Latest HillBama Tempest in a Teapot
May 24th, 2008 at 03:13am Mark Noonan
While waiting for the Mrs to finish a medical appointment this evening, I was forced - for the first time - to be in a room where the TV was tuned to Olberman without my having the ability to change the channel. He was raving on and on about something, and it occured to me it was about Hillary’s statement vis a vis long primary seasons and the assasination of Robert Kennedy. This is causing an MSM firestorm, it would seem:
Another example of the power of the Drudge Report today, as a NY Post story pointing out that Clinton brought up the assassination of Robert F Kennedy in 1968 during an editorial board meeting sent reporters traveling with Clinton into a frenzy.
Asked by South Dakota newspaper the Argus Leader why she didn’t buy the argument that the party was fracturing because of the prolonged contest, Clinton said “my husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.”
“We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” she continued. “You know i just dont understand it.”
After the Post story was circulated to the press corps via blackberry and Drudge, the reporters here at Clinton’s town hall meeting abandoned any pretense of listening to the event, flocking around the first Clinton flak they could find for a response to the quote.
After a brief off the record defense of Clinton’s comments, Campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee gave reporters what they were looking for. “She was simply referencing her husband in 1992 and Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as historical examples of the nominating process going well into the summer,” he said. “Any reading into it beyond that would be inaccurate.”…
…After the uproar, Clinton came to the TV cameras to make a brief statement on her remarks.
“Earlier today, I was discussing the Democratic primary history, and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns that both my husband and Senator Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968. And I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination, primary contests that go into June. That’s an historic fact. “
“The Kennedys have been much on my mind in the last days because of Senator Kennedy, and I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and particularly for the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. i certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.”
I’m sure she had no such intention - in fact, I wish she hadn’t apologised because there was (and is) nothing to this. Olberman was frothing at the mouth about a theory which seemed to go thusly: Hillary mentions RFK assasination; this is an invitation for some hate-crazed right wing lunatic to assasinate Obama. I’m no fan of Hillary, but this whole issue is a gigantic crock of feces unworthy of a serious mind…which, of course, means its going like wildfire in the MSM and on the left.
I’m actually starting to feel sorry for Hillary - and I mean it; she’s a leftist who’s policies would, if fully implemented, destroy the United States and, into the bargain, she has a great deal of trouble consistently telling the truth…but she’s getting a raw deal from her fellow Democrats and her once sycophantic MSM. I hate to see backstabbing, no matter who is doing it, or who it is being done to.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Democrats
18 Comments
1. SEW | May 24th, 2008 at 4:23 am
HRC, a liberal, being treated like a typical white Republican by her own. Fanatics. MSM. Moonbats.
And she is a far left liberal! Her own giving both Clintons the same treatment Roberts and Alito might expect. With hate and contempt.
Take notes HRC supporters.
2. Danish Artist | May 24th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Can’t say anything or hint at anything negative towards the Obamessiah or you would be a racist. This was the alternative, the MSM and others could not call her a racist since she is the first “Black First Lady” wife to America’s “First Black President”.
Libs are just too sensitive, first the “appeasement” comments now this.
When are liberals going to grow a spine?
3. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Why does a more experienced woman have to defer to the less experienced man, AGAIN?
I thought liberals were going to turn that around.
4. CanadianObserver | May 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I can’t imagine that Hillary Clinton would intentionally make such a terrible statement referencing Obama and I’m sure there were no dark intentions behind it.
Just one more case of making mountains out of molehills.
5. Plainpaper | May 24th, 2008 at 9:53 am
“I’m no fan of Hillary, but this whole issue is a gigantic crock of feces unworthy of a serious mind…which, of course, means its going like wildfire in the MSM and on the left.”
This is a perfect example of what Democrats have been trying to get across, one of the greatest conservaitve swift boatings has been the idea the media is liberal biased. There are liberal pockets like Olberman, but the vast majority of the media outlets are controlled by a few conservatives to form the CCMN (conservative corporate media network).
Another example is the Rev. Wright story. Rev. Wright was played out on the nightly news for almost a month and still pops up again and again. The youtube video was played over and over again. Yet McCain’s cozziness with Catholics are whores Pastor Hagee and Nazis had a positive influence in history and Islam is a religion God called upon America to destroy Pastor Parsley barely get a blip in the CCMN.
If the media is so liberal why did they set out to destroy Obama by saying Wright’s and Obama’s views must the same?
6. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 9:54 am
CO,
Hillary never referenced Obama. It was purely an historical reference to past primaries.
Obama and obamabots doth protest too much
7. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Plainpaper = Obamabot
garbage in; garbage out
I did enjoy the inference of the “conservative” media outlets of NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. LOVE IT!
8. Jonathan | May 24th, 2008 at 10:15 am
…she’s a leftist who’s policies would, if fully implemented, destroy the United States…
Bull. Compared to the incompetence and partisanship that have infiltrated the White House, Hillary’s administration will feel like a breath of fresh air.
9. bagni | May 24th, 2008 at 10:39 am
dearest markmoonbat
the cosmic dingdongs are bewildered
why would you a confirmed hillaryhater feel sorry for her?
anyway…if there was any vp chance for her that’s gone now.
the alienistas have never understood (or liked) her
especially now that she dreams like tonya harding
bottom line….as expected, you’re just playing her
and the msm to cop a few additional comments
have a nice weekend!
http://www.thealientruth.com/index.php?mact=Blogs,m3,showblog,1&m3returnid=58
10. Eric T | May 24th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Jonathan-
Breath of Fresh air!!
I think it would be More like the putrid stench of anal vapor after a night of beer and White Castle burgers.
11. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Can some liberal tell me why a woman who has more popular votes (only if you count all the votes though) and more experience, needs to step aside for the less experienced man?
Are liberals mysoginistic?
12. bagni | May 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
neostud from neptune:
first…a disclaimer..the spock posse is not liberal
but we will attempt to answer your quasar question
ok
us martians are mixed up?
since when did the popular vote matter?
and you more than anyone should know
there’s a big diff between
extraterrestial experience and cosmic character
13. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
bagni,
I thought liberals were all about the popular vote? So Gore didn’t actually win in 2000?
That’s great. And when it comes to the general, which states can the GOP nullify?
Of course with 57 states, there’s a lot to choose from.
14. GOP4ME | May 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I simply detest the Clintons (heck I pretty much detest all demoncRATS) but seriously, this is a complete non-issue.
I am sure our slobbering, leftist knuckledraggers can understand what she was trying to say. Can’t they?
Jeepers what a bunch of morons the ‘Rats are.
15. bagni | May 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
neoblastocyte;
said earlier….the light speed junkies aren’t liberals
so we aren’t about the popular vote
the radarians like the rules
yknow…..electorate and delegates and stuff
and green guru gore didn’t win….period
and if this is a non issue raised by democrats and liberal media??
how come it’s all over drudge and stuff?
neptunian noonan is defending hillary
cuz he wants her against the mcchurian candidate
16. neocon | May 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
bagni.
have you taken your thorazine?
I am detecting some senility
17. Mark Noonan | May 24th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
bagni,
No, I’m really sorry for Hillary, and I’m really outraged at the way she’s being knifed in the back over this…just a terrible, sad spectacle…and all of it, ultimately, because senior Democrats are afraid (in the chickensh** meaning of the word) not to nominate Obama…’cause failure to nominate Obama might cost some downballot Democrats their seats, and its all about personal power and wealth for most Democratic leaders these days…
18. phnx | May 25th, 2008 at 8:08 am
It looks as though some Obama supporters are now using this as a pretext to force her out of the race.