Clinton aides on the record calling attacks on Palin “sexist”

Morrissey on the Media's Sexism
Little Miss Attila — Morrissey on the Media's Sexism Over at Hot Air : The sexism of the media certainly helped stoke the fires that created the rift between Hillary supporters and the Obama campaign. If a rerun does anything, it will remind these same voters of the Obama campaigns silence in the face of these attacks. And so far, although Obama warned people off from attacking the Palin children, they have said nothing about the audacity of questioning Palins mothering skills. This sends a more subtle message, too. Hillarys aides certainly came to Palins defense rather quickly. They could ...

After Palin Speech, Media Supporters Still Claim Obama is the Better Candidate
Confederate Yankee — ... who has proven she can "have it all," and it well on her way to doing it all. Steinem instead insists that the candidate that calls dismissively addresses female reporters as "sweetie," is the new standard-bearer for women's rights. On the air and in print, liberal pundits are attacking Palin today. Some attack her record, some disgusting still attack her family, and some attack her for merely being a woman (prompting Hillary Clinton's aides to go on the record decrying these sexist attacks ). These liberal bloggers/journalists the line between them all but removed continue ...

The Morning Scramble/Open Thread Thursday - 9/4/2008
No Runny Eggs — ... PSA for you - donate blood. Turk has the best of the Little Known Facts Tweet-A-Thon. Eric Erickson has another Little Known Fact; Sarah Palin doesn’t need a Teleprompter to deliver a devastatingly-good speech. Jim Geraghty suggested a killer line to Palin. I guess if The Indispensible One asks Palin to co-blog with him, I’ll definitely lose out in the co-blogging wars. Maybe if Shoebox did the asking,…. Ed Morrissey found signs of fight in the PUMAs. Jim Hoft notes ...

Agree / Disagree
protein wisdom — ... that the governorship of Alaska is somehow less important than, say, being governor of Arkansas — particularly to a campaign that appears to want to push energy independence as an issue — is yet more of the same kind of elitist sniffing that we’ve already heard from the media prior to Palin’s surprising ability to appear before a crowd and speak in complete sentences, without once stopping to light up a Menthol cigarette and take a swig from a can of Bud Light… **** See also, Hot Air ; ...

Before I Go
Right Wing Nation — ... will not be hearing that again. Rasmussen (before the speech, obviously): Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November Clinton operatives — including Deborah Tannen — have had enough and are sick of the anti-Palin sexism. Ed comments. One last thing. You know, if I were Obama and his groupies, ...