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.

[JustPiper]

Ronnie, it will never be safe even when she is 80!

[JustPiper]

Clark will be a non-entity in this race in a couple of weeks

I agree!

[JustPiper]

LOL!

[Mia T]

"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."

MSNBC begs Hillary to run
WND | 9-29-03

Said another way:

... An end run is her only option.

And contrary to conventional wisdom, time is not on her side. Not only are the clintons in general decline, not only is she vulnerable in '06, but in this post-9/11 world,

as more clinton failures and betrayals are documented, increasingly favorable demographics will prove insufficient to resuscitate disfavored, dysfunctional, dangerous democrat demagogues like the clintons.

Look, therefore, for the clintons to make their move in '04. Susan Estrich, Al From and The Times aren't on the same "Get the clintons off the stage!" page for no reason.

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[OldFriend]

I don't believe RFK had a chance of winning the nomination.

He was despised on too many fronts.

Don't forget he worked for Roy Cohen on the HUAC......if I am not mistaken.

He also worked against organized crime....

Cries of 'carpet bagger' were common in NY....

Our culture is much more degraded now and people will accept the likes of her capetbagging heinous without the grief that RFK received.

[OldFriend]

Is she'd be president it would be the Offal Office.

[OldFriend]

MSNBC will last until the next election. They are there to give aid and support to the democrat party and nothing more.

[tm22721]

Her Heinous

LOL

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[DeFault User]

It will always be an interesting question about RFK's potential future. When he was killed, he had just won the California primary. McCarthy voters regarded him as a "johnny come lately" to the anti-war movement. However, if the McCarthy and Kennedy voters had united, RFK would have had a good chance at the nomination.

I agree that Kennedy was viewed as a carpetbagger and opportunist, but he still had the Kennedy machine and money behind him.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The traditional media will NOT attack her

This I know.

That's why I stated "every media outlet in the nation".

The traditional media will give her a pass. That's why outlets such as Drudge, Newsmax, Limbaugh and others will need to kick it up a notch or two. If she has the guts to run. Which I doubt. As I have stated before, Hillary will not run unless she is assured of victory.

She would not diegn to be put under a microscope by those she believes to be inferior unless she knows she will win.

[ZULU]

Never underestimate the ignorance of the American electorate.

[Denver Ditdat]

Never underestimate the ignorance of the American electorate.

I probably shouldn't be, but I'm still amazed by the '96 election. Fool me once, shame on you...

[hattend]

"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."

Delusional...Hillary has so much baggage.