Scary Monsters, Super Freaks

One "change" that I'd like to see is the end of the idea that grown, intelligent, accomplished women are, deep down, no more mature than junior high school students.

Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama's presidential campaign last spring after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster," is now advising the president-elect on transition matters relating to the State Department -- which Clinton is slated to head....

In short, she is part of a team that is likely to work directly with Clinton, a potentially awkward situation for the two women.

After the shrieking and hair-pulling, I expect that they will have a good cry and then bond over a pint of chocolate ice cream, after which point they will talk about boys and also perhaps nuclear non-proliferation.

In the meantime someone go give a binky to Crittenden, whose cheerleading for mass killing and ethnic cleansing makes him dislike Power, as he snivels here.

UPDATE. Jules Crittenden responds!

Hey, Whiskey Fire through-clickers, that guy old enough to be drinking that? Reading clearly isn’t his strong suit, but maybe focusing is the problem. Drunk and ignorant, not a pretty site.

Uh, nice riposte. Looks like some clever young wingnut's hepped up on goofballs.
Tell it to the free clip-art dancing leprechaun gif, lightweight.

 

Comments

[Dan-in-PA]

What did you expect? War is our most profitable export.

Greetings from Roulette, PA

[Dan-in-PA]

(Doin what I can to help you earn that 5 dollar bill!)

[DrDick]

*sigh*
Can we please replace the emotional retards of our national press corps with actual adolescents from the high school newspapers of America, which actually seem to do a better job of covering issues?

[Attack Macaque]

Jules Crittenden is the shitstain in Glenn Reynolds's Pajamas. Well, okay, one of the shitstains. Ah, who am I kidding? The Perfesser's Pajamas are caked in shit.

[pointyallover]

In the spirit of constructive criticism:

This seems forced.

If I, very publicly, called someone "a monster" and, also very publicly, lost my job over it and now had to work with said person...well, "awkward" seems about right. No, not impossible to overcome, but certainly a bit awkward.

Did you find Eric Kleefeld's piece on this subject over at TPM sexist, juvenile etc.?

There's lots of good examples of junior-high mentality in journalism; this doesn't seem like a good one.

[Ken Houghton]

pointyallover: If I, very publicly, called someone "a monster"...

"Very publicly" is stretching definitions, even for an argument with which I am in sympathy.

Is there a conscious adult who--even after the "off-the-record" comment--didn't expect Power to end up with an influential position in an Obama administration, or that said position would not be in the Department of State?

Certainly HRC would have expected that, and she took the bleeding job.

[cory]

Did they screw with her eyes in that pic, a la the Jukes, to make her appear a bit crazy? The eyes look unnatural.

[cory]

Did they screw with her eyes in that pic, a la the Jukes, to make her appear a bit crazy? The eyes look unnatural.

[Kyle]

I agree w/ pointyallover/ "Potentially awkward" is not the same as shouting cat fight.

And, yeah, when a comment is reported all over the world, then "very publicly" can apply. SP didn't want her comment to be public, but it was.

[Thers]

pointy,

Seemed excessive to me -- Obama and Clinton called each other all sorts of horrible shit for an entire year. If they can get over it, a single reference in the heat of a campaign is nothing. Or should be. There are FAR bigger issues to deal with, & I think the principals here get that.

Anyhow I think some pushback on the peronality/trivia focus of the media is worthwhile. Let's set the bar for what we expect of public servants higher than the media does,, you know? And I expect a maturity bar in this case to be set quite high.

Just my POV. Thanks for yours.

[DrDick]

Thers -
Agreed. May I also add that the fact that these kinds of articles only get written about women might also have some bearing?

[flory]

Drunk and ignorant, not a pretty site.

I'm impressed Crittenden got the Whiskey Fire reference and figure out you were Irish, ya drunken ignorant mick.

I'd be more impressed if he knew the difference between 'site' and 'sight' but there it is......

[flory]

And the real point that's to be made here is that its FOUR paragraphs in that we get this:

Transition officials declined to comment. A spokesman for Clinton did not respond to an e-mail

IOW -- both camps know this lede is horseshit and refuse to play this stoopit game.

SIX paragraphs in we get the actual lede of the story:

But people close to the transition suggested too much was made of Power's comment at the time, and said that she has made moves to bury the hatchet with Clinton and that the senator accepted those efforts.

If so, that could pave the way for Power to reemerge as a key adviser for the new president

So the real fucking story here is that Power has been called back in from the cold and will be a key part of Obamas national security/foreign policy team.

But she's a girl, so even the WaPo has to report the story according to the rules laid down at Sulzburger High.

[Whispers]

I always wonder about people who endorse launching a full-scale invasion to "prevent genocide" when, at the time the invasion starts, no genocide is actually happening. And then, after the invasion, genocidal tactics are widespread. Indeed, reputable surveys estimate the number of dead in Iraq since the invasion as approaching a million.

Apparently the problem with Prof. Power is that she didn't buy into the nonsensical neo-con argument that war prevents death.

[herr doktor bimler]

the peronality/trivia focus of the media
Evita!

[JT]

Crittenden haz good web sight.

[T. Scheisskopf]

Although I really know nothing of this young gentleman Jules, I must say that the Ma-Deuce in his logo makes me moist.

Nothing like a big, hard, hot .50cal to ram home the message that you are gonna hit them issues hard, fast and deep.

And then smoke a cigarette and fumble for the remote control.

[Peter]

Power and Clinton both love apologizing for America's killing sprees. They'll get along fine.

[gjdodger]

As a side note, one of the more preposterous memes being circulated as the Democratic primaries wound down was along the lines that the Clintons were making a list of everybody who had crossed them by backing Obama, and they'd get all of them back. You kidding me? The Clintons get their enemies back? Look around you. There are people out there who have been the Clintons' enemies for 20 years and are still uninhibitedly spewing their bile. They're the same people who pushed this fantasy about the Clintons, drugs, an eastern Arkansas airport and people disappearing because they knew too much. Frankly, I wish Bill and Hill COULD make those people disappear, and it seems somewhat incongruous for the media to promote the idea the Clintons are vengeful while these jokers continue uninterrupted.

[Snarki, child of Loki]

I wish Bill and Hill COULD make those people disappear...

or at least STFU.

not even in their private lives, but just in the national media. That's all I ask.

It's a poor sort of demonic retribution power that can't even make Instapundit crash now and then.

[Malacandra]

I especially love that Crittendon felt the need to embed a 4.2MB image on his post, scaled down by the browser from its actual 2826x2970 pixel size down to 335x347 to fit.

Swift use of the internet!