Just in time for it not to make a difference!

Has he been under anesthesia all this time?  Oh, no, he wasn't, because he was appearing on TV all the time talking about The ROOLz.

Even those MSM outlets who admit that (other) MSM outlets may have engaged in sexist coverage or commentary invariably conclude that "it isn't the reason why she lost." No harm, no foul, in other words.  You can engage in sexist rhetoric as long as you have the nerve to say afterwards that it didn't make a difference in the outcome.  How conVEEEEEEEEENient.  And how the frak do they know, anyway?

She's more qualified, more deserving, earned more votes and delegates by a fair count and threatened to win it no matter how crooked the race became.

This Dem process of "selection" strikes me more and more like newshour kabuki soft-focused to mask the snapping together of a Chicago based Boss-style machine with an empty hometown mascot on the prow.

Even the misogyny as an available weapon, by its quantity and degree, was treated like a device everyone had to use to prove their membership in the exclusive club.

That is lunatic, sorry - delete this if necessary, but at some point someone needs to stay connected to planet Earth.

If anything, there was widespread expectation, the ol' air of inevitablity, about Hillary becoming the nominee. It was only after the people of Iowa rendered their verdict that the inside the beltway crowd even began to conceive of the possibility that Hillary would not be the nominee.

And the DNC is hardly some coordinated body that forms, expresses, and acts on some joint decision. If you beleive that, you know nothing about how politics in America works.

Look. There is no conspiracy. HIllary made two big mistakes - pushing experience in a year that people were looking for change, and failing to plan for the possibility that she wouldnt wrap it all up on Super Tuesday. Thats it. Thats why she lost. It wasnt the Bilderbergs, or the space aliens, or the DNC that did her in. It was the voters.

This time, it ain't happening for a lot of people.

It was pretty unpleasant to speak up at Political Animal and get the sort of responses I received. It's a whole lot less fun to hold fast to what you believe when facing pretty massive opposition than it is made to seem in the movies. Among other things, it makes you lose some faith in humanity to see a mob in action. Except as a painful moral lesson to oneself, I can't see how anyone would choose to be on the wrong side of such a mob. They are, I think, things to be avoided when possible.

Another part of the treatment that Clinton received from the media was that they reported everything she or anyone of her surrogates or supporters said as though it had at least two if not more than two coded meanings behind it.  the Media treated this as a "matter of fact". And, they spent much analysis trying to find the worst possible interpretation for anything that was said by Hillary or any of her supporters.  They would report the "coded meaning" they came up with as though it was a FACT and not just pundit conjecture.  And if it was a Clinton supporter who said something , they would report the likelihood that Clinton had scripted it for them and told them to say it.

I'm still angry at Katie for throwing that softball question at Hillary in an interview:  "Do you take vitamins?" when Hillary was expecting a real question, the kind you would ask someone running for President of the USA.  (Then Katie followed it up with questions about how Hillary watched her weight and exercise and stupid stuff.  I kept waiting for Katie to ask her if she was taking hormones and how menopause was coming along but Katie skipped those questions.)