How much did the end-race between Clinton-v-Obama get inflected by the rightwing punditry?
David Neiwert says that they certainly dyed the waters, and my spidey-sense agrees, without echo-locating a specific instance to further substantiate it. On meme-control:
Both of these beliefs, as it happens, were originally right-wing talking points spouted by the Limbaughs and Goldbergs of the right, regurgitated by supposedly mainstream pundits like Chris Matthews and Maureen Dowd, and gradually spread throughout our political discourse.-BNUpdate: Sexism from The Daily Show (not all rightwing commentators, but a lot of them):
