Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was questioned earlier this week about her views and how they compare/contrast with President Clinton’s views during a visit to the Congo. (The student meant to say President “Obama.” Right.)

Many pundits and bloggers poked fun at her response.

Women the world over are constantly asked about their husband’s point of view, opinion, and judgment. Even when it shouldn’t matter.

If I had a dime every time someone asked what my husband thought of my writing, pictures, ass…

When was the last time a man held a press conference and someone asked what the little lady thought? A man is rarely made to believe he needs his wife’s blessing when it comes to performance at work.

Could Clinton have answered the question better? With humor and a bit of serenity? Absolutely. She should expect such misogynistic and idiotic questions, especially in a place where women are treated so poorly. An answer at the ready, said with a sly wink, could have really hit home – internationally.

She had every right to be frustrated and angry with the suggestion that her views should mirror her husband’s. Bill Clinton is *not* Secretary of State, goddamn it.

She just should have ranted in private.

But I don’t blame her.

Not one bit.

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who bore with us through our tech issues today for the live stream. We finally got it done.

The video stream of the taping is after the jump:

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Scott Farrell of The Farrell Files on 10 Connects and CL Editor David Warner join me this morning to tape our weekly HoCast.

Here is our tentative issue lineup, including discussion of Tampa’s electric shuttle car controversy. Have something you want us to discuss or a nominee for Political Whore of the Week? Leave it in comments and we’ll read it during the podcast:

1. The Public Transportation Commission’s decision to pull the plug on free electric shuttles in downtown Tampa

2. Health care and Town Halls: is the nuttiness getting too much? Sarah Palin makes up crap about death panels and the Senate reacts. One crazy brought a gun to the NH Town Hall with Obama. Obama’s popularity continues to slide. Clips as follows:

Dingell calls town hall mobs like KKK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfoGCYFRQlM&feature=ytn%3Amptnews

Obama compares health care concerns to FedEx and UPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-WdOu2s

Audio from the man who brought a gun to the presidential town hall and the discourse he has with Chris Matthews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1DBIHocbXk

3. Dick Cheney believes that George W Bush “went soft” on him, according to Washington Post. Cheney is prepping a tell-all book
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/12/AR2009081203306.html

4. Scientology’s ads hit the airwaves here, and the St Pete Times accepts their web banner ads.

5. And is it too easy to do Hillary losing it in the congo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-WdOu2s

Plus Political Whore of the Week nominees
1-time winner Brian Blair officially announces for Florida Legislature
Major Garrett of Fox News, for his naked partisanship during the daily WH newser and a question on why people are getting White House emails http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLQT0X1aSoI
The Moonbats who are selling a $18.49 DVD (with free bumpersticker!) called “A Question of Eligibility” that details the Birther movement and claims

By Catherine Durkin Robinson
PoHo contributor
Catherine Durkin Robinson is a “feminist mother of twins” and a political blogger, working under the title Out in Left Field.

When he speaks about the impact of captivity on the mammals, he doesn’t sound like a showboater, and what might seem like New Age-y talk about dolphin intelligence is pointed up with footage that left me haunted, too. That smile, says O’Barry, is nature’s greatest deception. Dolphins smile even when they’re crying on the inside.

Living in Florida, I am used to certain theme-and-water-park douchebaggery.

Comes with the heat, bugs, and old people driving 30-mph down the highway.

But there is something vastly disturbing about certain aquariums and water parks. And not only in Florida.

(Read the rest and see the film’s trailer after the jump)

Most of the places where you are allowed to swim, pet, and kiss dolphins are getting these self-aware and beautiful creatures from the seas of Japan. Trainers from all over the world flock to a little town called Taiji where about 13 fisherman use loud noises to frighten hundreds of dolphins every year and force them into a tiny cove.

Once there, trainers pick only the cutest, sweetest animals to fill our resorts, parks, and petting ponds.

The ones who don’t make the cut are slaughtered and the meat (poisoned with mercury) is fed to an unsuspecting public. The ones who do make it out become lethargic, depressed, and sometimes kill themselves.

See, your paradise is a fucking nightmare to them. This *dophin petting* thing is a cold and cruel business.

Which is so not hot. And neither are the pictures of you in a bathing suit rubbing up against them.

You don’t look like an animal lover. You look like an ass.

The Cove is coming to The Tampa Theatre this weekend. It’s an important film because it documents the way these precious animals are tortured and killed.

The filmmakers were recently on Fresh Air and I dare you to listen without feeling sick to your stomach.

WARNING: TANGENT TIME – The activist featured in the film, former Flipper trainer Ric O’Barry, says that people who compare the lagoon to a slaughterhouse are wrong. He says that animals in a slaughterhouse aren’t tortured before they’re killed. And that’s why this is worse.

He just wants us to swallow that shit so he can swallow that burger he’s eating.

But I agree with him on everything else. I hope The Cove encourages people to bypass cruelty disguised as entertainment. Family fun shouldn’t be so bloody awful.

Stop loving dolphins so much and instead help set them free. Your love, after all, is killing them.

(It turned out that the question was wrongly translated, but wow, is our Secretary of State a little fed up with Bill getting the lion’s share of headlines?)

From Kansascity.com comes the tale you just knew would happen — an injured anti-Obama Town Hall protester is taking up collections to pay for his medical care because he lost his job and has no insurance:

Backers of Kenneth Gladney, 38, of St. Louis, gathered Saturday at the offices of the Service Employees International Union for an event organized by the pro-limited government Tea Party coalition.

The group claims union members attacked the politically conservative Gladney at the event two days earlier. But members of the union, which supports the president’s health care plan, say Gladney initiated the fight.

The melee, which ended in six arrests, was one of several at town hall meetings around the country as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation’s costly health care system. U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, a Missouri Democrat, organized the event in Mehlville.

Gladney’s attorney, David Brown, received cheers from the crowd of about 200 people when he read a statement written by his client.

“A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too.” Brown read. “This should never happen in this country.”

Brown told the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was laid off recently and has no health insurance.

You can watch video of the attorney speaking for Gladney at the rally after the jump:

While he couldn’t speak the day after the altercation, he could speak earlier, when Fox News came a’ callin’.

For a second there, I could have sworn I’d traveled back in time to Max Yasgur’s farm …

Full video after the jump:

Watch the video after the jump:

Take a look.