@georgeob1,
Quote:My impression is that most of the liberal media is also fairly profitable.
It isn't. Unless you wish to define all media other than dedicatedly rightwing media as "left" or "liberal". Large corporate entities such as the major networks provide outrageous salaries (I believe Chris Matthews makes about 6 million a year) which is, in my view, just vulgar. And it has the negative effect of keeping such individuals within a range of acceptable opinion and discourse. It fosters maintenance of the status quo, by which I mean, existing power structures. That's not all bad but it certainly can be. And there's another key point here as well. That is the use of media platforms (Beck and Limbaugh are perfect examples) to make shitloads of moola by selling gold or biblically-based cures for diabetes (Huckabee). Historian Rick Perlstein has reported on this aspect of rightwing media that goes back a long ways. If you wish, I'll provide the link, but I suspect you won't want it.
Quote:Isn't Hillary trying to "turn the femininst consensus on rape" against all Republicans in her "War on Women" rhetoric????
No. The phrase and attending notions re 'war on women' is a reflection of our cultural reassessment of women's place, of the long-standing prejudices against that gender as regards what they are paid or are capable of or of whether they are equally as deserving of positions of power as males have enjoyed. It is the greatest commonplace to see some committee addressing women's issues where the committee members are all men, or mostly men. And, of course, there's the issue of abortion, but that's a small portion of this long history of our culture (and others) refusing to grant women equality.
You may wish to argue that "liberals" suppress women to the same degree that we see in the universe of conservative action. But to get to such a conclusion, one has to blind oneself to almost everything we can see in the world. Southern Baptists or the Catholic church or ISIS do not manifest ideologies and hierarchies similar to, say, Sweden or Denmark or Canada or the United Church as regards women.
For Hillary to speak about a 'war on women' or to merely address broad inequalities of gender in the world is for her to do what civil rights spokespeople did. This is simply our long and worthy attempt to address and remedy social situations, structures and traditions that hurt just some of us. It is a drive or goal or value set that emerges from the best of what we as humans are and try to be.
