HRC’s Bobby K. gaffe has been chewed up and spit out so much in the past two days that there can’t possibly be anything new to say about it. But that has never stopped me before!
The New York Times, always agenda driven, but until recently, more or less edited…unlike, say, the San Francisco Chronicle or the Washington Post—both essentially unreviewed blogs with budgets—has a piece on Saturday in its “blog” section (see, they admit it) called On the Road: Clinton’s Very Bad Day.
The lede:
“Friday might have been one of the worst days of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s political career. Her campaign, as everyone
knows, was already struggling. But on Friday, she made a reference to Bobby
Kennedy’s assassination — a terrible choice of phrase in a presidential
campaign that features an African-American candidate.”
You simply cannot write something like this in the NYT. It is overt race-baiting. This is a shocking paragraph—far more so than Hillary’s own, I admit absurd, reference to RFK. NYT commenter “Joe” asks,
“What does Obama’s race have to do with the
word being used? Would Clinton’s remarks, which seem to be a minor gaffe (and
I’m an Obama supporter), have not raised this silly uproar if it were John
Edwards that was leading her in the campaign at this point?”
This is the dark soul of the left, safeguarded in an even darker, danker place in the depths of the Times’s office block. Hill’s placing herself (rather grandly), not Obama, in RFK’s position. Furthermore, Obama’s race has nothing to do with it. The Times should apologize to its readers and to Miz. C.
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