Why are people still losing their minds over Hillary?

[karynnj]

51. I suspect that is because HRC has always been both more promoted by and more critiqued by the media

Neither Kerry or Gore had anywhere near the media cheerleaders that Clinton had. Note I am not saying that all or most of the people in the media were strong advocates of Clinton, just that were SOME very prominent fans. I can think of only one such person for Kerry - Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe, who had covered him even in 1971 when he spoke to the SFRC.

The other side of that coin is that neither Kerry or Gore were as consistently the focus of the spotlight that has been on Clinton. This has been both a boon and a burden for Clinton. On the one hand, she is the one that always gets attention for what she does. On the other hand, she will get criticized by the other side if there is any small thing they dislike. Not to mention, you can still easily find RW memes on twitter any time Gore or Kerry are in the news or say anything. Search Kerry, Obama, Biden or Gore on twitter at any point in time and you will see many many dishonest hurtful attacks - HRC is not alone. The big difference is Clinton is far more prominent at this point of time - and likely was for all but a few months in 2000 and 2004 respectively.

Note that Kerry, Biden and Clinton gave graduation speeches this year. Kerry's was very well reviewed by the small number of mainstream sources covered it, but the only thread was the one in DU JK. There were MANY right wing sources that criticized it. Biden's was not that prominent on DU, but again the right blasted it. There were many many threads on Clinton's speech, all praising it. You could argue that the difference in attention was because Clinton was the most recent nominee and people are still devastated by her loss. However, other than Obama, Biden and Kerry were the two most prominent people in the Obama administration in the second term.

In fact, looking at twitter on these three speeches, it might be that the there is NOT that big a difference in the RATIO of criticism to positive response for the three. Clinton gets both more praise and positive attention AND more criticism and negative attention than the other two.