WaPo pic from the '99Dateline broadcast.
I think, if Russert was extra hard on Hillary, that the most likely reasons were that he, like much of the media, are tired of being treated badly by Hillary’s staff, and because he’s jumping on the Obama bandwagon.
Seems that when NBC wanted to protect the Clintons they buried this story in 1999, but now that they want to harm Hillary and help Obama, they plan to run it this weeek?
Could it he that our MSM is even slimier and more amoral than many of us have long believed?
the thing I’ve thought about for years about this is the following: The Clintons have known since the 1970’s? that there was a rape allegation against Bill and yet both of them plowed ahead in the political world and never let it phase them. On a simple practical level it is insanity ...How do you know someone (Juanita) will keep her mouth shut? How can an opponent not use the info to crush the Clintons ? ...How can they continue ?
People like Russert are not about justice or fighting injustice, they are about promoting liberalism and themselves. His "script" tonight was written by somebody else and he was more than happy to read it. (IMHO)
It was the dodge over the Russert questioning on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens that revealed her weakness. This resulted in weeks of tail-chasing in the Clinton camp and opened the door for Obama.
It was the dodge over releasing tax returns that will seal her fate in TX/OH. Russert just did not let Mrs. Clinton get away with the “We’ll get around to it” response, and she was caught flat-footed. In a debate where she had to offer a damn good reason for people to vote for her, Mrs. Clinton looked like just another mumbling dissembler.
The rapist and his enabler Hillary should have fallen long ago but they are about to meet their Waterloo now in the form of an upstart, (Or should I say “uppity” start) Barak Hussein.
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