Olbermann (at KOS) Hillary SOS: "If it was a misleading leak-it just became a misleading dam break"

kpete

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Olbermann (at KOS) Hillary SOS: "If it was a misleading leak-it just became a misleading dam break"

HuffPo: Hillary Offered Job
by Keith Olbermann
Fri Nov 14, 2008 at 01:15:57 PM PST

Yeah, I could almost hear the doubts coming through my studio windows when Andrea Mitchell quoted her two sources last night as saying Senator Clinton was under consideration for Secretary of State.

I even read her earlier today that I wasn't very smart, or something, for reporting it.

Well if it was a misleading leak, it just became a misleading dam break.

President-elect Barack Obama offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the position of Secretary of State during their meeting Thursday in Chicago, according to two senior Democratic officials. She requested time to consider the offer, the officials said.

Nico Pitney's story is here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/clinton-met-with-obama-ab_n_143810.html

For now, I want to stay out of the fray here, but in what I'm sure may read in some places as an arcane defense of mainstream media, honest to God even if you're Andrea Mitchell you just can't waltz on to the set of Nightly News and report what she reported last night without convincing your bosses that you (and more importantly your sources) know what they're talking about.

And here's HuffPo -- not exactly "old" media -- going still further.

Please fray when ready.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/14/16949/046/995/661066

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tekisui

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Fri Nov-14-08 04:29 PM
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1. Too many leaks, not enough denials or couter leaks. SoS Hillary Clinton!

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ErinBerin84

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Fri Nov-14-08 04:30 PM
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2. verrrry interesting.

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ellacott

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Fri Nov-14-08 04:30 PM
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3. She wasn't the only one who reported this

Gloria Borger(sp) and Candy Crowley said on CNN that they also heard it from 2 sources.

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LostinVA

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Fri Nov-14-08 04:31 PM
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4. Interesting -- I hope she says no

Although, I totally see why he wants her in teh position.

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PretzelWarrior

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Fri Nov-14-08 04:32 PM
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5. let's count the occasions Obama has played media against themselves

just too many times to count during the election. And people like Hillary and McCain always took the bait.

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