I’m in agreement with Dan Abrams (!). The media have no excuse not to give Hillary the attention she deserves, nor is it as equal a race as they pretend it is. The latest polls clearly show that she’s leading in all major Super Tuesday states, and not by 1 or 2% either. Watch the video below the fold.
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Thank you Dan Abrams. You brought integrity back to journalism, and asked the right question. The media really fails their code of ethic this time. Failed to report facts, and distorted the message to the pubic. Thank you Dan Abrams, you have my vote as the best news anchor of the year.
I can’t stand Abrams (and Michael- that is Dan Abrams, not Joe Scarborough) but I think he’s right on this one.
Christine: all the same
Heh, well, no actually, because Joe Scarborough is one of MSNBC’s token conservatives.
Yayayayaya mother, I corrected it.
Good boy!
Joe Scarborough is hardly a conservative. Like Bill O’Reilly and Lou Dobbs, he can best be considered a Populist. That puts him right up snuggly with Mike Huckabee and Barak Obama.
Jimmie: I don’t know much about Scarborough, but he was a multiple term congressman from a highly conservative district in the FL panhandle, so you’re characterization sounds doubtful. That is a socon conservative area, not necessarily as economically conservative, so perhaps that explains it.
But anyway, I wasn’t arguing how far to the left or right he is, just that he is to MSNBC what Alan Colmes is to FOX (and I doubt that many liberal Democrats want to claim him as their standard bearer.)
Actually he isn’t much a socon. I went in under the 1994 wave and is more of a small gov’t, fiscal con. Most of his criticisms have been how the GOP has been spending like mad and than some of their social causes (he is for stem cell research). I don’t think he is like Colmes but that’s also because I don’t think MSNBC is the news wing for the Democrat party.
The Clinton’s political skills are being underestimated again. Recall how the media declared the Clinton candidacy dead after Iowa. It’s not about media. It is about delegates. The Clintons understand that. I’m guessing that Clinton gamesmanship will out over the Obama supporter’s passion, but it will continue to be a WWF Battle Royale until the convention.
The more bitter, the more heated, the more personal and nasty the Clinton/Obama steel cage match becomes – the more likely they wind up tag-teaming on the same ticket to go after the Republicans. When Clinton wins, she’ll understand that the only way to bring the oh-so-bitter Obama constituency (poor babies) along is to put him on the ticket. Her ambition will trump their animosity. With that ticket, the Dems have the best chance to win and probably will.
It is the best thing for Obama too. After 8 years as VP, the experience thing goes away, and the Presidency is his by acclamation. We probably won’t even bother with an election. The country gets 16 years of Democrats in the White House. You can decide for yourself if that is a good thing. Personally, I don’t mind, as long as the Dems don’t hold both houses of Congress. No way to avoid that for the next two years, but the Republicans will have a reasonable chance to retake the Senate in 2010.
MW: I agree that this should be the Democratic ticket. And Edwards as AG.