Hillary Clinton Is Stepping Up Her Smear Campaign Against Bernie, Plays sexism and race card

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/hillary_clinton_keeps_smearing_bernie_sanders_as_a_sexist_now_she_is_reaching.html


"On Oct. 23, Hillary Clinton
opened a new front against Sen. Bernie Sanders: She framed him as a
sexist. Clinton took a phrase Sanders had routinely used
in talking about gun violence-that “shouting” wouldn't solve the
problem-and suggested that he had aimed it at her because “when women
talk, some people think we're shouting.












Several journalists called out
Clinton for this smear. But she refuses to withdraw it. Instead, her
campaign officials and supporters have escalated the attack. And now,
Clinton is adding a new dimension to the controversy: race.














Some feminists applauded Clinton's initial zinger. “Hillary Baits Bernie Beautifully,” said a headline in Salon. Another article accused Sanders of “old-fashioned tone policing and dogwhistling about women's shrillness.”
On Oct. 27, Stephanie Schriock, the president of Emily's List, conceded
that Sanders hadn't singled out Clinton. But Schriock insisted
that Sanders “was referring to a lot of folks who have been very
adamant about [guns] and a lot of women who have been leading the fight
on gun violence across the country. And I do think that is
disrespectful.”




The next day, Clinton sat down for an interview in New Hampshire. Josh McElveen of WMUR asked her about Sanders:
“Do you believe that he's attacking you based solely on your gender?”
Clinton replied: “When I heard him say that people should stop shouting
about guns, I didn't think I was shouting. I thought I was making a very
strong case. … And I'm not going to be silenced.” McElveen followed up:
“But as far as the implication that Bernie Sanders is sexist-you
wouldn't go that far?” Clinton shrugged, smiled, and sidestepped the
question. “I said what I had to say about it,” she concluded.



Now Hillary Clinton is doing to Sanders what Bill Clinton once said was done to her.



That day, Bloomberg Politics published an article in which Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, joked that Clinton would “make a great vice president” for Sanders. Weaver offered to interview her for the job. As Jonathan Chait has pointed out, that's a standard put-down among candidates: Clinton said the same thing about Barack Obama in 2008. But when Weaver tried it on Clinton, her supporters erupted. Christine Quinn, a Clinton backer, accused the Sanders campaign of sexism.
Quinn pointed at Sanders himself: “I'm stunned that a man like Bernie
Sanders, who has clearly committed his life to making the country a
better place, would get sucked into this very dangerous rhetoric, which
perpetuates sexist and misogynistic stereotypes.”


Clinton used her initial sound bite-“when women talk, some people
think we're shouting”-in at least six places. She posted it on Twitter, Facebook, and her campaign website. She also delivered it in three speeches: in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Virginia, on Oct. 23, and in Des Moines, Iowa,
on Oct. 24. After that, I didn't hear it, except in her interview in
New Hampshire. I thought she might be done with it. But then, on Friday,
she raised a new issue.



Clinton was in Charleston, South Carolina, addressing the local NAACP. She spoke against a tragic background: the massacre of nine black people in a Charleston church by a white racist. Naturally, she talked about guns. But she added a new line:
“There are some who say that this [gun violence] is an urban problem.
Sometimes what they mean by that is: It's a black problem. But it's not.
It's not black, it's not urban. It's a deep, profound challenge to who
we are.”


The idea that urban is code for black has been around a long time. It's often true. And it's not necessarily derogatory: In 1920, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes shortened its name to the National Urban League.
But why would Clinton suddenly bring up, in a damning tone, people who
call guns an urban problem? Who was she talking about? It can't be the
Republican presidential candidates: They haven't disagreed enough to
debate the issue at that level of granularity. The only recent forum in
which guns have been discussed as an urban concern is the forum that
inspired Clinton's initial accusation of sexism: the Oct. 13 Democratic debate in Las Vegas. Pull up the transcript of that debate, search for “urban,” and you'll see whom Clinton is talking about: Sanders.








In fact, it's from the same moments of the debate that Clinton had
already seized on. In the debate, Sanders began by saying, “As a senator
from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton [is] that all the
shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us
want.” A couple of minutes later, Sanders told former Maryland Gov.
Martin O'Malley: “We can raise our voices, but I come from a rural
state, and the views on gun control in rural states are different than
in urban states, whether we like it or not.” O'Malley insisted that the
issue was “not about rural and urban.” Sanders replied: “It's exactly
about rural.” Only one other candidate used the word “urban” during the
debate: former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb. A week later, on Oct. 20, Webb quit the campaign.
So when Clinton, on Friday, spoke scathingly of people who call guns an
“urban problem” but mean it's a “black problem,” it's obvious to whom
she was referring.














This line of attack is rich in irony. When Clinton ran for president in 2008, she explicitly used race against Obama. She told USA Today
that she should be the Democratic nominee because “I have a much
broader base to build a winning coalition on.” Clinton cited an article
that, in her words, showed “how Sen. Obama's support among working,
hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how
whites in [Indiana and Pennsylvania] who had not completed college were
supporting me.” A reporter asked Clinton whether this argument was
racially divisive. “These are the people you have to win if you're a
Democrat,” Clinton replied dismissively. “Everybody knows that.”








Now Clinton accuses others of playing the race card. In Charleston,
she told the NAACP, “Some candidates talk in coded racial language about
‘free stuff,'
about ‘takers' and ‘losers.' And boy, are they quick to demonize
President Obama. This kind of talk has no place in our politics.”

Clinton, too, speaks in code. But in this election, her coded
phrases-“some people think we're shouting,” “some who say that this is
an urban problem”-aren't designed to veil racism. They're designed to
veil her meritless insinuations
that her Democratic opponent is sexist and racist. You can argue, based
on power or privilege, that playing the race card or sex card from the
left isn't as bad as playing it from the right. But even if you believe
that, Clinton's smears bring discredit on the whole idea of bigotry. If
accusations of misogyny and racism are casually thrown at Sanders,
voters will conclude that these terms are just rhetoric.





Seven years ago, when Clinton's own campaign was accused of prejudice, her husband was outraged. “She did not play the race card, but they did,” Bill Clinton said of the Obama campaign. The former president went on: “This is almost like, once you accuse somebody of racism or bigotry or something, the facts become irrelevant.”
Three months later, Mr. Clinton was still fuming. “They played the race
card on me, and we now know from memos from the campaign and everything
that they planned to do it all along,” he protested.
“This was used out of context and twisted for political purposes by the
Obama campaign to try to breed resentment elsewhere. … You really got
to go some to try to portray me as a racist.”



Clinton is a politician first and foremost. She isn't
stupid and she really really wants to be president. She had Obama
snatch it away from her 8 years ago. She will say anything or do almost
anything to win. More...




Now Hillary Clinton is doing to Sanders what her husband said was
done to her. She's taking Sanders' remarks out of context and twisting
them to breed resentment. You've got to twist the facts pretty hard to
portray Sanders as a racist or sexist. But politically, it's easy,
because once you start throwing around charges of bigotry, the facts
become irrelevant. You're just another beautiful baiter. And you won't
be silenced."


I love this you keep playing with identity politics and group think its going to burn you in the end. Racial politics is a divide and conquer strategy as well as gender politics. The author is right all this shit is going to do besides win a few people to her cause that vote based on the junk between somebodies legs and their skin color is going to alienate the general electorate and devalue the race and sexism card. Sorry for the mess by the way I took this from Salon and it didn't translate well. Anyways how about it blades is Sanders a sexist and or racist or is this social justice warrior bull crap beginning to piss you off?
BTW I love how the author has to stick the statement that only the left should be allowed to use the race and sexism card. LOL

 

Hillary is a democrat in name only (DINO) and she's the favorite for the dem nomination.


Don't know about the reps but it isn't gonna look good there either.


It has been decided, guys.

 

I don't know what that means?

 

Oh come on that is the most blatantly partisan and historically ignorant thing I have ever read. Ever heard of the Alien Sedition Acts and all the shit that was said about John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by their respective newspapers and parties. Dirty politics and smear campaigns have been going on since the United States founding.