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Friday, April 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama, get ready for the "Clinton rules"

As Wednesday's awful debate proves, it won't matter who the presidential nominee is -- the press will play footsie with McCain and attack the Democrat.
By Joe Conason

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  • Friday, April 18, 2008 09:24 AM

    Clinton enables lousy media.

    "Why do they obsess over the "bitter" gaffe by Obama while passing so lightly over the confusion of Sunni and Shia groups by McCain, supposed master of foreign policy?"

    Because Clinton wouldn't stop talking about the former. Just as she played along with ABC on tendentious trivialities like "Is Jeremiah Wright a patriot?"(??) and the Weather Underground.

    The media aren't going to change their ways if we Dems become complicit in their nonsense.

    —KcM | GitM Read KcM | GitM's other letters

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