What an appropriate way for Tina Brown to take over management at Newsweek and to celebrate women’s history month! The cover girl is our girl, and the cover story is about Hillary Clinton’s signature issue: the inclusion of women and girls in every aspect of society. Two plus years into her tenure at State, Secretary Clinton has made it crystal clear that her major concern, rather than being a particular sector on the globe, is a particular segment of all populations around the globe. There was a time when it was not understood by all around her that this was to be her primary focus. With this issue of Newsweek, all doubt should be erased. She does have an issue about which she is passionate and unrelenting: empowering women and girls. Those of us who have stood with her over the years knew that, of course, and tend, as a result, to be passionate and unrelenting about her.
What a tremendous honor for Women’s History Month and for our history-precedent-setting Hillary Clinton!
Thank you Ms Brown…not just for the cover story but for understanding what the Hillary agenda is all about… Many of us have understood what Hillary is up to since 2008 and now more people than ever will finally recognize it.
I am buying this Newsweek for all six of my grandsons and will frame the magazine for my office where I write about women!
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Wonderful idea!
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The shelter Clinton referred to is run by the Cambodian activist Somaly Mam, who herself was forced into a brothel as a little girl. Mam credits Clinton’s visit with making her work rescuing young victims respectable in the eyes of her government. “She protects our lives,” Mam says simply, noting that during her visit Clinton took the time to talk with the girls and that many of the shelter’s children now keep photos of her on their walls. “Our people never paid attention. Hillary has opened their eyes, so now they have no choice; by her work she has saved many lives in Cambodia—our government is changing.”
This brought tears to my eyes. I’ll never EVER get over the fact that this country will not have her as president. What the hell were the Democrats thinking in 2008???? As I have said before in other sites, it’s more our loss than hers.
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She hit the nail on the head about what they were thinking:
I am still not sure she won’t end up president somehow down the road.
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Well, as they say, from your lips to God’s ears. I guess that we shall have to wait and pray that she changes her mind.
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Well, when you really think about it being grandma and POTUS are not mutually exclusive. She HAS to answer those questions negatively as a member of the cabinet. But when you read this article you are conscious of HOW powerful and influential she is. She has to know in the back of her mind that as POTUS she could do so much more.
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I don’t have much hope for the American presidency in the foreseeable future, and not just when it comes to Hillary. I think “1600 PA Ave. isn’t big enough for Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton” (quotes, because it’s as a commenter noted over at my blog), but if she ever puts her hat in, I’m all in.
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Just watching and waiting to see what she will do. I will follow her wherever she goes whatever she does.
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Wow!! This is what she is all about God Bless you Madame Secretary. Tina Brown I guess you opened your eyes and found out what Hillary is all about.
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I still think Tina Brown uses Hillary when she wants personal attention. It’s nice that Hillary gets this cover story, but I can’t get over the feeling that it’s really all about Tina.
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I’ve not been a big Tina Brown fan, but then sometimes I think she’s trying to survive in a male-dominated field like Hillary. From Tina’s end, this may very well be a ploy that’s more about herself, but at the same time… I think the actual piece inside Newsweek by Sinclair is one of the few pieces in a mainstream outlet like Newsweek to have ever really put it all out there about Hillary’s signature effort as sec of state being women and girls like that. And, it seems kind of interesting that it took a woman editor of Newseek to get that. With Meacham the best we got about Hillary was calling her Obama’s Bad Cop.
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True enough. I have kept my eye on her ever since her “Obama’s Other Wife” snipe. It was just as bad as Dick Morris’s “Hillary in the Shadows.” I also didn’t appreciate her comment about the “snap in the DRC” when she said Hillary was “feeling fat.” It is nice that Hillary and her issue got this cover story in Brown’s managerial debut, but she needs to watch her step because we are watching. She needs to play fair. There’s no need for her to play mean girl. There are enough male bullies around.
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Oh definitely that “Hillary, Take off your Burqa” and the “feeling fat” crap had my guard up too… Tina tries too hard to stay relevant and stay hip with the snarky Morning Joe crowd and I think in a weird way Tina thought that this was a way to play to both the Hillary and Hillary-hating crowds while still standing up for Hill’s substance. But, she went about it the wrong way. Hillary wasn’t feeling fat and she hasn’t been wearing a Burqa. Tina knows that, too, I think, but I think she’s afraid of being pushed out the cool kids’ table, so she talks at their level. Maybe it is her level too–either way, I can’t stand that stuff. I mean…she brought career Hillary hater Andrew Sullivan aboard at Newseek too. So we’ll see how that goes.
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She’s passive-aggressive with Hillary. Hillary is so beyond the pettiness that she just smiles and will do her interviews and appearances for Tina anyway. I am sure Tina has something coming up this month again as she did last March with Vital Voices and Hillary will once again speak for her. But it isn’t really for Tina, it’s for women and girls.
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That’s the thing about Hillary, though… what Hillary is doing is for all women and girls, mostly women and girls who’ve been severely marginalized, but even these media women who have all been pretty passive aggressive with her own the whole… the women playing the media game have been afraid to embrace Hillary. I think they’re afraid they’ll get the treatment Hillary gets. Not a lot of woman could take it. That’s what makes her all the more a national/international treasure.
Even Michelle Obama, for all her strengths, went the safe traditional flotus route. She’s no Hillary or Eleanor.
The somewhat sad thing about it is that Hillary will have made it a better environment for all these passive aggressive Tina Browns as a byproduct of the work she’s doing to change people’s attitudes. They probably won’t ever admit they should have appreciated her more, instead of feeling either threatened by her or afraid to embrace her fully.
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Probably not, but WE all love her!
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And, we all RESPECT her.
Obama can keep his canned “I love you back” responses to his crowds.
After Hillary speaks up for women and girls, I’d rather be the one saying:
“I respect you back Hillary.”
😉
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Did you notice that “first lady purdah” comment in the Newsweek piece? I thought that was specifically a bit reminiscent of Tina Brown’s burqa remarks about Hillary… I don’t really like this way of conceptulizing women in power (too hipster and can easily be used to demean even when it’s meant to defend), but the “first lady purdah” was put in a better overall context.
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correcting myself @ 9:18
Newsweek piece by Lemmon (Sinclair was the photo credit!)
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I will run tomorrow to the nearest store to buy it! MUST HAVE IT!!! I just hope that this time the issue here in UK will be the same, not as in the case of her interview in Harper Bazaar 😦
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The interview wasn’t in the UK Harper’s? Awwww… sorry to hear that!
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Yeah! You can imagine my disappointment!! They let me down in that case.
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Me too. I can’t wait to buy it. What happened to the interview in Harpaer’s Bazaar?
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They evidently thought that it wasn´t the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE WHOLE ISSUE and therefore they didn´t include it in the UK version.
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That really surprises me since she seems to get more press in the UK than here! Seems to me she is pretty well-liked there.
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Really? I hadn’t bought Haper’s in years (same goes for Vogue). Other than the Hillary interview, there was only one article worth my time. The whole magazine is a waste of good paper. Lots of mostly ugly fashion choices at incredibly high prices.
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Hillary was the fashionista in that issue! She looked gorgeous!
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Yes, she did.
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Yup, there was million of adverts, but not the interview!!!
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😦
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That’s odd that there were adverts but not the interview, I wonder what happened there.
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Newsweek Celebrates Women's History Month: “The Hillary Doctrine ……
Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……
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Thank you for your resource .. great site !
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Great story on The Hillary Doctrine and the cover on Hillary’s War–shattering the world’s glass ceilings for girls and women is a classic cover!
Hillary has saved thousands of young girls’ lives indirectly by forcing governments to treat women’s rights as “human rights” Ever since 1995 Bejing Conference, Hillary has been true to her vision and ideals. She’s too good to be a politician. But she knows that with politics comes power and that’s precisely what girls and women all over the world lack.
God bless Hillary. Humanitarian for the Ages who truly cares and uses political power as a tool for REAL Change that we can believe in! And not an empty teleprompter’s egomaniacal advertising gimmick…
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100% agree with you, well said!
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Hear, hear!!!
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I’d like to place a bet with all the wonderful Still4Hill-ers here that when Hillary’s job is done as Secretary of State, and Ban Ki-moon retires, she will be appointed as UN’s Secretary General!
Then, not only can it truly be said that Hillary is the World’s Top Ambassador (which she is now anyway!), but her strong voice, compassion and Vision for the most vulnerable girls and women everywhere will leave its indelible stamp on this hill of beans we live in! She deserves to be a Leader and we can’t afford to have her *ever* retire! The world needs her inspirational leadership….and she will be gracefully passing the Torch of Human Rights for women to yet another generation of fearless advocates….
With Hillary we don’t just hope. She is truly Change we Can Believe In!
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I could live with that very easily! Yes! (Got my copy of Newsweek on my way home … 🙂 )
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