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What a week-end. Hillary Clinton’s ears had to be burning because everyone had an opinion about her words to the Argus Leader about the parallels between this year’s primary race and 1968. While it takes a leap of faith to assume Clinton wants Obama shot, her words were read in that context and there is a truism in American politics: the only thing that matters is what people think is true, not what actually is. If you want to hear someone who really is looking for an Obama assassination, just head over to Fox News and listen to Liz Trotta. The former Washington Times editor begins to analyze Clinton’s Argus leader interview and then goes for a moment of levity:
“And now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, uh Obama. Well, both, if we could.”
Someone sign Trotta up to write comedy sketches for “Saturday Night Live.” Trotta and Fox got grief like Clinton and the analyst had to offer an apology. Like I said last week, cable news commentary is all about flash and slash. No need to say something that shines light on a topic. Instead spout some craziness to keep us tuned in.
“While it takes a leap of faith to assume Clinton wants Obama shot, her words were read in that context”
James, Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post discusses the implication of Hillary’s comments in this morning’s edition:
“The point isn’t whether you take Clinton at her word that she didn’t actually mean to suggest that someone — guess who? — might be assassinated. The point is: Whoa, where did that come from? * * * Clearly, it wasn’t logical thinking. It can only have been magical thinking, albeit not the happy-magic kind. * * * What Clinton’s evocation of RFK suggests isn’t that she had some tactical reason for speaking the unspeakable but that she and her closest advisers can’t stop running and rerunning through their minds the most far-fetched scenarios, no matter how absurd or even obscene. * * * Clinton campaigns as if she knows she will leave some Democrats with bad feelings. That’s the Clinton way: Ask forgiveness, not permission. But every day, as more superdelegates trickle to Obama’s side, it becomes a surer bet that she will not win. She and her family enjoy good health and fabulous wealth. They’ll be fine — unless, while losing this race for the nomination, Hillary Clinton also loses her soul.”