Hillary’s Voice

Does it make sense to you that a candidate cannot defend herself without being insulted, or that she cannot attack her opponents without herself being labeled as “divisive”?

The perception is that Hilary Clinton is negative, because as I have stated earlier, she is not allowed, basically because of a biased media and frankly our sexist culture, to defend herself or attack her opponents.

Politics is about fighting for what you believe, and women’s rights have always been a struggle to voice concerns over inequality while being shouted over to “keep quiet.” The fact that women get killed because they are women in our world right now, makes it worth fighting to get the attention this issue deserves.

A lot of Hillary’s struggle has been just to have her voice heard, her work looked at objectively, her accomplishments acknowledged. But the reaction of too many people is to dehumanize her, to debase her, and to try to humiliate her.

In the real world, I would expect that people who fight for themselves will be able to fight for others. And in the real world, I think people objectively would not feel so upset about a person defending themselves. But with Hillary, everything she says is blown out way out of proportion.

For example, in this latest incident with Obama saying:

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Now it is Hillary who is being attacked for criticizing this comment of Obama’s. Now most of the commentary is how terrible it was for Hillary to basically say anything at all. This is why I think she is not allowed to either defend herself or attack her opponents because as soon as she says something people just go up in arms with so much indignation that it is quite astounding. It is really something to behold.

Obama has been pandering to Americans everywhere, meanwhile he thinks them “bitter,” his preacher, Wright, thinks the country invented the AIDS virus to kill people of color and Obama never objected, but as soon as Hillary points out that this is not someone most people would want as President, the media turns on her and now she is the culprit, just like in the hospital story of Trina Bachtel.

In this story Hillary was accused of “being a liar,” but the fact is that Trina Bachtel’s death is a tragedy and it shows how horrible our healthcare system is that a pregnant lady is made to feel that she cannot go to a hospital because she owes $100. So, how can the culprit in this story be Hillary Clinton, who retold the story to illustrate what she has been fighting for: universal healthcare?

See: Health Care Horror Stories, By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York TImes:

“Stories like those of Trina Bachtel and Monique White are common in America, but don’t happen in any other rich country — because every other advanced nation has some form of universal health insurance. We should, too…. After all the fuss, The Washington Post eventually conceded that “Bachtel’s medical tragedy began with circumstances very close to the essence” of Mrs. Clinton’s account. And even more important, Mrs. Clinton was making a valid point about the state of health care in this country.”

There has been A LOT of sexism which has mostly been perpetrated by the media through a relentless stream of commentary and reporting that seeks to undermine Hillary Clinton as a human being, that seeks to minimize her importance, that seeks to belittle and humiliate her, and seeks to hurt her.

But facts are facts: women are victims of a 20% wage gap in the U.S. that has held steady for 14 years and which experts acknowledge can only be explained by discrimination, see Evelyn Murphy’s work on: www.wageproject.org

The fact is that one in three women is a victim of violence; Every 9 seconds a woman in the U.S. is physically assaulted (www.womaninc.org), with men as the batterers. The United States ranks 70th in the world in the number of women it has elected to office, between Cambodia and Zimbabwe, according to www.ipu.org.

When the New York Times reporter of “Jumping in the Pool”, KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, writes that, “you’ll see a notation at the top that there was “no news.” This is a quick signal to your fellow reporters that there were no headlines, no reason to call the desk,” regarding Hillary Clinton’s meeting with the family that told her of Trina Bachtel’s death following the delivery of a still-born baby, shows how the media bias against Hillary Clinton works. Everything Hillary does is minimized, made to be unimportant, made to be silly and insignificant. Had it been Obama, much would have been made of a family’s willingness to share a tragic story with him.

Meanwhile Obama gets articles written by the NY TImes about how eloquent he is even in body language:
Obama Body Language

So it takes Jay Leno to find how much he actually squirmed, like a little kid:
Obama Squirms

This is how the bias works, this is how sexism works. Hillary’s candidacy has been a joke to the reporters who are sent to cover her, and when things that are important are said by her, she is belittled or ignored.

I would also like to point out that the writer of this piece ended with the line,”But the story of the pregnant woman lived on,” which implies that some actual journalism took place, that reporters looked into the story and that the story spread—but that is not what happened. It did not “live on,” Hillary brought it on. Hillary brought it to the attention of her audiences. The reporters ignored this story until one hospital wanted to call Hillary a liar and then the media jumped on it, to pile on, to expose Hillary. This is how sexism works.