The Corporate Media has their script in hand

Milbank is an insufferable media twit who knows what his bosses expect from him. The Corporate Media already has their script in hand for the next two years. Every perceived Democratic misstep, no matter how minor or simply manufactured, will be amplified into a scandal. They will do this to distract the public from the mess in Iraq and coming investigations. The Corporate Media knows it has much a stake financially if Democrats can hold on to power in the House and Senate and gain the Presidency. They have a vested financial interest in the political fortunes of the Republican party and its ideology of deregulation. The days of eliminating ownership limits and big media concentration will be over with Democrats controlling the FCC. This is what the Corporate Media fears most of all.

Selective skepticism

>>>MILBANK: "Reporters were skeptical. "

Too bad they weren't as skeptical during the run-up to the Iraq fiasco.

ABC

I thought ABC was not to be trusted? Why would MMFA care what somebody from that network said. Misinformers, all of them.

The likely answer...

"I thought ABC was not to be trusted? Why would MMFA care what somebody from that network said."...Bruce1Ace

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend? ;-)

It is just January, 2007, right?

The presidential race is not until November, 2008, right? This obsession with Hillary Clinton is bizarre. She's not even an announced candidate yet. What's next, the daily Hillary watch? I can see it now: BREAKING NEWS... Hillary Clinton was not seen in public today.

The Con Job continueth....

The corporate press are setting the Dem rank-n-file up to support a Clinton/Obama ticket to ensure the right-wing DLC part of the Democrat party gets the nomination. By having the righties whine about them non-stop (without ever mentioning any of their policies, which are as close to Republican as you can get without having an R behind your name) they will convince the Dem voters that somehow Clinton is not the far-right, kill-all-moslems-for-AIPAC, I-love-corporate-corruption slimeball that she really is.

The right-wing press did the same thing in 2004, pumping up Kerry as the most "liberal" Senator, which he wasn't. His voting record put him to the far-right of the rest of the party. It's all a big con game to get the Dem voters away from real liberals like Kucinich or Feingold and firmly voting for the DLC nominees.

kerry is not

as liberal as kucinich or feingold, but to say he is to the far right of the rest of the party is ridiculous.

how could this

possibly be seen as a "stumble"? whatever the circumstances of why she did it, is this the beginning of the media campaign that every week will feature "hillary's latest stumble". bush is the dumbest president ever and yet the media can't seem to pick up on his lying. like when he kept repeating that we had to invade because saddam "wouldn't let the inspectors in".

talk about an insult ...

Imagine being called silly by The Note. kinda like a clown pie-ing a mime in the face with a plate of shaving cream. woof.

also, how exactly did hillary stumble if the phony trope ab. reskedding a presser is treated as truthy? doesnt getting out from under the brief obama flurry and saving her iraq comments for the next day/cycle constitute the exact opposite of a stumble -- a clever success? boy these wash journos are just bad on every level. is there no end to their embrace of cliched fatuity? (no.)

false reporting

Thanks to this media we have had the Bush presidency. They were so busy making fun of Gore's boorish ways, the color of his clothes and Kerry's elitest manner. Everything the Clinton's do is looked under a microscope and scrutinized to an unbelievable extent. I think that Mr Millbank owes his viewers and readers an apology for his misstatement. I just wish that the press spent as much time speculating and asking questions about the Iraq war. No, they were to busy enjoying the frat boy who gave them all nicknames. We' re in this mess because the press was direlect in their duties.