The Clintons are pushing this meme "the claim that Latinos won't vote for blacks" - or, big/little media is pushing this claim?
"Become the media..." hmmm.
Why is this place seeming to become what it purports to loathe? LONG on opinion, SHORT on facts. Punditry of punditry, accusation after accusation.
Wouldn't we want to do due diligence here & cite, say, three Clinton campaign staffers asserting these objectionable comments?
Maybe focus less on the supposed war of the surrogates & more on what message the candidates themselves are putting out?
"In a cycle where too many unmerited claims of racial insensitivity and sexism have been thrown around carelessly"
reference to a comment made WEEKS ago by a surrogate...
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Come on, it's Colonel Mustard in the Study with the candlestick...
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It seems there is "no" actual news being reported "about anything" let alone these campaigns. I haven't heard a squeak about Iraq for two months, other than of course, you know, the surge is working.
None. No. News. At all. Anywhere. No factual information. Being reported. It is almost all exclusively opinion & punditry. And punditry of punditry. There is no news, I'm serious. It knocks the breath out of my chest looking around, from the International Herald Tribune to Jabberwonk to - just look around.
This country in general is way too (in a negative sense) conservative for my taste. But if one accepted that Hillary & Obama have roughly the same positions [YEAH! I DO KNOW ABOUT THE IWR, AND HIS SPEECH, ETC. ETC. THANKS!], that in truth, there isn't that much daylight between them... (shocking, they are members of the same party, you know?!) it's difficult to understand where the frothing hate is coming from when one considers the legacy of the last seven years compared to the legacy of the eight before that. And if one were to calculate Poppy & Reagan legacies into that... DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE.
I don't detect this frothing hatred in any human persons around me, I can tell you that. But the tee vee... and we worry about black box voting!!! I honestly feel like there is radiation & evil rays just pouring into the house whenever it is on. My sig other has a bad habit of just flipping it on in the evening, I am thinking of swapping my office space with his so I can be further away from it during the witching hours (Hardball & sadly, even now to an extent Olbermann, who seems to be slipping into bubble land).
The things I have seen have been unfrackinbelievable. I realize that aholes like George Will & his ilk are obviously going to be gunning for Hillary- they have been, it's expected, but this whole other frenzy has taken over. The "dynasty" idea won- with no critical thinking. And O got rolled out like a new mass product: America, from this day forward, will be nothing more than a vibe, a Cool Amerikana.
His website says it is powered by hope. I am not kidding. Powered by Hope: and supporters like you.
And the way they talk about & to Bill Clinton is something I find shocking. As if he is not the man who presided over the biggest peacetime economic expansion in US history, virtuous circle, even with a hostile Congress yadayada. They talk to & about him like he is someone's old crazy drunk Uncle staggering about boxing shadows, some lousy ne'er do well. And if he talks about the campaign, and in a knowledgable way about the history of campaigns past, in fact, as if race does not matter, then the "press" decrees he must be the worst racist of all, but if O supporters chant "Race Doesn't Matter" behind O, then ? - race "doesn't matter." ? And this supposed Clinton machine- where is it again? Must be under the buffet table with the the wmd.
The press has been following w around for seven years simpering & asking master if he would prefer to crap ice cream into a waffle or a sugar cone so they know which ones to stock up on!!! He's hardly been challenged on any one of a thousand deadly serious scandals or corruptions, from Tom Delay, Enron, Iraq, literally- a thousand infestations of serious corruption & collusion...
But man oh, man, Can you imagine if his father, Poppy, were being treated the way Bill Clinton is being treated right now? And he was an eighth, if that, of the President Bill Clinton was for America!
Where were/are the heart to heart interviews with Mrs. Clinton- what's it like to be the first truly viable woman candidate to run for president sit down? Where were the serious profiles? The serious questions? The serious historical analysis?
I guess I'll take the waffle cone. Couldn't I at least get some sprinkles?