Or maybe it's about her weird claw-hands. But its certainly not about boobs.

There's an important role for the blogosphere.

I would even admit that Obama has shown moments of sexism in his hostility to Hillary.

Yet.

Have you once, even once, publicly reported on the racism the media invoked to attack Obama, especially during the Rev. Wright flare ups? Or that Hillary stirred up by consciously pursuing a strategy to split white working class voters from the Democratic Party base by suggesting that Obama could not represent their interests?

Cause reading your posts you might think Hillary was a helpless victim of a smear campaign, instead of a prominent political insider who was quick to use her fake victim status to gain the support of women who otherwise would have been repelled by her hawkish, center-right politics.

ECB moaning about unfair treatment of Clinton? Go get a McCain sticker already.

Erica, cut Keith Olbermann some slack. When he makes an unintentional sexist remark he immediately apologizes for it, unlike Chris Matthews.

And so they're turning this awesome, amazing woman, and I love Michelle with all my heart, into some demon who hates white people. It's really awful to watch.

"ONLY the boobs"

I see hands, some faces, other hands, microphones, a necklace...

The picture is about the microphones, which are symbols of reporting, which is what the story was about.

There's this thing in photography called composition. Look it up.

Fnarf nailed it anyway: "An identical picture of a male candidate would pass without comment."

SHINY.

So mayhaps the media is not so much sexist or racist, but sparkle-ist. If it don't sparkle, we don't cover it, and here, the effects of Clinton's fingernails and all the microphones glistening and catching the light was too much for the Media to pass up.

It's possible that I'm wrong--that as a man, I'm trapped in some sort of denial of the rampant sexism that's all around me. It's also possible, though, that Erica is overly sensitive to the point of paranoia, that anything with an ambiguous interpretation is assumed to be malicious by Erica (whereas, I admit, I tend to give the reporter the benefit of the doubt).

For fear of committing rather public calumny, Erica should make sure her case is irrefutable before making her accusations, I should think. She may be right--the picture itself, and the article, may have been sexist. But the generous--I would say even, in the absence of Erica's preconceptions, the default--interpretation of this article in no way supports Erica's complaint.

The MSNBC Catholic urban boys club denials are pathetic.

Barnicle said HRC looks like your old wife outside of divorce court.

Mika Brzezinski tried to confront him on that as it was part of the NYT article and used a typical power-male diminishment-of-women dodge: ignore the question.

His respoinse?

"Celtics won! Celtics won!"

(Way to circle the jock wagons, Mike!)

Then the boys denied media sexism was the CAUSE of HRC defeat -- another doge -- atttacking Mr. Straw man. Also sad: Mika letting them dominate her like that. Joe wouldn't if he had been there I think he talks over people and keeps restating his view unlike Mika who just kept having this "asking" tone of can we please address this boys, but letting them ignore her most pointed question.

VP watch:
Dodd out?

Madia now looking at who ELSE in DC got sweetheart loans from Country Wide -- Dodd is on the list. CW had a "VIP program" that waived points and gave other sweetheart deals to high politicians.

Um, then why didn't you say so in your post?

I have to say, I actually found this to be a rather lovely photograph--to me, it looks presidential: candidate Clinton ticking off policy objectives, or maybe election strategy, in a knowledgeable, relaxed manner to members of an interested and engaged press corps.

Yes, women have breasts. But what I find intriguing are Clinton's hands--they tell more about the moment than all the recorders do, and I don't need to see her head to make the connection.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_I26LmJzm0VU/R13EGMRdTNI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/TpyhKTgZQsk/s1600-h/oprah_obama.jpg

I'm sorry, are you accusing the photographer and the editor of somehow trying to turn Hillary Clinton into a sex object?

Because, uh.

Maybe she taps the answers out with those fingernails? I don't know. And what does that say about where our consciousness lies?

Man, I think that may be a headless woman. My god.

I wonder how Nancy Pelosi stays above the fray?