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Bubba Whines: The Media Will Make Us Go Negative

There is something utterly sickening about a former President whining - especially when it's Bill Clinton whining about the media coverage Hillary has been getting. Even more so when he uses that whining as an excuse to say that Hillary will have to go negative on Obama.

Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.

He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.

Clinton, like his wife, is traveling New Hampshire taking questions from voters, and he spoke at the University of New Hampshire in Durham in response to a plea from a woman who said she'd like it "if you and Clinton joined Barack Obama in putting the Republicans on notice" that it was time to "change the game" and end the "meanness" and "manipulation" in politics.

Clinton replied that he liked the idea — in theory.

"I think we can change it as long as you have access to information by people who are committed to judging everybody by the same set of rules and following the same set of rules," he said. "According to the most recent media analysis, that’s not what’s happened so far, but yeah, I think it should be done."

You know, I honestly think Bill Clinton is a pathological liar. He really cannot stop himself from trying to say he (and his wife, added almost as an afterthought) has been treated badly by the press. The media all but anointed Hillary as queen - but that isn't enough for him. The media made me do it is a rotten excuse. It won't wash with the voters.

And whining really does not make Bill Clinton look good. (Incidentally, this is one reason why going on the offensive against the media can be hazardous for a politician. It really does not look good - it makes the attacking politician look weak and desperate.)

Politics | Gaius Friday, 4 January , 2008

By N, O'Brain, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 7:11 pm

Um, what ” most recent media analysis”, Bill?
By bill-tb, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 7:14 pm

The Iowa caucuses showed it’s OK to say goodbye to the Clintons. No one ever liked them anyway. Pathological liar is about right, both of them. But her problem is she has neither the brains nor to talent to make the lies stick.
By Gaius, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 7:28 pm

That would probably be analysis by Media Matters For Hillary Clinton (TM) a wholly-owned subsidiary of SorosCo Enterprises.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 8:58 pm

I think that this is a shot across the bow of the HMS Obama.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 10:29 pm

Moments like these remind me of the title of Christopher Hitchens’ book on the Clintons: “No one left to lie to.” It’s so fitting.
By feeblemind, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 10:57 pm

BC a pathological liar? No doubt about it. Probably true of HRC too. Mwalimu is likely right. A shot across the bow. One wonders what kind of manure they have to throw at Obama? Noonan had a good piece on HRC’s loss today. She noted that HRC had it all, the money, the organization, the big lead and air of inevitability, and with all that going for her, she LOST!
By Maggie, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 11:11 pm

When stripped of the smoke and mirrors scream “I’m a VICTIM!”

If she and her political/criminal machine think going balls-to-the-walls dirty on BHO is going to work they (Clintons and Co.) really WILL be shown for the political charlatans they are. Like so much crap into the spinning blades of a fan on HIGH, it’ll blow right back in their faces …
By daveinboca, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 12:31 am

Remember when Al Gore ran but kept President Clinton on the sidelines and didn’t want him to campaign for him, or speak for him? Now we know why. Billy Jeff would have made a 2000 recount unnecessary as Gore would have lost by millions to GWB. This colossal horse’s ass just keeps on spewing what a horse’s ass spews—happy horses**t!!!
By DavidL, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 5:30 am

The Clinton’s, B.J and Mrs. are both chronic liars. They used to celebrated as particularly good liars. Now they simply noted as liars. We have recent examples of B.J. lauding Mrs. Clinton has some kind world cllass genius and Mrs. Clinton claiming to have risked her life traveling to a USO show, with her daughter.
By martian, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 2:07 pm

The really fun part of this will be if she has some really good dirt that can fatally damage Obama. That way she gets rid of him and, hopefully, sinks herself by going so strongly negative to do it. This could kill two birds with one stone!