Jeff Cohen on the Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's "Flawless Campaign."

[KoKo]

Jeff Cohen: Pundit Elite Enraptured by Hillary's 'Flawless Campaign'
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 3:04pm. Guest Contribution A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Jeff Cohen


Democratic activists who want their party to forthrightly move the country toward peace and justice may be frustrated by Clinton's mumbo jumbo and non-answer answers, but the privileged, unelected (never term-limited) punditocracy finds those same answers to be brilliant.

The reality is that Clinton and the pundit clique (with a spectrum from conservative Republican to conservative Democrat, from GE to GM) are largely in sync in holding positions that are not only unpopular among Democrats, but also unpopular among the public at large.

To obscure this reality, Clinton keeps issuing doubletalk, and corporate media keep cheering.

Beltway pundits know that most of our country wants out of Iraq, and they seem to like it when Clinton offers the antiwar base rhetorical teases ("If we in Congress don't end this war by January 2009, as President, I will!") -- while the laptop warriors in the media know damn well she'll prolong for years an occupation that none of their kids are dying in.

National pundits -- whose jobs can't be outsourced overseas -- know that most of the public opposes corporate-written trade deals such as NAFTA. They like it when Clinton deftly implies she may change course ("I believe in pro-American trade") -- knowing full well that Clinton and her corporate backers are as blindly worshipful of "free trade" as they in the national press corps.

Polls show that most Americans want government-provided national health insurance. Pundits applaud Clinton's cautious talk of incremental healthcare reform that keeps big bureaucratic private insurance firms at the center of the system, a status quo that will never work for most Americans but suits the well-insured pundit elite just fine.

more and an interesting read at..............

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1362

[papau]

1. Bad analysis by Cohen - in my opinion n/t

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[KoKo]

2. kick...