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MSNBC's Chris Matthews: I wronged Clinton with remark

By David Bauder, Associated Press (via USA Today)
January 18, 2008

NEW YORK — With protests rumbling, MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Thursday that he was wrong to say last week that the reason Hillary Clinton is a senator and a candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."

Matthews discussed those remarks at the opening of his show Hardball Thursday, the same day feminist leader Gloria Steinem and the heads of four prominent women's groups complained in a letter to his boss that Matthews had shown a pattern of sexism.

"Was it fair to imply that Hillary's whole career depended on being a victim of an unfaithful husband? No," Matthews said. "That's what it sounded like I was saying and it hurt people I'd like to think normally like what I say (and), in fact, like me."

He said that while he has not always taken the time to say things right or be appropriate, "I will try to be clearer, smarter, more obviously in support of the right of women, of all people, to full equality of respect and ambition."

Besides Steinem, the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus was signed by Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women; Lulu Flores, president of the National Women's Political Caucus; Carol Jenkins, president of the Women's Media Center; and Eleanor Smeal, president of Feminist Majority.

Last week's Clinton comment was the trigger for their protest, but they said Matthews' comments over the years "demonstrate a larger pattern of overt sexism when discussing women."

Full text available at http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2008-01-17-matthews_N.htm.

Hillary Clinton: victim of sexism, actor or modern leader?
Women seeking power walk a narrow path when it comes to showing their feelings.

By JANE GLENN HAAS, Register columnist
January 10, 2007

Hey, didn't the president – the current guy in the White House – weep openly a year ago at a Medal of Honor ceremony? Were his tears real? Why are his tears OK and Hillary's déclassé?

Enough already! Let's get back to important news, like what's Brittany Spears up to today?

But we can't, Carol Jenkins tells me. She's the head of the Women's Media Center, www.womensmediacenter.com, and, yes, she keeps watch on the nation's attitude toward women.

"In fact, a woman this visible and potentially this powerful has never been seen before in this country," she says. "So the media has gone crazy about style instead of substance. We really have to think seriously about what we think about women and how we respond to them."

Do we still have a double standard?

Now ponder that, please.

Especially, as Jenkins points out, what we read or see on television is controlled by what men think of women. Absolutely. Because only 3 percent of the "clout positions" in media are held by women, she says. Because the result is that everything comes from a male perspective.

The masculine ethic may be built on not cracking that John Wayne facade – you know, the steely eyes and grim determination as the enemy swarms into the Alamo – or was the "High Noon" standoff. No, that was steely-eyed, grimly determined Gary Cooper, walking to the shootout as Frankie Laine wailed, "If I'm a man I must be brave, and I must face that deadly killer, Or lie a coward, a craven coward, or lie a coward in my grave."

Match that for drama, Hillary.

Well, women can cry and also stick to talking, Jenkins points out.

Like they can do two things at one time. We all know men are lousy at multitasking.

Full article available at http://www.ocregister.com/life/women-hillary-says-1956993-new-time.

Clinton campaign affirms a kinder, gentler Hillary

By Dana Wilkie, COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
January 10, 2008

WASHINGTON – Suddenly, her campaign strategists are using words like “more open” and “accessible.” Her key congressional supporters are talking about her “warmth” and “feeling.”

Expect Hillary Rodham Clinton to show a more “human” side in coming weeks – perhaps the same side that many analysts and members of her staff said helped turned the tide for the New York senator in winning New Hampshire's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday.

Showing her personal side may have worked in New Hampshire, but analysts warned that she must be careful not to appear calculating in displaying her emotions.

“We have to watch for two things,” said Carol Jenkins, president of the Women's Media Center, a nonpartisan group that analyzes how high-profile women are covered in print, radio and TV. “They cannot be manipulative. But they do have to strive for the same right, the same option, to be as inspirational and emotional as the guys.”

Full text avilable at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20080110-9999-1n10clinton.html.