Hillary Clinton is crying foul over her recent spate of bad media coverage, saying that the media is biased against her and therefore must want Barack Obama to win.
At least one hack agrees. “‘She’s just held to a different standard in every respect,’ says Mark Halperin, Time’s editor at large. ‘The press rooted for Obama to go negative, and when he did he was applauded. When she does it, it’s treated as this huge violation of propriety.’ [Hmm, maybe that's because Hillary's version of going negative was digging through Obama's kindergarten essays in an attempt to prove that he was as ambitious as she is, while his version was pointing out the very pertinent fact that she takes both sides of every issue so she can pander to everyone?] While Clinton’s mistakes deserve full coverage, Halperin says, ‘the press’s flaws — wild swings, accentuating the negative — are magnified 50 times when it comes to her. It’s not a level playing field.’” [Hmm, maybe that's because she's been in the media spotlight for 15 years and is still making crazy mistakes?]
I just can’t feel sorry for Hillary about this. She needs to be grilled, and if she can’t be, then she shouldn’t be President (but we all already knew that anyway, right?) Hillary had a free ride for a year, crowned as the inevitable Democratic nominee, and things go bad for her (from her own making) for a few weeks and she cries foul? Honestly, what a crybaby. I used to have at least marginal respect for Hillary and liked her as a person, but that’s wasted away as she’s shown her true colors.
Try being Ron Paul for a day, Hill. Then you’ll see a real media bias. He sets an all-time record for political fundraising in one day and it shows up on Page 50 of the Washington Post, while your whining is splashed on Page 1.
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Yeah, media bias in favor of Ron Paul. The man has gotten a complete pass from the major media. He’s bashing Bush, and opposing the War in Iraq, so they overlook his shortcomings. Like the recently uncovered photos of Paul with Nazi Storm Trooper Front leader Don Black. Or Paul’s questionable fundraising from his 1988 and 1992 Presidential efforts.
Funny, in 1996 when Ron Paul was running as a small-town Conservative Republican for Congress, the Houston and especially Austin media ripped him to shreads. Called him an extremist. Uncovered statements of his that made him out to be an Anti-Semite and Racist. The Austin American-Statesman even created a Cartoon strip on “Ron Paul the paranoid extremist fringe guy for Congress who thinks the government is out to get him.”
Now that he’s a liberal lap dog, mouthing Cindy Sheehan talking points, the Houston Chronicle, Austin American-Statesman, and national media like the NY Times, Daily Kos and CNN just give him a pass. Not only give him a pass, but literally praise him and give him gloringly positive coverage.
While they mercilessly bash Giuliani, and Romney for minor missteps.
Eric Dondero
December 23rd, 2007
The reason that nobody covers the stuff you mention is that there’s no story there. Come on now, nobody is buying that line that Ron Paul is alleged to be a racist. He’s probably the least racist politician. The newsletters were written by someone else. That picture was just of a fan taking a picture with a politician at an event– I took a picture with Ron Paul as well, but that doesn’t mean he knows me or endorses the ideas on my blog or what I do in my personal life.
The Daily Kos hates Ron Paul and the NY Times rarely gives him play. I’ve found that coverage is marginal at best, never “gloringly positive.” CNN is probably the best, I will give them credit for that. In contrast, I think they give Giuliani a free ride on all the firefighters’ families that think he contributed to their relatives’ deaths. They are starting to question this a bit more, though.
I thought this was an interesting blog entry at Redstate:
http://www.crosstabs.org/blogs/dukelaw/2007/dec/16/huckabee_crossed_that_line
He says that Huckabee is criticizing the war from a “leftist” POV, whereas Ron Paul criticizes it from a right-wing perspective.
libertariangirl
December 23rd, 2007