Thursday, July 16, 2009 - Posts
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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
When a pack of smartly-uniformed firefighters strode out of Sonia
Sotomayor's confirmation hearing Thursday, they were greeted by a
throng of reporters—and six girls in green t-shirts, their
point-and-shoots at the ready. The members of Greater King David
Baptist Church's Girl Scout troop had just listened to two of the
firefighters testify, and now they crowded together, photographing the
firemen as they walked by. This was the best day of their trip. (Read more in Double X.)
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Jess, here's a theory: Tina Brown told Hillary to take off her burqa
in hopes of starting a rumble. Once the Sec of State has derobed, she
and Obama can start the fight Washington watchers expected them to have
when she took the job ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Earlier this week, Tina Brown referred to Hillary Clinton as Obama's submissive "foreign policy wife"
in a Daily Beast column. In that same space, she urged Hills to "take
off her burqa." Though Brown scored some points in her critique of
Clinton's invisibility (where was she this week in Russia?), those
critiques were somewhat buried in deliberately provocative and arguably
racist asides about how Hillary is Obama's "Saudi" spouse ... (Read more in Double X.)
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