Oh, Get Off Your High Horse [John Podhoretz]
In Salon, Walter Shapiro interviews Hillary Rodham Clinton. Here's one incredibly annoying moment:
Oh, Get Off Your High Horse [John Podhoretz]
In Salon, Walter Shapiro interviews Hillary Rodham Clinton. Here's one incredibly annoying moment:
Q: I sometimes refer to you on, say, the fifth reference as "Hillary" instead of "Clinton." I always get three or four letters saying that I am demeaning women by referring to you by your first name. But your campaign materials refer to you as "Hillary"....Do you have any feelings about this? Am I offending you every time I type "Hillary, Obama and Edwards"? Or do you have an open mind as long as I spell Hillary correctly?
HRC: I probably have more of an open mind. But I understand the point people are taking because if you also refer to Rudy and Mitt and John then that would be even-handed. I get the same indignation from a lot of women who read you and others and say, "They never call the other candidates by their first name." And I think that in print — as opposed to building a campaign that really does use my first name because it is so identified with who I am — that's the concern that people have.
Oh, please. The reason writers refer to Hillary on second reference is because (as Shapiro notes) there's another politician named "Clinton" who is often mentioned in articles about her. Trust me when I tell you, as someone who has written a book about her, to refer to her as Clinton often makes it impossible to tell which person is being referred to. It's wonderful she has an "open mind," but she needn't feed this kind of humorless feministish Mrs. Grundyism as she does by speaking with respect of "the concern that people have."
And, yes, Mrs. Rodham, we in "print" also refer to "Rudy" and "Mitt" quite frequently.
corner.nationalreview.com I sometimes refer to you on, say, the fifth reference as "Hillary" instead of "Clinton." I always get three or four letters saying that I am demeaning women by referring to you by your first name. But your campaign materials refer to you as "Hillary"....Do you have any feelings about this? Am I offending you every time I type "Hillary, Obama and Edwards"? Or do you have an open mind as long as I spell Hillary correctly?
HRC: I probably have more of an open mind. But I understand the point people are taking because if you also refer to Rudy and Mitt and John then that would be even-handed. I get the same indignation from a lot of women who read you and others and say, "They never call the other candidates by their first name." And I think that in print — as opposed to building a campaign that really does use my first name because it is so identified with who I am — that's the concern that people have."
Oh, please. The reason writers refer to Hillary on second reference is because (as Shapiro notes) there's another politician named "Clinton" who is often mentioned in articles about her. Trust me when I tell you, as someone who has written a book about her, to refer to her as Clinton often makes it impossible to tell which person is being referred to. It's wonderful she has an "open mind," but she needn't feed this kind of humorless feministish Mrs. Grundyism as she does by speaking with respect of "the concern that people have."
And, yes, Mrs. Rodham, we in "print" also refer to "Rudy" and "Mitt" quite frequently.
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