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Describing Hillary
New York Times reporter Amy Chozick posted a series of tweets describing an email she received from a group called “Super Volunteers for Hillary” from a linked Twitter account. The email stated they will be targeting any reporters who use coded language and keywords in their stories they believe to be sexist or portray Hillary Clinton in a negative manner.
Here’s Chozick’s description:
This group hasn’t been verified by Clinton’s non-campaign/campaign and it’s certainly plausible that this could be a troll account or the latest 4Chan prank. But lets take them at their word that Super Hillary Volunteers are an actual group threatening reporters by email on behalf of the presumptive Democrat nominee.
I for one, out of fear of professional ruin, will be taking this group at their word until it is proven that they are trolling and I believe that serious journalists should adhere to their rules. No reporter should run afoul of this powerful group by using the coded language they are warned about, for the sake of their career and family.
Out of the burden of public service and duty to the integrity of our free press, I have taken it upon myself to list some words that reporters and our media should feel free to use with regard to Mrs. Clinton. Words that the HRC Super Volunteers have not singled out as of yet:
Antediluvian
Unaccomplished
Perfidious
Enfeebled
Grandma
Wheelchair
Unscrupulous
Mephistophelian
Decrepit
Prevaricator
Werther’s
Reprobate
Walker
Fabricator
Alzheimer’s
Superannuated
Stroke
Insidious
Lily-livered
Malevolent
Elderly
Geriatric
Hoariness
Wrinkled
Recreant
Dissimulator
Authoritarian
Doddery
Two-faced
Dilapidated
Impaired
Equivocator
Senior Citizen
Conniving
Relic
Machiavellian
Scheming
Unsuitable
Attenuated
Invalid
Frigid
Weathered
Unapologetic
Cocoon
Dupery
Fabulist
Debilitated
Cackle
Closemouthed
Serpent
Unqualified
Guileful
Erroneous
Unethical
Doddering
Ancient
Sexagenarian
Fossilized
Incompetent
Ineffective
Corrupt
Diabolical
Feel free to assist our media by adding to this list below in the comments. But please be advised: this list subject to change per HRC Super Volunteers’ mandatory standards which will be updated here. Thank you for your compliance, good citizen.
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Slimy
Are we limited to adjectives? If not, I nominate “harridan.”
Lady McBeth
“Bill Clinton’s woman” is sexist and way too vague so it should also be avoided.
Not too many years ago, it would be entirely obvious that this is a parody account. That it’s no longer obviously a parody is an indictment of political discourse on the left.
Can I nominate the word ugly?
How about debased?
Evil?
Moral vacancy?
Instead of listing all of the words that are sexist, wouldn’t it just be easier to say that any description of her had to include the words “perfect,” “better than Jesus” or “Blessed Be Her Name” to qualify as non-sexist?
Example: “Hillary Clinton entered the room.” Biased. “Hillary Clinton, Blessed Be Her Name, entered the room.” Objective.
Also, moving forward, as a matter of sensitivity, her name should be spelled out “H-ll-ry Cl-nt-n” to avoid taking her name in vain among those for whom such a thing would be a trigger.
Antediluvian. I LOLed.
Just a dry recital of the facts – sans adjectives and adverbs – is enough to discredit Hillary.
Paranoid
Antinomian
Havishamian
or
DefinitelythezombiethatturntHarryReidish
I’ll go with anachronistic, silver ware thief, pardon merchant, favor peddler or, my wife’s favorite, liar.
Ah. We’ve been warned about the Hillary Youth. If we don’t speak kindly about their hero, they’ll be… what? … angry?
Who cares?
Besides, I’m pretty sure I’d be against these same people anyway.
They didn’t say chubby-ankled, so chubby-ankled is an adjective that our side can use — which could come in handy, like in a debate or something.
Worry not.
Jon Keller of CBS Boston says that the media won’t be bullied:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/tag/hrc-super-volunteers/
A few more: fetid, delusional, alcoholic, and lightweight.
We really must do something for the Super Volunteers. This seems like too good an opportunity to pass up. Like sending them packets of Kool-Aid. Or a groupon for cult de-programming. Something that makes you smile when you do it.
McCarthyite.
Nixonian.
I liked “harridan.” We could dust off “termagant,” too.
Helmsleyesque
Lurleenlike. Cankles. Pathological. Incompetent. Shyster. Infirm. Unsteady.Addled. Insufferable. Over.
Good one DS.
Was “witchy” on there? That cackle of hers…
WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP, CODED SEXISM ALERT, WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP
Her Thighness