Catching the wave
I've been wrong before. But I don't think I've ever seen the NY Times jump out to catch a story as they've done on the matter of the latest Hillary Clinton biographies. But remember this as you watch the NY Times coverage of the books. One is by Carl Bernstein of Watergate reporting fame. I have a copy in hand. It's not uniformly praiseworthy of the Democratic presidential candidate, but it gives her plenty of grudging praise for brains, fortitude, etc.
Then you've got the coming book from Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, two former NY Times reporters with checkered records (particularly Gerth, with butchered reporting on Whitewater, Wen Ho Lee and Jeb Bush) who apparently still seethe at their inability to drop an anvil on the Bill Clinton roadrunner in 1992 and 1996. They've hurried THEIR book to press on account of the Bernstein release and you may be sure it will paint Hillary as the Wicked Witch of the West. That much we already knew. But the newspaper is hustling to help them sell their story by such things as an unusually early release of an article by the same authors for this Sunday's Times magazine.
Can you trust this newspaper on this topic, given Gerth's involvement? The good news is that blogs aplenty will work to keep them honest.
Sorry, Jeff, pre-web 1992 was a long time ago. But this special handling of the Gerth/Van Natta attack on Hillary clearly tells you where the NYT will be coming from vis a vis Hillary reporting in 2008. As if you wondered. Joe Lelyveld still has some splainin' to do.
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Max, did you get that right? Is Gerth really 'former NY Times reporters'? I really hope so. I would've hoped he went as ignominiously as Judy Miller.
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May 29, 2007 09:18 PM
Then and now.
"If we quit Vietnam," President Lyndon Johnson warned, "tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco."
"We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today," Bush said in his televised speech Sept. 7, "so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
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May 29, 2007 09:43 PM
Hillary must have stepped on some sensitive New York toes for the eponymous Times to go that way.
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May 29, 2007 09:51 PM
The NY Times is in business
to sell papers. These tabloid
subjects sell papers. The
media will use this to get
readers/viewers no doubt. I
just don't think those who vote
will let it effect the way they
vote.
After the last 8 years, voters
are going to ask one question:
Is she intelligent and qualified
enough to be President?
The answer to both is HELL YEAH.
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May 29, 2007 10:21 PM
". . . intelligent and qualified
enough to be President . . ."
Don't you wish those two qualities had been considered important in 2000 and 2004? Please, please, let them be important to a substantial majority of voters -- substantial enough to preclude funny business -- in 2008.
Here's one for you, Max: Given your news background and interest in all things political, what do you think the chances are that this country will elect a woman president next year? Or a black president?
My observations, obviously very limited both geographically and politically compared to yours, lead me to think neither has much of a chance.
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May 29, 2007 10:56 PM
Hiya bold and blue... Sorry, was away all day and just left you a reply way downstairs.
As for the NYT Sunday magazine... it is known as a special place for the worst of this type of drivel. Weren't the NYT the forst to jump on Hillarys sex life in re a subject of interest and her presidential campaign.. I haven't seen any other candidate mentioned in such an article.
Lwood..this one is for you (and of course anyone else interested)
As to other presidential candidates ... Senator Chris Dodd will be on live vlog at firedoglake tomorrow afternoon and you may submit potential questions at this link now or anytime you like.
http://www.firedoglake.com
/questions-for-senator-dodd/
This is a first of its kind for any presidential candidate that I know of...and many more to come I am sure. Dodds second live session this year.
More info on the set up and where and when at my name.
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May 29, 2007 11:16 PM