Liberal Bloggers Respond to Both Hillary's Tears and the Media's Response
01.08.08 (6:26 pm) posted by Genia
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I read a NY Times article
that analyzed Hillary Clinton's rare show of emotion during a campaign stop in New Hampshire:
Mrs. Clinton bared her thoughts about the race's impact on her personally, and her eyes welled with tears.
"I couldn't do it if I just didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do," she said here in reply to a question from an undecided voter, a woman roughly Mrs. Clinton's age.
My first thought was,
"Oh shit, here we go. Are we about to see a repeat of Howard Dean?"
Richard
at All Spin Zone thought the same thing, while Taylor Marsh's analysis almost redeems Hillary:
This is a defining moment in American history. To see if we can grow up from "bitch" to "strength," while appreciating that an infuriated woman standing up for herself and her record is a sign of real heart, passion of conviction and determination. It all depends if America likes the look of feminine power when it's released through a flash of fire in a potential commander in chief's eye.
Some liberal bloggers aren't commenting on Hillary's tears as much as they're commenting on
how the media has
handled the
situation. The CarpetBagger Report takes a completely different approach and discusses how crying has become a common thing in American politics.
Liberal bloggers are in agreement, for the most part, that
Hillary is being treated differently because she's a female. Even if we agree on that, our opinions are all over the place about whether or not she
deserves it. Those of us in the liberal blogosphere
who have not chosen Clinton as our candidate of choice are
chewin' her up and spittin' her out, calling her performance just that:
a performance.
I'm afraid I have to agree with Sharon.
Hillary was no more distraught than I am at this very moment. Her ability to take cheap jabs at
Obama while fighting back the tears tells me she's desperate right about now.
Not one public tear did she shed when she learned, along with the rest of the nation,
that her husband did indeed
touch Monica Lewinsky. Of course,
we can
look at this another way: perhaps Hillary is indeed more upset about losing the election than
she ever was about the Lewinsky affair. If that's the case,
what does that say about Hillary?
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