Tag Archives: Hillary Clinton

Gore Vidal Takes on The World — Again

God, I can’t help but love the old bastard.  Another tour-de-force from Gore Vidal (interviewed by Tim Teeman) appeared in The London Times last week, in which, as usual, he said so many things, so very loudly that so many people know to be true but daren’t begin to mumble. This frail, crippled, diabetic, alcoholic, …

October 8, 2009 – 5:18 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

The Liberal Media’s Hillarycidal Urges

God, but they hate her. Really, really hate her. They hate her so much they want her dead. And it’s gone way past a bloody metaphor. Not most Democrat voters, of course, who have given her at least as many votes as Obama, (and though many Obama fans hate her passionately, religiously, a surprising number …

May 15, 2008 – 3:35 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Hillary Clinton | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (8)

Limo Liberals Take The High Road to Defeat

By Mark Simpson Claiming the moral high ground is, in my view, the lowest form of politics. No doubt this means that, like the voters of Pennsylvania, I don’t read The New York Times enough. We’re really missing out. Yesterday’s haughty editorial in the wake of Senator Clinton’s convincing victory in that key state, despite …

April 25, 2008 – 3:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, commentary, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)

Who’s the Diva? Hillary or Obama?

As camp comic Kenneth Williams might say: ‘ark at ‘er! An entertaining, often incisive, if rather, er, campy, Huffington Post article ‘The Diva’s Camp’ about Hillary’s diva power (and why this turns off ‘Obama-colytes’) compares Hillary Clinton to Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest: ‘Hillary Clinton is possessed by the spirit of Joan Crawford. Like that notorious …

April 10, 2008 – 8:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)

The Bitch is Back: Hillary Comes Out Clawing

After being written-off and told to give up, Hillary has earned grudging respect By Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 6 March 2008) What is American voters’ problem? The media, on both sides of the Atlantic, has been telling them for weeks that dreary Hillary was “finished” and that Tuesday’s primaries were going to be her “Alamo” — …

March 6, 2008 – 8:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments (5)