Hillary turns fire on media
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 5/17/08 6:29 AM EST Text Size:
Clinton launches a new ad blasting D.C. punditocracy for counting her
out.
Photo: AP
****TLAND, Ore. =96 Hillary Clinton=92s presidential campaign is
increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent
Barack Obama, but at the media.
On the campaign trail, in a new ad and in her meetings with donors and
superdelegates, she blasts the D.C. punditocracy for counting her out
and urges anyone who=92ll listen to ignore the hardening storyline that
places Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.
The goal is twofold. Clinton, a New York senator, wants to stanch the
flow of uncommitted superdelegates to Obama, an Illinois senator, by
convincing them she can still win the nomination. She also wants to
generate a protest vote in the four states that have yet to hold
primaries, as well as in Puerto Rico.
The Clinton camp believes a media backlash drove up turnout among her
sup****ters in West Virginia, which last week delivered a landslide 67
percent to 26 percent victory for her.
=93Because I believe that I am better prepared to be president and I am
more likely to be able to win, I don=92t care what the pundits say. I=92m
going to leave it up to the voters,=94 Clinton said Friday night at a
televised town hall meeting at ****tland=92s NBC affiliate. She said
pundits have been counting her out =93since Iowa and the voters always
prove them wrong. I mean, I=92ve been declared dead so many times and
luckily it=92s been premature and I=92m hoping it stays premature.=94
Also on Friday, Clinton=92s campaign began airing an ad in Oregon, which
holds its primary Tuesday, that pits her against the Beltway media
elites.
The ad, titled "What's Right," shows video snippets of a cadre of
television show hosts who have dismissed or downplayed Clinton=92s
chances =96 NBC=92s Tim Russert, ABC=92s George Stephanopoulos and MSNBC
anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.
Their voices are muted, and a narrator intones over their images: =93In
Wa****ngton, they talk about who's up and who's down. In Oregon, we
care about what's right and what's wrong.=94
See Also
Obama seizes on appeasement flap
McCain, Bush to appear at fundraiser
McGovern switches to Obama
The spot goes on to tout Clinton=92s sup****t for universal health care
and her opposition to =93No Child Left Behind=94 and the Bush
administration energy plan.
The late placement of the ad in Oregon is somewhat curious, since
Obama is favored to win the state handily and since the state
administers its elections by mail. By some estimates, as much as 60
percent of Democratic primary ballots have already been cast.
But the Clinton campaign believes the message will resonate broadly.
=93People in the upcoming states don=92t want to be told that their voices
don=92t count and essentially that=92s what they=92re being told,=94 said
Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee. =93Well, the people of West Virginia
didn=92t believe that and they sent a very strong message.=94
He added: =93Every time in this campaign that people have tried to call
this race prematurely, the voters have rallied and sent a different
message. We saw it after Iowa. We saw it after South Carolina."
=2E.......................................................................
I guess Communists view the world differently then we do.
love
hank
But she is right...America is not gonna elect a negro muslim America
hater.
|
