Hillary and the VRWC - Wayne Barett from Vilage Voice:

[robbedvoter]

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the media wing of the Republican Party, in particular, has quite visibly been playing that game. Right-leaning pundits for months now have very openly not just called for Hillary Clinton's head, but also coddled and promoted Barack Obama, salivating over the prospect of facing him in November.
Meanwhile, voters have been echoing that program: Barack Obama has been beating Hillary Clinton in part because Republicans are helping him.
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Rush Limbaugh, whose radio show reaches 13 million, dropped his "mafia wife," "Nurse Ratched," and "testicle lockbox" descriptions of Hillary Clinton long enough to urge his listeners to vote for her "if they can stomach it." His rationale was to keep the bloodbath going. Up to then, he was unabashedly boosting Obama with the same perverse purpose. Obama still carried most of the 252,000 Republicans who voted in Texas—a Limbaugh stronghold—but his percentage dropped from 72 percent in Wisconsin to 52 percent.

Limbaugh is one of the opinion makers on the right who made little secret of his early preference for Obama. Conservative pundits slammed Hillary early and hard, exploiting every opportunity to widen the racial divide among Democrats. Though their party is so white that the networks have no ethnic exit-poll data to analyze, these reliable partisans have expressed shock at a number of supposedly race-baiting Clinton comments, with the New York Post's top campaign columnist even calling Bill and Hillary "modern-day George Wallaces, standing in the White House door."

the article goes in alalysis of each tight winger - many of whom I saw posted here - Novak, Bennett, Will etc
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374100,374100,2.html

[tabatha]

1. Did you see the comments?

This is a dishonest article.

[joeybee12]

2. Please, don't try to make sense here...

...the Obama-bots are like listeners of right-wing talk radio...they just want their narrow opinions shouted back at them.

[tabatha]

3. Randi Rhodes just made a few comments...

When the election started, black voters did not think Obama could win, and they were fearful for his safety.
They were in the Clinton camp.

However, Obama has proved an excellent candidate - his ground game covered 50 states not just up to Feb 5 like Clinton. Obama also has the overwhelming support of young voters - black and white, because they are taken with his message of change.

Charges have been thrown at Obama after he started winning - cult, speeches, large rallies. And nothing stuck. Now they try this.

[robbedvoter]

4. "nothing stuck" as in "teflon"? Anyway who are "they"? This is a Voice reporter

in no way connected with the Clinton campaign. It's a media analysis - best I have seen so far.
Everything is documented with quotes and numbers - so what is really "dishonest"?
GOP-ers didn't try to push for Obama? DU wasn't full of Nooner, Bennet, Novak at one time?

[kerstin]

6. "It's a media analysis -- best I have seen so far."

I agree. As a matter of course, the Dems need to make note of who the establishment media is building up and tearing down at any given point as a window into Republican strategy. The Republicans do not fall in love with Democratic candidates, and neither does their media. Period. Whether they're fawning over a newcomer or savaging a political veteran (or vice versa), or are even fleetingly posing as objective, there is calculation behind it.

Remarkable piece. Thanks for posting.

[kerstin]

5. k & r. n/t

[kerstin]

7. k. n/t

[robbedvoter]

8. Ummm...crickets?