Letters to the Editor
Lavins
Published Letters: 5
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MEDIA SILENT ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON'S DIRTY TRICKS TO WIN NH PRIMARY
[Read the article: Does race explain the polling disconnect?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The media has been strangely silent about the true reason that Hillary Clinton was able to beat the projections of the pollsters in the NH primary. The media has failed in its obligation to the public to inform them about the last minute campaign of the Clinton staffers to distort the pro-choice record of Barack Obama.
Will dirty tricks be her same path to victory in other primary campaigns.
Patricia Lavins
Aiken, SC
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NON-EXISTENT NEGATIVE PRESS CORPS
[Read the article: How bashing Hillary backfired]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe Conason has it all wrong if he believes that the media has been negative to Hillary Clinton. The sole reason that the Senator from New York was able to win the NH primary was due to the lack of attention to the Clinton dirty trick campaign that the Clinton staff engaged in at the last minute. NH voters received a flyer and follow-up phone calls deliberately distorting Barack Obama's pro-choice record.
The Clinton campaign showed its desperate side in the attacks on Barack Obama and it looked foolish in disparaging an alleged childhood wish to grow up to be President. The press corps failed to heed this as a signal to investigate claims made by Senator Clinton.
Finally, the media has allowed Hillary Clinton to continually claim to have "35 years" experience even though she is still only a junior Senator. If she is going to be allowed credit for all her life experiences since high school, then the media should extend this same blind acceptance of experience from all the Presidential candidates.
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DIRTY TRICKS WERE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN WERE TEARS FOR CLINTON
[Read the article: Hillary without tears]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The media has failed to report on the true phenomena that motivated NH women to vote for the junior Senator from New York. The sad reality is that Hillary Clinton benefitted from a dirty trick campaign when her staff sent out a flyer and made followup phone calls deliberately distorting the pro-choice record of Barack Obama.
Also, the media has blindly accepted Hillary Clinton's claim of 35 years experience as though all of one's world experiences since high school prepare one for the Oval Office. The media should be doing the kind of investigative journalism that such a claim mandates.
The voters should be asking themselve why is Hillary Clinton's experience as a community organizer relevant but not Barack Obama's. Why is Hillary Clinton's volunteer work on behalf of children praiseworthy but not Barack Obama's comparable efforts?
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HILLARY CLINTON'S DIRTY TRICK CAMPAIGN
[Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon.com and the mainstream media have missed a story that clearly demonstrates the desperation of the Clinton campaign. It is sad that there has been no extensive reporting on the real reason that Hillary Clinton won the NH primary. She won the old fashioned way -- dirty politics. The Clinton staff just prior to the votes being cast in NH earlier this month sent out a flyer and made subsequent followup phone calls to women voters in NH which deliberately distorted the pro-choice voting record of Barack Obama. Thus, Hillary Clinton is hoping to win the Democratic nomination by becoming the smear merchant.
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CLINTON DIRTY TRICKS
[Read the article: Stop him if you've heard this one before]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is so sad that when the first viable woman to run for President has to become Lee Atwater to do so. There should be no place for dirty tricks in a contest to win the Presidency yet that it precisely what we are seeing now from the Clinton campaign. The not too subtle smears about past drug use, however, should have no impact on the voters since so many twice voted for George W. Bush despite his drug use record.
The real impact of the smear campaign, however, showed itself in the results of the NH primary. This was obvious when so many women voted for Hillary Clinton after having received a flyer and followup phone call from the Clinton campaign which distorted the pro-choice voting record of Barack Obama.