"Snotty and condescending." WA Post's energetic slap down of sexist, anti-HRC Vanity Fair video

[pnwmom]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/12/27/vanity-fair-staffers-provide-snotty-condescending-life-tips-for-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.05177f4cefa5

By Erik Wemple

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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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.” The tweeted response of @shuboogie pretty much summed up the social-media backlash: “Furious they could gleefully humiliate a woman who fought so hard in a male world & worked for so much progress for the vulnerable: & condescending suggestion she ‘take up knitting’….. as if that’s what women should be doing – instead of giving their lives to politics & causes.” Others pointed out that Clinton was the first woman to secure the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party.


Perhaps Vanity Fair’s satire would have a comedic toehold if Clinton were ramping up for yet another presidential run. Instead, she has issued an airtight statement: “No, I’m not going to run again.” That said, she has declared that she’ll stay active in politics and in the spring launched a group to advance the resistance to President Trump and his allies in Congress:


The cynical politics of Trump and his followers have managed to raise Clinton’s contemporary profile far beyond what would be expected from a failed presidential candidate who had disavowed future political campaigns. And that’s, in part, what makes this treatment so irksome: Create your own stupid political narrative, Vanity Fair!

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[dalton99a]

1. Disgusting and idiotic.

[Cha]

2. Excellent! Thank you..

I can't read the rest to know who wrote it at WaPo.. but I thank them!

And, Mahalo to you, pnwmom!

[pnwmom]

5. It was by Erik Wemple. Thanks for making that point -- I added his name to the OP. n/t

[Cha]

8. Thank you, pnwmom!

And, thanks to, Erik Wemple!

[joshcryer]

3. Those people are assholes.

Who even thought that was funny? It's highly unlikely she runs again after losing to literally the freest win possible. It's a shame, too, because I think she should. It wouldn't be hard to pull a populist approach. She could really go firebrand and make it about impeaching Trump, but it would take 3 years of trying, and I doubt she has it in her.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. All about selling

their Rag.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Vanity Fair Missed An Important Part of Comedy

It's supposed to be funny. This isn't even slightly humorous. It's just stupid.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I see ... millennials who have never experienced a layoff. NT

The Twitter feed of the article's author:

@ErikWemple

[BannonsLiver]

9. Spoiled, over-privileged assholes

Also, the irony of new year's resolutions appears to be lost on at least 2 of them. And notice how the comments by the women were more vicious. A couple of real girl's girls there.

[dalton99a]

10. Trumpanzees and fake Democrats have taken over the comments

[Submariner]

11. self delete

[LisaM]

12. In what world was any of that funny?

The only one that was remotely related to funny was the first one (which actually looked better live than it did being read), but this was really a uniformly awful attempt at humor.

It was embarrassing to watch people act like that.

[irisblue]

13. Snotty was the right word. nt

[Hortensis]

14. Stupid? Clueless? Incompetent? Sell-outs?

These people STILL have no idea where their attitudes come from or why. If awareness breaks in, this suggests it's quickly tamped down.

They're just basking happily in the safe center of their in-crowd, trading in-crowd groupthink.

[Bradical79]

15. Insulting and elitist

Clinton won the working class vote. And as a working class American, it makes me ill to see Vanity Fair ushering in the new year insulting our candidate while holding their Champaign glasses. On top of Trump's constant assault on our country, I don't need a bunch of condecending assholes rubbing it in. She was the first major party woman candidate and received millions of more votes in the face of unprecedented foreign interference and Republican colaboration with that foreign power. Not the sort of person deserving of condecention like that.

[maddiemom]

18. YES! Your words convey my thoughts exactly. Thank you.

Already canceled my subscription.

[MaryMagdaline]

16. Sickening! Go run for office and help people

You privileged jerk.

[mcar]

17. That describes it