Hold on to your keyboards. You now can vote for Hillary Clinton. Last Tuesday Hillary sat down with Richard Mellon Scaife; for those who slept through the 1990s, this is the guy behind the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Ken Starr and Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Just say, Clinton’s enemy: No:1.
Richard Scaife spent millions to bring us the Clinton scandals. Fast forward 2008, Scaife and Clinton have embraced.
Here is Scaife’s elaborate editorial in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (replete with 7 Videos – including on Wright, re-vote issue, delegates; a Photo Gallery of 21 views; an audio of the 90-minute interview): Wow, Wow!
By Richard M. Scaife
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Hillary Clinton walked into a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review conference room last Tuesday to meet with some of the newspaper’s editors and reporters and declared, “It was so counterintuitive, I just thought it would be fun to do.”
The room erupted in laughter. Her remark defused what could have been a confrontational meeting.
Walking into our conference room, not knowing what to expect (or even, perhaps, expecting the worst), took courage and confidence. Not many politicians have political or personal courage today, so it was refreshing to see her exhibit both.Sen. Clinton also exhibited an impressive command of many of today’s most pressing domestic and international issues. Her answers were thoughtful, well-stated, and often dead-on.
Particularly regarding foreign policy, she identified what we consider to be the most important challenges and dangers that the next president must confront and resolve in order to guarantee our nation’s security. Those include an increasingly hostile Russia, an increasingly powerful China and increasing instability in Pakistan and South America.
Like me, she believes we must pull our troops out of Iraq, because it is time for Iraqis to handle their own destiny — and, more important, because it is past
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go take a read, a view, a listen if you’re so inclined
(Tip O’cap: TPM)
Why would Richard Scaife write this piece himself replete with videos, audio and a photo gallery of Hillary’s visit?
Why now, if he’s not ready to endorse?
Give a helping hand?. Most likely, since Clinton took heavy flap over this meeting, the Wright and Bosnia flaps – all in the same week. She needs help and cares not from where cometh.
In my view, what stands out is HRC’s creepy desperation. It demonstrates how badly she wants to be president.
How else do you explain her crawling into the cesspool with Scaife?…and with just a little slip in, here and there, she stoked the Wright flap.
I smell a stinking decaying rat.
Hillary enlisted the enemy’s help to slay a fellow Democrat.
Richard M. Scaife is the owner of the Tribune-Review.
You bet, that over the next three weeks, this reassessing is only the first of many favorable articles that will be slanted to the Clintons campaign.
The Clintons will stop at nothing. In this campaign Hillary has enlisted Drudge and Rush Limbaugh, now Scaife. She’s without self esteem and truly a “national disgrace.” –
Hillary would like us to think she’s a Democrat. Make no mistake, Hillary aids the G.O.P
Note to Scaife: before you go a-swooning, put down the syrup and read Frank Rich’s editorial:
Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre
– Frank Rich, New York Times
MOST politicians lie. Most people over 50, as I know all too well, misremember things. So here is the one compelling mystery still unresolved about Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia fairy tale: Why did she keep repeating this whopper for nearly three months, well after it had been publicly debunked by journalists and eyewitnesses?
Since Mrs. Clinton had told a similar story in previous instances, this was misleading at best. It was also dishonest to characterize what she had done as misspeaking — or as a result of sleep deprivation, as the candidate herself would soon assert. The Bosnia anecdote was part of her prepared remarks, scripted and vetted with her staff. Not that it mattered anymore. The self-inflicted damage had been done. The debate about Barack Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was almost smothered in the rubble of Mrs. Clinton’s Bosnian bridge too far.
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What’s been lost in the furor over Mrs. Clinton’s Bosnia fairy tale is that her disastrous last recycling of it, the one that blew up in her face, kicked off her major address on the war, timed to its fifth anniversary. Still unable to escape the stain of the single most damaging stand in her public career, she felt compelled to cloak herself, however fictionally, in an American humanitarian intervention that is not synonymous with quagmire.
The war is certainly a bigger issue in 2008 than race. Yet it remains a persistent Beltway refrain that race will hinder Mr. Obama at every turn, no matter how often reality contradicts the thesis. Whites wouldn’t vote for a black man in states like Iowa and New Hampshire; whites wouldn’t vote for blacks in South Carolina; blacks wouldn’t vote for a black man who wasn’t black enough. The newest incessantly repeated scenario has it that Mr. Obama’s fate now all depends on a stereotypical white blue-collar male voter in the apotheosized rust belt town of Deer Hunter, Pa.
Well, Mr. Obama isn’t going to win every white vote. But two big national polls late last week, both conducted since he addressed the Wright controversy, found scant change in Mr. Obama’s support. In The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, his white support was slightly up.[.]
The myth that’s been busted is one that Mr. Obama talked about in his speech — the perennial given that American racial relations are doomed to stew eternally in the Jim Crow poisons that forged generations like Mr. Wright’s. Yet if you sampled much political commentary of the past two weeks, you’d think it’s still 1968, or at least 1988. The default assumptions are that the number of racists in America remains fixed, no matter what the generational turnover, and that the Wright videos will terrorize white folks just as the Willie Horton ads did when the G.O.P. took out Michael Dukakis.
But politically and culturally we’re not in the 1980s — or pre-YouTube 2004 — anymore. An unending war abroad is upstaging the old domestic racial ghosts. A new bottom-up media culture is challenging any candidate’s control of a message.
The 2008 campaign is, unsurprisingly enough, mostly of a piece with 2006, when Iraq cost Republicans the Congress. In that year’s signature race, a popular Senate incumbent, George Allen, was defeated by a war opponent in the former Confederate bastion of Virginia after being caught race-baiting in a video posted on the Web. Last week Mrs. Clinton learned the hard way that Iraq, racial gamesmanship and viral video can destroy a Democrat, too.
It’s Over, Hillary…and your future won’t be fun to do.
