So it is a snow day, and I was using the time for pointless leisure activities rather than doing anything that really NEEDS to be done simply because I am tired, and I really needed this break. Idly checking on my news feeds I happened upon several linking to this Fox News story:
Gridlock in Congress Hurts Obama’s Global Image, Clinton Says
Since it is a snow day, I am able to surf over to CSPAN and watch as the Republicans vote in a solid NAY on an intelligence programs resolution. That is a fact, not an opinion, and Secretary Clinton’s testimony regarding the overseas perception of such party-line intransigence is very probably accurate since she spends so much of her time either overseas or dealing with foreign governments from here. It seems reasonable that her statements are accurate. But that is not why we are here. We are here because of this picture, which I saved and filed yesterday from her Senate testimony.
When I filed it, I did so as “02-24-10-5” under the file rubric “HRC/Secretary_of_State/2010.” (I have resolved to be far more organized and assiduous this year than I was last year.) Running across the picture in the Fox News story, I right-clicked to “save as” and saw that I already had the picture, so did not need to save it again. But then something caught my eye – Fox’s file name for the picture. Get a load of this!
(Don’t just take my word for this. Click on my picture and look at the URL in your navigation bar, then click on the fox news picture and look at that URL, please do this before I ever hear or read another word about how harmless and OK they are – including their new, female acquisition.)
WHAT? What is that word after the date? Ooooohhhhhh!!!!!!! I get it! With their all-American-girl mouthpiece now esconced over there along with Huckabee, Fox is the official channel of the GOP mid-term election (with a running start toward 2012), and we are back to empty name-calling. Excuse me, “monster?” What?
If you had a chance to watch the Secretary of State before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee and the Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, you saw the prototypical HRC performance. Flawless, speedy, thorough, delivery of facts and rationales/arguments for budgetary revisions for 2011, broad and deep knowledge of the issues, and, as usual, consistency with NO hemming and hawing. Does THIS a “monster” make?
Performances like that on the Senate floor and on the campaign trail, those facts, so well organized in a steel-trap mind spitting out like machine-gun fire almost before the question was complete were what caused me to label HRC “scary-smart.” But I did not mean “scary” in a negative way. I meant that her mind accessed information faster than my computer can. And, God knows, after eight years of George W. Bush, I was (still am) very hungry for scary-smart that knows the answer without hesitation or prompting. Let me say here, before I am called on it, it was not simply the delivery that won me, of course. It was also the content of the answers.
I said all of the above in order to frame the purpose of this post: Fox News, the Homegirls are putting you on notice. Mind your p’s and q’s. We are watching. Even if you bury your name-calling, we will find it! When we do, we will expose it. We will not respond in kind, but as for the candidates you promote and your own personnel, we will not hesitate to label them truthfully, not with silly, indefinable names, but with accurate descriptors.
Well of course, it’s Faux News! How long have I been telling you this? During the primaries they simply wanted to divide the dems and play them against each other- they would turn on her in a heartbeat.
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Yes, point well taken. It was the covert (and juvenile) nature of this little trick that made me get on the case.
It’s clear they have no reason to be supportive of her given their line-up, but this level of name-calling just cried out for me to say something – especially since I could actually provide evidence. There’s too much hearsay in the media-political interface. For once there was clear evidence.
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Well the evidence is there..why not call out the person who dubbed her “monster”
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Well we can add the word “monster” to the list of derogatory adjectives used to describe Hillary and other women with influence.
It brings to mind the medieval mindset of priests who believed women’s hands, hair and faces should be covered in public, especially in church, because these human female attributes signified evil.
In actuality, the only evil present is what has been projected onto women in medieval times through present day.
The medieval assignment of “evil” to females is just as big a joke as Fox using monster to label Hillary’s photo.
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“When people attack you, you always have to remember that alot of what others say about you has alot more to do about them than you.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hillary said it best!!!
This is exactly why I see her as the first woman President….she has come into her own, she exudes wisdom and grace, plus she is educated not just by exemplary schools but by her successes as a woman in a world full of male images.
To top it off, she has learned from her mistakes/failures….and she doesn’t have to make the same error twice to learn! How many people can say that?
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Hillary is resilience personified, impervious to the infotainment media. She is also a Rorschach test–those who see a monster in her show exactly what they’re afraid of–a woman of strength and substance.
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Hmmmm. Interesting comment. I see a brilliant, organized, passionate, selfless woman who is brave and beautiful from the inside out. *sigh – but I am so biased*
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I see an international treasure and a role model for girls and women:
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I love that! (Are you on the team? I was hoping you were.)
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Reviewing all these comments today just reminds me that there are people out there who appreciate women leaders for their professional and personal attributes as well as for their femaleness. This recognition comes during Women’s History month….a time to review and ponder what women leaders have done for us in history. Do not forget what the National Women’s History Project theme is for 2010:
Writing Women Back Into History!!
If you remember, it was Hillary Clinton’s candidacy in 2008 that brought out the subliminal attitude journalists (and most other people) hold about women:
“No noticeable role that history records!”
This priceless declaration came from a McClatchy news article about Hillary and the family and medical leave act….saying her presidential husband signed it and she had “no noticeable role that history records.”
That statement in itself shows ignorance or a lack of fact checking because Arkansans know what was done by Hillary Clinton to further this legislation before their move to the White House. Answers can’t be given if no one asks the question.
Remember: Write Women Back Into History! And this means Hillary Clinton and all the other women out there who offer balance in a male-driven world.
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Thanks for the reminder, Julia!
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