Inhofe: Clinton showed “forceful attitude” you usually “don’t hear from women"
Source: Salon
By Jillian Rayfield
He was referring to Clinton's "What difference, at this point, does it make?" speech about the Benghazi attacks
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said that Hillary Clinton showed a forceful attitude not usually heard from women when she blew up in Januarys Senate hearings on Benghazi, in response to repeated questions about the State Departments initial claims that the attacks were the result of protests.
I think that she has gotten by with that type of a forceful attitude, something thats not normally accustomed that you dont hear from women as much as you do men. And she came out so forcefully, and you could tell that it was orchestrated at the time that she said it, Inhofe said in an interview Thursday on The Rusty Humphries Show.
What difference, at this point, does it make if the attacks were the result of a protest or not, Clinton said at the time. It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/10/inhofe_clinton_showed_forceful_attitude_you_usually_dont_hear_from_women/
Do these people realize how sexist and racist they sound??????
It'll be decades, if ever, before they win the minority and women vote.
Yeah, Hillary didn't act like the defenseless, brain dead females they prefer. She ripped them a new one and they are still smarting from it. They are so pathetic that they are actually funny.
Hey Inhofe, you old dinosaur, get over it; chicks rule!!!
livetohike
(22,163 posts)Seems like it to me
freshwest
(53,661 posts)livetohike
(22,163 posts)getting dementia by now .
freshwest
(53,661 posts)James Inhofe Loses His Mind at Daily Kos
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)About this time last year:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-out-bail-reunites-abramoff-buddy-ralph-reed-faith-and-freedom-rally
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/romney-and-santorum-rally-corrupt-lobbyist-ralph-reed-wisconsin
He got on with World Nut Daily with his pals, and this year he's been talking on Clear Channel:
Casino Jacks New Game
Mariah Blake Mar 20 2013
After more than three years in prison, and an implausible makeover as a truth-telling good-government reformer, Abramoff is still Abramoff.
Billed as an insiders view of Washington, the program focuses on the nexus between lobbying and politics. This episodes main target was Barack Obama. We have a president who came into office pledging to wipe out lobbyists, Abramoff said, before reeling off the ways Obama had fallen short of his promise. Americans are sick of the special interests, he added. Theyre sick of everything I used to be.
Abramoffthe man at the center of a sprawling corruption scandal that led to 21 convictions and tarred large swaths of the Republican establishmentis hardly the first person you might expect to be scoring the presidents ethics, much less on his own radio show. But, then, American life is littered with unlikely redemption stories. Since 2010, when Abramoff was released from prison (where he served three and a half years for fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion), he has refashioned himself as a reformer, and emerged as one of the most visible faces of the good-government movement. He is a frequent cable-news commentator, with a best-selling book (Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From Americas Most Notorious Lobbyist), the radio program (on XM Satellite Radio), and a pair of reality-TV-show concepts in development.
Abramoff is also tearing up the speakers circuit, where he collects fees as high as $15,000. Harvard Law School has hosted him, as has an FBI training center. The morning after I met him at the Clear Channel studio, I joined Abramoff on a train ride to New Jersey, where he had yet another speaking engagement. As we hurtled past crumbling smokestacks and barren parking lots, he filled me in on his latest project: a proposed law called the American Anti-Corruption Act, put together by a bipartisan team, including former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter. The law aims to curb the influence of special interests by, among other things, barring lawmakers from taking money from industries or entities they regulate. Abramoff said his role was to push for the toughest possible standards. I was basically the Mikhail Suslov of this effortthe member of the politburo who was the strictest Marxist, he told me, chortling. Its an obscure reference that few of your readers will get...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/casino-jacks-new-game/309264/
Zombies on parade...
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Why not Abramoff? Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the (American and others) public, after all.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)very loud.
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)"She talked back to me!"
"She didn't have proper respect!"
etc.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)when raped and thus avoid pregnancy. It's beyond the 1950s, it's medieval.
livetohike
(22,163 posts)Just when you think they have reached the bottom of their ignorance, up pops Inhofe.
calimary
(81,484 posts)of rape and pregnancy to smithereens.
But I guess when you think the earth is really 6,000 years old and your idea of reading the Bible is scanning selectively through Leviticus, that's what can be expected.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Don't their wives point out how idiotic and ignorant their comments are?
calimary
(81,484 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)he does represent the majority of his constituents....
lunasun
(21,646 posts)calimary
(81,484 posts)I look at these Neanderthals and think - "who the hell votes for cretins like these?" How on earth can they believe this stuff???????? Why on earth DO they believe this stuff????????????????????????
virgogal
(10,178 posts)that era and I've always been outspoken----and so was Eleanor Roosevelt,Betty Friedan,and Bella Abzug.
Liz Taylor was no slouch either.
livetohike
(22,163 posts)I was born in 1952, by the way. I remember what the 50's were like and the 60's. I remember when classified ads for jobs were listed "Men Wanted" and "Women Wanted". I remember when major corporations would not hire a woman if she was married and conversely, would fire a woman if she got married in their employ. So I'm not sure what you are talking about as an insult.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Back in the '30s we had orgs very similar to the Teabaggers.....they were the Silver Shirts, the reborn Klan, and certain others.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)He should be heckled by scores of women every time he shows his dumb face.
sheshe2
(83,908 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)No wonder they are freaking out. What happened to the good-old days when the white male could put all these uppity people in their places.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)and good riddance.
sheshe2
(83,908 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,908 posts)I have never heard Conway Twitty's version. A very beautiful video!
Thank you freshwest~
PS, I am so stealing that!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Enjoy the night and the dawn soon to come. See you tomorrow!
ashling
(25,771 posts)The strip of wood running along the top front of the dais. Looks like Big Leaf Maple; stunning tiger and burl. (sorry, woodworker here)
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)I mean to the party of Nixon and Rockefeller. These Republican politicians that they have now are plum crazy. It seems a prerequisite to be elected that they have to be as extremist and ignorant as they possibly can. Look what they have in Congress right now: Paul, Rubio, Bachmann, Ryan, Cruz, Johnson, etc., etc., etc.
Scary bunch of people.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Where there is Republican governors and legislative they are enacting sharia laws, more to control women. Their platform does not bring in the voters so they want to take the elections by purging voter rolls and making it very difficult to vote. They yelled voter fraud then set forth to make it happen. They don't want "illegals" but hire them to do the work they do not do for themselves.
The gopers have to compete...with women and those other people (all brown people )....and it kills them when they get beat fair and sqaure
calimary
(81,484 posts)Glad you're here! Makes you just want to scream sometimes, doesn't it?
I can't decide whether it's the 1950s to which they want us all to return -
or the 1850s -
or the 1350s -
or the Sixth Century -
or maybe all the way back to the Bronze Age or something...
lastlib
(23,287 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I used to work in 'pictures', including continuity, and I delight in finding bloopers. EVERY movie has them if you watch carefully with a critical eye. I used to get paid good $ to hold down the tally.
sheshe2
(83,908 posts)Along with the rest of the dinosaurs!
Thank for the OP, Beacool~
Beacool
(30,253 posts)I'm just beyond being shocked anymore at the nonsense that comes out of their mouth. Where did they find these people and how did they ever get elected to Congress??????????
Dollface
(1,590 posts)as in, "Sweet Cheezus that man is a douchbag".
Beacool
(30,253 posts)At least they serve a purpose. Other than bloviating nonsense, what purpose does Inhofe serve?
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)escapee!
Or his dad may have used Rick Perry's favorite money-saving tip - for a second use, turn a condom inside out!
Kali
(55,019 posts)oh, and Inhofe?
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)from wingnut to English, Sen. Inhofe is saying, "Mrs. Clinton scared my penis and made it go away!"
Typical assclown.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)"When she comes on television, I involuntarily cross my legs."
These "little" men can't handle strong women who are smarter than they are. Real men, like Bill Clinton and Obama, are comfortable around strong women.
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)strong women scare the bejesus out of some men.
Men like Sen. Inhofe, Tucker Carlson, etc. It speaks volumes about them, frankly.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)If you didn't know or don't know what sexism sounds like--this is what sexism sounds like.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Never ONCE did they say that Maggie had "a forceful attitude" as if it were a bad thing.
John2
(2,730 posts)the Club like Condi is. What they really hate are people on the Left talking tough. I think the entire Democratic Party needs to take off the gloves with the Republican Party. The Republicans aren't use to that from any Democrat. I think the whole Democratic Party should dismiss the echo chamber from the Right and the Media on Benghazi for what it really is. The only Americans keep focusing on it are them. I think the country should ignore them and move to more important issues. If I was the President and Democratic Party, I would reopen investigations on Iraq and voter sippression by the Republican Party if they kept it up. Media pundits are the only ones supporting the right's claims on these trumped up allegations just like they carry the water for them on every other issue. The same media that ignored the lies about Iraq. The same way they kept claiming entitlements are bankrupting America. every issue was investigated, even the talking points. They think Benghazi lost them the Election instead of other issues like Demographics. I don't think any of the voters Obama put togethjer in his coalition would have voted for Romney. Not Blacks, Hispanics, Women, Asians or young people. Romney and the Republicans just turned them off for other reasons, not Benghazi. And it will not help them in the next election either unless they change their Neantherthal Polices against these groups.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)And welcome to DU, if you're a recent recruit!
AAO
(3,300 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Wonder how can this creep be elected be anyone.
peace frog
(5,609 posts)"No, they just beat me up."
"Well then, I'll have a go..."
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)Hillary should have stayed home and learned to bake those damn cookies. Women need to learn their place.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)when I first read the quote I thought, ALL good leaders are "forceful" - he simply does not consider women leaders at ALL so he finds it surprising when he sees it with his own eyes
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)... Do you remember Shirley Chisolm? She and Hillary had a lot in common. How could I love one and not the other? And as Molly Ivins said of Barbara Jordan, "She Sounded Like God".
Skittles
(153,193 posts)and I gotta tell you, Molly was correct!!!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Either she was very dumb or we both are/were reasonably smart.
I named one of my dogs Molly Maguire after the secret Irish coalminers union to which certain of my relatives belonged, but it just as well could've been Molly Ivins. Actually, since my direct ancestors were Irish patriots along with Michael Collins, there have been quite a few interesting ones.
Wonder what happened to me? All I've ever accomplished is keeping my finger poked in the GOP's eye. But at least it's been fun.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Smart women, all of them.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)Inhofe: Probably the worst senator of them all, and that's saying something.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)ASS!!! ASS!!! ASS!!!
For the love of friggin' mackerel...what kind of women does he speak with? If I were Hillary, I'd grab this tool and shake him til his hair fell out!
ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Beyond the disgusting sexism, he has the gall to insinuate that she was somehow FAKING her response?
Despicable.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)The poor little men can't handle our anger and tears. We are jezebels sent by the devil to tempt pure men.
I've heard RW kooks call Hillary the "Whore of Babylon" and they weren't even joking.
Scary country we live in.
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)say around here, anyway. I had to go read Revelations to figure out what the "Whore of Babylon" even was.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)ever since she appeared on the national scene in 1992. They didn't know what to make of her and they have despised her ever since.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I do not find it far fetched that Inhofe is not only used to, but expects women to fake things around him. I suddenly feel sorry for Ms. Inhofe (it's okay, he won't know who I'm talking about. That "Ms" thing will throw him off).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Oh, that's right. He's from Oklahoma which is like Saudi Arabia in 1918, only hotter and with less oil.
CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)What an ass he is.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)But I enjoy seeing these GOP SOBS get screwed.
RunInCircles
(122 posts)In the 2008 primary I voted for Hillary precisely because she seems to have much more fight in her than Obama
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and since she is backing the keystone pipeline and Middle east intervention, that same fight could have turned on the left, people she and hubby are very very godd at fighting.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Thinking off, the B word
blahblah98
(8 posts)... is not orchestrated? It's like what, a grassroots groundswell movement?
One that the GOP helped bring about themselves by voting to de-fund embassy's security.
Not to mention the 13 embassy attacks under GW Bush with over 60 deaths.
The crazy runs deep with this one.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Fox News and the Tea Party crowd in Congress are the ones beating the drum. Everyone else in the country is just giving a collective yawn.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Tell her to go get you some coffee and see what happens.
kiranon
(1,727 posts)timdog44
(1,388 posts)are not really men.
Now take my uppity wife
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)more feminine, or....
it is not a repug thing. that is for damn sure.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)The content of one's message is more important than the tone. And sometimes a "forceful" tone is necessary anyhow.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Very disappointed to realize that the left can be as sexist as the right.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)would make this guy shit his pants.
SunSeeker
(51,705 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Well, Inhofe, that is, not Gore. Gore's fine.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Stop by any time you don't feel you have a clue about 'forceful' women. I'd be happy to give you a free demo.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)He obviously doesn't know the women I know....or me. Suppose he only exposes himself to the Stepford type of women.....the "safe" ones who aren't all scary!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)From the guy who thinks no one in his extended family is gay....
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)And shut up while you're at and don't talk back!! Make me a fuckin' martini!!
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)on their knuckles and forage for money shouldn't be allowed to serve in government, democracy or not.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)failed to tar the President. They are so old school now with their smear tactics, guess they miss the days of paper only press.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)That's GOT to hurt.
DFW
(54,437 posts)This moron never met my wife. She hass vays uff showing him a forceful attitude when confronted with Oklahoma manure.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)pacalo
(24,721 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)They will NEVER realize how sexist (and racist) they sound.
Truly, the symbol for the Republican Party should not be the elephant, but the dinosaur.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Pigs are intelligent creatures and deserve better characterization.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)And a fine one he is to complain about something being "orchestrated" while orchestrating his twofer attack on Clinton. Of course he has no shame and will issue no apology.
ellie
(6,929 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)how many of our species are undergoing reverse evolution.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)It is one of the great unfairnesses of life, stupidity isn't painful.
CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)I don't think they do. I think their world view is that white men rule & that is not sexist or racist, because that's the way God* meant it to be.
* Remember, God is a an old white man, too.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Until he got locked in his dark basement for the weekend and finally heard a knock on the other side of the stairway door; then he prayed, "Oh God, please let it be you!" (or something like that; don't quote me on what I saw years ago)
When the door opened, showing a figure - his drycleaning business owner neighbor - backlit by the upstairs light, Archie wailed, "OMG, Jefferson was right!" (about God being black)
CrispyQ
(36,518 posts)Maybe I never saw it, but I can visualize it in my mind.
Thanks for the laugh.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)But the look on Archie's face and what he said are burnt into my consciousness. That old coot had such a weird way of being right and wrong at the same time. My second favorite quote was when he'd lost his job and someone reminded him that FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Archie replied, "Yeah, and he was employed when he said it!"
The only other comedy show that really came close in quality, except maybe Mash, was Frazier. I like brilliantly facetious humor. Today's trash-talking morons just make me sick.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)It's like they are in a time warp. They are still in another era, I just haven't decided which one.
Figaro78
(37 posts)Hillary is a lez.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)what a tool.
siligut
(12,272 posts)He is saying she put on a show, that she was prepared to fire on him to shut him down, which it did. So his excuse, for losing this round, is that her forceful game plan took him by surprise. But Benghazi is still the GOP baby as stated in the article.
People may be starting to use the I-word before too long, Inhofe said.
The I-word meaning impeachment? Humphries asked.
Yeah, Inhofe responded.
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/10/inhofe_clinton_showed_forceful_attitude_you_usually_dont_hear_from_women/
Yes, let this bunch of morons continue to focus their efforts on Benghazi, this futile pursuit will at least occupy their obstructionist hands. Benghazi is the holy grail.
msskwesq
(7 posts)Just how misogynistic can Inhofe get? He should come to any court room in America and see just how forceful women attorneys are. I am a defense attorney and am no shrinking violet. Neither are my fellow female colleagues. These dinosaur Republicans need to grow up. I was proud of Hillary when she let them have it!
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Beacool
I wonder witch decade he live in - as long as I have lived, the womans have been rather hard hitting with their arguments...
Even my great-great grandmother - who lived in the middle of the 1800s was feared for her sharp tung - who could command some serious authority around the home.. Even my great-great grandfather was respectfully around her.. And he was a man who was known as a rather strict man. But back home - he was polite and respectfully around his wife... Because he was kind of afraid of her tung...
A strait my great grandmother also shared with her grandmother - a sharp tung - and hard hitting with her arguments.. Even my grandfather who I believed was not afraid of anyone - had deep respect for his mother - who could just look at her 50-60 year old son - and the son just looked down and say Yes Mama - I will do as you want...
Diclotican
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)as Inhofe being embarrassed or ashamed at his own cretinism.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)If a mere female so much as dares contradict a male, God forbid with a sharp bite, that's proof positive it had to be staged because how else would she find the starch in her backbone to do it?
Talk about the blowback they'll get for that one! When and if even the slow TP women gradually realize just how deeply their entire gender has been smeared, it could provide the greatest protection against their being snookered into holding Hillary responsible for Benghazi. Can anyone say "Circular Firing Squads"????
G O, H I L L A R Y !! 2 0 1 6 !!!
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Deep13
(39,154 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)azureblue
(2,151 posts)when some other congressperson, or person being "interviewed" by these GOP morons, stand up and tells them, "sir,you are dumb as a bag of rocks, you are demonstrating that you have nowhere near the intelligence and reasoning ability to hold office, and your partisan grandstanding, while you may think it is furthering your cause, shows to all the world what a fool you really are. How you were able to put your pants on this morning without help, is beyond me." or words to that affect.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)He's the biggest embarrassment in the Senate and that's saying a lot. That man is a special breed of stupid.
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)caseymoz
(5,763 posts)Yeah, they're pathetic. Except people vote for their bullshit.
truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)wait for it...
Orchestrated.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Authoritarians love it.
Lunacee_2013
(529 posts)She'll need that attitude in 2016, when she's president.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)1st: to everyone bad mouthing men. Being the owner/operator of a penis is not sufficient to qualify as a Man. Man or Men is the English term of respect traditionally given to members of one half of the species. Lady or Ladies is the English respect term given to the other half. I mean the English Language, not the culture.
More importantly, is Sen. Inhofe new here? Popped in from the next dimension? I suppose the rear ends of women never itch either.
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Nuff said.
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)But one could deduce that from his politics.
joanbarnes
(1,723 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)Inhofe and the baggers don't like women with smarts and power. It makes their little bitty willies become even smaller.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)with the rest of the country. There's no consideration for another point of view.
I actually hold Pelosi somewhat responsible for the turning tide. She wanted so much to not impeach or prosecute anyone in the Bush Administration that she allowed this nasty group to get voted in and they took her reticence to be weakness which they thrive on. I like Nancy, but she made the battle longer and harder than it needed to be.
spicegal
(758 posts)this country. Of course, if a man spoke with "force language" it would be perfectly acceptable, and no one would bat an eye, comment on it, or suggest that it was "orchestrated". The GOP is so afraid of a Hillary run in 2016, they're already throwing anything they can find at her, hoping something will stick.
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)It just proves that there are far too many nutty people in the world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/north-korea-venomous-swish-of-skirt-comment_n_2866672.html
yurbud
(39,405 posts)bamacrat
(3,867 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)bamacrat
(3,867 posts)I mean shit, given the restraint our side showed with Bush, they ought to let us have one president that they don't try to impeach. Do they really think one of their guys will beat Hillary? If they do try to impeach it will be to straw that broke the elephants back.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)They won't impeach Obama and they won't run anyone who can beat Hillary if she chooses to run in 2016.
Acting like spoiled toddlers is all they got.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)You do expect it from someone who served as Secretary of State however, and that's what you got. Pull up your big-boy depends and deal.
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)Wish we had a real Nikita who would wallop Inhofe.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)His wiring's not right.