Can someone please explain to me how this is news?

[montana500]

So Yahoo News + the AP is now nothing more than a mouthpiece for the right wing spin machine? How is this anything even remotely close to being news?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060205/ap_on_el_pr/gop_clinton


WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential presidential contender in 2008, "seems to have a lot of anger" and voters usually do not send angry candidates to the White House, the Republican Party chairman said Sunday.


"When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want," said Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican National Committee.

Mehlman cited the New York senator's remarks on Martin Luther King Day in which she called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history and compared the Republican-controlled House to a plantation where opposing voices are silenced.

[Erika]

1. A big Yawn

with no news credibility.

[Bluestar]

2. Sounds Like They're Really Scared!

It's amazing that they would waste air time with this type of dreck! They must be really more afraid than we think they are, trying to drum up hatred for Hillary 3 years ahead of the presidential election. I think their talking points well has run dry.

[Wordie]

3. When did the RW ever stop drumming up hatred for Hillary? eom

[TheWraith]

9. They just can't let go of the Clintons.

It's the reason they talk so much about Hillary for president: not because they think they can beat her, but because they can't let go of the Clintons. Bill Clinton proved them wrong about very nearly everything, survived a sex scandal with record approval numbers, and spanked their leadership a half dozen times. They were unmanned by someone who they saw as a dope-smoking, fornicating, draft-dodging liberal slacker. They just can't let go because they think that somehow, if they can beat the Clintons just once, it will undo everything BC did to them. Poor delusional bastards.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Hillary's media-star value

often seems to be similar to Princess Di's--any copy involving her is

guaranteed to rope in the gullible & increase readership, whether or not

it's newsworthy. SG

[0007]

12. Exactly! Sounds like Ken Mehlman and the GOP are scare

of Hillary big time.

We all know that Yahoo, the AP and Reuters are whoring for the White House.

[Mythsaje]

4. Why would anyone be angry

about an inept, corrupt, and unconstitutional administration and their pet collaborators running amuck through the country.

Can't imagine.

[Peanutcat]

5. Sheesh

"When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want," said Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican National Committee.

I don't know why not, it's worked for the Republicans.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Every time a prominent Republican opens his yap

it's considered news.

[AtomicKitten]

7. It's not news.

It's just the losers whining again.

[deesy58]

8. Should we be surprised?

So... Yahoo News joins MSNBC and FNC in the pocket of the right wing. Why are we surprised? When the right wing of the Republican Party decided they didn't like the tone of the news, they bought their own news ... lock, stock and barrel!

[JohnnyRingo]

10. It was foolish Of Mehlman to give the Dems this opportunity:

"If the president and the White House spent half as much time worrying about the runaway deficit and the broken Medicare system as they do about Hillary Clinton, the country would be in much better shape."

Says a lot right there.