Fox News was salivating this afternoon at the idea that things would be tense between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama when they “cross paths” on Martha’s Vineyard.
Now that Fox spent years accusing Clinton of being the mastermind behind a fake scandal over the tragedy in Benghazi, they’ve decided that she is “insecure” about running for Commander in Chief because she’s a woman, so she is over-compensating by trying to appear tough.
‘Cuz women are seen as weak.
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Watch the clip of Fox News’ Outnumbered here via Media Matters:
After digging into Clinton’s “criticism” of the President’s foreign policy, the gang of four women led by a man dejectedly pointed out that Hillary Clinton walked her criticism back. Then the Outnumbered gang revisited high school as they tittered over wanting to be fly on the wall as the President and former Secretary of State “hug it out” at a party on Martha’s Vineyard Thursday evening. So much funnies because it’s hysterical that Democrats have won the White House two presidential cycles in a row and Hillary Clinton polls outrageously higher than any of the pining GOP candidates.
Jesse Watters spoke, and that is never a good thing for humanity, “I don’t think Hillary Clinton even knows what hugging it out means!” A woman piped up, “I think Bill does.”
Hee-hee, they all grinned like 7th graders spying in the locker room. Bill does! We win!
The GOP PR machine of Fox News that is still defending Sarah Palin’s “bus tour” during which she incorrectly retold the story of Paul Revere then called Clinton out for being “clumsy”. Watters continued, “This was so clumsy of Hillary Clinton, she can’t even get through a summer book tour without another gaffe —”
A woman interrupted him to prove that Fox really creates an unhealthy bubble for its contributors in addition to its poor, ill-informed audience, “Is there a book? Did she come out with a book?”
Watters is clearly running the show of four women, so he informed them of the name of the book the entire country knows about except for the folks at Fox News, “‘Hard Choices off the top of my head.”
The attention of four women went to his head, so Watters geared up to repeat himself and give Hillary Clinton advice, “She didn’t need to say this! Lay low, Hillary! Sell your book. No one was asking your opinion about the Obama doctrine. And now she’s in deep trouble and I think the walk back is so clumsy.”
Here’s where Jesse got real by “guessing” about Hillary’s motives, “Everybody knows – this is my guess, she’s a woman, she’s trying to overcompensate by acting like a foreign policy –”
The ladies didn’t like that. They might not be told who Hillary Clinton is over at Fox, or that she has a book out, but they know misogyny when it knocks this loudly on the back door. They objected, “Hang on a second! What does that mean?”
Watters was amused by the objections of the ladies, but in no way was he going to take them seriously. This is why he’s in charge of a panel of four women, so he can do this Archie Bunker routine for the armchair misogynists at home who don’t like progress but can’t really stand up for themselves either. It’s fun to watch Jesse be the smart man in charge of very pretty women. BOOYAH.
Let Jesse explain to you why Hillary needs to overcompensate. You see, women all want peace no matter what because they are weak. DUH. So Hillary is over-compensating.
“No, I think Hillary has – feels a little insecure because she’s a female who wants to be Commander in Chief. I thinks he tries to come out and be very hawkish, she’s been very interventionist when it seems you know as Secretary of State. And I think she’s going to get burned by this.”
Not to worry, one of the females on the Jesse panel “had his back” and explained that this is why Hillary Clinton wanted to be on the Senate Armed Services Committee, because women running for office “risk looking weak.”
Oh. How 1950s.
Women risk looking weak if they are not pro war, so this is why Hillary Clinton has done everything she’s ever done, according to Fox News.
Here’s the truth. Hillary Clinton is tough as nails when she needs to be. She has that reputation for a reason, and she does not need to worry about proving her toughness. Way back in 2008, the public loved it when she cried because it “softened” her image. (This entire conversation is ridiculous and has been ridiculous since it started for too many reasons to enumerate in a post involving Jesse Watters.)
Newsflash: It is possible that Hillary Clinton has her own foreign policy ideas and that she articulated them for the same reason a male candidate would: To define herself to the voters.
The woman was Secretary of State, after all. She doesn’t exactly need to over-compensate on foreign policy, like Mitt Romney had to. How much time did Fox spend discussing Romney over-compensating for his actual weakness?
To assume that the only reason a female candidate articulated a political point of view that she has always had was only because she felt she needed to do something to show she was not “weak” is part of the problem. Hillary Clinton is not weak, and no one in their right mind would suggest that the public, who likes and trusts the former Secretary of State very much, has concerns over her “toughness”. “Weak Hillary”? Is that their next go? Good luck with that one.
It’s also telling that the only way Republicans can identify a quality of “toughness” is if the person is pro-war. That has been their biggest problem after Bush, which explains why they are still trying to find a way to take Hillary Clinton down foreign policy wise, since their false Benghazi accusations went nowhere.
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