September 11, 2016

As Clinton Battles Pneumonia, Writers Rally With Established Data On Trump Voters #Truth

September 11, 2016/ Anne Enke

Hillary Clinton has pneumonia, doctor says Politico

Hillary Clinton's doctor Lisa Bardack said in a statement Sunday that she saw Clinton when she returned home in Chappaqua after the Democratic nominee left a 9/11 memorial ceremony due to what her campaign said was overheating.

"Secretary Clinton has been experiencing a cough related to allergies. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia," her doctor, Lisa Bardack, said in a statement released to the press. "She was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule. While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely."

There is no word on whether the Democratic candidate will still fly to California tomorrow. According to a senior adviser, the campaign is evaluating her schedule and need for rest.

April 2016 Reuters/Ipsos Poll of 7,800 People on Racial Attitudes New York Magazine

The poll surveyed about 1840 Clinton supporters, 1370 Trump, 970 Cruz and 650 Kasich on attitudes related to race. The Trumpsters are far out front, followed by Cruz supporters. Kasich supporters are in some cases less opinionated negatively about race than Clinton supporters.

Data Reveals Hillary Clinton Was Right About Donald Trump's 'Deplorable' Supporters Huffington Post

A May PPP survey of Trump supporters found that 54% think President Obama is a Muslim, only 13% think he's a Christian. 59% think President Obama was not born in America, with only 23% thinking that he was.

Just 42% of Trump supporters think Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes with 24% thinking Scalia was murdered and 34% being unsure.

On the topic of gay marriage, a recent Pew poll found that 52% of Trump supporters oppose it, in spite of the Supreme Court ruling.

The same research found that 69% of Trump voters -- compared to 51% of Cruz voters and 40% of Kasich supporters believe that immigrants are a burden to the country by taking jobs, housing and health care. By contrast, only 17% of Clinton voters and 14% of Sanders voters agreed with this negative view of immigrants.

Hillary Clinton Was Politically Incorrect, but She Wasn't Wrong About Trump's Supporters The Atlantic

One way of reporting on Clinton’s statement is to weigh its political cost, ask what it means for her campaign, or attempt to predict how it might affect her performance among certain groups. This path is in line with the current imperatives of political reporting and, at least for the moment, seems to be the direction of coverage. But there is another line of reporting that could be pursued—Was Hillary Clinton being truthful or not?

Much like Trump’s alleged opposition to the Iraq War, this not an impossible claim to investigate. We know, for instance, some nearly 60 percent of Trump’s supporters hold “unfavorable views” of Islam, and 76 percent support a ban on Muslims entering the United States. We know that some 40 percent of Trump’s supporters believe blacks are more violent, more criminal, lazier, and ruder than whites. Two-thirds of Trump’s supporters believe the first black president in this country’s history is not American. These claim are not ancillary to Donald Trump’s candidacy, they are a driving force behind it.

When Hillary Clinton claims that half of Trump’s supporters qualify as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic,” data is on her side. One could certainly argue that determining the truth of a candidate’s claims is not a political reporter’s role. But this is not a standard that political reporters actually adhere to.

Trump Loves Schlafly, Champion of Anti-Feminist, Anti-Gay, Anti-Anything Progressive in American Values

Trump takes aim at Clinton's lead among women Politico

Donald Trump said on Saturday that Phyllis Schlafly, the woman who led the defeat of America's Equal Rights Amendment and numerous campaigns against gay rights, was "a truly great American patriot" who championed the American underdog and people like himself.

"Believe me, Phyllis was there for me when it was not at all fashionable. Trust me," Trump told the crowd honoring her. "Her legacy will live on every time some underdog outmatched and outgunned, defies the odds, and delivers a win for the people."

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has fielded a team of women in Ohio to court women voters.

"Katrina Pierson, his often irreverent spokeswoman, emerged with Lara Trump, the candidate’s daughter-in-law, Omarosa Manigault, a reality TV star-turned-campaign director of African American outreach, Lynne Patton, a vice president at the Eric Trump Foundation, and YouTube stars Diamond and Silk.

“We are not politicians, we are civilians,” Lara Trump, the wife of Eric Trump, told a mostly female crowd lunching on cold cuts and potato salad in a fluorescent-lit room. “We really don’t have any idea what we’re doing, except we said, ‘We’ve got to go out and tell people what a great guy Donald Trump is.”'

Hillary Clinton Headlines September 11, 2016

Washington Post poll: Clinton ahead by 5 The Washington Post

Clinton's lead: Steady but not certain Politico

CIA director rebuts Trump's claim on intelligence briefing Politico

Matt Lauer's Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I've Seen in This Campaign by Jonathan Chait New York Magazine

Trump Favors Regime Change in Iran, Says He'll Attack Them Over Rude Gestures New York Magazine

September 10, 2016

Does Hillary Clinton Represent the Ultimate Emasculation of American Males?

September 10, 2016/ Anne Enke

Is Hillary Clinton Right About Trump Supporters? This Is What The Polling Data Says ThinkProgress

Hillary Clinton created major controversy speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Friday night. In a statement that she has since walked back, Hillary described half of her Republican opponent Donald Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables".

Arguing that large numbers of Trump's supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it -- Clinton said that the Trump campaign has given voice to the websites and Twitter account. Clinton then described other Trump supporters as "people who feel the government has let them down, the economy let them down, nobody cares about them." Hillary stressed that "those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

The polling data supports Hillary's argument. ThinkProgress digs into the views of Trump supporters specifically, compared not only to Democrats but to Republicans who supported other candidates.

The Male Perspective

Fear of a Female President by Peter Beinart The Atlantic

According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 52 percent of white men hold a “very unfavorable” view of Clinton. That’s a whopping 20 points higher than the percentage who viewed Barack Obama very unfavorably in 2012, 32 points higher than the percentage who viewed Obama very unfavorably in 2008, and 28 points higher than the percentage who viewed John Kerry very unfavorably in 2004.

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Over the past few years, political scientists have suggested that, counterintuitively, Barack Obama’s election may have led to greater acceptance by whites of racist rhetoric. Something similar is now happening with gender. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is sparking the kind of sexist backlash that decades of research would predict. If she becomes president, that backlash could convulse American politics for years to come.

To understand this reaction, start with what social psychologists call “precarious manhood” theory. The theory posits that while womanhood is typically viewed as natural and permanent, manhood must be “earned and maintained.” Because it is won, it can also be lost. Scholars at the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign reported that when asked how someone might lose his manhood, college students rattled off social failures like “losing a job.” When asked how someone might lose her womanhood, by contrast, they mostly came up with physical examples like “a sex-change operation” or “having a hysterectomy.”

The Subtle Misogyny in Matt Lauer's Interview With Hillary Clinton Was Appalling Slate

I am interested in the far more subtle variation of the misogyny illness, the one that lurks behind phrases such as “even-handed” and “fair-minded,” that low-grade fever that caused Matt Lauer to continually interrupt Hillary Clinton’s sharp, specific answers to his questions in the Commander in Chief Forum on NBC (thank god Clinton stood up and ignored him), and which also prompted him to allow Donald Trump to ramble on in incoherent sentence fragments about secret plans for defeating ISIS in thirty days, as if such nonsense were serious political discourse. Would our “fair-minded” journalist have treated a male candidate the way he treated Hillary Clinton? I ask you to search your souls, men and women alike. My answer is no.

Related: How Many Times Will Hillary Clinton Be Interrupted? Vogue.com

How Sexism Like Matt Laurer's Could Imperil the Nation The American Prospect

Trump, the Big Liar

Donald Trump's 'Big Liar' Technique by Paul Krugman The New York Times

Annoyed with a Trump-supporter comment on the HillaryWomen News FB page -- one calling Hillary a liar -- I have the Politifact info on who is more truthful, referenced by Krugman, right here.

One point that Krugman makes is that -- in the same way the media won't report that the AP took down their tweets on the Clinton foundation yesterday -- what Hillary Clinton said about Colin Powell advising her is true. The Powell email -- written three days after Hillary took office as Secy of State -- absolutely backed her up. So the media scoffed at her claim and reported it widely, but don't hold your breath that they will clean up their snorts. Journalists tend not to take that action.

Related: The Hillary Clinton email story is out of control The Washington Post