LIE OF THE WEEK: 05-23-2008
Former President Bill Clinton on press bias and playing the race card:
You've called the campaign press coverage biased against Hillary. Why do you think that is? I think most of the press people are in Obama's demographic. They need a feeling more than they perceive they need a President. There have been times when I thought I was literally lost in a fun house. How do you respond to those who charge that you and Hillary have played the race card? I'm not responsible for what other people say and what other people think. I have lived too long. All I can say is "You line up what you've done, I'll line up what I've done, and we'll see who's got a good life." I was really hurt about it at first. I am way over being hurt. This was cold-blooded, calculated, manipulated and a revolting strategy.
THE TRUTH: Much of the press had been overwhelmingly supporting Senator Clinton's "inevitability" as the nominee before the actual voting started and only started covering Senator Obama seriously after his ground-level efforts to organize and raise funds paid off. As usual, the Clintons are happy when the bias is in their favor and claim bias when it does not exist just because they lost. In terms of the race card, the Clintons' use of it is what is truly cold-blooded, calculated, manipulated, and revolting. They used that as their last desperate attempt to defeat Senator Obama's winning streak and their success in this disgusting tactic led to the extending the primary calendar until the very end two weeks from now. President Clinton can claim to be hurt all he wants, but no one with an ounce of brains will believe that any history of his working on civil rights issues (which is debatable anyway) is an automatic pass when racism is used as a electioneering tool.
You've called the campaign press coverage biased against Hillary. Why do you think that is? I think most of the press people are in Obama's demographic. They need a feeling more than they perceive they need a President. There have been times when I thought I was literally lost in a fun house. How do you respond to those who charge that you and Hillary have played the race card? I'm not responsible for what other people say and what other people think. I have lived too long. All I can say is "You line up what you've done, I'll line up what I've done, and we'll see who's got a good life." I was really hurt about it at first. I am way over being hurt. This was cold-blooded, calculated, manipulated and a revolting strategy.
THE TRUTH: Much of the press had been overwhelmingly supporting Senator Clinton's "inevitability" as the nominee before the actual voting started and only started covering Senator Obama seriously after his ground-level efforts to organize and raise funds paid off. As usual, the Clintons are happy when the bias is in their favor and claim bias when it does not exist just because they lost. In terms of the race card, the Clintons' use of it is what is truly cold-blooded, calculated, manipulated, and revolting. They used that as their last desperate attempt to defeat Senator Obama's winning streak and their success in this disgusting tactic led to the extending the primary calendar until the very end two weeks from now. President Clinton can claim to be hurt all he wants, but no one with an ounce of brains will believe that any history of his working on civil rights issues (which is debatable anyway) is an automatic pass when racism is used as a electioneering tool.
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