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Classic Clinton
In a recent post, fellow blogger Bserious was firing some shots across the bow of the Clinton campaign's media bias narrative. One of the things mentioned in the post was Clinton's campaign for US Senate in 2000 against Rick Lazio. The implication was that there was some hurly-burly about him invading her personal space during a debate. Not being a New Yorker, I didn't really have any recollection of this event, but it sounded damned entertaining. So of course I decided to track it down.
The video proved to be a little harder to find than I expected. Google's video search, which indexes YouTube as well as several other video hosts, didn't come up with anything. Fortunately, a little creating googling brought to me to the blog of law professor Ann Althouse. Not only did she have a blog about the incident complete with some related news links, but she had tracked down the video. And there was a bonus: she had a link to the treatment the event got on the Daily Show.
So, on this last day before the March 4th primary, sit back, relax and enjoy a classic moment from the exemplary campaign past of Hillary Clinton, when we all looked younger and Jon Stewart had more youthful, exuberant fake news anchor hair. I'm going to reserve my comment and let you take from it what you will.
Comments (2)
As I live in Buffalo, I really enjoyed seeing the Daily Show clip. Being someone who mistrusts his Senator, I find it funniest that Clinton turned her refusal to sign a pledge banning soft money in her campaign into a cry that her opponent invaded her personal space. Maybe she just didn't want any of her dirty money to rub off on him.
March 3, 2008 8:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is this enough media bias for you for one weekend:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902992.html
Okay, tentatively it rack a few points against female Obama supporters, but considering the entire article is about how stupid women are, especially Hillary and her campaign...
Read it. Digest it. Toss it back up.
And this is from the flagship of the "liberal press".
March 3, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
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