Katie Couric says Hillary Clinton lost b/c Sexism, Misogyny

Katie Couric: Sexist Media Hurt Hillary Clinton's Chances. Adding to her comments last night in Washington — "that Sen. Clinton received some of the most unfair, hostile coverage I've ever seen" — Katie Couric has filmed a Keith Olbermann-style special commentary (called ner "Notebook") slamming the media for its sexist coverage of Hillary Clinton and claiming that the sexist coverage hurt her chances at becoming the Democratic party nominee. The Notebook will air tonight on CBS affiliates and on CBS radio, and will live on CBSNews.com.

"One of the great lessons of [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life, particularly in the media....It isn't just Hillary Clinton who needs to learn a lesson from this primary season — it's all the people who crossed the line, and all the women and men who let them get away with it." Couric's reference in the video to "mainstream pundits saying they instinctively cross their legs at the mention of her name" is specifically about Tucker Carlson, who often made such a claim while still on MSNBC during the campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/katie-couric-sexist-media_n_106595.html
Last night, without naming names, Couric seemed to excoriate both MSNBC's Chris Matthews — who has come under fire for sexist remarks against Hillary Clinton — and NBC's Lee Cowan — who reportedly said he found it "hard to stay objective" covering Obama — saying, "That's your job...find another line of work." Matthews notoriously announced that he "felt [a] thrill going up [his] leg" while listening to Obama speak, and was forced to apologize for sexist remarks against Clinton in January

I have been, I must admit, a bit bemused by the rise of the Angry White Woman (AWW) this year. That older white women should support Hillary Clinton with passion did not surprise me, of course. That they should decry incidents of sexism made perfect sense. Even that they should turn angry when her frontrunner campaign began to fail was no great mystery. After all, I came of age, and launched my career, in the time of the Angry White Male. Pissed-off white folks are old hat to me.

What confused me was the tone of that anger—the way it was consistently and passionately framed in terms of shock and woundedness. The way the words betrayal and abandonment have been hurled about, with their insulting implications of what was owed and to whom, of what battles were fought and on who's behalf they were so launched.

I also didn't get how so many white women could be so shocked that sexism still exists. Such a level of insulation seems a privilege in itself. When I am stopped by a white cop for driving in a white neighborhood, I am not shocked. When my neighbor tells me confidentially I am the least ethnic black person he has ever met and how happy that makes him, I am not shocked. My mother, a seventysomething woman who grew up in Mississippi being stomped by black men and white folks—male and female—alike, is not shocked. My sister, who rose to become a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and who says quite clearly that sexism is far worse than racism in the military, was not shocked by this discovery. How could she be? Growing up black in Memphis had well prepared her for discrimination of any stripe. (One example: the white female guidance counselor who told her not to bother applying for college because she could not possibly do the work even if she got in. Result: one B.A. plus two masters' degrees, including one from Harvard.)

But now I see why I have been confused: This whole thing has nothing to do with me. This is a family fight between older white women and their daughters, and me and my mother and my sisters are not even in the conversation. What a relief. Ya'll carry on.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/06/07/family-fight.aspx

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[mimdani]

It's amazing to me that they don't roll back their tapes and count all the anti-women remarks about Hillary. Mika along with all of MSNBC decided they were going to force Obama down our throats no matter who was in the way.I have been a diehard Dem from way back and their fawning over Obama is what made me step back and look at what was going on. I will not vote for another arrogant, inexperienced, short resume guy like Bush, I don't care what party he belongs to and what MSNBC thinks.

[PuppyBuoyancy]

quite right Katie to point out the unfairness.. it's kind of like the hatchet job that YOU did on Sarah Palin.. she was not only a female, but worse, she had the deserved bad luck to have thoughts that did not line up with that of the unfair and hostile media...

[FearAnEnd]

She lost because she's retarded. Don't care if it's a guy or a girl. I'll vote for whoever does, not someone who only promises.

[disagreeablesob]

@LuckyBlueEyez You are a moron.Come up with something that isn't the same recycled inane non-sequitur,after which you can go fuck yourself, you ass ugly monkey.

[LuckyBlueEyez]

@disagreeablesob Don't try to corner me....I will Bastard slap you and treat you like the bytch you are! My tool is much bigger than yours.

[LuckyBlueEyez]

@luckybozo1 Your name fits you perfectly! You are not important enough to waste my time on. Ignorance such as yours...would take years to penetrate. I am not getting into a he-she debate. I am NOT a femme and will not feed you the ego that too I hold. I am not catagorized as a femimine woman...I AM A BUTCH! Call me your competition, that would make more sense. I am not your bytch and you are not mine. As for the rape claim as you put it, I was making a point you fool. Your accusations were met.

[disagreeablesob]

@luckybozo1 Feminists wouldn't care if tommorrow all men and boys were rounded up in wholesale arrests nationwide and imprisoned on the suspicion of having committed rape,as most Feminists would believe they were guilty.Feminists don't get that if a victim waits too long to report a rape,if the victim destroys the physical evidence,if a rapist doesn't have a criminal record,if the rapist is a transient or is in and out of jail,or if the rapist is deceased,they can be difficult to catch.

[disagreeablesob]

@luckybozo1 When I say that Feminists expanded the definition of rape,I mean that Feminists wanted to criminalise behaviour that women actually tolerated or accepted as NOT being rape,like letting a man sweet-talk them into bed,letting a man get them drunk or stoned before sleeping with him,or letting a man feed them a line in an effort to have sex with them.They also wanted to label consensual sex between teenagers as statutory rape,and are responsible for some arrests,but failed nationally.

[disagreeablesob]

@luckybozo1 If you read the statistics given by the F.B.I.,look for the annual account of violent crimes given on the local and national news,and read about the incidence of crimes in some reference books,you get a general idea of the percentage of women who are victims of rape,and the number of women who are caught fabricating claims of rape by the police.It's the police who find out when women are lying,not individual men.Feminists may have expanded the definition of rape,but it backfired.

[luckybozo1]

@LuckyBlueEyez I am getting things done and I am making the case known that's not bitching..unlike women such as you who's purpose was to cry victim-hood to bring in all kinds of help only to your gender and try to prevent the truth from coming out.

[luckybozo1]

@disagreeablesob lol, how do you know? Where you there when the rape took place? First off, those % of red handed "she's caught lying" cases only showed you how lucky the guy was to be able to prove false allegations, that someone actually listened. What about the other men who were not so lucky? If, according to what you said about feminists definition of rape, you could be saying that 90% of females were lying about not being rape! They can't have that or the fundings will stop!

[disagreeablesob]

@luckybozo1 Few Feminists will acknowlege Feminism's deliberate hyper-politicising of rape,a crime once considered a capital offence punishable by death,reinterpreting an act against society as an act of war men commit against women.The Feminist theory is that since during the normal act of heterosexual coitus only the woman is penetrated,the unresolvable inequality means women can never actually give voluntary consent,and that therefore by Feminists definitions ALL straight sex is rape.