The Chicago Trib’s Jill Zuckman threw a lawn dart at Clinton and than ran away:
Political candidates often complain about being misquoted by reporters. But these days, they’re often blaming one another for twisting their words — and with some justification…
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has repeatedly criticized Obama’s approach to health care, saying “his plan would leave at least 15 million Americans uninsured.” In fact, that figure is debatable.
Zuckman doesn’t go into who says the “figure is debatable,” or what is debatable about it. Is it too high? Too low? Is the number actually zero because Obama’s plan doesn’t leave anyone behind? *
Zuckman basically implies that Clinton either has shoddy research or is a liar — and then includes absolutely nothing in her piece to back the implication up. It’s so fast it’s almost a drive-by smear.
Meanwhile, Newsweek decided to trot this inanity from James Carville out:
“If she gave him one of her cojones, they’d both have two.”
– James Carville, quoted by Newsweek, on how “Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight.”
James, what the hell does having testicles have to do with toughness?
Finally, I’m pretty sure that if Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter mated, their progeny would serve as a vessel for the reincarnation of William Randolph Hearst, whose demonic birth — hours after conception — would herald a new age of yellow journalism that gets me jaundiced just thinking about it.
* (15 million is completely correct.)
