Hillary links!

[anghraine]

Despite the Fortnight of Hell, quite a few very nice things came out this week:

- On Hillary's legal work in the 70s.
- LA TImes endorses Hillary.
- Cincinnati Enquirer endorses Hillary.
- The Between Two Ferns interview. Where's our outer space librarian AU?
- Twitter thread on Hillary's irl history.
- Yes, the idea that Hillary is unfairly beloved of the media (???) is bullshit.
- Rolling Stone: Hillary vs. the Hate Machine: How Clinton Became a Vessel for America's Fury. Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin—a good long article on how, while there are genuine criticisms to be made of her, the sheer vitriol towards her is so incredibly disproportionate.

Feeling, for lack of a better word, is what drives most Americans' perceptions of Hillary Clinton, one of the most complex and resilient figures in U.S. politics, yet also, after decades of probing scrutiny, less a real person than a vessel for Americans to collectively project their anxieties, fears, frustrations and identity struggles.

Comments

[lotesse]

Thanks for the links!

[anghraine]

You're welcome! I was going to link one on Tumblr, but after an hour on Twitter I'd accumulated all the others, and in any case I don't hate myself that much.

Oh, I forgot since I closed it days ago, but did you see Ta-Nehisi Coates' article on the deplorables? It was great.

(TBH I was proud of Hillary for not walking back on it beyond "I shouldn't have put a number on it, imprecision is bad." It's not every day that a politician as cautious as HRC puts herself on the line, in front of the press she distrusts, to specifically call out widespread racism in defiance of political rules. All the more important because she can get away with, insofar as she gets away with anything.)

[lotesse]

TNC is on point as always.

I don't understand why Hillary's actions over the last month or so haven't been portrayed in the media as the total badass stomp they've been - that "guess I shouldn't have said that half of ya'll are appalling racists" was one of the most beautiful bits of shade I've ever seen.

[anghraine]

It was, right? I genuinely thought she'd do the politically expedient thing and could regretfully accept that and then WHAM. And it's baffling (not really, but) that Hillary powering through weeks if not months of pneumonia and taking a mere three days to get through it was, in some way, a weakness. I've had pneumonia and couldn't do that at 20, much less 70.

NYT got their shit together finally, but ... eh. About 20 years late.