This is CNN?
The latest headline on the CNN political ticker is a real humdinger; “Campaigning in Kentucky, Clinton hears sermon on infidelity”. The two are in no way related, except for the fact that she happened to go to church, on a Sunday, while campaigning. In fact, the part about the sermon is not even related to Senator Clinton at all. The author, Alexander Marquardt, can hardly manage to stitch the two together even tangentially. He just throws the bit about the sermon in there for the reader to mull over:
Hillary Clinton left Oregon late Friday night to focus her efforts on Kentucky before the state’s primary on Tuesday.
“My opponent said the other day he wasn’t coming back so I’ve got the whole state to myself. What a treat!” Clinton exclaimed at a Sunday afternoon rally at Western Kentucky University.
What was likely less of a treat was Pastor Paul Fryman’s sermon she heard Sunday morning at Bowling Green’s State Street United Methodist Church on marriage and adultery entitled “When the Devil Whispers Over Your Shoulder.”
The only thing he can say is that it was “less likely a treat”. But then goes on to say that Clinton was smiling and singing with the congregation, and she saw a baby baptized:
Clinton did not speak at the service, nor was she recognized at any point from those on the alter, instead sitting quietly in the second pew praying and singing along with the rest of the congregation.
She smiled broadly as a baby was baptized and carried down the aisle by the pastor.
So if she didn’t speak, didn’t talk to the pastor, and smiled broadly, how in the hell does this “reporter” interpret that it was somehow “not a treat” for Sen Clinton to be there? Ahhh, of course. We all know, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. It’s funny because her husband cheated on her. I mean, can’t pass up an opportunity to throw that back out there. Just in case you didn’t get it he adds:
Pastor Fryman launched into his sermon with Matthew 5, verse 27, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
The verse goes on to say anyone guilty is better off plucking out their eye or cutting off their hand lest they end up in hell.
Now is it just me, or is Mr. Marquardt trying to be clever here and throw in a reference to Michelle Obama’s “rip his eyes out comment”(referring to Bill Clinton)? I mean, what other reason to quote part of the verse that the pastor didn’t even use? I’m not sure, my susceptibility to conspiracy theories is at an all time high.
Is it really too much to ask for our media to not be blatantly sexist? Or at least not reduce everything to sex when a woman is involved? Can’t they actually just report the news now and then? Marquardt spends more time talking about the sermon than what happened on the campaign trail.
Obama himself can call a reporter “sweetie” and there’s barely a blip on the radar. Clinton happens to spend Sunday morning in church where the pastor happens to be talking about one of the ten commandments and its front page news. This kind of crap is everwhere you look, in every media outlet. They portray Clinton supporters as racist hicks based on no other indicators than the color of our skin, the degrees after our names, and the size of our bank accounts. Yet their bread and butter continues to be this sort of sexist banal drivel.
Filed under: Gender Equity, General, Hillary Clinton, Media | Tagged: CNN, Media, media sexism
Off topic, but wanted to post what the new WomenCount PAC has done (it’s news to me). I’m going to look for the ad in the Sunday NYT. Hope enough money was raised to run it!
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The newly formed WomenCount PAC strongly denounces the endorsement of Barack Obama by NARAL Pro-Choice America, joining mounting opposition to the move from Emily’s List, a long list of woman Members of Congress, and other longtime supporters of NARAL.
“The idea that NARAL would create a divisive and potentially permanent rift in the pro-Choice movement is a shortsighted, irresponsible rush to judgment,” says Allida Black, a founding member of WomenCount PAC and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University. “Using this important issue in such an irresponsible way can only be interpreted as blatant pandering.”
WomenCount views the endorsement as disrespectful not only to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lifelong commitment to protecting women’s reproductive rights but also to the millions of women around the country who are supporters of both NARAL and Sen. Clinton.
Susie Tompkins Buell, a longtime supporter of NARAL Pro-Choice and a founding member of WomenCount added, “What this tells me is the disconnect between NARAL’s political advisors, its Board, and its Leadership from the very women they are sworn to protect. This is an egregious violation of the tenets of respect and neutrality that had been carefully observed during this historic campaign for the White House.”
WomenCount was created to ensure that the 51 percent of American citizens who are women have their values and votes counted in the political process and supports candidates in support of progressive, political values.
SOURCE WomenCount PAC
I read that early , early this morning about the church episode .. I thought it stunk.
CNN’s implication actually is that she, Hillary, is an adulterer.
I interrupt the thesis writing for a quick PSA:
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!
What is wrong with these people.
ARGH indeed. Now go back to work. Makes us proud. Animo y buena suerte con la defensa. (When are you defending, by the way?)
Well, let’s see…since Hillary wasn’t the one who committed adultery, why would it make her feel uncomfortable?
CNN must know that “they’re man” is in trouble, and they’re grasping at straws now.
Yes, it’s terribly sexist, and it suggests they are calling her the cheater.
OT, but I can not fathom why the voters in Oregon would be so jazzed about a guy who won’t even participate in a debate in their state. Who voted for the Cheney energy plan, and just last year introduced coal to liquid legislation.
bringiton (BIO) has another must-read at Correntewire
Plural - whatever the implication is - if it’s about the Clintons in any way - it is cruel, hateful , misogynist , sexist and just plain ole filthy ..
seems as if they will keep this up from now on .. no matter the outcome .. beating up the Clintons is now the soup de jour … and it seems to me, it’s going to stay that way .. it had sorta calmed down before this campaign heated up in Jan. but now it’s back in full force and has been aided and abetted by da dems ..
well done neocon dems . sorry , my feelings have been hurt for a long time now.
5/27/08 (2pm)
Yikes, then you better get back to work…. Muchisima suerte.
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Notice Dean lies. He says SDs have VOTED. They have not. They can not vote until convention.
What would be more appropriate for CNN to hail as newsworthy would be if the pastor preached the first commandment. You know the one about worshipping “false gods”. That would have hit home to some of the Kool Aid crowd.
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Has anyone read the Drudge Report on Washington Post
I just did and see that they did give nomination to Obama but he has to put a high person from Hillary’s campaign in as VP
I have been sitting her so burned up and all I feel is
for the first time in my adult life I could really kill some people
Do you think this is true or am I so new at this crap that this is just what they plan on doing
ISTM Mr. Marquardt has branded himself with the big scarlet ‘A‘ (for A-hole).
Off topic but kinna interesting. DailyKos has a post by brownsox with a link that makes the case for Hillary. Hope he doesn’t getting fired.
With tail between my legs, I have to confess I still visit Kos. But only once a day to see what crap he and his mafia enforcers are pushing out. I use to visit 4-5 times a day; instead, I now travel to your site, Talk Left, No Quarter, Corrente and other Hillary blogs 4-5 times a day. Much easier on the eyes, heart and spirit.
I see no such post by brownsox. Do you have a link?
MNtruth, we’re all angry, but stay calm. We need to keep fighting.
A reporter who works for CNN says that most of the people there are for Obama.
Perhaps, we need to send journalists back to school.
Nope, you’re wrong - they even call the african americans who support Clinton racists or some other choice word. So, it’s not just the whites.
Yes, but I want to know is why CNN, MSNBC haven’t mentioned the story that FOX is going to dump on the world in Oct, This will deffinately push Obama out and put John in.
I am trying to figure out how to attached the file here.
Obama is being investigating in the murder of 3 gay men in Chicago South Side. All brutally murder from Nov, 07 to Dec 23 07. Chicago Police is covering it up but there is so much more that I have inside knowledge of (many cops & a retired CIA in my family)
The news says its a lie but trust me people you will all find out when it’s too late.
Howard Dean has been sent information himself
Most of CNN might want obama but the world wants Hillary.
Her husband had affairs, so she didnt and she also isn’t a druggie
CNN is not really journalism. After Ted Turner was forced out, the Time-Warner Corporation pulled a lot of plugs. No real international journalists anymore.
It wastes more time on the latest missing white girl than it does on any substantial issues.
Just unplug. I was so disgusted by the way that the MSM trashed Gore and elevated Bu$h as a contender that I unplugged. That was eight years ago. I’ve watched debates on the net or at friends’ houses.
We’ve saved a lot of money. I got a new flat screen to watch videos, and our local library has the best collection imaginable. Then there’s the internet although Huffington Post/Obama and the Daily Obama are definitely off limits –don’t want to contribute to their bottom lines.
Marquardt should be retired.
CB: One point: don’t buy the misogynistic framing of women who are kidnapped, raped, and killed (i.e. “missing white woman syndrome”). These are, indeed, substantial issues–they’re gender-based hate crimes–but they’re presented in a purely sensationalist manner. Notice the framing mocks the poor innocent women, rather than the industry that profits off presenting these hate crimes as “sexy” entertainment. They get away with it because the women are women and white. All around the world, the media presents the local cases of misogynistic violence in the very same way, whether it be Germany, Japan, or Mexico.
With regards to the distracting issue of how racism is at play in these cases: don’t fall for it. Whiteness is used to distract from the core issue: misogyny. If they decided to profile black victims of these hate crimes, misogyny would still be the ultimate factor and strongly ignored (think: Amish school shootings in ‘06); and, lastly, since the perpetrators would universally be black men, it would feed into the racist stereotypes.
I just had to get that off my chest.
I meant to write: “They get away with it because the victims are women and white.
Please, start talking up the Hillary tsunami, here.
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Oops.
That didn’t work.
How about: htpp://nobloodforhubris.blogspot.cm
Ugh, not only can Obama not help himself, his fanboys and fangirls in the MSM can’t help themselves, either. They just have to wallow. Disgusting.
On the other hand, that YouTube video was great. I especially loved the part that showed what an utterly hypocritical LIAR Donna Brazile is. No wonder she has such contempt for the voters–we’re messing up her plans.
CB: CNN can still do some excellent work. but only when:
1. It involves a story that is in the process of unfolding, so there is a constant flow of new information to feed the 24/7 monster and
2. It doesn’t interfere with the political/financial interests of Time Warner and it’s major stockholders.
So disasters, missing girls and celebrity scandals are what it does best.
I saw on my local news tonight in Oregon that a group of women were at an Obama rally with signs protesting his “sweetie” moment, and other general misogyny from him and the media. Also signs to count FL and MI. I loved it! I would love to see women start picketing every rally or appearance he does. It’s a way to get these issues into the press, since they don’t seem to notice them at all. I would especially love to see angry women at his Iowa self-coronation. If I lived in that neck of the woods, I’d be out there leading it.
Well, we’re on the same wavelength. I missed the CNN hit job you referenced but caught the AP story early this morning which prompted my letter to AP and the reporters as follows:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080518/D90OA38O0.html
May 18, 5:34 PM (ET)
By Mike Glover
GRESHAM, Ore. (AP) – Democratic . . .
>>She attended worship services at a Methodist church in Bowling Green, and happily sang hymns and joined in Bible readings. But her smile faded when the pastor launched into a sermon about adultery, asking his congregants whether the devil had ever whispered over their shoulders in their marriages. <<
Associated Press writer Sara Kugler in Bowling Green, Ky., contributed to this report.
Dear Mike Glover, Sara Kugler and AP,
How dare you report a “fading smile” with insinuation Hillary was thinking about her husband’s adultery? For a news story (rather than an editorial or opinion column), this is a cheap, gratuitous slap at the candidate which demeans her to squeeze in a reference to Bill Clinton’s adultery when it has nothing to do with her candidacy. Why not report on the other “faded smiles” in the congregation? What about John Doe or Jane Apple sitting nearby? What’s going on behind their faded smiles? It also invades her privacy to report on her personal behavior in church in a manner speculating on her personal thoughts.
These are all reasons to conclude you singled out Sen Clinton for embarrassment and a quick smear which you probably thought was knee-slapping funny (but I don’t want to presume what you were thinking. It’s been a while since I was an adolescent).
I call for a retraction of these 2 sentences by AP, Mr. Glover and Ms. Kugler or at least a correction deleting them.
[signoff]
(Formerly on Esquire Magazine’s editorial staff)
CNN has been just awful in their primary coverage. They’re slightly better than MSNBC, but that’s not saying much. Up till about six months ago, I was a big fan of Anderson Cooper and I still subscribe to the 360 blog on Live Journal. I can’t tell you how many times they feature awful pictures of Hillary and invite their readers to caption this pic. I’ve tried to post on the 360 blog several times, nothing inflammatory, just pro-Hillary posts, and my posts never show up. I’m boycotting CNN and MSNBC. I’ll be watching Fox tomorrow night for the primary coverage.
So much for the “most trusted name in news”.
Here’s the link to Kos. I wasn’t sure I wanted him to get traffic but…considering how well it makes the case for Hillary, what the hell.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/18/185655/492/692/517980
so the worst thing they can come up with is she went to church a prayed?…
Hi All: CNN has been going down the Obama road for quite some time…. just very subtle until recently.
To me, one of the not-so-subtle pieces was their recent coverage of Mulligan’s bar’s “Obama Monkey Shirt,” a piece that was not-so-subtley designed to ramp up the “racism” sympathy factor for Obama.
You can read more about it at Racism Trumps Murder and Misogyny at CNN.com
CNN…. all the news that fit to skew…