The failed Presidential candidate hissed directly at Democratic leaders in her speech: "They never said that to any man who was not elected."
"I was really struck by how people said that to me - you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason - mostly, 'Go away, go away,'" Clinton told a gathered crowd at Rutgers University, according to MSNBC. "And I had one of the young people who works for me go back and do a bit of research. They never said that to any man who was not elected. I was kind of struck by that."
That might be because those men - Al Gore and John Kerry, to name two cited by Clinton in her own speech - did not spend a year touring the country attempting to explain away their respective losses as the result of sexism, brainwashing, institutionalized racism, and backwards thinking as Clinton did.
Hillary Clinton Calls Fellow Democrats Sexist, Warns That She Won't Stay Quiet
"I was really struck by how people said that to me - you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason - mostly, 'Go away, go away,'" Clinton told a gathered crowd at Rutgers University, according to MSNBC. "And I had one of the young people who works for me go back and do a bit of research. They never said that to any man who was not elected. I was kind of struck by that."
That might be because those men - Al Gore and John Kerry, to name two cited by Clinton in her own speech - did not spend a year touring the country attempting to explain away their respective losses as the result of sexism, brainwashing, institutionalized racism, and backwards thinking as Clinton did.
Hillary Clinton Calls Fellow Democrats Sexist, Warns That She Won't Stay Quiet