Letters to the Editor
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Misstatements, damn misstatements, and videotapes
The mainstream political pundits will bizarrely continue to pump up Sen. Clinton's faltering campaign (as will her most forlorn supporters) by ignoring this sort of blatant "misspeaking." This is a case of the despicable bound by lies to the desperate.
Were Sen. Obama to have committed such a bald-faced "misspeak," he would have been roasted by the hyperbolic right-wing media masters for weeks on end. Similarly, if Obama had idiotically (or purposefully) confused Shiite Iran with Sunni al-Qaeda as McCain did, Obama would have been eviscerated by the press.
Clinton and McCain are getting free rides from political reporters who are interested in prolonging this dreary horse race by any means necessary. Ferraro was right: if Obama were white he wouldn't be in this position; he would have become the presumptive Democratic nominee several weeks ago.