Letters to the Editor
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The answer is obvious.
The hospital administrator has crossed the Commander-in-Chief threshold, whereas Senator Clinton ... has not.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Seriously, though, I think it's irresponsible for the campaign to spread a tear-jerker story like this one without actually finding out the facts first. But I think this is a minor screw-up, on the order of the planted town-hall-meeting questioners, the campaign workers' spreading of the Obama-is-Muslim e-mail, and all the other minor screw-ups that have happened throughout the campaign. They become troublesome only in the aggregate ... and what an aggregate it is! Now it looks like regular voters are not the only people who have noticed. Good.
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The Hospital Story
Is tiddly-winks---------Hope and change is the whopper.
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Hmm
You know who else lies constantly, supported the Iraq War, Patriot Act, Telcomm Act, and NAFTA?
George W.
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No longer a cliche
<>the old cliché about reporters is that if your mother says she loves you, you should check it out.
Too bad they haven't acted like that in 20 years. This generation of "reporters" or more accurately "transcribers" swallows whatever it is told. If they're jumping on this, it is likely because someone told them to, not because they actually do their jobs.
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Welcome back, Alex
After several days' worth of insightful War Room updates that focused on issues that many Salon readers can come together on, here comes Alex's first piece this week, a whiny bit of propaganda in which he valiantly leaps to the defense of Hillary Clinton and chides lefty journalists and bloggers for believing that the lady who gets caught lying a lot was lying about yet another thing. (In actuality, she wasn't exactly lying; she just wasn't interested in getting the full story before turning it into a talking point for her stump speech.)
Of course, this article is probably going to get more comments and page views than anything else in the War Room today, and it falls right in lockstep with the journalistic biases of the site's editorial staff, so I guess I should give up any hope of Steve Benen taking over the War Room anytime soon.
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nix these videos
Hey Salon:
Are you really going to keep doing these videos, or are they still in some sort of trial stage? Because you should know that there is no less interesting phrase to start a sentence in a blog post than "As I say in the video . . ." Pretty much kills any interest one has in reading further.
If you have something interesting to report, write it. That's what a blog is. Don't need to turn your bloggers into media stars (there are other media doing that, to their detriment).
Just my 2 cents, which I mean constructively, as a devoted reader. I do like Salon a great deal.
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Huh!
I would think that the essential elements of the story would be that the woman died because she lacked insurance. Death trumps debt.
So Sen. Clinton was wrong about the essential elements.
And this is important given the past concern that she would say whatever is necessary to win and a growing concern that she has a less than ardent passion for the truth.
Eight years of a liar of a president who lives in a fantasy world and who can't be bothered to check the facts is enough. And it does say something about Sen. Clinton that in a fight for her career, where her honesty is questioned, she isn't careful to vet what she says.
BTW, she's criticized for relying on a potentially biased unsubstantiated source (the friend of a friend.) Then you criticize her critics for relying on a potentially biased unsubstantiated source (a hospital spokesperson), basing your criticism on a potentially biased unsubstantiated source (a women who "helped raise" the decedent.) At least we all now know what might have happened. Good job.
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Tuzla
She made up, out of whole cloth, a fantastic story about how her life was in danger on a USO tour she went on with Sinbad and her fifteen year old daughter. It wasn't a slip of the tongue or a 'brain fart', it was freakin' weird. Bizarre. Deeply troubling to anyone who isn't in the tank for her (HI W.E.S!) Add to that some at-best questionable statements about her positions on NAFTA, S-CHIP, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Northern Ireland peace process, and she had kind of set herself up for skepticism, doncha think?
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Cabbies Can Tell Of Deliving Babies Of Pregnant Women Rejected By Hospitals
Do a survey of cabbies and policeman who have delivered babies of women without insurance
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It is all just BS
Every one of them, every politician, every media outlet, every yahoo with an opinion. We are surrounded by BS and everything we know is BS.
Comparing her hospital BS to the Iraq BS, the economy BS, the homeland security BS, the MSM BS, and a myriad of other stinking piles of BS which plague our culture, nation, mindset and belief systems causes one to ponder
"OH LOOK! She has a mote in her eye!"
Meanwhile the AIRFORCE defends us from space attacks with TWO BANNERS on this page!!!
BS EVERYWHERE!
Evolution is also BS, which explains a lot.
You are all damned dirty apes!
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What to half-truths sell for today?
"Essentially true" is -- ahem -- not true, not altogether true, somewhat true, a little bit true, has some aspects of truth, etc. In short, it is "essentially a lie"!
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My apologies and regrets.
When I saw that third banner, the really big one, I changed my mind.
We do need the US AIR FORCE to defend us from BS from SPACE.
BS ABOVE ALL US.
Salute!
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Somehow, I'm just sure....
That Joan Walsh will be doing another column about the latent sexism to be found in this factoid.
However, it should be noted that logic dictates that a lying liar, caught in yet another lie, might-- just might, mind you--expect to get flak from all sides... but maybe that's my male oriented viewpoint talking.
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Maybe Salon Needs a New Blog for Stuff like this
I have really being enjoying Steve Benen's large variety of news coverage. War Room was not meant to be a clearing house for the daily bloopers and mud slinging of Obama and Clinton. I think there is a place for that, but I would prefer it be a separate Salon blog, like the "Spin Room", not a replacement to the orignial concept of this blog.
Alex, since this seems to really be your passion in life, maybe you could talk to Joan about having a spot to cover this kind of thing somewhere else in Salon, and let Benen continue to run War Room since he seems to have a greater interest in completely covering the news.