Posted on 08/21/2006 5:39:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
August 21, 2006 - 08:17
This week is shaping up as the MSM's kick-off of its Hillary for President campaign. Using Time Magazine's 10th cover of Hillary as a springboard, this morning's Today show convened a liberal coffee klatsch on Clinton's political future. Dem pollster Peter Hart summed up the segment's zeitgest nicely: "I think Americans are ready for a female president. I think they are definitely ready for Hillary Clinton."
Not a discouraging word was to be heard, as 'Today' found it unnecessary to invite to the party anyone who might have a negative view of Hillary and her prospects. In addition to Hart, we were treated to a clip from liberal WaPo columnist E.J. Dionne, who suggested that Hillary's campaign strategy would be similar to the one Bill successfully employed: "hold onto a certain number of liberals and win a chunk of the center."
Declared NBC reporter Lisa Daniels, who narrated the segment: "Americans are beginning to soften their feelings for the junior senator from New York." She cited in support a poll Time apparently commissioned for purposes of its cover story that found that 53% of Americans had a favorable opinion of Hillary, more than for any of her potential challengers for the Dem presidential nomination.
Daniels painted a picture of Clinton as undecided as to her presidential ambitions. While embracing Hart's view that Americans are ready for Hillary, Daniels proclaimed that "the $64,000 question" is "whether Hillary herself is ready?" Time editor Richard Engel informed us that after winning her Senate race, "she's going to sit down with her advisors and decide what to do." Does anyone doubt that Hillary is aching to run? But the MSM propagates her official line that she is focused on the Senate and won't even think about other things till later. Right.
The stuff really started to get deep when Hart, managing to maintain a serious mien, proclaimed toward the segment's end: "Hillary Clinton, in terms of a vision of where America can be, can inspire people in much the same way that Robert Kennedy did forty years ago."
Room for one more at Rushmore?
Today Show/NewsBusters Hillary-next-RFK ping to Today show list.
Take comfort in the fact that RFK is no longer with us.
Well, thirty maybe. Yuck!
Will some one post pictures of Hillary "WIDE LOAD" as she hobbles along.
She does not want pctures of her FAT ASS.
My tag line is an appropriate sentiment for this thread...
A deeply dishonest woman, assisted by the deeply dishonest media.
They think we're fools.
I take it you managed to watch this without rolling on the floor holding your sides. It appears that they are absolutely going to delude themselves into this, even going so far as to cook up one of their phony polls. But phony polls do not translate into real voters.
Expect more of this kind of mush as they remake her into Saint Hillary from Ark during the next 2 years.
Maybe, just maybe, they will saturate the media with so much of Hillary that the public will be sick of her by then.
So far, the list of GOP wannabes doesn't create a groundswell of enthusiasm, however.
Did Hillary sleep with Marilyn Monroe also?
I'm with you and your tagline 100%.
And the real Hillary isn't aging well.
It's gonna take a whole lot of airbrushing during the next two years ---- a whoooooooollleee lot.
What's deeply frustrating is, after Hillary's media whores build her up as the next Jesus Christ incarnate and proclaim her untouchable and invincible, when the time comes and she goes down in flames at the polls, the MSM will go on to the next story and act as if nothing ever happened.
"They think we're fools."
For half the voters, and almost everyone who watches that crap, they are right.
And remmeber RFK went from Hawk on the Vietnam war to Dove.
And this comparison opens the door for Shillary to "grow" and do likewise.
Just before the Connecticut primary, I saw many pieces in the the MSM indicating that if Lamont won, it would be a serious blow to the Democrats. The Left was scared, and wanted the loony to go down.
Then Lamont won.
Right after the Connecticut primary, I saw many pieces in the MSM indicating that the Lamont win was a serious blow to the Republicans.
The media is shameless, and able to shake off any setback as if it were nothing.
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