Thread: Will the media give Hillary a pass on this one too!

Well, it looks like the Clinton machinery is cranking up as Hillary's numbers start to slide:

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I guess the mainstream media is going to give Hillary a pass on this dirty trick too. Seriously, how old a trick is this? (Staffer leaks info, it backfires, campaign comes out and says staffer was acting on his own.) Same old politics from the same old political machinery.

Where is the media on this? Another free pass for Hillary.

Originally Posted by spud438

Well, it looks like the Clinton machinery is cranking up as Hillary's numbers start to slide:

PolitiByte - Political forums, news, opinions, and information. - Desperate Clintons - Hillary taking the gloves off.

I guess the mainstream media is going to give Hillary a pass on this dirty trick too. Seriously, how old a trick is this? (Staffer leaks info, it backfires, campaign comes out and says staffer was acting on his own.) Same old politics from the same old political machinery.

Where is the media on this? Another free pass for Hillary.

Actually they discussed on Morning Joe this morning, CNN American Morning and I heard discussion on NPR as well....

Originally Posted by liberalman

Actually they discussed on Morning Joe this morning, CNN American Morning and I heard discussion on NPR as well....

HAHA! wow, another "example" of the "liberal media" turning out not to be true?! no! you don't say?

The more Hillary reminds people she is a political predator the more she
will remind people she represents what they are becoming more universally
repulsed by.

this was actually an AP story, which means almost every major news paper picked it up, including the "liberal rag" the new york times. the new york times even published a story by one of its own writers on this topic, in addition to the AP story.

damn that liberal media! always covering all those topics conservatives claim they don't! damn them!

Originally Posted by nickcuse

this was actually an AP story, which means almost every major news paper picked it up, including the "liberal rag" the new york times. the new york times even published a story by one of its own writers on this topic, in addition to the AP story.

damn that liberal media! always covering all those topics conservatives claim they don't! damn them!

Its not the story, but the spin that counts.

Originally Posted by bla bla

Its not the story, but the spin that counts.

got it.
read the AP story and quote all the lines of spin then.

Originally Posted by nickcuse

got it.
read the AP story and quote all the lines of spin then.

Media sources dont just recite AP text, thats a ridiculous assertion.

Originally Posted by bla bla

Media sources dont just recite AP text, thats a ridiculous assertion.

movin the goal posts eh?
i never asserted that media sources only recite AP text. the original argument was that the media was giving hillary a pass by not reporting on this. we proved that to be incorrect. NOW apparently the argument is that, well the media will report on it, but they'll spin it.

how convienient.

here is the article written by the new york times writer, NOT the AP article. again, please show me the spin:

A top adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that Senator Barack Obama’s admission of illegal drug use as a young man could threaten his electability and be seized on by Republicans if he won the Democratic presidential nomination.
A co-chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s national and New Hampshire campaigns, William Shaheen, raised the question in an interview with The Washington Post. He said voters should study Mr. Obama’s background as they chose a candidate, warning that Republicans would scour for new details about a period of Mr. Obama’s life more than 20 years ago when he admitted using marijuana and cocaine.
According to The Post’s Web site, Mr. Shaheen said, “It’ll be: ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?’ There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It’s hard to overcome.”
The remarks represented the most direct criticism by a top official in the Clinton campaign. A Clinton spokesman, Phil Singer, said, “These comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way.”
Mr. Singer would not say whether the campaign distanced itself from the remarks or if Mr. Shaheen would be reprimanded.
In a statement later, Mr. Shaheen said, “I deeply regret the comments I made today, and they were not authorized by the campaign in any way.”
He and his wife, Jeanne Shaheen, a former New Hampshire governor who is running for the Senate, are close friends with Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. Mr. Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, called Mr. Shaheen’s comment a “desperate effort to slow her slide in the polls.” He said, “Senator Clinton’s campaign is recycling old news that Barack Obama has been candid about in a book he wrote years ago.”