Maybe it’s time for Vanity Fair to do one
Was Vanity Fair’s “advice” to Hillary Clinton sexist shit or “lighthearted” and amusing speaking up to power?
Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017
Well the fact is she has taken up a new “hobby” – she’s not running again, and she’s doing other things. But by “hobby” they really mean hobby, as opposed to serious grown-up work; they mean go away, be quiet, don’t keep being public and saying words.
Funny that they didn’t say that to Sanders or Biden, isn’t it. I wonder what the mystery ingredient might be that makes it ok for them to keep being public and saying words and indeed saying they will or might run again, and not for her. She actually won the popular vote in 2016, which is more than they can say.
Erik Wemple at the Post comes down on the side of it’s sexist shit.
How do you boost Hillary Clinton’s favorability ratings with Trumpites? That’s a tough task, considering the enduring popularity of the whole “lock her up” movement. Yet one approach would be to line up a crew of young urbanites, put champagne flutes in their hands and have them recite snarky and demeaning New Year’s resolutions for the twice-failed presidential candidate and former first lady.
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“It’s time to start working on your sequel to your book, ‘What Happened.’ ‘What the Hell Happened?’” riffs one staffer. Next up: “Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so that typing in ‘F’ doesn’t become ‘Form Exploratory Committee for 2020.’”
The presentation reaches peak condescension, with this “resolution”: “Take up a new hobby in the new year: Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy, literally anything that will keep you from running again.”
One, she’s already not running again; two, knitting? How about fuck you, does fuck you work for you? Three, why her but not him and him?
Maya Kosoff, the Vanity Fair staffer who advises Clinton to take up knitting, tweeted, “i don’t appreciate being taken out of context to make me seem super sexist. this wasn’t a hillary hit piece either, fwiw! we made silly new years resolutions for a bunch of politicians.” Indeed, there are snarky resolutions, using the same formula, for others, including Trump adviser Gary Cohn, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and President Trump.
But they all have state power right now; Clinton does not.
At any rate, of course the angry toddler in chief was on it this morning, after Vanity Fair apologized.
Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 28, 2017
Vanity Fair magazine apologized Wednesday after receiving blowback on social media for a satirical video suggesting New Year’s resolutions to Hillary Clinton.
Now, the president of the United States of America has made use of Twitter’s 280-character limit to tweet his own critique of the publication — for not being harsh enough on his former political opponent.
“Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backward in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H,” President Trump tweeted, using one of his regular derogatory nicknames for Clinton.
Trump went on to add that Anna Wintour was “a big fundraiser” for Clinton and had been “all set” to be ambassador to the Court of St. James’s (the formal title used in the United Kingdom for the American ambassador). Trump tweeted that Wintour “is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!”
Wintour is editor in chief of Vogue and artistic director for all Condé Nast, which publishes Vanity Fair.
Whatever; he doesn’t like her, so in she goes.
That’s the same thing he says about every news source he doesn’t like – looks like it is on its last legs. He has no imagination, no creativity, no ability to hold enough phrases in his head to even say anything that isn’t a repeat of what he’s said dozens of times before.
And I wish everyone would shut the hell up about Hillary and focus on what we need to focus on – Donald J. Trump, toddler-in-chief. I am sick of hearing pundits who have never been to the midwest for any reasonable length of time, and mostly drive/fly through (where they are greeted with smiles by polite people who seem nice), but think they can parse the election by accusing her of ignoring the heartland and their needs.
The needs of the heartland are the same as the rest of the country – they need jobs, income, health care, child care, food, clothing, housing, affordable education – all the things that Hillary and Bernie both focused on. She ignored the wants of the heartland – criminalizing abortion, forcing everyone to read the Bible/pray in the schools, keep them furriners out of our country, and re-criminalize same sex orientation. While their at it, they want to force women to take up knitting and quilting as a hobby (see, Vanity Fair? You’re right with the picture here in the hate-filled heartland!), cook and clean, and be “feminine” (i.e. frilly and attractive until they are 30, and then disappear from view into the kitchen, known to exist only by the steady stream of yummy things that emanate from within).
As for Sarah Sanders, her New Years resolution should be to stop lying for money.
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The VF piece is stupid, so I’m not defending that specifically.
As for the general sentiment that Hillary should go away, I’m sure there is a sexist component, but there’s also Clinton Fatigue. Bill and Hillary have been national figures for over a quarter century, Hillary’s taken two cracks at the presidency, and a lot of people just are ready for new faces. Bernie’s pretty new on the national scene. Biden isn’t but he’s fresher than Hillary in many ways (I think few people know or remember he ran for the Democratic nomination).
And, worst of all, Hillary lost to Trump. A lot of people think she blew an easy win and saddled us with the moron for 4 years.
I have friends who liked and voted for Hillary but are terrified she’s going to run again. I tell them she’s made it clear she’s not going to and they’re relieved but still somewhat skeptical/worried. When she starts appearing more in public they start becoming concerned that she’s gearing up for another run. It’s ridiculous.
Biden is fresher than Clinton? Seriously?
Also – I know all that, and I expect most of us do. But all that could be said without the sexist patronizing contempt of that Vanity Fair item. It could be and it should be; the sexism harms more than just Clinton.