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The viability of female candidates

I missed a lot of the mainstream media's comments about Hillary's attire, cleavage, and nagging stereotypes of women.

And wow, this compilation of news bites from the Women's Media Center is really something. It's must-see viewing, especially for those of us - men and women - who don't describe ourselves as feminists.

As we say in Wisconsin, "holy cow!"

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Give me a break. This stuff

Give me a break. This stuff is tame compared to the stuff coming from Obama's cronies. Read through the comments at DKos and HuffPo. These talking heads are amateurs.

Henry Dubb can't be that

Henry Dubb can't be that ignorant about what the real press is, in America.
Did he fell prey to the spin that bloggers are legitimate press? Does he think Fox News is the same as CBS News or a printed newspaper? He can't be that naive.

Henry should go do some research, it's all there for him to discover and prove to himself. Not rely on something he is told, on the MSM, or anyone on the internet.
He can do his own research, and learn that cable news is not news.
He can find the factual truth, that several Federal courts have ruled that paid cable subscription programming, does not have to comply with the same rules as print media or free broadcast media rules, under the FCC.
They are defined as entertainment only programming. Like a soap opera, or cartoons.
FoxNews has put up images that are considered worse than Janet Jackson boob shot on the Superbowl...but they are cable paid TV, and not subject to the same standards. In fact cable has no FCC regulated news truth standards at all!
He could find this out on his own, if like a real American, he would take the time to do some reasearch.
The information is free for all to find. Th real accurate public and legal determiniations, by real courts...not courts of public opinion.
If Henry's local newspaper would print, word for word, one of the postings from a Daily Kos blog, or a Fox News Oreilly talking point. His newspaper would be fined by the FCC, for false reporting.
It's all about fact validation, Henry. Broadcast TV & newspapers have to prove every single fact they print or broadcast.
They cannot make opinion, unless they clearly identify it as opinion. Cable has no requirements to do that.
Henry could find this out, if he did some research.

Henry do yourself a favor, and use the internet to do some research.
You owe it to yourself to stop living in the world of assumptions.
You assumed Kos is the same thing as the NY Times.
They are not....by a long shot.
It' OK Henry. You do have every right to the truth, and you owe it to yourself to find it.
You can do it.
Focus on education websites, and government sites like the FCC, and court cases.
You can do it, Henry and then come back a tell us all, how Daily Kos is a news agency, and Fox is the same as NYTimes.

Worse yet ...

Henry's not even talking about the sites themselves, but about people who comment on the sites.  They are hardly Obama's "cronies," and he or his campaign are certainly not responsible for what some anonymous commenter spouts off.

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I dont't think you can compare

commentts made on a blog to people speaking in the mainstream media. I hope we can hold people who are supposed to be professional journalists to a different standard than some random person venting on a web site.

Steve Hanson

Cruiskeen Consulting LLC

Uppity Wisconsin

This is truly appalling

Most of us, of course, had not seen or heard most of those comments until they were compiled in this video. Sexism is still rampant in the media.

That said, it is not why Clinton lost. Obama simply ran a better campaign, which eliminated a whole flock of male candidates long before Clinton.

If someone were to compile all of the media comments about Obama that had allusions to race, we wouldn't have a 5-minute video; we'd have a 3-hour documentary.

Hadn't thought of it that way

xoff - Thanks for the reminder that Obama kicked male candidates to the curb long before Clinton. I had not thought of it that way. Cool.

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