This makes perfect sense. After the home run that Obama hit yesterday with his speech that essentially removes discussion of race off of the table, what else is there to keep the story going and give Hillary a fighting chance to stretch this thing out to sweeps week the Convention? Dig up a bunch of junk that will force people to defend Hillary, and hope that someone tangentially related to the Obama campaign says something that can be construed as insensitive and we have a new, raging controversy that can be used to sell more ads further enlighten the public regarding the candidates' positions.

Will somebody please ask Hillary what her price is - short of the VP spot - to drop out and endorse Barack? Then let's pay it and move on to fixing our country.

The Underground Railroad

Hillary's allies will rally around her and foes will say we don't want to revisit the Clinton years, that a good reason for standing against the Clintons' restoration project.

Brian Ross should focus on real issues. The MSM is part of the problem - why polity is diminished.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

I'm sure they're all feverishly digging today to find their spotted and stained copies of the Ken Starr report which they rapaciously devoured while sitting on their respective crappers and wanking till they were writhing in pain.

They all have shit for brains.  Our media is a joke.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

Wow, Hillary was somewhere on Planet Earth while Bill and Monica did their business.  It's Pulitzer time.  

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin Survivor Left Blogistan

Jesus!! And how fucking long do you think it will be before they drag Monica back out to reprise her role before Barbara Walters or some other celebrijourno-hack like Larry King.  The prospect of a continuation of the titillation will be irresistible to our sophisticated, professional media types.

Jack Cafferty had it about right.

Interesting, isn't it, all those 11,000, 12,000 pages of documents released today. What's the first thing that the press corps satisfied their curiosity about? The fact that Hillary Clinton was in the White House the day Monica Lewinsky got the stain on her dress. That moved on one of the wires that I read about at 3:00 this afternoon. Amazing.

Amazing, Jack?  Only an idiot or a moron would be amazed.  It is exactly what I would expect from our corporate stenographers.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

The media is sticking to what it does best: Sex.

I was just telling Demetrius about an e-mail I got from someone in my parish, who forwards articles by former Bishop John Shelby Spong. In it, Spong described the sort of sexist crap that has been spouted by the media talking heads when discussing the Clinton campaign. He noted, rightly, that no male candidate would be on the receiving end of such commentary.

Some of these examples I wasn't even aware of. If I had seen a diary by a pro-Hillary blogger asking us to rebuke the media for some of the more egregious sexist commentary, I certainly would have been supportive. But apparently it's more important to do this kind of whining. So, yeah, it's hard to feel sorry for her.

And by the way, the one thing that really struck me about Hillary's "crying" episode before the N.H. primary, is that her actual message boiled down to, "This is personal to me because I care so much. I love this country too much to let it be saddled with a president like Barack Obama when I would be soooo much better!"

If I see someone crying, I am usually inclined to feel sympathetic. But if I ask why the person is crying, and the response is, "I'm crying because of how badly you suck!" ...well, that makes me feel somewhat less than sympathetic.

I've spent all day cross-referencing dates with Clinton's recent made up claims about her "experience" and had planned on doing a post on it tonight--though it looks like The Guardian has a bigger staff.  But in all the pages and pages of documents I searched, it never occured to me to look up the Lewinsky stuff.  

Of course, I'm probably the only person on the planet who was around at the time,  that has no idea what actually happened.  I managed to not pay attention to any of that.  So my sum total knowledge is: I did not have sex with that woman, something about a cigar (don't tell me details...really), a blue dress, Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky.  I have no details of how these people relate and don't care.  I've managed to live this long and through it without caring.  

So, why would I look up Hillary Clinton's whereabouts?  That's skankalicious and utterly disgusting.  I get that the press thinks that the Lewinsky thing was their finest hour--at least that was the last time they actually did any investigative reporting if the sheer volume of articles about it is any indication, but actually reporting this is real, real low.

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Just can't pass on the comment that Boo is tired of the Clinton's sex life.

Boo, you and I clashed mightily in the 90s because I tired of their sex then. I was offended that Bill took a BJ under his desk while discussing on the phone sending soldiers to die in Kosovo. And I recoiled on so many levels for America's pride at public documents that describe how Mr. Bill had to finish off Monica's work by wacking off in a sink.

The discussion of Hillary's candidacy over the last 8+ years has exhausted and frightened me. Great leaders don't do that.

I have no other point really other than I got there first. :)

Makes you want to bang your head on the table.  Who the hell cares?  But if we can coarsen the public dialogue, why not.  And the thought of 8  more years hearing about the Clintons and sex or financial scandal is bleak.

"Mrs. Clinton's advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama's association with Pastor Wright would doom their party in the general election."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1205978784-DY ODfocUf+PREVvCwoyFsg

What a shame to see my Senator reduced to that sort of campaign strategy.  The superdelegates need to put Hillary out of her misery, soon.  

So, tell  me, honestly, where were you at the moment when all this happened and where did you spend the night?

Was she in the room when it happened?

Have we finally reached the point where the value of television is equivalent to a traveling carnival sideshow.

Just when I think we can't go any lower.....

Isn't it sad that with everything that is going on in this country and the world-ABC considers this the height of journalistic endeavor? Pitiful. And an insult to the viewers.

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