CNN’s Phillips Deplores Sexist Attack on Hillary, Quotes from The Nation

Published: June 6, 2008, 3:39 pm

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, feminism, liberals amp amp democrats, barack obama, betsy reed, gail sheehy, hillary clinton, kyra phillips, american morning, cnn, vanity fair

Following Veronica de la Cruz's use of the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos as sources for a story on Thursday, CNN's Kyra Phillips read an excerpt from a recent piece by The Nation's Betsy Reed during a segment on Friday's "American Morning" about Hillary Clinton's future. After her guest Gail Sheehy of Vanity Fair argued that Clinton "spoke so strongly, so -- with such assurance about world affairs and who was a tough warrior," Phillips lamented, "And it wasn't easy. Just to take -- Betsy Reed put this together for The Nation.' I want to get your reaction.... She's been likened to Lorena Bobbitt, a hellish housewife, described as witchy, a she-devil, anti-male, a strip teaser. Her loud and hardy laugh has been labeled the cackle, her voice compared to fingernails on a blackboard. And as one Fox News commentator put it, when Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear take out the garbage.'" At the beginning of her interview of Sheehy,

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