A quote I blogged here, in February 2016, which I'm reading now as I review my posts with the Madeleine Albright tag.
Albright died today at the age of 84. Here's the NYT obituary, "Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84/She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton’s policies."
The obituary does include the women-in-hell quote:
In 2016, Ms. Albright again supported Mrs. Clinton for the presidency. At a campaign stop for the New Hampshire primary, Ms. Albright told a crowd, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” The line went viral. She had used it previously without objections. But some voters now found it offensive, taking it as a rebuke to younger women who supported a Clinton rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
An ardent feminist, Ms. Albright apologized in an opinion article in The Times. “I did not mean to argue that women should support a particular candidate based on gender,” she wrote. “But I understand that I came across as condemning those who disagree with my political preferences. If heaven were open only to those who agreed on politics, I imagine it would be largely unoccupied.”
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What an absurd comment. Did she help Sarah Palin out in 2008? Anyway, I'm sad she died. About as much as I did when McCain died.
Yeah. Very sad.
“a brilliant analyst of world affairs”
Bullshit
how is Albright so cognizant of the layout of Hell while on Terra/Gaiea? insider info?
And yet in 2022 nobody seems to know what a 'woman' actually is?
Weird...
Can we even trust her knowledge?
Raised Catholic, changed to Episcopalian, born to Jewish parents, and ready to register as a Muslim, she seems a bit confused by it all.
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”
But if your name is Palin, it's tight sneakers.
It's too bad liberal hypocrisy wasn't an energy source. Our lights would shine forever.
Did the New York Times consult a biologist to determine Secretary Albright was a woman?
Eva Braun needs your help, boyfriend/husband dead, disaster all around.
Will you help?
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Yeah, that's why that statement was so mockable, it removes human agency from women and turns them into totems.
I didn't read the whole obit ... did the NYT mention her impressive list of accomplish ments?
Maybe she's got a special place in hell, now.
Touching tribute by '43, with one of his portraits of MA.
"The death of 500,000 dead Iraqi children was 'a very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth it'" ~Madeleine Albright
She was one of the war criminals responsible for those hundreds of thousands of dead children. It is sad...that she did not spend the past decades of her life languishing in prison...along with her confederates in the Clinton administration.
I’ll remember her most famous line and this one- What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it
Women don't get along with each other even in heaven.
Fuck Madeleine Albright. She was all about politics. She would happily run conservative women through a wood chipper to advance the lefty political agenda. A failure at everything she did. Cancer? What kind? Did it hurt?
North Korea? "“practical, pragmatic, decisive, and non-ideological”
Yeah, brilliant!
Seems to me she was part of the group that raced to the White House after Bill Clinton was impeached. I haven’t found confirmation yet, but I think I remember her stepping up to the microphone and saying, “I believe Bill Clinton.”
Narayanan (6:09pm):
If Christopher Marlowe's evidence is to be believed (Dr. Faustus), those who sell their souls to Lucifer are sometimes granted an advanced tour of their future accommodations before their time is up.
mccullough said...
“a brilliant analyst of world affairs”
Bullshit
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Agreed. She wasn't called Not-at-Albright nor nothing.
Was she a woman?
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other."
Women don't even know anymore who's a woman, so how can they figure out how to help each other?
Or is there a super special place in hell for women who deny knowing what a woman is?
Hey, remember how she helped Monica Lewinsky? Hmmm, well, maybe she was helping Hillary Clinton. Anyway, she tried. She tried.
Correction, we do not know that Albright was a woman Secretary of State. Unless we are biologists, or on the Supreme Court. Her sex is undetermined at this early date, so far as the MSM is aware.
There is a special place in hell for People i, such that i=(men, women), where People i don't support People i.
For women's history month, NOW celebrates men breaking the glass ceiling. Take a knee, beg, good feminists. RIP
TERF territory.
"I didn't read the whole obit ... did the NYT mention her impressive list of accomplishments?"
Yes, but you have to literally read between the lines.
Was that really an apology, or was it more of "I'm sorry you didn't understand what I meant and got mad"? She did "admit" that she misspoke, but more likely she meant exactly what she said and was just displeased that she got pushback over it.
Albright wasn't much of a diplomat. Her assumption seems to have been that we were the sole superpower and could do what we liked. There was a lot of that going around at the time, in both parties.
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.”
So did she support Lia Thomas? Or Emma Weyant?
so both Bill and Hillary are destined for hell?
Ask Monica and Juanita and Paula etc... ask Juanita's dead dog. A female i presume?
Give Albright a break on the hypocrisy. As Uncle Joe would say, "If you 'aint a Liberal Democrat, you 'aint a woman".
This is the problem wit issuing political statements in aphoristic form, rhetorical form better suited to literary essays of religious pronouncements. In the practical realm, her aphoristic women in hell statement is illogical, fallacious, insipid, and anti-democratic.
I thought that she made bad decisions, but she was no where near as noxious as Hillary.
This is the problem with issuing political statements in aphoristic form, a rhetorical form better suited to literary essays or religious pronouncements. In the practical realm, her aphoristic women in hell statement is illogical, fallacious, insipid, and anti-democratic.
I thought that she made bad decisions, but she was no where near as noxious as Hillary.
You are only a war criminal if you lose.
I don't like how cold her demise leaves me. I was hoping for more civil feelings but I remember how she talked about Trump. I've got no feelings for dead Democrats any more.
She's been dead to me for many years.
"And frankly, I don’t understand —I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat — but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney."
(from this post.)
Remember that in the end, NO Repbulican is ever acceptable.
She is in the hell she made her bed in.
I just heard on Bloomberg that 3 of her grandparents died in the holocaust.
I remember her dancing in North Korea. You stay classy, girlllll!
So did Albright support Sarah Palin? Or is she in that special place in Hell?
I'm as saddened as I was when RBG bought the farm. Boo-hoo.
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