'Vast right-wing conspiracy' leader's paper backs Clinton
Could it be the "vast right wing conspiracy" is having second thoughts? Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.
It was one of a handful of endorsements the New York senator has received from Pennsylvania newspapers before the state's primary Tuesday. Most of the state's major papers have endorsed Barack Obama.
In its endorsement, Tribune-Review editors said Obama is too inexperienced to be president and that his recent comments about bitter voters living in small towns showed a lack of respect for middle-class values.
"In sharp contrast, Clinton is far more experienced in government — as an engaged first lady to a governor and a president, as a second-term senator in her own right," the paper said. "She has a real voting record on key issues. Agree with her or not, you at least know where she stands instead of being forced to wonder."
Clinton met with the Tribune-Review's editorial board, including Scaife, last month. Afterward, Scaife wrote an editorial titled "Hillary, Reassessed," declaring how impressed he had been by the former first lady.
"Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her," Scaife wrote.
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Posted By: Alvy @ 04/21/2008 4:38:26 PM
Comment: McHills? Nah. Can't be. Bush-lary.
Good to see the paper took such a primitive approach after trying to disavow and destroy them.
Good for her; kinda hypocritical for them.
Posted By: yupik1 @ 04/21/2008 5:09:23 AM
Comment: Anyone want to wager that Hillary will cry her eyes out during the Larry King show tonight?
Posted By: yupik1 @ 04/21/2008 5:07:09 AM
Comment: No one will argue that the Clintons DO know how to play the game of politics. They set the policy of NAFTA and opened the doors to China and profited from it big time after Bill left office. The self-serving politics didn't start at the Whitehouse, it started when Bill became Governor of Arkansas. The Whitewater scandal is proof of that. When they hit the Whitehouse, their self-serving politics brought us the China-gate scandal where Chinese money was sent to funds linked to the Clintons and to the DNC for political favors. The DNC reportedly gave back the money when the scandal was brought to light. You have to wonder why the Clinton's have the attitude that the Whitehouse is now somehow "owed" to them. What hasn't come to light about other deals they might have orchestrated for their own personal gain? They knew the passing of NAFTA would be a Republican's dream come true, and with it the political expense of sending many, many American jobs out of America. How interesting that Hillary timed her Whitehouse bid to show up and proclaim: "I'll fight for you" to get our jobs back after Bill took advantage of the situation. The only problem was that she didn't count on Obama being there to spoil her chances of making it to the Whitehouse. Her desperation is, OH SO satisfying to watch!