== The woman vs. the black guy = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Who's more terrifying to red states, smart Hillary or savvy Barack? The nation trembles

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/01/16/notes011608.DTL&nl=fix

It's the question everyone seems to want to address, the imponderable and frightening and slightly insane sociopolitical phenomenon that's happening right now to such a degree that even the left is falling all over itself trying to digest and parse and comprehend it all at once, and simply can't.

It is this: Just how the hell did it come to pass and which planets finally aligned and what sort of Kool-Aid has been gulped by the universe that the two white-hot Dem frontrunners, the two brightest lights on the political spectrum for the 2008 presidential election also just so happen to be members of the two most controversial/least represented groups in modern uber-white ultra-patriarchal American snake-oil politics — which is to say, a smart, savvy woman and a smart, savvy black male?

It's a stunning thing to watch. Right now, the various spurts of venom aimed at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama from conservative pundits and politicos are, at best, scattershot and convulsive, with only MSNBC's Chris Matthews proving himself to be a consistent blowhard jackass in his relentless slamming of Hillary by claiming that she only made it this far due to adultery-survivor sympathy. Hey, Chris? 2001 called. It wants its puerile, sexist analysis back. Thank you.

Yes indeed, the sexism that surrounds Clinton's run like a toxic fog is almost too easy to spot. (Fox News is, naturally, fueling its entire 2008 programming schedule with it.) It is de facto, built-in, implied and inherent in the coverage of just about everything she does, and what's most amazing to me is that people are still surprised that the sexism is there at all, much less so apparent and shameless. ...

[Triana]

1. I love Morford...

..one of my favorite ranters.

But - the lamestream media has NOT been very nice to Edwards either - chosing to ignore him completely or slam him to Hell and back - one or ta other.

They are TOTALLY lacking in any credibility (well, to a lot of us - others are frustratingly oblivious and too lazy to look elsewhere for actual NEWS), and sometimes downright comical in their endeavors to spin things to their corprat taskmasters liking in this (and every - in the past 25 years or so) election.

Pfffftt!

The Lamestream Media - bunch of ignorant, rabid, yappy, pottymouth clowns.

[blondeatlast]

2. WOW. Great article that gets right to the heart of it all and comes out swinging

against those that would continue our toxic path.

If I could rec this 100 times, I would.

Consider my duty done.

K&R

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Thanks for posting that. I bookmarked it.

He rips right into the subjects that we are having a rough time with on DU, IMO.

His characterizations fit what I keep running into locally (KY), like it or not.

Recommended.

[Renew Deal]

4. Good article

Says a lot of what we're saying here, only more coherently.

[NMDemDist2]

5. "Chris Matthews proving himself to be a consistent blowhard jackass"

:rofl:

[madokie]

6. I'm totally blown away that there is actually people who watch his show

he is but a rightwing shill protecting his spot at the feeding trough and nothing more. Maybe in some cases its better to know what the enemy is thinking but with ole chris theres nothing there as he changes with the wind. His is a waste of human skin

[blondeatlast]

7. Great article. Kick. nt