Bill and Hillary Clinton are racist? Give me a fucking break! And on it goes, our male-dominated drama-queen corporate media twist and misinterpret whatever they damn well please. And the Obama camp appears to have no qualms about taking full advantage or even "feeding this controversy."
The Clintons are racist, Howard Dean screamed and Al Gore said he invented the internet!
Republicans win!!!!
The same corporate media that gave George Bush a free pass in 2000, and again on the Iraq War, now endorses Obama. Screw 'we the people.'
The Hillary Clinton MLK/LBJ Controversy
Greg Sargent notes that "for the third time" the New York Times has "printed a truncated version of Hillary's controversial quote about Martin Luther King in a piece running in Sunday's paper. . Adding to the absurdity, this time the paper did it in an article that was about whether her words had been distorted. Seriously. The piece is entitled, 'Clinton Accuses Obama Camp of Distorting Her Words.' Presumably an article about this subject would contain Hillary's actual quote, to allow readers to make up their own minds about what she meant."
Josh Marshall points out that this entire story derives from a misleading quote.
The Bill Clinton Fairy Tale Controversy
Rachel Sklar (she's in your race, class, gender oppression text) over at Huffington Post observes that while any and every outrageous claim can be made about the Clintons, we critique Obama at our peril:
Here's the (Bill Clinton) quote, which was part of a larger comment on Obama's representation of his Iraq war position:
"It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, numerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once, 'Well, how could you say, that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would have voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war and you took that speech you're now running on off your website in 2004 and there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since?' Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
Wow, strong words — but unequivocally pertaining to Obama's Iraq war position. Pretty clear cut, right?Ha, as if. Here's what it morphed into in the media: BILL CLINTON CALLS OBAMA'S MESSAGE OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION A FAIRYTALE! HE THINKS OBAMA'S DREAM FOR BLACK AMERICA IS A FAIRYTALE!
Bill Clinton is exactly right about Obama's free pass from the media -- or the 'fairy tale.' As Clinton notes, Obama's central campaign theme is that he was 'always, always, always' 100% against the war:
Bill Clinton: That is the central argument for his campaign. 'It doesn't matter that I started running for president less a year after I got to the Senate from the Illinois State Senate. I am a great speaker and a charismatic figure and I'm the only one who had the judgment to oppose this war from the beginning. Always, always, always.' "
Here's Obama on the war in 2008:
Politico: Obama . . said that any suggestion that he hadn’t fully opposed the Iraq war was “flat-out wrong.”
And Obama on the war in 2004:
New York Times, 2004: ''But, I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports,'' Mr. Obama said. ''What would I have done? I don't know."
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