goes on to say: "...[sometimes] she relaxes and acts casual - tossing her head, giggling, feigning intimacy...." "But when she has something to say. the passion burns inside her and metastasizes into anger and thence to shrillness." Then in case you missed the point that she is a woman and can't be trusted to handle men's work, he goes on:

"Like Bella Abzug before her, Hillary can't speak about issues without coming across as harsh and angry."

Actually, many of us wish the Senator was more angry (particularly about the war) and had more passion, but of one thing I am certain her failings have nothing to do with her gender, but most likely from listening to the wrong advisors.