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COLUMNISTS
TODAY'S STORIES
31.03.2008
Joining the Conspiracy, Ctd.

Drudge, Limbaugh, Richard Mellon Scaife, The American Spectator... Which element of the VRWC will the Clinton campaign make common cause with next? Enter top Clinton surrogate Ed Rendell:

I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present -- FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks.

It's only a matter of time before the campaign's overtures to Dan Burton start bearing fruit...

--Christopher Orr

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:26 PM with 8 comment(s)

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BHLnyc said:

Logrolling in our day.

March 31, 2008 2:58 PM

mpatrickhendri said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't Hillary the president of the Young Republicans and a Goldwater partisan? This sounds about right.

March 31, 2008 3:58 PM

waynejm said:

Dan Burton? Bearing fruit?

As in target practice?

Somewhere, Vince Foster is smiling.

March 31, 2008 4:25 PM

drdannyu said:

Any port in a storm, I suppose.

March 31, 2008 4:28 PM

hrlngrv said:

Is there still a John Birch Society to endorse Clinton?

March 31, 2008 5:19 PM

sprechs said:

thanks for your daily anti-Hillary post--and this one is more unfair  than most (which is saying a lot).  You truncated Rendell's quote--the entire quote is:

"I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present -- FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks. You hate both of our candidates. No, I’m only kidding. But you actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news, and some of the other stations are just caught up with Senator Obama, who is a great guy, but Senator Obama can do no wrong, and Senator Clinton can do no right.”  I think the message is a bit different...

Secondly, one could argue that it shows an impressive ability on the part of Hillary to move work with her political enemies--like her working closely with Lindsey Graham, who was a House Impeachment Manager before becoming a Senator.  Of course, this is ridiculous, because we all know that Obama is the candidate who can work across aisles, and Hillary is the vicious warrior who only believes in the politics of personal destruction.  When Obama works with right-wing media (remember the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial page), he's turning the page on divisive politics, when Hillary does it she's part of the vast-right-conspiracy.  Classic.

March 31, 2008 7:19 PM

WoodyBombay said:

"Truncating" Rendell's comment does not distort it in any way. Removing Rendell's joke does not mean the "you actually have done a very balanced job" quote is out of context. The message is not a bit different.

HRC cozying up to Scaife, Drudge, Limbaugh et al is not "working with political enemies" in any noble or useful sense. It's pure, crass political expediency. These people, to varying degrees, accused her of murdering Vince Foster amidst a host of other vicious smears. This isn't any "common ground" situation where Bush and Ted Kennedy work on an education proposal.

My respect for John McCain plummeted when he embraced the Bushies so wholeheartedly after the disgusting stuff they pulled on him in 2000. HRC is doing the same thing, only seemingly every single day, with a different monster and a lot more ugly history behind it. Rendell's stroking of Fox is actually the least odious of the lot.

Before the Pennsylvania primary gets here, HRC will probably have Ann Coulter introducing her at rallies.

March 31, 2008 7:47 PM

cypess said:

Right on, Woody.   And, I think your point is prescient about Coulter.  If and when Hillary shows up with Coulter - which now seems inevitable - will that be the tipping point for her supporters to realize that HRC's become what Democrats had once rejected?

March 31, 2008 11:52 PM