Greta Van Susteren calls out media on hypocritical misogyny
Greta Van Susteren calls out the rest of the media on their hypocritically poor reporting on some female candidates:
What is wrong with the media… a bunch of hypocrites?
The media is so hypocritical not to notice that when they fail to report and instead sit around and snicker, they victimize (yes, even bully.) I don’t think they even realize it.
For the last few weeks I have seen so many in the media making fun of Christine O’Donnell for saying some goofy things years and years ago. (I can only imagine what some of the high and mighty media did and said in high school…) I watched the same with Governor (yes, that is Governor) Sarah Palin and before that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (remember all the unkind and nasty things the media said about her when she was the First Lady?) It is not a party thing… it is a media group think clique thing. It is a bit high school-ish.
What did we do in our 17 minute interview? We did not ask about witches (nor snicker about it)—we asked her about veterans, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, taxes, and the economy and other topics. In essence, we went to find out what she is about, what her views on topics that Senators must consider—should she be elected. Isn’t that the job of a journalist? or is it to snicker?
It’s ridiculous—and as Van Susteren says, it was obvious even before Palin gained national prominence. I noted it in April 2008 when the media was annoyed that Hillary Clinton was still running—when she still had a chance to win. “Obama makes history, Clinton plots.”
There’s not a whole lot that Clinton, Palin, and O’Donnell have in common beyond gender. It really is beginning to sound like a witch-hunt whenever a female politician threatens the media narrative.
- Christine O’Donnell for U.S. Senate
- “Fighting for the First State”
- Christine O’Donnell on “On the Record” Oct 8 2010
- “I’ve gotten a lot of flak from Republicans for saying that I admire Hillary Clinton. I’m not saying I endorse all of her policies. But she’s a strong woman operating in a man’s world. She was a great senator. And I think she’s holding her own and she’s doing it well, and she’s gotten a lot of criticism that critics wouldn’t give to men. So I admire her for that.”
- Media—bunch of hypocrites?: Greta Van Susteren at GretaWire
- “It is not a party thing… it is a media group think clique thing. It is a bit high school-ish.” (Hat tip to Ian Lazaran at Conservatives 4 Palin)
- These are the lessons that we learn
- Some people want to serve, some just want to be president. It’s somewhat pointless to complain about the latter given the way we treat the former.
More Christine O’Donnell
- Republican establishment: spite and sour grapes
- Jerry Wilson tries to stop establishment Republicans from dancing over their own candidate’s defeat.
- There will be lies
- The media takes a blunder by Coons on the first amendment—and outright changes what both candidates said to make it look like a blunder by O’Donnell.
- The continuing left-wing witch-hunt
- Tea partiers support people who think differently than they do.
- The politics of fear in Delaware
- I’m with Palin and the NRA in Delaware. We know how Mike Castle will vote if he wins, because we know his record. O’Donnell probably got the Palin endorsement on her own merits; but she got the NRA endorsement on Mike Castle’s merits.
More media bias
- The ruling class’s unexpectedly old clothes
- I recently ran across early use of “unexpectedly” for a conservative’s strong economy, referring to the early 1981 market recovery under President Reagan.
- COVID Lessons: Journalistic Delusions and the Madness of Politicians
- COVID-19 was real. The crisis surrounding it was entirely manufactured. Everything we did took a manageable disease and turned it into a killer. And the very worst was believing a media we knew was lying.
- How many fingers, America?
- The Orwellianization of the left continues.
- Has Trump forced the media into a Kobayashi Maru?
- The Kobayashi Maru is that the media wants to be able to continue lying and be believed. People don’t distrust them because of Trump. People distrust them because they keep lying. It is a self-caused problem.
- The institutional forgetfulness of the press
- We no longer have to rely on the press as our institutional memory. The Internet has made it harder for the left to pretend the past doesn’t exist, or to say one thing here and another there.
- 34 more pages with the topic media bias, and other related pages
More misogyny
- The continuing left-wing witch-hunt
- Tea partiers support people who think differently than they do.
- These are the lessons that we learn
- Some people want to serve, some just want to be president. It’s somewhat pointless to complain about the latter given the way we treat the former.
- The Second Sex
- According to Simone de Beauvoir, woman is the “other” not only to men but also often to herself, an alien thing that is not quite human and is never sure what it is or what its place is.
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