Andrew Sullivan fatigue is far out-pacing Clinton fatigue.
Sullivan writes, "At what point does the damage Clinton does to women in politics - the histrionics, the nepotism, the faux-feminism - outweigh the obvious gain of a serious female candidate?" He links to this video, in which Hillary Clinton is introduced at the Yale Child Study Center by Penn Rhodeen, who was her supervisor when she worked at the Center on foster care issues during law school in the 1970s.
The "story," apparently, was that Clinton, once again, "teared up." What actually happened is that Rhodeen choked up as he spoke about Clinton's work on behalf of children and his excitement, as a children's advocate himself, about her presidential run. Hillary listened, responded with a few graceful jokes, and made a single motion as if wiping a tear of her own away.
This is obviously a much greater affront to feminism than Sullivan's consistently irrational, gendered attacks on Hillary Clinton.
--Dana Goldstein
