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Hillary Clinton is unfairly treated

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I have to say, I think she is unfairly treated by the media. I know you might hate her, or her policies but seriously she is constantly slammed by the media in little ways that add up.

She is not fat. But look at this picture at the top of google news. Its so messed up.

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Or this one, where its all about Chelsea Clinton and the Clinton campaign but the pic is of Obama.
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  1. jacob ·

    I saw this and thought of you.

    :::link:::

  2. joshua ·

    You are right @paul - the media have been ganging up on her a bit, in particular the past few months. Someone would have to be naive to think that this horribly unflattering picture ended up being used by happenstance.

    The truth is (at least in my estimation) that the cult of personality that is Barack H. Obama has overtaken many of the journalists in the media. Its patently obvious who they want elected. Don't even get me started on how the media is treating his wife in comparison with McCain. The New Yorker recently had a 10-page fluff piece on Michelle Obama that referred to her as "regal" etc. - in the same article they do not mention McCain's wife by name but specifically mention "Stepford Wives" to contrast the others from Michelle. It was patently obvious who they were referring to.

  3. james ·

    Overly Hard: they used a fat, wrinly picture of her.

    Overly Generous: She has not changed the delegate dynamic. She was down a 100. Now she is down around 90.

    And did you see the ad against Obama she put out where she made his skin darker?

    :::link:::

  4. zobar ·

    While she was losing they kept running really happy pictures of her … but it wasn't like 'happy' happy, it was like 'i have some sort of manic disorder' happy.

    And dammit I can't find a single one, now.

    - Z

  5. jason ·

    I tend to agree, at least as it pertains to putting up "ugly" photos of her. It seems with her there is no middle ground - the photos are usually the gratuitous "looking off into the distance with the American flag in the background" kind or the really ugly kind. I don't get it. I'm sure there are normal photos of her somewhere.

  6. megan ·

    Ugh I really hate a lot of parts of this election. It seems like the media is playing against Hillary for being a woman and are kissing Obama's ass because he is black. And that is not to his discredit, it just seems like people are afraid of making a bigoted remark but have no problem with being sexist. And NOW they are starting to talk about how unfair the media has been to Hillary (a little late I'm sure I don't need to add). Hey maybe she can win it all back by crying publicly, blaming it on her period, and apologizing to the country the next day.

  7. dcoffee ·

    Ha, the picture thing has become obvious to me too, whether the Buffalo News or some online outlet, Clinton usually looks Manic or pissed, and Obama looks Presidential, this is even true when they put the 2 photos next to each other in the same article.

    The other point is that the media is far to important in elections these days. Let's face it, the vast majority of people get their news from TV, and newspeople have far too little space to have any serious discussion between commercial breaks. Network news only has about 40 minutes to cover the entire world, and cable newspeople don't seem to take their duty of being the gatekeepers of Democracy very seriously.

  8. mrdeadlier ·

    Wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, wait-a-minute, WAIT-A-MINUTE!

    STOP!

    ...You mean Hillary's *not* an ugly, manic fatty?

    I'm confused.

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