When The Media Play By ‘Clinton Rules’
Having coined the phrase “Clinton Rules” to explain the national news media’s obsession with phony scandal narratives involving Bill and Hillary Clinton, I should be gratified to see it pass into general circulation.
First came New York Times columnist and liberal MVP Paul Krugman, casting doubt upon that newspaper’s virtually incomprehensible 4,400-word treatise, which insinuated that Secretary of State Clinton had peddled a Wyoming uranium mine to the Russians in return for contributions to her family’s charitable foundation:
“If you are old enough to remember the 1990s,” Krugman wrote, “you remember the endless parade of alleged scandals, Whitewater above all—all of them fomented by right-wing operatives, all eagerly hyped by mainstream news outlets, none of which actually turned out to involve wrongdoing. The usual rules didn’t seem to apply; instead it was Clinton rules, under which innuendo and guilt by association were considered perfectly OK, in which the initial suggestion of lawbreaking received front-page headlines and the subsequent discovery that there was nothing there was buried in the back pages if it was reported at all.”
To some degree, hard feelings are inevitable in politics. The Times has recently documented how successful conservative groups such as Karl Rove’s American Crossroads are at planting anti-Clinton messages among Democrats. That Hillary hater on Facebook may be a professional troll. They’re also spending big bucks on focus groups, studying how to make the party’s likeliest nominee look like a gold-plated bitch come November 2016.
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A President that spends all of their time and energy defending their questionable history has no time or energy to take care of We the People's business.
Capitulating is what neoliberals do when they kiss Wall Street and the Republicans asses. We've had far too much of that already and Hillary is just more of the same.
But thanks for playing.
Only triangulaters need to play that crap.
So, which is it? Hillary is a strong strong strong woman? Or Hilary is a poor poor poor victim?
You folks can't seem to make up your mind.
the victim". Funny how we don't accuse other democratic politicians who have been subject to dirty tricks campaigns by the GOP of whining about being victims.
But as expected, you dodged the question, in true triangulater style.
