Digby: CFB's

Memo to reporters: when George Will, Chris Matthews and other pundits complain that Clinton's major problem is being too "strident" it's a similar type of slur as saying Obama is "articulate." This is a dogwhistle term; in this case it means "castrating feminist bitch."

I've never heard any of them ever complain that tub-thumping, preaching Republicans, male or female, are "strident" even though they most certainly are if you look at the literal meaning of the word: