Liberal outlet Vanity Fair sparked a liberal freakout this week after calling for failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton do something other than politics in 2018 — including take up knitting.

The outlet published a video on its Twitter page, featuring a number of millennials offering recommendations to Clinton — who has spent much of 2017 relitigating the 2016 election — to stay away from politics and to do something else.

Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At — VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017

“Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so typing in ‘f’ doesn’t become ‘form an exploratory committee for 2020,’” jokes one millennial on the video.

“Take up a new hobby in the new year. Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy, literally anything that will keep you from running again,” another contributor says.

While the video was no doubt supposed to be a light, comedic ribbing — with Vanity Fair an unlikely backer for President Trump — and expressing in a light-hearted form the sentiment among many Democrats that Clinton may be a drag on the party in 2018 and 2020, Clinton-backers were not impressed.

As with most criticisms of Clinton, even those that come from women, the sexism card was quickly thrown down by those offended by the jokey video.

Actress Patricia Arquette requested that the outlet “STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F-CK THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO. “

Hey STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F-CK THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO. Get over your mommy issues. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) December 27, 2017

Arquette also said that the video was “asking for shit.”

Telling one of the most educated women in America to go knit is asking for shit. Bernie can go golf. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) December 27, 2017

Author Summer Brennan somehow managed to play the race card (Clinton is white.)

Vanity Fair tl;dr: Six young white people holding glasses of champagne would like Hillary Clinton to abandon her life's work and platform and just shut up. Good to know. https://t.co/cELDKdVmYd — Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 26, 2017

She wasn’t the only one:

The people of color staffers at the planning meeting for this: pic.twitter.com/sO4qUr5DGu — Ava DuVernay (@ava) December 27, 2017

Others just let loose with their anger:

Six New Year’s Resolutions for Vanity Fair’s Hive Editors: 1) Don’t make videos on Ambien 2) Show some fucking respect to the 1st female Presidential nominee of a major political party & the former 1st lady & Secretary of State 3) Learn what funny is 4) Fuck off 5) see 4 6) see 5 — Caissie St.Onge (@Caissie) December 27, 2017

Quickly #CancelVanityFair became a trending topic on Twitter, leading Clinton cronies such as sycophant Peter Dao to hop on board, calling her “one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States.”

So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States. Now #CancelVanityFair is moving. — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017

Former Clinton adviser Adam Parkhomenko was similarly unimpressed:

I went to bed on Christmas not disliking @VanityFair. But, ya know. 2017 — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 27, 2017

Apparently, the vitriol became so bad that the writer who suggested the knitting hobby had to lock her account. Journalist Glenn Greenwald said it was because she was “subjected to the most foul vitriol and abuse, endlessly, over several days.”

One of the reporters for @VanityFair who appeared in the "don't-run-again-Hillary" video, @mekosoff, has locked her account after being subjected to the most foul vitriol and abuse, endlessly, over several days. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 27, 2017

Vanity Fair later backed down on the video, with a spokeswoman telling the Washington Post. “It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark.”



Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter: @AdamShawNY.