I wonder why? Over in the UK, Manchester Guardian:
In a spectacular ballet of aggressive misogyny, attacks on Clinton's femaleness masquerading as critiques of Clinton's policies and campaign failures (separate altogether from legitimate critiques of Clinton's policies and campaign failures), and indifference to the former, the liberal blogosphere - once a proud conglomeration of feisty challengers to Republican memes - embraced as its own one of the most pernicious strategies of the 1990s anti-Clinton conservatives.
And they didn't stop there.
In a complete 180-degree turn, the same members of the left who had once defended Clinton against the attacks of the right wing - the trumped-up scandals and dug-up dirt that led to endless hours and millions upon millions of dollars wasted in fruitless investigations of the Clintons, their business dealings, their friends, not to mention the peculiar features of Bill's twig and berries - adopted the frames of those attacks as their own. Everything old was new again. Call it political retro chic.
All obvious, to anyone who lived through it.
Except for the Kool-Aid drinkers, of course.
NOTE As so often (hat tip BoGardiner, the Onion had the story one or two beats ahead:
Grandmother Proud To Have Lived Long Enough To See First Viable Female Candidate Torn Apart
Seventy-six-year-old grandmother Anita Graney told reporters Monday that she was "overwhelmed with pride" for having lived to see the first viable female presidential candidate in the nation's history so successfully run into the ground by vicious media attacks and hubristic, arrogant miscalculations. ... Graney expressed hope that one of her granddaughters might someday be the first woman to get utterly eviscerated in a nationwide general election.
Yeppers.
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Here's Part 2. And McEwan and McCluskey are heroes.
McEwan has been, and remains, an extraordinary voice during the election. Part II is also up at Shakesville:
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2...
Meanwhile, last night I researched my own snapshot of DailyKos during the primary, as a response to this July 1 diarist quoting CNN:
CNN is beyond reprehensible here. Both Obama WTF and Savage Politics can be seen in a moment's glance to be far right-wing sites that are anti-Clinton, not "pro-Clinton." The CNN reporters were apparently handed this story and the offending quotes and did not even bother to check the sites.
My response:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/1/2...
What's wrong with you?
Where's your sense of humor?
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
You, Lambert, single-handedly
keep my sense of humor alive, some days.
Other days, it's my dog's job. Of course, he loves bitches.
Policy not party!
Well, I thought THIS was funny...
Mocking Maureen Dowd Gives me Deep and Lasting Joy.
Heh.
Hey there -- what, I get no credit?
this is funny, if you need a laugh--
Drudge before he was Drudge, courtesy of a DC stripper-- http://nypress.com/blogx/display_blog.cf...
matthew drudge
david brock without any conscience whatsoever.