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 media’s lies work
- Why do journalists lie? Because they can.
- How biased is Fox News?
- I know it’s cliched to talk about media bias, but this interview struck me because it is supposedly an example of the most conservative bias you’ll find on the mainstream media.
- The media machine is calling me an asshole
- One side of the debt ceiling debate threatened to destroy our economy. One side just wanted to get along. One side wanted to restore fiscal sanity. Which side was extremist?
- The Make-Believe Media’s New Normal
- Whoever wins the election will be the new Sarah Palin. But they’re all acting like John McCain, obliviously unaware that the press might turn on them the moment they win the primary.
- Trickle down lying: What Wisconsin teaches us about the national news media
- On the one hand, “cut budgets, not costs” is a very California theology, so it’s not impossible that it exists in Wisconsin, too. On the other hand, when all the news is biased, it’s amazing that Walker gets as much support as he does.
- Seven 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.