First, the celebrity businessman and former Atlantic City casino mogul suggested that Bill Clinton skipped over allegations that he has had affairs with multiple women throughout their marriage – including his infamous tryst with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Elizabeth Maurer, director of programs at the National Women’s History Museum, said Clinton’s accomplishment is a historical milestone but getting more women in elected office begins with outreach.
In delivering a 45-minute speech which received widespread acclaim calling on all Democrats to stand behind his wife, Clinton found himself the star of the show on Tuesday night.
“Simple proof of enduring sexism: no Hillary, or even a woman, on the front page after 1st woman nominated president”, tweeted Anne Helen Petersen over the Wall Street Journal’s choice to print a large picture of Sanders below the headline “Clinton Wins Historic Nomination”. “He made it seem like, you’ll remember how Hillary Clinton made climate change the central feature of our foreign policy”.
Indeed, outside of the Newseum in Washington, the trend was on display in the glass cases which each morning contain the current day’s front page from newspapers from all 50 states.
“No matter what Hillary Clinton does, she will make enemies”.
“And the reality is that there are a lot of good and reasonable people that will disagree on policies, but we shouldn’t diminish the quality of one’s life or what they’re about personally”. (Surprise: No headbands!) “The problem with Hillary Clinton”, he wrote, “is that she has no defined personal fashion image, probably because fashion has been of little outcome to her”.
And other outlets somehow figured out how to visually convey the spirit of this momentous event.
That pragmatic support might be all Clinton needs in a state that’s voted Democratic the last seven presidential elections. And the Chicago Sun Times went a class photo of the nominee. Was that so hard?
Tune in to WBZ-TV News at 11 p.m. and I’ll tell you if she rose to that challenge.
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She paused in front of the newspaper from her home state. If there’s a lesson in all of this, it’s that pictures aren’t worth a thousand words when the picture isn’t of what’s actually very significant. “If she’s smart, and she is, she’ll do what she wants”, the Daily News editorial board wrote.
