Even Tweety Won't Buy Donahue's Disunity Meme
by: Dean Barker
Sat Nov 15, 2008 at 22:30:47 PM EST
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Media matters catches Jennifer Donahue making stuff up again, this time about how Hillary Clinton is so conniving that she would put ambition over serving the nation in one of its highest offices:
Host Chris Matthews then asked Donahue, "[W]ould you trust her to be a loyal subordinate, or believe she would be a bit too aggressive as a colleague?" Donahue responded:
DONAHUE: Well, let's take past as prologue. I mean, how did she handle herself during the nominating fight? How did she handle it when Obama was coming up upon her and then lapped her? She didn't handle it very kindly. She didn't allow him to have his piece. She went negative. She tried to bury him. And I think that he should take a lesson from that. I mean, I understand this idea of hug your friends tight, hug your enemies tighter. I think that's often true. If you look at it, you and I were talking about [Nicolò] Machiavelli and The Prince. Absolutely true stuff in there. And I think it's smart to do it. But what will she do overseas? Will she be laying out the groundwork should Obama have only one term? Will she be, in fact, trying to create only one term for Barack Obama?
Matthews began his response to Donahue by stating: "You guys are so suspicious. Look, I think that since she lost the fight for the nomination, Michelle and Jennifer, she has been not just a good soldier, she has sang the tune of this guy. She's been illustrious, she's been admirable. She -- her spirit seems to be with him."
Is it that if you say provocative, shiny things that catch the ear and eye, regardless of its relationship to reality, you get more calls back from newspapers and teevee shows?
But what do I know, I'm just a shrill partisan blogger who wastes my time with the bombast of polls, voting records, and election returns. I save the journalism stuff for the Very Serious Pundits who thought Sarah Palin was the bestest and boldestest decision ever made by the Maverick.
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