Hillary Supporters Scream 'Sexism!' What do you think?
Should Democrats vote for the "bro" (short for ‘brother') or should they vote for the "ho" (short for a word I'd rather not write on the FNC website)? Think I'm being offensive? Take a look at these nearly 30 unofficial pro-Obama campaign t-shirts.
Heather Nauert
FOXNews.com
Monday, May 19, 2008
Should Democrats vote for the "bro" (short for ‘brother') or should they vote for the "ho" (short for a word I'd rather not write on the FNC website)? Think I'm being offensive? Take a look at these nearly 30 unofficial pro-Obama campaign t-shirts.
Hillary Clinton supporters say this kind of product is proof: the first female to run for President of the United States has been diminished by sexism, which has been pervasive in the media, on the campaign trail and embodied in products sitting on store shelves, like the Hillary nutcracker.
Geraldine Ferraro, one of Clinton's biggest supporters, takes it one step further. She says that Barack Obama himself is "terribly sexist."
So what is she referring to? It all seemed to start with a song. On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Obama's campaign played a rap song by Jay Z at the victory party. The title was "99 Problems." But playing a song wasn't the problem---the lyrics were: "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one." Then during a debate he quipped that he thought Clinton was "likable enough."
Clinton backers saw this as condescending.
Clinton supporters also say she's been the victim of a relentless campaign to show her looking and sounding silly with unflattering photos and audio tapes of her laugh, otherwise known as her "cackle." They say Obama doesn't get the same treatment-instead he gets praise.
Hillary told the Washington Post: "The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and . . . there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head. It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists."
Hillary backers, in part, blame the media and they are protesting NBC studios and stations in five states.
They point to a comment by NBC's Chris Matthews who said Hillary wouldn't have her job today if her husband hadn't fooled around. He eventually apologized.
Clinton discussed the overall issue with The New York Times. She said, "It's been deeply offensive to millions of women. I believe this campaign has been a groundbreaker in a lot of ways. But it certainly has been challenging given some of the attitudes in the press, and I regret that, because I think it's been really not worthy of the seriousness of the campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies we have here."
Today Ferraro told Fox News' Shep Smith today, "these all seem like little things. Add them all together and they spell sexism."
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