“There will be disagreements,” opined Chris Cilizza on “Hardball,” speaking of HRC and Dr. Rice. Aw lawdy, where’s my smellin’ salts, Scarlet? How will we endure? Now, Cilizza’s a nice guy, but he illustrates how filling cable air can be hazardous to sounding sane.
Politico’s headline writers channel Sean Hannity, accompanied by abbreviated video clip. (…or has Mike “exasperation” Allen struck again?)
Enter the informed, beginning with Gene Lyons:
Look, here’s the deal: There are two Hillary Clintons, the brilliant, conscientious U. S. senator about to become secretary of state and an imaginary character in a serial novel by Dowd and her many imitators. Dowd is essentially the Hedda Hopper of Washington, a witty gossip columnist better suited to chronicling the affairs of Angelina Jolie and Madonna than troubling her pretty little head with affairs of state. Worse, she pretends to be dumb.
The New York Times offers
the usual drivel, this time opining HRC’s diplomatic resume or lack thereof, as they see it. Yeah, visiting 80+ countries, being first lady, then Senator of New York, plus a member of the Armed Services Committee, nah, no resume there.
Bill Somerby on more
NY Times derangement:
Stanley is a pal of Dowd’s; she often displays the same desire to force
her own foolish dramas onto your most important news topics. And let’s
state the obvious: This group will never stop working this way, until widespread
ridicule makes them stop. They live inside a sumptuous palace—and their
flighty minds are full of dime novels. They’re too dumb to see the world
other ways. They’ll insist on novelizing your news until they’re
finally stopped.You can’t get dumber than Stanley and Dowd—and this sort of work
virtually defines the way your upper-end “press corps” functions.
Matt Browner Hamlin finishes
them off. Put it under the fat file of making stuff up.
But it’s 100% B.S. Nowhere in the press conference is it apparent that
any of it was “designed to address Mrs. Clinton’s sensibilities.”
Stanley is projecting, plain and simple. Moreover, at no point in the time
since June 7, 2008, has Hillary Clinton ever suggested that her concession
of the Democratic nomination for the presidency was not “for real.”
Again, Stanley is making things up.
Sam Stein has a
juicy post on former Clintonite Greg Craig.
Politico’s John H. Harris and Glenn Thrush dub HRC
a “survivor.” Really? Who knew?
Clinton’s Senate performance, meanwhile, suggested skills that could
be important as secretary of state. Defying predictions that she would be
a Senate show horse, she proved instead to be a work horse. She worked well
with Republicans, even some who had tried to evict her husband from office
during impeachment proceedings. She showed the trait that may be the most
important to success in both legislative and diplomatic battles: iron pants,
the willingness to sit and concentrate for hours at a time on tedious discussions.
Clinton’s eligibility
a non-issue.
Senate Democrats were working Tuesday to put together legislation making
it possible for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to become secretary of state
despite a constitutional clause that some critics argue should bar her from
joining the cabinet.
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