Thank goodness Clio wrote this articulate response to Bernie Sanders supporter and spokes woman Susan Sarandon. Clio is demanding a public apology and I agree. Susan Sarandon is a UN ambassador and supposedly stands for female empowerment around the world. Instead, she reduces anyone who supports Hillary Clinton to a brainless vagina. Her sexism stings just as deeply as the worst insults from the Bernie Bros. As my close friends know, this meme was nothing less than a dagger in my heart.

SUSAN SARANDON: WOMEN ARE NOT VAGINAS

You are not on my bad side for supporting Bernie. You can support whoever you please. I and all the women of my generation and before our generation fought for our right to make our own choices. Our choices about our lives, our bodies and our politics. You are on my bad side for reducing yourself and other women to vaginas.

Women are not “vaginas”, “cunts”, or any word medical, Latin, French, street talk, baby talk, word that sums us up by the type of our genitals. Misogyny is reducing yourself and other women to a set of organs.

It’s not edgy, it’s not cool, it’s not progressive. It is reactionary. It is vulgar.

As a woman I have life experience. I have an intellect. I have knowledge. I have emotions. I have achievements and failures that do not start and end with my genitals. My value and the value of other women is not that they are vessels for procreation.

I am a complete human being that is not to be reduced to my genitals by you, the progressives, the religious fanatics of all hues, the tea baggers, the boomers, generation x’ers or all the millennials combined.

You are giving permission to degrade me, you, Hillary Clinton and countless women to simple minded morons that think only via our genitals. You think it’s cool and righteous? Well it’s not.

Read the rest of Clio's essay on Medium.

Facts Please. Or Do We Throw Them Out The Window With Bernie?

Why Don't Boomer Women Like Hillary Clinton? New York Times

This headline appears in Sunday's New York Times. It is not true, of course, given all the polling on Hillary and boomer women. It should have read WHY DON'T (SOME) BOOMER WOMEN LIKE HILLARY CLINTON?

After Andrea Mitchell's decision a few days ago to omit Hillary's lead in Iowa and her increased lead in SC, to focus on Bernie's lesser but still very strong lead in NH, it's obvious that media women are just as complicit in covering Hillary with a slant as men are.

We'll just see what happens in Iowa tomorrow.

Bernie Sanders might have an electability problem Politico

Patrick Murray, who runs the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey, said the independent voters who are backing Sanders in the primary are more liberal in orientation and would be likely to vote for the Democrat in November anyway.

“It’s a big leap of faith to take primary poll data and jump to the general,” added Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which has conducted recent polls for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. “You do ask the questions, and it tells you something: Hillary has a problem with independents, and Bernie doesn’t. Fast forward to September, October and November. The campaigns will change, and that dynamic will be different.”

Clinton camp plans to roll out Washington Post's anti-Sanders editorial Politico

The Clinton campaign will not comment on the scathing Washington Post editorial 'Mr. Sanders Is Not a Brave Truth-Teller'. Instead it will reprint the damning words that accuse Sanders of running a 'fiction-filled campaign' and distribute it to voters in New Hampshire ahead of the Feb. 9 primary.

Volunteers will pass out reprints of the editorial, presumably in a direct person-to-person handoff as volunteers knock on doors across the state. Enter The Washington Post.

“He is a politician selling his own brand of fiction to a slice of the country that eagerly wants to buy it,” the paper's editorial board wrote. The piece goes on to slam Sanders’ “political revolution” for implying “a national consensus favoring his agenda when there is none and ignores the many legitimate checks and balances in the political system that he cannot wish away.” And it accuses Sanders, whose anti-establishment, outsider appeal has been key to his success, of being “a lot like many other politicians, comparing his claim that more government spending would result in more growth to Republican arguments “that tax cuts will juice the economy and pay for themselves.”