Clinton should drink 'mad bitch' beer, jokes WashPost journalist

Posted By P.J. Aroon Monday, August 3, 2009 - 5:32 PM Share

 

Secretary Clinton should drink "Mad Bitch" beer suggests Washington Post journalist Dana Milbank in a video that was later pulled from the newspaper's Web site. [Foreign Policy, by the way, is owned by the Washington Post Company.]

The humorous video related to the discussion about what type of beer would be consumed at last week's "beer summit" between President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Sgt. James Crowley. "We won't tell you who's getting a bottle of Mad Bitch," Milbank says while dispaying a photo of Clinton about 2:35 into the video.

The Washington Post's communications director told Talking Points Memo via e-mail: "The video was a satirical piece that lampooned people of all stripes. There was a section of the video that went too far, so we have removed the piece from our website."

The video isn't that funny, and Clinton laughs off this kind of ridicule anyway. It's probably getting pretty old for her by now.

Note: I tried to embed the video above, but it isn't working. You can view it at Media Matters or YouTube, though.

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B. ELLI COSE

7:44 PM ET

August 4, 2009

Clinton's job approval?

Preeti,

On an only tangentially related note, are you aware of any recent information on Hillary Clinton's job approval rating? Does any pollster measure this on a regular basis (e.g., month-to-month, like Presidential job approval ratings)?

 

CAROLYN-RODHAM

11:02 PM ET

August 4, 2009

At least the WashPost

At least the WashPost acknowledged they went too far and removed it from their website -- that's about the only newsworthy part of this story. Hillary has been subjected to this sort of sniping for the past 20 years -- that's nothing new. What's different is that in the past, including during the last primary season, this sort of sexism-passing-as-humor [nutcracker doll] or sexism-passing-as-serious-news-commentary [Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, etc.] -- was NOT edited out. No-one in the Democratic leadership called the media on it until June -- after the last primary -- when Howard Dean FINALLY said something, and Nancy Pelosi echoed him with a "me too." Too little, too late.

 

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