During the past few months I’ve often felt shocked or surprised at how certain male Democratic pundits/ congressmen etc feel a persistent need to attack Clinton. There is always a Democrat somewhere who feels a need to attack her over the email situation, or about the Clinton foundation or whatever. One of the worst is David Axelrod, the former Obama chief campaign strategist, now working for CNN.
Mind you, criticism at Clinton in itself isn’t sexist. But somehow Axelrod's criticism always had a sexist undertone. When he criticizes Clinton its always in a degrading manner, talking down to her. As if Axelrod himself is God’s gift to humanity, put there on his high and mighty throne, to talk down to ordinary silly women.
It’s the older brother that feels an obsessive need to correct his sister, or women in general, that speaks whenever Axelrod opens his mouth.
I’m pretty sure that every woman with an older brother understands what I’m talking about. That older brother that always feels like he should correct you, or just talk down to you, from his authoritative position of ..well of just being male.
Axelrod has in the past months criticized Clinton for just about everything to even how she nods her head:
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“Šomeone gas GOT to give @HillaryClinton an alternative maneuver to the bobblehead nod. Especially when she is being lavishly praised!”
As Politico mentioned in March (after Axelrod felt he was the judge to say Clinton’s attack against Sanders about the auto bailout was wrong):
“As a CNN senior political correspondent, host of his own podcast and Twitter junkie, Axelrod has become Clinton’s backseat driver, quick to point out flaws and offer unsolicited advice.”
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Right….. doesn’t that sound familiar?
The ever undesired unsolicited advice form the male pundit who seems to think he has a right to judge women on their behaviour, their looks and how they speak (and yes: how they nod their head…). Or: on if and how they make jokes. He sternly told Clinton she was not allowed to make jokes about the email situation.
“She’s done this a few times,” Axelrod said on “New Day.” “She’s seemed flippant about it. Obviously there are concerns about how she handled these emails. And all these jokes fall flat, and it makes it seem as if she’s not taking the issue seriously.”
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After the convention speech, during a CNN panel, while other panel members praised Hillary’s speech, Axelrod could not stop stating “it was not a great speech”. Without any explanation, it sounded petty at best.
Today he went after Clinton again. He had this to say about her health situation:
“Antibiotics can take care of pneumonia. What's the cure for an unhealthy penchant for privacy that repeatedly creates unnecessary problems?”
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Really?
Within a few minutes Axelrod was praised by Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, who tweeted: “Whoa… Well Said”.
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Yes David, the Trumpsters are very happy with you, thank you very much.
Axelrod is quoted today on just about every rightwing website out there, who are (as usual) delighted with his criticism of Clinton.
Now I am sure there are those that will argue that Axelrod simply doesn’t like Clinton and that he isn’t a sexist asshole. But I disagree.
His unsolicited advice and his strange idea he is some sort of authority figure who must correct Clinton, even on her making a joke, or on how she nods her head, is imo based upon pure sexism. His failure to ever discuss sexism in politics in his so called podcasts has not gone by unnoticed by some either.
From the grumpy older brother who feels an obsessive need to correct women, he has now turned into a nasty backstabber, who is directly helping Trump to get elected..