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We've heard a lot about arcane Democratic Party rules this primary season, so much esoterica about punishing swing states, credentials committees, and wild apportionment. But I'd never heard the most important rule of all in the DNC playbook: you know, the one that proclaims the race is over when Tim Russert declares. Tuesday night, Russert sang his high-pitched tune of grinning closure, clearing his manly throat and firmly calling the primary finished - and Senator Barack Obama the winner. Wrote Digby: It reminds me of the halcyon days for Democrats in November 2000, when Russert used his little marking board to show us "the math" and declare that Gore needed to bow out for the good of the country. Good times.
5 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]I wonder what we’ll see when we have time to remove ourselves from the daily grind of this campaign and look back at the way in which the media influenced this election and our public discourse around the candidates. Will it be as obvious then, as it is to me now, how entrenched and acceptable the misogyny spewed daily has become? Will we be able to look back and say that there was something quite unnatural about the level of hatred so many had for Hillary Clinton? Will we ever be able to understand why?
[ Reply | Options ]Over in his lair, Lance Mannion contemplated the political junkie's dream of a real convention - before dismissing it, because clearly the media won't allow it to transpire: A floor fight would make great theater but lousy television. What would look like democracy in all its glory in action to political junkies like me would look to most normal people like a great big sleep-depriving mess. And the convention is not going to be covered on TV by the likes of Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley, who would have enjoyed the fun and been careful and smart about explaining what was going on down there on the floor and backstage. It's going to be covered by Tim Russert and Brian Williams and Charles Gibson and the gasbags from Fox News and MSNBC, all of whom will gleefully tell us how bad all this looks and how it shows the Democrats at their divided, divisive, disorganized, discombobulated, indecisive, internecine worst.
[ Reply | Options ]I can understand why people dislike Hillary. But why is it that if we support someone else or describe things we dislike about your preferred candidate it must be misogyny? This is as vapid as the Bush Camp's knee jerk traitor response for anyone who spoke out against the invasion of Iraq.
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