You know who else was widely regarded as a teetotaler and was famous for his ability to operate on very little sleep but in actuality was hopped up on doctor prescribed opiates/narcotics most of the time while condemning others for their drug use?

WTF is even the point of that Tweet? Why would anyone think that’s worthy of capturing and sharing with the world?

We are not screwing around, Philly.

That’s the spirit! When you can’t win an argument based on the merits of your position, throw out the name-calling! Even though you’ve proven yourself unsuited to having a rational discussion based on facts, I promise that I won’t mentally chalk it up to your hormones or it being that time of the month or even use…

I have looked high and low for some mention of Hillary actually appearing at the convention on the night of the roll-call and can find ZERO references to it. Please. Please. I’m begging you — send me a link or a picture from an actual news outlet (the posts of other ill-informed Jezebel commenters don’t count) stating…

You are factually incorrect. Obama made a surprise appearance at the end of the night of his roll call vote (August 27, 2008) which is why some newspapers were able to run a photo of him with headlines similar to “Obama Wins Nomination”.

Believe it or not I actually do see both sides. But if I look at the bigger picture (pun intended) from a newspaper editor’s point of view — if I don’t have a good picture of the candidate from the event and I know I’m only going to realistically have one shot at an iconic front page, do I try to shoehorn something in…

I think you made a very valid point. I would agree that there were probably better ways to thread the needle in this case, but I would attribute the choice to a combination of printing deadlines and more visually striking images to choose from (a lone figure standing before a crowd vs a crowd shot - especially when…

What pictures are you looking at? Care to provide links?

That was when he mathematically won based on the primaries; however, he didn’t “officially” get the nomination until the convention which was Aug 27. That is the analogous event here.

I suspect that you have started to research this and realize how badly reality fails to support with your preconceived notion of a sexist plot, so I’ll help you out:

Fail. Who is “they”? If “they” used stock photos should be pretty easy to tell me who did this? And did “they” use a stock photo as their main image?

Yes, stock photos exist. Yes, newspapers use them. But not for above the fold, main stories for which a photo exists of the event or story in question. If you insist on saying that is common journalistic practice, I’d like for you to point me to just one similar instance of this occurring after a nomination has become…

Got it. So because I have not lived your exact experience, I can offer no meaningful commentary on your reaction to objective events - such as newspapers choosing to run actual pictures taken at an event in an effort to portray as realistically as possible for readers the activities that occurred during that event…

Again, how often has a stock photo been used to announce that a candidate’s nomination has become official after a floor vote on the front page of major newspapers?

This is no more your experience than it is mine. Or have you also been nominated for president of the United States before and had your husband give a speech to mark the occasion which newspapers then took pictures of?

SHE. WASN’T. THERE. That is not the newspapers’ fault. Or did all of the male editors and reporters across the land engage in some sort of elaborate Oceans 11 heist to delay and distract her from reaching the floor in time? It is her campaign’s responsibility, not the newspaper editors, to set the optics for her…

How hard is this to comprehend? Newspapers report on events that actually happen. They have photographers take pictures at those events. Then they put those pictures in the newspaper. There is nothing inherently “gendered” or “sexist” in those actions. If you want to be mad at somebody be mad at the DNC or Hillary for…

I love how you’re reflexively disregarding any opinion that comes from a man simply because the point was made by a man. Such a great choice and certainly bound to win over lots of people to your way of thinking.

Yup I’m a dude. Strong sleuthing work there, detective. So you’re able to deduce that I’m a man but you’re not able to reconcile the fact that newspaper editors don’t want to illustrate a story about a major event with a photo that wasn’t taken at the event? Yes USA Today managed to work it into their front page but…