So this article from msnbc.com about last night's Democratic debate uses the phrase "a gang assault" to describe the rest of the field's verbal attacks against Hillary Clinton. Is it just me, or is that kind of a loaded phrase to use in regards to the female front-runner vis-a-vis her male opponents? I don't think it's me.
Of course, I don't want to impute any particular intent to the writer because I find that even writers in the, ahem, esteemed field of professional journalism ain't always too bright. So, it might have just been a somewhat poorly chosen metaphor. If there was some slightly sneaky intent however, what might it have been? To garner some sympathy for the Senator by painting her male interlocutors as a gang of vicious thugs? There's no knowing for sure, but personally, I find such a phrase a bit overwrought and tendentious, whether or not it was intended to be.
In any case, it strikes me that these sort of linguistic explosives might be something to keep one's eye out for as the race progresses, particularly if Clinton advances, and it becomes a mano-a-...uh, womano kinda contest.
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