From June, 2014: The Numbers Behind Maureen Dowd's 21-Year Long Campaign Against Hillary Clinton
72% of Dowd Columns Negative Toward Clinton:
For more than twenty years, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has been attacking Hillary Clinton from a shallow well of insults, routinely portraying the former secretary of state and first lady as an unlikeable, power-hungry phony.
Media Matters analyzed 195 columns by Dowd since November 1993 containing significant mentions of Clinton for whether they included any of 16 negative tropes in five categories (listed in the below methodology). 72 percent (141 columns) were negative towards Clinton -- only 8 percent (15 columns) were positive. The remaining 20 percent (39 columns) were neutral.
For example, Dowd has repeatedly accused Clinton of being an enemy to or betraying feminism (35 columns, 18 percent of those studied), power-hungry (51 columns, 26 percent), unlikeable (9 columns, 5 percent), or phony (34 columns, 17 percent). She's also attacked the Clintons as a couple in 43 columns (22 percent), many of which included Dowd's ham-handed attempts at psychoanalysis....
In a 1996 column discussing a Congressional Republican inquiry into the White House Travel Office as Clinton was promoting her book It Takes A Village, Dowd mused that the two events were conspiring to portray Clinton as "Earth Mother meet Mommie Dearest." She again called Clinton "Mommie Dearest" in a 2008 column while accusing her of trying "to give the kiddies nightmares" during the presidential campaign. (Mommie Dearest is a memoir by Christina Crawford detailing her relationship with her domineering, abusive adoptive mother, Joan Crawford.)...
Dowd has sought to portray Hillary Clinton as unlikeable in 9 separate columns (5 percent of the columns studied). In 1999, Dowd speculated that Rudy Giuliani's "briefing book on Clinton" might include things like: Clinton's "smile is not connected to her face," and that "you might admire her but you wouldn't want to hang out with her."...
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/18/the-numbers-behind-maureen-dowds-21-year-long-c/199752 via Media Matters
(NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS POSTED FOR THE HILLARY GROUP)
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