Posted on 08/08/2007 6:35:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton: Wall Street Journal Editorials Even More 'Irrational' Than Fox News Pundits By Tim Graham | August 8, 2007 - 09:07 ET
While Hillary Clinton was assuring the union crowd last night that she knows how to battle the "right-wing machine," Huffington Post blogger Blake Fleetwood reports that Bill Clinton is still taking on the Clinton-challenging media machine. At a fundraiser closed to reporters (but not to bloggers?), the former president asserted "the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is even more right wing and irrational than most of the commentators on Fox News."
He also asserted that a major American corporation was attacked by the Journal editorial board because it supported Clinton, and didn't care about whether its attacks were factual. Once the company's CEO "sent a check to Bob Dole, and announced it in the newspapers, and the WSJ never said one bad word about his company again." Here's the rundown of Clinton's media claims as the paper is being acquired by Rupert Murdoch:
"With regard to media consolidation, the rules were relaxed too much," Clinton said during his Million Dollar Hamptons fundraising marathon this last weekend.
"Anti-trust law should apply. I think we shouldn't have abandoned the fairness law; if a media outlet were pushing a particular political point of view...then you had a right to demand the opposite point of view. The airwaves belong to the public, not to anybody, particularly not to Fox News.
"But having said all that, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal is even more right wing and irrational than most of the commentators on Fox News.
"And completely predictable...it's like Pavlov's dogs.
"The WSJ editorial board began attacking a major American corporation in the US every day in the editorial page.
"The representative of the corporation set up a meeting with the editorial board.
"And he said, 'I have brought my books here...I have never done this for anybody...I am going to show you why what you are saying is wrong.'
"He got about two minutes into his presentation and the whole editorial board said, 'wait a minute...we don't care...we attacked you because you are supporting Bill Clinton. We don't believe that a big American corporation should support Bill Clinton.'
"He said, 'if I stop supporting him, will you quit attacking me?'
"Absolutely," they replied.
"The guy called me and...I said...send a check to Bob Dole!
"He sent a check to Bob Dole, and announced it in the newspapers, and the WSJ never said one bad word about his company again.
"This is the pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal.
"On the other hand, to the best of my knowledge, they never once compromised the journalistic integrity of its reporters. It was, in other words, an old-fashioned newspaper with honest reporters and honest research.
"I never gave a rip what their editorial page said, because I knew what they were going to say. But I read their news articles diligently."
In other words, as long as a writer's not a conservative who challenges the Clintons, they have "journalistic integrity." Anyone who questions their actions must be unethical and "irrational."
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center [Recommend story on Digg.com] [Recommend story on Fark.com] [Recommend story on Reddit.com]
The ‘news’ section of the WSJ is as left wing as the NY Slimes. Of course Billy Jeff read it - and LIKED it.
This from the Onion?........surreal.....
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Using the Clintonian MO, this is a contrived story lie used to illustrate why all those Hamptonites should send their dollars to Hilary. I can't imagine the WSJ, or any newspaper for that matter, being leaned on to send a measly check to the Dole campaign.
Bill Clinton: its always me, me, me.
Um, sure Bill. Here. Have a stogie.
What would you expect from a rapist...
These statements by Bill Clinton should show all Americans that if you don’t agree with everything......everything.....that the Clintons say, they don’t care about you. If any part of the media doesn’t agree with them, they want them shut down.
What a SMALL mind BJ has.....why do liberals think the right is more of an enemy than the people who want to KILL them? Idiots.
The WSJ editorial page bothers him because it’s the only editorial page of a major newspaper that isn’t pro-left, pro-Democrat. Plus, if the WSJ hadn’t started calling attention to Vince Foster in the summer of 1993, maybe the Clintons wouldn’t have had to have him removed.
I see Bill is moving his lips again.
Speaking of Pavlov’s dog.
Enough said.
The impeached former president prefers the media which was complicit in covering up his sexual activities. clinton’s favored mediots are the ones which, to this day, have failed to address the sex-assault accusations of many women and a possible rape of another.
Aww, give them a break. They are slightly to the right of the Slimes and the WaPo.
NEWS FLASH!!!!!! 4 U...
As much fun as Nurse Ratchit and the DC Chapter had for 8 years....
YOU ARE NOT GOING BACK TO PENNSYLVANIA AVE!!!!
Bubba, if this is real, you can give us a name and he can confirm it. And since there will be others (the editorial board of the WSG only did this once? Yeah, sure that could happen) who can also come forward and tell the truth and reveal the editorial board to be extortionists.
Until you name some names, Bubba, the smart money says you’re lying. But then the smart money always says you’re lying.
REMEMBER THE STORY OF THE DOCTOR WHO WAS FIRED FOR NOT INJECTING POTUS WJC WITH A DRUG HE DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS IN THE HYPO?......
The rapist can just go pound sand....
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