Clinton camp being about as sleazy as it can get, re: "not talking about cocaine."

[Atman]

Since yesterday on the talking head programs all I've heard in the media is Clinton supporters acting shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YOU, that people are mentioning Barack Obama's COCAINE use! Can you imagine? They're all sure to point out they sure wouldn't ever mention Barack Obama's COCAINE use, they're just reporting on all the people who ARE talking about Barack Obama's COCAINE use! It's about as low and sleazy a tactic as they can do, imho, attempting to distance themselves from it by repeating over and over and over and over again, then showing the tape in which the words aren't mentioned at all, but pointing out that the dude was obviously referring to Barack Obama's use of COCAINE and MARIJUANA!

They all go, "GASP! Can you imagine someone would say that about Obama?! Horrors...but we'd never stoop so low! We're just reporting on what other people are saying about Barack Obama's COCAINE USE!" Not surprisingly these references are coming fast and furious on, where else, defense contractor GE's NBC and MSNBC media outlets.

I suspect the ultimate goal is NOT to get Hillary elected...or Obama. They're slamming Hillary almost as bad, repeating that she slammed MLK and says it was really LBJ that was responsible for civil rights advancement in America. The point is to sour EVERYONE on both of them. White people, they're hoping, will get the message that Obama is just another gang-bangin' drug user; they know Hillary is already trouble with a huge part of the electorate, and this should help assure that any potential black voters will dislike her, too. And they refuse to mention than John Edwards is even running. Today it was all Obama/Hillary all morning until after everyone had gone to work, then they gave five minutes to the Edwards campaign...during which they asked him about...take a guess.

As I stated yesterday, I wish some lawyer somewhere (maybe Edwards himself once they've managed to completely marginalize him) would file a class action suit on behalf of the American voters forcing General Electric to divest itself of NBC. It is just totally, 100% WRONG to have a major defense contractor also pulling the strings on who gets election coverage. This is THE MOST fucked up race I've ever seen. This morning Scab even mentioned how it was setting up to look like "2000 all over again," with the race close and no one knowing what will happen. Of course it will! That's the goal. Turn off EVERYONE to Clinton and Obama so that when Diebold anoints Mitt Romney they can just say "Oh, well obviously people just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman or a black man."

I have a baaaad feeling about this.

(PS to all the "anyone who speaks ill of Hillary is a hater" crowd: I don't hate Hillary Clinton, nor am I an Obama supporter. I've not made a decision yet, though I am close. But please try something more creative than just calling everyone who disagrees with you a "hater." It's juvenile.)

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