Chuck Shumer needs to stop attacking the woman who won 3M more votes.

[Jim Lane]

82. No one has answered you, because righteous indignation is more fun than facts

Unless there's some Schumer statement that I haven't seen, here's what happened:

Some Democratic leaders decided that, along with "We're not Trump," it would be useful for the party to have a short statement of positive goals. (This is hardly a controversial idea.) The Washington Post wrote about the plan in this story: "Trump had ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Now Democrats say their economic agenda is ‘A Better Deal.’" The Post's reporting included this passage:

The rollout comes as Democrats continue to struggle to sell a coherent message to voters. In a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, 37 percent of Americans said that the party “currently stands for something,” while 52 percent said it “just stands against Trump.” The same poll found that Trump’s overall approval rating has deteriorated to 36 percent — making him the most unpopular president of the modern era at this point in his presidency.

Those findings resonate with party leaders who are still stunned by Trump’s come-from-behind victory last year.

“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things — Comey, Russia — you blame yourself,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an interview previewing the new plan. “So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed, explaining in a separate interview that the new focus “is not a course correction, but it’s a presentation correction.”

You'll note that Schumer didn't even mention Clinton. You'll note further that he identified the issue as "what did we do wrong" (emphasis added).

Slate, however, decided that a misleading let's-you-and-her-fight headline might get some clicks, and reported this development as "Schumer Takes Aim at Clinton: Don’t Blame Russia or Comey, 'Blame Yourself'".

Pretty clever, huh? The verbatim quotation from Schumer is juxtaposed with something he didn't say to give a totally false impression.

As reprehensible as that is, however, the DU community isn't without its own issues when it comes to intellectual integrity. When the Slate piece became the subject of this thread, it was quickly pointed out -- beginning with uponit7771 just 17 minutes later and reiterated by others -- that Schumer hadn't said it and that the whole thing was a hit piece by Slate. Unfortunately, the thread we're now in went roaring off in total disregard of the truth. Apparently, getting to denounce misogyny directed at Hillary Clinton is too juicy a chance to pass up, and facts be damned.

There actually has been plenty of misogyny directed at Hillary Clinton, but, to paraphrase Paul Samuelson, DU posts have denounced nine of the last five such instances.