Yes, Hillary Clinton Is Shrill. No, It’s Not Sexist To Say So.

So, if you point out that Hillary Clinton is increasingly shrill these days, you’re a sexist. That, at least, is the allegation from Clinton supporters who apparently have temporary amnesia about their treatment of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, among others. Here’s The New York Times on the subject:

Hillary Clinton has been speaking in public for decades. But in recent days, political observers have called her voice “loud, flat, harassing to the ear.” They have said she has a “decidedly grating pitch and punishing tone” and called her “shrill”…. Even Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor whose 2004 campaign became immortalized by a widely mocked scream, said the criticism of Mrs. Clinton was sexist.