The Political Voices of Women

NOW’s President Kim Gandy on Colbert Report.  It is very funny.

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Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama on The Colbert Report — by Catherine Morgan (cross-posted at the Care2 Election Blog)

Last night Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards all appeared on the Colbert Report. John Edwards was by far the best…

See clips of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Colbert here.

This is from a post at ConnieTalk.

Stephen Colbert gave a “Tip of the hat and wag of the finger” to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, for making President George W. Bush jealous. How? Well, on March 13th, Bush visited the troops there, and actually told them: “I must say, I’m a little envious…I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines.” No joke (pun intended).

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Here is an hysterical SNL video clip from a post by Kim Pearson at BlogHer - She did a great post today about the Colbert and SNL effects.  Also see the Care2 Election Blog where I posted this and several other videos.

This is a guest post by Robin Gerber — Thank you Robin for providing this wonderful post and for contributing to the site. All guest posts will also be added to the “Be A Guest Blogger” page.

“The Stronger Women Get the More Men Love Football.” That was the name of a book my friend Mariah Burton Nelson wrote a while back. An updated title might read, “The Stronger Women Get the More Fox Loves Smut.”

With Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, and Senator Hillary Clinton not just a candidate for President, but the front-runner to win, the sexist orgy that passes for Fox channel programming has flipped into overdrive. It wasn’t enough that any on-air female had to look like a talking mannequin. Even the brilliant Greta Van Susteren scalpeled her face into compliance before taking over a show that started with promise, but has turned into one more Foxified tele-tabloidization.

Now Fox is going further, using the most objectified, smutty and often inane images of women during the video feed that accompanies stories. Fox producers seem to be following one overriding mantra: no matter the story, illustrate it with lots of (pardon the Fox-y vernacular) tits, ass, thongs and bikinis, the more nubile or pre-pubescent the better. How better to keep women down than to hold them up as objects of sexual fantasy? The message is clear without Fox talking heads saying a word: women are only good for one thing.

Thanks to filmmaker Robert Greenwald, you don’t have to stomach watching Fox to see the evidence of their bias. Greenwald has put together a terrific little film. , championed by Keith Olbermann, (who, like Stephen Colbert, has a keen eye and ear for media sexism). Watch it and fume. Watch it and wonder why women aren’t walking off their jobs at Fox and picketing. Watch it and think about running as a woman for President, or as a small-town mayor, or as a woman trying for a job promotion or being taken seriously anywhere, anytime.

Fox is the channel for people threatened by the idea of gender equality. The people who tell pollsters they wouldn’t vote for a woman for President under any circumstances. The people who are most comfortable thinking of women in one way only — as objects for their sexual fantasies or exploits.

The stronger women get the less willing we are to settle for anything less than the full right to be who and what we choose. And that idea just drives Fox crazy.

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Is Steven Colbert making a mockery of the political system?  Or has Bush already done that?

Here is a post from Blonde Sagacity. 

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Comedian Steven Colbert (a Democrat that has actually been quoted by Hillary in sump speeches) has declared his candidacy “as both Democrat and Republican” for 2008. Obviously an innocuous stunt and ratings ploy at first glance, but as the 20-29 year olds actually say they would consider voting for him maybe a bit more nefarious.

Yesterday as I was listening to half a panel “of experts” say Colbert’s faux-campaign was great and funny and the other half lambasting him for making a mockery of the political system that so many have died to preserve, I found myself less concerned with Colbert himself and his ratings grab than what the MTV generation expects from politics…

If the new Fox/Rassmusen poll is correct and 41% if the MTV Gen say they would consider Colbert…where have we gone wrong?

This a from the Tennessee Guerilla Women…

Culture critique Stephen Colbert announced his bid for the presidency only last week, and already Colbert has moved ahead of Gov. Bill Richardson in a national poll.

To date, Colbert is running only in South Carolina, but he may want to rethink that.

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