MSNBC begs Hillary to run

WND ^ | 9-29-03 | N/A

[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.

[NYC Republican]

LOL!!! I Love that!

[Paul Atreides]

The Clinturds have FBI files on Harbrech, too?

No. Bill isn't the only one with kneepad groupies.

[boycott]

If she wants to make history as the first woman in the Oval Office, her time has arrived.

Monica has already beat her there.

[biss5577]

Your's is the only reasoning that will keep me sane.

[boycott]

Maybe MSNBC should come up with some banner ads for Hillary? Maybe some catchy slogans? Maybe even hand out "Hillary for President" bumper stickers?

Maybe they'll do some research and find out why no one watches their network any longer?

[Ann Archy]

FNC had Sidney Blumental on...they have Wendell Goler...Mara Liason...Cheeky Connely...Eleanor Clift...etc. There are FEWER CONSERVATIVES than EVER. I don't watch much anymore.

Joe Scarborough ROCKS on MSNBC.

[Ann Archy]

Harbrecht had a scandal quite a few years ago....I have forgottn, but there was something....hmmmm.

[Joe_October]

But, you read it on MSNBC.com that the 10 midgets are all LOSERS!. That's what it says. Hillary might beat W, but the rest are LOSERS!.

Stupid Rats.

[Steely Glint]

More Stupid Nasty Biased Communism?

[Steely Glint]

"If she wants to make history as the first woman in the Oval Office, her time has arrived.

Monica has already beat her there."

Well, she beat something there. :)

[Steely Glint]

"Her posture and gesture resemble her hero, Chairman Mao!"

So does her figure.

[Vinomori]

Agreed. Clark won't hold up. Dean will hit him from the Left
with the (accurate) charge that he is a Republican, and the right will keep uncovering all his lies and weirdness. He's
peaked already.

[E=MC²]

So funny how the demonrats howled about Bush's lack of experience before the 2000 election; so, just what is hilliary's experience that qualifies "her"??? 3 years as NY's junior senator and ramroding several ghost writers to create a book??? Sheesh.

[Cate]

puke.

[stylin19a]

I don't understand these continued comparisons with 1968 BoobyBobby Kennedy.
The ultimate outcome of that was, Kennedy got himself killed.

[RLK]

Bobby Kennedy was a political opportunist much like Hillary. I don't believe he was despised the same way Her Heinous is.

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Bobby was the hatchet man for the Kennedys. He was hated and feared as much as Hillary ever was.

[nosofar]

Idiot Wesley Clark will steal the Democratic nomination. He will select Hillary as his running mate. If he wins, he will meet with an unfortuate Arkansas "accident", allowing the Hildebeast to pollute the White House with her and her sexual predator cohort's presence for at least 12 years!

This is all after a long torrid affair between Hillary and Clark.

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629

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.."IS it SAFE?" = President HILLARY

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1556

[nutmeg]

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