Watch This CNN Panel Try to Hold It Together When Someone Says Voting For Hillary Is Sexist
PoliticsRight-wing pundit Scottie Nell Hughes appeared on CNN this morning to opine that if someone votes for Hillary Clinton merely because she’s a woman, that is vile sexism. “Why sit there and put favor on one [group]?” Hughes wondered. Now look at what fellow panelists Sally Kohn and Michaela Angela Davis did while she was talking. Look at the actual pain on their faces.
Hughes is the political editor of something called RightAlerts.com, and a frequent CNN-appearer. Today, she had some unique thoughts and feelings about women potentially voting for Hillary Clinton, and the issue of encouraging little girls too hard to believe they could one day be president, at the expense of boys (like her son):
A verbatim transcript, with some punctuation thrown in for the sake of clarity and good faith:
Last night was historical. Let’s put it in the history books. But if a woman walks into the voting booth and pulls that lever for Hillary Clinton just because she’s a woman, that right there I think is sexist. Last night we had a great opportunity—and Hillary Clinton, when she was in that room of girls, as you addressed—said, “If you’re a daughter or if you’re a girl, you can be president too.” This would’ve been an excellent opportunity to say, you know, “Whether you’re a boy or you’re a girl, both of you, my job will be to make sure it’s equally an option for both of you.” That’s the problem. We continue to say we want equality, we want equal, but we then tear down one group and try to build up another.
“Was Hillary Clinton tearing down men?” CNN host Carol Costello asked gently.