Hillary Clinton Hits 'Sexism' In Media Coverage -- Says Gender Bigger Drawback Than Race
Last updated: August 7, 2008 - 12:22pm
Hillary Clinton hit "sexism" in media coverage of her campaign as "deeply offensive to millions of women." She criticized "misogynists" and said that the race factor was often discussed but not gender: "[E]very poll I've seen show more people would be reluctant to vote for a woman to vote for an African American, which rarely gets reported on either." She said her treatment by the media has "been deeply offensive to millions of women. ... I believe this campaign has been a ground breaker in lots of ways, but it certainly has been challenging given some of the attitudes that have been forthcoming in the press, and I regret that because I think it's been really not worthy of the seriousness of this campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies that we have here."
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