Media Follies.

The New York Times was as guilty as other media outfits in its trashing of Hillary Clinton:

Politically correct is never a term one would apply to Dowd’s commentary. Her columns this year said Clinton’s “message is unapologetically emasculating,” and that she “needed to prove her masculinity” but in the end “had to fend off calamity by playing the female victim.” In one column Dowd wrote, “She may want to take a cue from the Miss America contest: make a graceful, magnanimous exit and wait in the wings.”

“From the time I began writing about politics,” Dowd said, “I have always played with gender stereotypes and mined them and twisted them to force the reader to be conscious of how differently we view the sexes.” Now, she said, “you are asking me to treat Hillary differently than I’ve treated the male candidates all these years, with kid gloves.”

The problem is Dowd has treated the Clintons like filth over the past decade or so. In fact, one would argue she made it to the pinnacle of paper punditry on their backs.

I have always found her overrated as a writer.