Archive for the 'Ageism' Category

October 15th 2008

The Disgusting Misogynist, Ageist Obamites

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oday in the Chicago Sun-Times, Andrew Greely has a comment recommended by 11 nitwits that is not dissimilar to yesterday’s rant in the Boston Glob (not a typo) by Derrick Jackson. You know, the Republicans are poisoning the campaign because one guy stood up at one Palin rally and shouted “Kill him!” Here’s Greely:

She can stir up crowds to shout “Kill him!” at the mention of the presidential candidate of the other party a couple of weeks before the national election.

Greely is lying of course, as is the wont of the wags on the Left. Palin was not speaking of Obama at the time; she was speaking of Ayres. The “kill him” was directed at an unrepentant domestic terrorist, not a Dem candidate for president. [Update:  Actually, there was no "Kill him!" yell.] That doesn’t make the sentiment right, but it certainly doesn’t justify this:

It is all part of a plan cooked up by John McCain to turn the major issue in the election from the economy to the character [as you'll see, he means "race"] of the Democratic candidate. … Playing the race card explicitly merely guarantees what I have thought from the beginning — racism in this country precludes the possibility of a sepia-colored man becoming president. However, the last-ditch attack on him guarantees that McCain and Palin will be blamed as the candidates who were content to hear crowds calling for the death of Obama.

There’s that lie again. But it’s hardly the big lie. The few decorum-breakers on the right, who are frightened by the prospect of a hard left, even socialist, president being elected, can’t hold a candle to the hatred of the left, which even Greely espouses.

He calls Palin “an All-American girl as racist, this time a racist with her eye on the White House.” He makes no effort to prove her a racist beyond the one person shouting “kill him.” And if these numbskulls are going to insist that “hockey mom” is racist, isn’t “All-American girl” just as racist as “hockey mom?” It certainly is dismissive and misogynistic, ignoring Palin’s accomplishments and passing her off as some bimbo white chick.

Worse, he calls McCain “an angry, befuddled cancer survivor,” and says he is “troubled and distracted.” Greely is an ageist, holding McCain’s age against him and mischaracterizing this very robust and sharp individual who just happens to be 73 as an Alzheimer’s sufferer unable to function.

But Greely is a cupcake. A stupid, biased cupcake that can’t see the reality before him because he is steeping in his own ugly biases against conservatives, Christians and Republican women, but still a cupcake when compared to what the pillars of the left are now offering up.

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August 6th 2008

Ageism Alleged In New Obama Ad

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ollowing claims by the Obama camp that the recent McCain “celebrity” ad is racist, some media experts say the newest ad from the Obama campaign is ageist – playing on America’s fear of the elderly and worries about older presidents.

Like the lead? I’m the “some media experts” – a trick I learned from the New York Times and other liberal media outlets. Need a source? Create “some experts.” “Many experts” also works well if you’re going for some extra oomph.

Anyway, here’s the ad:

Now I’ll put on my Bob Herbert glasses and ear piece and proceed with my expert analysis.

You guys have seen the ad a number of times I am sure. First thing you see is some kind of piece of equipment with a screen on it, right? Do you remember any other startling images right there at the beginning?

All right. There are some lines going across the screen, like heartbeat lines on a hospital monitor. You look at the beginning of that ad again, and you tell me why those lines are placed right there – POW! – right at the beginning of that ad. I really wish someone would answer the question, I think it’s really important. Why are these heartbeat monitoring lines in this ad run against John McCain?

And as if that’s not enough, as the narrator starts, do you hear something soft in the background?

All right! It’s a heartbeat. Da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM and it gets a little faster as the ad progresses, as if the heart that monitor is monitoring is beginning to fibrillate. And somebody please tell me why, right at the end of the ad before it goes to the Obama signature, that heartbeat stops?

The Obama camp is playing the age card, and they’re playing it from the bottom of the deck!

There you have it. Someone should give me an op/ed column in the New York Times.

I’m sure now that C-SM has broken this Very Important Story, dino-media around the world will pick it up and continue my insightful analysis ad nauseum.

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June 13th 2008

Circumscribing The Debate

The NYT has one heck of a hand-wringer this a.m., searching its navel and the navel of other MSM news purveyors for any speck of sexism in their coverage of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Leading the charge is Katie Couric. Here’s the clip:


And what the NYT had to say about it, ignoring her statement that if similar “iron my shirt” issues were tossed Obama’s way, it would have been front-page news:

Taking aim from the inside, though, was Ms. Couric, who herself has faced harsh criticism as the first woman to be the solo anchor of an evening news broadcast. Ms. Couric posted a video on the CBS Web site on Wednesday about the coverage of Mrs. Clinton.

“Like her or not, one of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued — and accepted — role of sexism in American life, particularly in the media,” Ms. Couric said.

She went on to lament the silence of those who did not speak up against it.

Odd that the NYT didn’t characterize the Couric clip a bit more accurately and dig into it some — like her reference to a free market entrepreneur’s creation of a Hillary nutcracker as somehow being indicative of sexist bias in MSM coverage. Instead, they dredged up these examples of horrific sexism directed at Mrs. Clinton:

  • Chris Matthews called her a she-devil.

  • MSNBC panelist Mike Barnicle said Clinton was “looking like everyone’s first wife standing outside a probate court.”
  • Also on MSNBC, Carson Tucker said, “When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs.”
  • The NYT was guilty of writing about Hil’s “cackle.”
  • Ken Rudin of NPR apologized after the fact for comparing Hil to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction: “She’s going to keep coming back, and they’re not going to stop her.”

Awful, awful stuff. Note that all of it came from decidedly left-tilting outlets. Let’s take them one by one.

  • Perhaps if Matthews had just called her a devil, he would have escaped criticism. You know, like “actresses” are just “actors” today.

  • Barnicle’s comment is hardly original; there’s polling data that shows Hillary reminds many men of their first wife. Polling data are there to be reported. Ignoring them because it dealt with a candidate’s sex would be just as sexist, would it not?
  • Tucker’s comment about crossing legs is in accord with Hil’s campaign strategy of not running as a woman … which leaves the alternative of running as a man. And any woman that behaves like a man understandably makes men nervous.
  • And there’s been plenty of coverage of Obama’s ears and McCain’s age, so please, no harpie screeches about Hil’s cackle. Oops.
  • Rudin, it turns out, was right. She still has not conceded defeat or left the race.

Now, all this bitching and endless nagging about sexism (heh) is all set-up, of course. The real game is not whether Hillary was treated with sexist disregard, but rather, it is a game of using allegations of sexism against Hillary to prime the media to be very, very careful in any criticism of Obama. After all, if sexism is a sin in America, racism is a mortal sin.

You can see Howard Dean hard at work priming this message in his comments about the coverage of Hillary:

“The media took a very sexist approach to Senator Clinton’s campaign,” Mr. Dean said in a recent interview.

“It’s pretty appalling,” he said, adding that the issue resonates because Mrs. Clinton “got treated the way a lot of women got treated their whole lives.”

Mr. Dean and others are now calling for a “national discussion” of sexism.

Obama, in dealing with the Wright blow-up, called for a “national discussion” of racism; Dean did not borrow the term by accident. And if the media’s treatment of Hillary is appalling and resonates because it reflects how a lot of women are treated, then any criticism at all of Obama will remind all blacks — men and women — of negative ways they’ve been treated and be even more appalling.

In other words, it’s now officially hands off Obama time. This won’t make much difference to the average American, as the media has kept its hands pretty well off Obama all along. It will make a profound difference to GOP candidates, speechwriters and campaign chiefs, and to reporters, editorial cartoonists and editorial writers. The former know they are being watched and offenses will be dealt with very, very harshly by the latter.

Missing from this discussion is the Dems’ recent sump-diving into ageism with McCain. To twist beyond recognition his comments about the strategic benefits of having an ongoing military presence in Iraq into an attack on McCain’s capabilities because he is old must remind many American men and women in their 70s and older of the ways they are discriminated against and belittled … but where are the calls for a national dialog on that?

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With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.

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