We've Reached Peak Hillary Hate (Thanks to Our Noxious Media)

[yallerdawg]

BNR, Melissa McEwan

We have reached peak Hillary Hate, and I’m not going to mince words anymore: The media are complicit in fomenting escalating hatred against her. Their cavalier and irresponsible repetition of lies, uncritical reporting of conservative expressions of hostility toward her, and inflammatory headlines are creating a toxic environment that must change.

The national media’s treatment of Hillary has never been great. Whether it’s endlessly discussing her “likability,” or casually referring to her as “Godzillary” or “a Lovecraftian monster, the Cthulhu of American politics,” or depicting her with devil horns, or portraying her as a towering man-crushing monster, or constantly subjecting her to Remember Your Place pictures, or saying she “must be stopped,” they have long been prominent purveyors of narratives about Hillary being History’s Greatest Monster.

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The story opens thus: “If it weren’t for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton would be the most disliked major-party presidential nominee in recent American history.”

Sure. If it weren’t for Donald. It doesn’t have anything to do with a media who has been writing dogshit articles like this about her for thirty years.

And continue to write them, even as the Republican convention is peppered with unfathomable garbage like Dr. Ben Carson suggesting she’s aligned with the Devil and prominent speakers leading chants of “lock her up.”

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Much, much more at: http://bluenationreview.com/weve-reached-peak-hillary-hate/

[sarae]

1. I'm beyond disgusted at the witch-hunt.

It's exhausting and it really wears you down. And that's how I feel, as someone who's not even a direct target of it. I'm constantly amazed at how Hillary has put up with this shit her whole life. It's really quite impressive.

[Thinkingabout]

2. I have said so many times Hillary is the most qualified candidate running, compared to

Trump it seems as a down grade to say she is the most qualified candidate running. Now she is very qualified.

[ladym55]

3. Thanks for the great article

These people are scaring me to pieces. They incite violence over and over and over. And M$M is so complicit in all of this. There would be no Donald without their unquestioning reporting. They have permitted ginned-up hatred to go unchecked.

[stopbush]

4. The lies about Hillary are regurgitated with the same level of received opinion

as saying we only use 10% of our brains, or that we know that Jesus really existed.

[patricia92243]

5. Have to disagree. The peak of hatred has not been met. I'm not sure there even is a peek.

Maybe if she were actually put in jail, that might make the nut-jobs satisfied, but the hate would just go on and on.

[yallerdawg]

6. This is in reference to the Republican Convention.

So far, it's very little Donald Trump, but unrestricted Hillary Hate and bashing.

Four nights in a row on every form of media known! It won't get any better!

[yallerdawg]

7. Ms. McEwen's final word on the subject.

I am deeply resentful of anyone who plays stupid Hillary-hating games when there is so much to lose by playing them.

And I am absolutely done with pulling my punches about how dangerous these games are becoming.

I have friends, relatives and acquaintances down here in the South who are supporting Trump because it's "anyone but Hillary!" Going negative works on the masses!

That's no legitimate reason to support an unqualified fascist...but Hillary supporters are quite familiar with this position.

Just another round for us!