PATRICK HEALY provides Monday's NY Time Hit piece on the Clinton Campaign.
In '08 Race, the Other Clinton Steps Up Publicly featuring a classic agit prop image.
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Media Matters has a long analysis of the media setting a narrative on Hillary Clinton at
This photo suggests the following subtexts to me:
- Under Her Feet, subservient (see also castrating bitch)
- Expression on Bill Clinton's face is Slick Willy reenforcement
- With a touch of puppet master
The story is a classic Times hit job with those old Grey Lady war horses:
- process story light on facts
- too many blind sources to name including judgmental paragraphs (5-8) written as Truth (under the Revealed Conventional Wisdom exception) without facts or even blind sources on which to base them.
- Using disgruntled Democratic Consultant Bob (Loss Leader) Shrum to undercut President Clinton's abilities (and providing the "Democratic" Fair and Balance. Some Say/According to Democratic Sources/Sources say Shrum is applying for the Dick Morris Concern Troll 2008 position.
We have to learn how to read these stories for the manipulation they are.
It reminds me of a joke during the first year of Clinton's administration:
So Bill Clinton and the Pope were on the river and the rowboat oars slipped overboard. The Pope was about to go for them when Clinton said, "No you are an older man and and the spiritual leader of hundreds of millions of people. I'll go." Clinton then got out of the boat, walked on water over to the oars and then walked back on the water and rowed the boat to shore. The next morning the headlines were "Clinton Can't Swim"