Taylor Marsh, who has her own popular blog, writes in the Huffington Post that, yes, Hillary Clinton IS being treated differently than the other Democratic candidates:
It’s interesting that when I write pieces about Clinton I’m attacked for being in her camp. But when there’s an all-out attack, with most of the venom focused on her personally or she and her husband, it’s just because she’s the frontrunner. I can’t possibly be writing pieces on Clinton because she’s the frontrunner, too.
Interesting how people parse their problems with me these days. When talking about Russert’s sexist targeting of Clinton, getting personal, bringing up Bill Clinton, who isn’t running this time around, and treating Obama to Halloween costume, air travel and life beyond earth questions, while not following up on an Edwards money angle, or asking Obama about Rezko, I’m called out for changing the subject, as Dan Abrams did last night during my guest appearance on “The Abrams Report,” or for unjustly attacking poor Tim Russert.
Amusing, really.
As an aside, I didn’t write or mention a word about Brian Williams’ questions, just to be clear. Evidently Dan doesn’t get that by the very action of treating Obama with softball questions, while ignoring Edwards money angle, especially since he’s pilloried Hillary on hers, that very act is treating the boys differently than Clinton. Nothing personal about Obama. Nothing personal about Edwards. Oh, but it’s all because she’s the frontrunner. No follow ups when Edwards was asked about his campaign contributions that had him admitting nobody is pure. Letting that slide to go once again at Clinton.
There’s a reason Chris Dodd’s team has a debate clock available and it isn’t because the election is over.
Read it in its entirety.
See our previous post on the issue of gender and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.