Scarborough should move to FNC
Posted on 09/29/2003 7:43:14 PM PDT by JustPiper
Top 'news' story is first-person ode to 'somebody who could beat Bush'
MSNBC didn't help itself overcome accusations it is politically biased when the No. 2 Internet newssite in the world led its virtual "news" front page with a "glowing, first-person, editorial column by BusinessWeek Online's Washington bureau chief calling for Hillary Clinton to enter the presidential race.
"Who are the Democrats kidding?" the oddly positioned editorial by Douglas Harbrecht began. "They have somebody who could beat George W. Bush next year. Her name is Hillary Rodham Clinton. The only question, really, is how badly she wants to return to the White House."
The piece continued: "This much is certain: She's foolish to think she can bide her time, strolling effortlessly to the Democratic nomination five years from now. If she wants to make history as the first woman in the Oval Office, her time has arrived."
The story ran under a banner headline that read: "Why Hillary Clinton should run." It was not a question. It was a statement.
On the site's news front, the headline was posed as a question: "Should Hillary run?" But the answer was obvious in the subhead: "If Sen. Clinton wants to be president, now's the time."
"Oh, I've read Hillary's unambiguous denials, and I've heard the analysts and pundits who say a leap in the breach now by the junior senator from New York would be catastrophic for her party and her ambitions," Harbrecht wrote. "She's too inexperienced, they say. She'd so anger the field of declared Democratic presidential candidates that party unity would be splintered, they fret. And in a general election, she'd be a polarizing national figure. It would be like 1968 all over again. Then, another unseasoned, junior senator from New York, Robert Kennedy, brazenly stole the fire from Eugene 'Clean Gene' McCarthy, who with early primary victories had shown just how weak the sitting president, Lyndon B. Johnson, was."
This was no news analysis. This was raw opinion – placed in the top news spot on MSNBC's front page. Harbrecht went on to draw a parallel with another presidential race involving another carpet-bagging senator from New York.
"What the political savants forget is that, had he not been assassinated by a deranged Sirhan Sirhan after victory in the June 1968 California primary, there wasn't a doubt in the world that Bobby Kennedy, an intensely polarizing figure in his day, would have won that November," he continued. "The parallels are striking: Kennedy was the brother of a charismatic president despised, but also feared, by Republicans because he presided over what Americans regarded nostalgically as a golden era. Hillary is married to a charismatic president intensely disliked by Republicans but feared... well, you get the picture."
It's all about timing, MSNBC's top "news story" contended. And the timing for Hillary is now.
"The real lesson from 1968 is just how crucial timing is in politics," the piece continued. "Successful candidates move when the magic strikes. Just ask Bill Clinton – he declared flat out that he wouldn't run for president in 1992 if Arkansans reelected him to a fifth term as governor of the Razorback State in 1990. Did that Clinton's fib matter? Not a wit. Bubba saw his opportunity, and he took it."
MSNBC did not return e-mail messages questioning the position of the column as its lead story.
Scarborough should move to FNC
Now we know what all this 'yellow cake' bullship is all about.
Now we know what all the lies about the progress in Iraq is all about.
SICK BA$TARD$........
Run, Hillary. Run. Please. Open up every facet of your private life to every media outlet in the nation. It would be high entertainment watching you burn.
It's a smelly smell that smells smelly. Hillary is running and it stinks!
Bobby Kennedy was a political opportunist much like Hillary. I don't believe he was despised the same way Her Heinous is. He would have won the nomination in Chicago, but I doubt that he could have beaten Nixon.
I don't think so. Or rather, I hope not.
If America is really stupid enough to elect this evil bint not just once as VP, but twice more as POTUS after a Clark "Arkancide" death, maybe we deserve her.
It would only take a candid shot or two of her in that thong of hers, dancing on the beach with Willard...Americans just plain don't elect uglitude.
Her cottage cheese is the downfall of her burning ambition...
I'm with you .. She is running
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