Posted on 09/30/2003 1:22:02 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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.
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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.
She isn't going to run in '04; this is just more posturing by her drooling sycophants.
Her husband had TWO terms, TWO, eight year long nightmares and no one, not a soul, not one person, let alone those here, who posted that same sort of garbage, you just did, took up arms, of any sort, and there was NO " war " of any kind.
Whether or not this nation could survive what she'd do to it, as president, is another story completely.
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1. The Clinton's are pro-abortion. Our children deserve better.
2. The Clinton's are against school vouchers. Our children deserve better.
3. The Clinton's are against our ballistic missile defense system. Our children deserve to be protected from rogue North Korean nuclear missiles.
4. The Clinton's want Americans to be subjected to the International Criminal Court, which has no Bill of Rights, no right to see your accuser, no jury, and no appeal. Our citizens deserve better.
5. The Clinton's want the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming to become law. That treaty will eventually lead to the prohibition of gasoline-powered automobiles. We deserve better than to return to the pre-industrial age.
She has only two months ( maybe less, now, in which to declare her/throw her hat into the riung, before she no longer is legally able to. Since the " smokey backroom " type of politics, at conventions, hasn't been used for at least 4+ decades, there is absolutely NO way that she can or will be " annoited " , next summer, at the Dem Convention.
Her Royal Highness:"We have the stolen FBI files which we have used for years. Use them now.
There will be no accountability with this administration.
Do whatever you want."
Her Toady:"Well, we do not need them with MSNBC.
They are on their knees for you already, Your Highness."
I must agree with nopardons here. This is the kind of thinking that plagues the fringe Left and drives them mad. I listened to several callers on Medved yesterday sharing their desires to see something unfortunate happen to the president and his supporters. I had an associate this week tell me that its time to wage war on the Christian Right. The ELF/ALF is stepping up its own brand of domestice terrorism. And , as we see on this post, the Mainstream media is so desperate as to blatantly flaunt a bias and distribute agitprop. The Fringe Left has already started a Civil War here and when Bush gets elected in 04 and the Republicans take more seats in Congress, they will go foaming-at-the-mouth off the deep edge mad.
Their reaction will marginalize the Left in this nation for decades to come and may once and for all eliminate them as an effective party. Imagine what we can accomplish if the only two effective parties in the US were Republicans and Libertarians?
Let them do this to themselves. We don't need or want to do it to ourselves. It can be fun to watch. And don't pass up the opportunity to poke that drooling dog with a stick from time to time. Its fun to watch.
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