Conservatives knew this was coming. Just as President Obama and his surrogates found racism in every criticism or disagreement with the commander in chief, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is now finding sexism in everyday remarks.
At the first Democratic presidential debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said that “all the shouting in the world” would not solve gun violence.
What Americans heard: “As a senator from a rural state, what I can tell Secretary Clinton, that all the shouting in the world is not going to do what I would hope all of us want, and that is keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns and end this horrible violence that we are seeing.”
What Hillary Clinton heard: SEXISM!!!!!!!1!!1!!
Because at Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Des Moines, Iowa (I thought we were supposed to stop celebrating former slave owners after that Confederate flag murder?), Clinton explained how she remembers Sanders’ statement.
“I haven’t been shouting, but sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it’s shouting,” Clinton told the dinner audience.
Except, as the New York Times noted, Sanders has been using the line long before his debate with Clinton.
“In July, Mr. Sanders, senator of Vermont, said that people needed to ‘stop shouting at each other’ on the issue of guns. In August, he said that ‘people shouting at each other’ about gun control ‘is not doing anybody any good.’ And on Oct. 1, reacting to the mass shooting at a community college in Oregon, he said that the nation needed to ‘get beyond the shouting” on the issue,'” the Times’ Thomas Kaplan pointed out.
Sanders, of course, disagreed with Clinton’s characterization of his remarks, and said in a Sunday interview that “what the secretary is doing there is taking words and misapplying them.”
Prepare for another 12 months of this, if Clinton is indeed the Democratic nominee.
