Special report: The evil of banality!

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Special report: The evil of banality!

PART 2—WHO SENT THE DOGS OUT: The screaming mimis keened and wailed when it was deemed that Clinton had vilely offended. Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert, and Dowd (sounds like a firm of ambulance chasers!) realized how vile the vile woman had been—and they began to tear their hair wildly. And it wasn’t just these hounds of hell—hounds who howl for the mainstream press corps. Many hacks on the “liberal web” have taken to reciting this latest grim nonsense. Once Drudge had said that Clinton was vile, these pseudo-libs rushed to affirm it.

Can our society function this way? More on that question this Friday.

At any rate, Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd took turns barking and howling their outrage. Which takes us back to the early days of March—to the hounds which failed to bark.

By last Friday night, everyone knew it: Clinton’s statement to the editorial board in Sioux Falls was one of the vilest things ever said. But uh-oh! As it turned out, Clinton had said the exact same thing to Time’s Rick Stengel in March! When Joe Klein played the fool (again) this weekend, he cited her earlier statement:

STENGEL (3/6/08): Can you envision a point at which—if the race stays this close—Democratic Party elders would step in and say, “This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall?”

CLINTON: No, I really can't. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.

Yep! Last Friday, all the mimis screamed and yelled at Clinton’s deeply vile statement. But Clinton had said the same thing in March! And to show you how fake this week’s outrage was: Not one damn thing happened back then!

There was no madness back in March. Before considering Robinson, Olbermann, Herbert and Dowd, let’s make sure we understand the chronology of Clinton’s March statement:

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SEELYE (5/26/08): Shortly after Mrs. Clinton spoke on Friday, the Obama campaign jumped on the story, sending an e-mail message to reporters saying her comment had no place in a presidential campaign. It linked to a online report in The New York Post that said Mrs. Clinton was ''making an odd comparison between the dead candidate and Robert Kennedy—a phrase the newspaper later dropped.

[phantom power]

1. I think this primary season *started* earlier. (not finished later)

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. The difference is, in March it could be legitimately explained

as a calendar thing - she still had a potential of winning the primary.

Today, the same words take on a whole different aspect in that the ONLY way she can win the primary now is if 'something' happens to Obama - that puts the emphasis not on 'June' but on 'assassination'.

What was poor wording in March becomes catastrophic in May.

[Berry Cool]

3. To phrase it as he would: "Could Bob Somerby POSSIBLY be more USELESS and STUPID??"

His ego makes him an insufferable jackass. And now he's not just an insufferable jackass, but a Hillary shill to boot.

He wants to think he's the only true liberal voice and that the progressive voices in the MSM are just "screaming mimis," "hounds of hell" and "hacks." And NOW he actually thinks that Keith Olbermann is taking his marching orders from MATT DRUDGE! Oh, that'll be the day! You might as well accuse him of not touching a story until Bill O'Reilly vets it for him! :rofl:

He just doesn't seem to get it: Many people, including KO, SINCERELY REGRET that they didn't report earlier Hillary said the exact same thing to Time magazine in March. In fact, if anything, the fact that she was saying it way back in March totally negates any chance of her explaining it away as something she said off the cuff only because she was "tired." But does Somerby acknowlege that? No. Instead, he dredges up that old canard about KO saying someone should take her into a room and only one of them come out--a statement he APOLOGIZED FOR--and throws it back up again! And even better, he chides KO and everyone else like him for jumping on a story he says the New York Post printed and later RETRACTED and says these "liberal hacks" did it because THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN TOLD THEM TO!!!!

What cloud-cuckoo-land is this nut living in, anyway?

Bob Somerby loves to talk about "screaming mimis" and call KO a "delicate poodle," but Bob's the biggest effing mimi and poodle of them all. And the thing he screams on his Daily Howler every day is: "I'M the only REAL liberal in the media. The rest of them are just HACKS!!!! IGNORE THEM!!!! Pay attention to ME AND ONLY ME!!!!"

Oh, but wait for his next expose tomorrow!!!! He's going to claim that KO "mused about 'assassinating Hillary Clinton'—on two separate programs!" Oh, THIS should be good. I don't know what Somerby is smoking, but it's gotta be hallucogenic.