Loving to Hate Hillary

The Washington Post ^ | March 25, 2006 | Richard Cohen

[neverdem]

In order to understand what's going on with Hillary Clinton, it helps to recall a woman who lost her head and therefore her life in 1793: Marie Antoinette. She is probably best remembered as the spoiled princess-cum-queen who said, "Let them eat cake" -- a remark (the "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" of its day) that would have shown how callous and out of touch she was, if she had ever said it. She did not.

In her own time, though, it was not merely what she supposedly said that defamed her and made her so unpopular, it was also her alleged behavior. She was manufactured into an Austrian-born slut who, as Stefan Zweig put it in his classic biography, was (falsely) "guilty of every crime, every form of moral corruption, every perversion." It was necessary to have someone like her to embody the greed and corruption of the upper classes. It was necessary, in fact, to have a woman because male sexuality is, let's face it, not all that interesting. Contrast her, in fact, with her husband. Louis XVI was king and he, too, died on the guillotine but he, sad fellow, is mostly forgotten.

My feminist credentials...

[neverdem]

In the last month alone, though, The New York Times has mentioned her about 60 times compared to 45 for her more senior colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, the uncrowned (but undisputed) heavyweight champion of publicity until Clinton came along. Some of the Times' stories are merely about her existence -- they say little more than that -- and in this they are similar to those in other papers. It's obvious some people think that Hillary sells newspapers, although as we all know, nothing does anymore.

[ncountylee]

The more space and time spent on the beast limits the damage that MSM can do in other areas.

[smoothsailing]

The Last New York Times Subscriber

I used to be somebody

[sine_nomine]

I love the neck wattles. She needs more surgery, but of course the neck is difficult to disguise. The cruel eyes and mouth dominate her face. I saw an early photo of her in "American Evita," which show she was rather attractive as a college student.

[jazusamo]

Nothing sells papers anymore and Hillary is going to have an awful hard time selling herself to anyone already not in love with her.

[Bullish]

I don't love to hate hillary.... I hate to hate anyone.

But Hillary and her band of goons.... I do indeed hate.

[pankot]

Of course they have to cover her more--her ass is bigger.

[doug from upland]

I just hope the witch sells a documentary film.

[hissingatdemocratsisfun]

Hillary is like a person with a "paper a$$hole" and she talks like someone with two personalities, one coming and one going! LOL

[smoothsailing]

I believe she was a Goldwater Girl,IIRC when this picture was taken.

[CaliGirl]

YIKES! She wants to play the prez in 2008? Barf bag please! She looks like a complete psychopath case! Any doctor in the house to help this dummacrat?

[b4its2late]

Welcome to FR!

[b4its2late]

[Old Sarge]

[Billthedrill]

Cohen squats to pee. That aside, She Who Must Not Be Named was considerably more than a wife, she was an openly-declared "co-President" who was responsible for the hounding to death of Billy Dale and the outrageous expropriation of confidential FBI files and their release to the Democratic party through the WHODB. Laura Bush this ain't.

Cohen derides Karl Rove as "un-elected" but guess who else was un-elected through all of this? That didn't stop her from taking charge of the health care issue and turning out a document so unwieldy and dictatorial that it makes the EU constitution look like the Gettysburg Address. No, Hill isn't to be hated because it's the thing to do, it's because she's earned it.

[montag813]

I have many self-titled "progressive" friends in NYC. All but one say they "hate" Hillary. A remarkable turn of events. One wonders how much the Dem base can forgive come the snows of New Hampshire, 2008.

[Quix]

Sounds like they are talking about

her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--bwitch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Stalin de Pol Pot de Mao de Castro de Arafart . . . de Sade

alright.

Maybe I should inform the author of her more accurate, more 'complete' name???

[woofie]

But for one person to be so loved, so hated, and of such compelling interest -- so much more a celebrity than, say, John McCain -- suggests that more than politics is involved. Like Marie Antoinette, Hillary has emerged as the repository of so many fears, so much dread, such aspirations -- so much good and bad -- that we have to look past her office or her ambitions and suggest, strongly, that something deeply Freudian is at work.

Could one not say the same of George W Bush?

[weegee]

It's like "loving" to hate Hitler, Stalin, Lord Haw Haw, and Michael Moore. A pointless exercise.

The sooner we are done with rotten people, the better off mankind is. Some CHEER on bad people because they are blind deaf and DUmb.

[Echo Talon]

princess-cum-queen

BARF!