OMG, IT’S THE INVASION OF HILLARY’S MENOPAUSAL LEGIONS — Drudge Report’s top news items for today at noon — “HILLARY. SUNDAY. NOON. – SHE'LL DO IT ON TWITTER... – 60 million menopausal women in USA by 2020...”
— Drudge Report 4/10/15 [Now, that’s funny]
Meanwhile, Martin O’Malley takes his whacks at the dynastic-inevitable Mrs. Clinton
Oh ! And don’t forget Jim Webb — He took his whacks at Hillary’s AND Bill’s foreign policy while talking at a David Axelrod gathering
It’s been talked about so much in the last 24 hours, that the announcement of the “formal announcement” of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president for 2016 is no longer news. In fact, like so many things about Hillary, it’s so much more about what is old, borrowed and blue than it ever is about what’s new. Nonetheless, there is always room for tweaking....
DRUDGE DOES A NEW TAKE ON HILLARY’S ANNOUNCEMENT
You’d have to go a long way to be as snarky as the folks at Drudge Report with their juxtaposition of the news items concerning Hillary Clintons latest roll-out as a presidential candidate with one about a shift in the demographics of America’s women ( See “HILLARY. SUNDAY. NOON.”; “SHE'LL DO IT ON TWITTER...” and “60 million menopausal women in USA by 2020...” [various links] – 4/16/15 at Noon EDT, The Drudge Report [http://www.drudgereport.com/]). Here are the links are to these articles: “Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch 2016 campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa” [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/10/exclusive-hillary-clinton-to-launch-presidential-campaign-sunday-en-route-to-iowa-source]; “Former secretary of state scheduled to announce presidential run on Twitter -- Video, email, conference calls on plane to precede tour of US primary states” [Same cite for Guardian article]; and “Hillary Clinton Is the Perfect Age to Be President” [http://time.com/3763552/hillary-clinton-age-president/]. However those articles aren’t really the point. It was all about the presentation by Drudge and not the content.Frankly, I found the Drudge prank to be quite amusing — Yuh gotta luv it.....
Meanwhile, perhaps more important for the future prospects of Hillary Clinton and her nascent (perhaps not the best word for something that already was born and died in 2008) campaign are the goings on inside the Democratic Party, but outside of Hillary's campaign.
MARTIN O’MALLEY LOOKS LIKE HE IS CAMPAIGNING HARD AGAINST HILLARY’S NOMINATION — SAYING “THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A HEREDITARY RIGHT” — AND “... AN ‘INEVITABLE’ FRONT RUNNER... REMAINS ‘INEVITABLE’ RIGHT UP UNTIL HE OR SHE’S NO LONGER INEVITABLE...”
One thing is now clear about former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley – he is not on board the Hillary Clinton bandwagon.According to a report in the Washington Times, “... Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley continued to poke at the notion of political dynasties this week in the early presidential state of Iowa, declaring that the presidency is not a ‘hereditary right.’ *** The presidency is not something to be passed ‘back and forth between two families,’ he told MSNBC’s Ari Melber in Des Moines. *** ‘It is a sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the people of our country,’ he said. ‘I think that the way it’s supposed to work is if you feel that you can lead our country forward and you have the ideas and the experience to do it, you offer it. And then once you offer it, it’s up to the people to decide. But I don’t believe that it’s a hereditary right.’...” ( See “Martin O’Malley: Presidency not a ‘hereditary right’” by David Sherfinski, 4/10/15, The Washington Times [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/10/martin-omalley-presidency-not-hereditary-right/]).
O’Malley continued with these remarks obviously aimed right At Mrs. Clinton: “There is an ‘inevitable’ front runner who remains ‘inevitable’ right up until he or she’s no longer inevitable.... And the person that emerges as the alternative is the person that usually no one in America had heard of before — until that person got into a van and went county to county to county....”
AND DON’T FORGET THAT FORMER VIRGINIA SENATOR JIM WEBB IS ALSO CAMPAIGNING UNDER THE RADAR — SPEECH AT DAVID AXELROD’S EVENT SHOWS THAT, CLEARLY, HE’S NOT FOR HILLARY EITHER
Politico says that Jim Webb didn’t attack Bill or Hillary by name, but his analysis of some of their policies is highly critical.According to a report by Ben Schreckinger in Politico. “... Jim Webb laid out an implicit critique of two decades of Clinton foreign policy in Chicago on Wednesday night, saying the country has lacked strategic direction since Bill Clinton assumed the presidency.
He also took aim at the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya. *** The former Democratic senator from Virginia continued to shy away from criticizing Hillary Clinton directly, as he has in recent months, but his critique amounted to one of the strongest contrasts he’s drawn between himself and Clinton to date. *** “We really have not had a clear strategic doctrine since the end of the Cold War. I would say particularly since about 1993,” said Webb at an event at David Axelrod’s Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. Left unsaid was the name of the president who took office that year: Bill Clinton....” (See “Jim Webb critiques Clinton-era foreign policy” by Ben Schreckinger, 4/8/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/jim-webb-critiques-clinton-era-foreign-policy-116796.html]).
WEBB REMINDS EVERYBODY THAT HILLARY SUPPORTED DESTABILIZING WARS IN IRAQ AND LIBYA
Webb also went on to talk about the toll of the Iraq War, citing an op-ed piece he had written in 2002, in which he warned that invading Iraq would be a “strategic blunder”; he did not directly refer to then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s vote to authorize the Iraq invasion or that President Barack Obama’s opposition to that war became a decisive distinction in his 2008 primary victory over Clinton.Webb then said the Obama administration’s response to the Arab Spring, with Hillary Clinton as head of the U.S. State Department, had set back the United States’ standing in the Middle East, singling out the U.S.-led intervention in Libya in particular. Specificlly Webb said, “Sure, Qadhafi was a bad guy, we understand that, but we had no treaties in place, we had no Americans at risk, we were not under any threat of attack....”
Both Martin O’Malley and Jim Webb will be in Iowa when Hillary gets there on her first day of active campaigning.
15 comments:
You completely missed the point of the Time women of a certain age article and it's message. The article is empowering for Hillary and all females in leadership. But of course all you can do is mock. Come out of the dark ages and evolve already Gale. I mean really. You're ridiculous.
RESPONSE: THE "I DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE" EDITION
MY REMARKS WERE ABOUT HOW THE DRUDGE REPORT JUXTAPOSED THE HEADLINES OF THE STORIES IN ITS LEAD BOX
But since you brought it up... You're ridiculous because you believe in concepts like menopause being "empowering for Hillary and all females in leadership..." like that refers to anything in the real world other than getting older --- which, by the way, is something that both men and women do.
Are the flame wars on this blog real or staged?
Not staged, made up....
We can't afford staging.
UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “REMEMBER ‘WHO’ AND ‘WHAT’ HILLARY’S BIGGEST POLITICAL THREAT REALLY IS” EDITION
HOUSE SELECT BENGHAZI COMMITTEE STILL HAS HILLARY IN ITS SIGHTS FOR TWO SIT-DOWNS ONE “PRIVATE” AND ONE PUBLIC — IT’S THE “PRIVATE” SESSION THAT HILLARY FEARS THE MOST
REMEMBER THAT, ACCORDING TO POLITICO, THE GREATEST THREAT THAT HILLARY CLINTON FACES IN HER QUEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 2016 IS TREY GOWDY AND HIS SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI
Yesterday in “Politico” in a badly headlined article, commentator Lauren French said, “House Republicans investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s email practices as secretary of state said in interviews that her official entry into the presidential race won’t have any bearing on their probes. *** But the political stakes of the Clinton congressional investigations are about to skyrocket....” (See “GOP: Clinton announcement won't blunt Benghazi probe – Trey Gowdy’s allies say he’s determined to keep the Benghazi Committee from becoming a 2016 battlefield.” by Lauren French, 4/10/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-announcement-benghazi-probe-116861.html#ixzz3WxBT1Avq]).
Lauren French’s article continues, “... ‘Secretary Clinton’s decision to seek the presidency of the United States does not and will not impact the work of the committee,’ said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi. ‘The Committee needs to and expects to talk with Secretary Clinton twice, as ensuring the committee has all relevant material is a condition precedent to asking specifically about Libya and Benghazi.’ *** Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) said the committee is prepared to take criticism from Clinton allies once her campaign launches but won’t be deterred from fully probing the attacks just because she is running for president. *** ‘I don’t think anybody is going to stop her and her camp from saying anything we do is … political. She’ll use this in her campaign,’ Westmorelnd said. ‘It’s not political. We would have had her in a long time ago if we had her emails. This is something she has brought on herself and the State Department brought on.’...”
For their part, Democrats on the Select Committee will continue doing everything possible to stymie the investigative aspects of the committee’s work — in effect being an extension of the Clinton Campaign Committee instead of performing their proper congressional oversight duties.
With all of the hub-bub of candidates entering the 2016 presidential sweepstakes, there is the great risk of distraction from Hillary Clinton’s ongoing duty and obligation to account for her record while she was supposed to be giving good and faithful service to this nation as Secretary of State. The person currently delegated to obtain that accounting is Congressman Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi; and according to the on-line political magazine “Politico,” Gowdy is the person that poses the biggest single political threat to Hillary Clinton and her ambitions (See “Hillary Clinton’s Enemy No. 1" by Michael Hirsh, 3/12/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/trey-gowdy-hillary-clinton-116040.html#ixzz3UYyrQcrE]).
This blogger is really out of touch. Benhazi is over. The only thing left is the formal apology from Trey Gowdy to former Secretary of State Clinton for wasting her time. Gowdy can then apologize to the American people for wasting tax payer money on this bogus investigation.
RESPONSE: THE "BEATLEMANIA" EDITION
Okay, I think I get it about Hillary and her fanatics --- she's just like the Beatles and we Republicans are stuck with "The Dave Clark Five"; is that about it ?
"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah....
She loves you, and you know you should be glad... OOOOOOH !
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ----- YEAAAAHHH !!!
Coming up next, JEB doing his cover of "Bits and Pieces" -- with Ted Cruz on the keyboard, Rand Paul on rhythm, Scott Walker on the base and Marco-Dave pounding hard on the drums..... Go Spurs..... (Now that's inside)
UPDATE: THE "THREE LITTLE WORDS" EDITION
--- SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ---
"Hillary's Announcement" as the SNL opening sequence was one of the best "Cold Openings" that SNL has done -- with Kate McKinnon reprising her role "Hillary," as in: "I'm Hillary Clinton... and I will be your leader...."
Darrell Hammond did a guest stint as "Bill," who said if they had selfies back when he was last in the White House, he'd be in jail today... Hammond/Bill wound up playing his sax as McKinnon/Hillary pushed him into the background and the segment closed.
UPDATE: THE “FIRST STOP ON THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN MIGHT BE COOLER THAN SHE EXPECTS” EDITION
MANY IOWA DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISTS VOICE MORE THAN A LITTLE SCEPTICISM ABOUT HILLARY ON THE EVE OF HER FIRST TRIP THERE AS A 2016 CANDIDATE
The Guardian is reporting from Iowa that “Hillary Clinton has some problems in [ ] the crucial state she is due to visit shortly after announcing her presidential candidacy on Sunday and where her defeat to Barack Obama in 2008 led to the loss of her frontrunner status and the beginning of her rival’s journey to the White House. *** While the former secretary of state is yet to face any competitors as strong as Obama in the state where the first contest in the American presidential primary season is held, there are some troubling trends emerging....” (See “Clinton's Iowa problem: Democrats sceptical as troubling trends emerge’ by Ben Jacobs, 4/11/15, The Guardian [http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/11/hillary-clinton-iowa-caucus-problems-communication]).
The Guardian article by Ben Jacobs concluded with these passages: “... [A]ctivists did agree on one thing: Clinton needs to show up in the state and actually engage in grassroots politics. And, while the former secretary of state will be in Iowa next week, she will have to do more than show up and just give a speech. *** As [one activist] said, ‘Iowans almost have a rule that they want to go see a candidate speak about three times, shake hands, look ’em in the eye and ask them a question.’ *** The question is, will the former secretary of state will give them that opportunity.”
UPDATE: THE “IT’S REALLY NOT NEWS, YOU KNOW” EDITION
HILLARY CLINTON ANNOUNCES HER ENTRY INTO THE 2016 RACE FOR PRESIDENT
IT’S JUST LIKE A LISTENING TO A NEW RECORDING OF MAURICE RAVEL’S “BOLERO” — UNLESS YOU ARE A COMMITTED RAVEL FANATIC, WHAT IS THE POINT ?
Here’s a couple of versions of the chatter about it:
Jeff Zeleny of CNN gave us the “soup to nuts” about Hillary in just a few lines just like these, under the heading: “A career campaigning” – The campaign trail has been long, but not always kind, to Hillary Clinton. *** She burst onto the national stage in 1992 alongside her husband, the Arkansas governor, and presented herself as the kind of potential first lady the country had never seen. Her bluntness often stirred controversy, particularly when she once declared: ‘I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.’...” (See “Ready to run – Hillary Clinton tries again” by Jeff Zeleny [with video link to video by Brenna Williams], 4/12/15, CNN [http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/04/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-election-announcement/]). What followed that was similarly pointed material under the headings: “Survivor of scandal”; “From first lady to Madam Secretary”; and “Personal milestones.”
Perhaps an even more snarky report of the Hillary Clinton announcement appeared in the New York Times, where Amy Chozick opened with this: “Ending two years of speculation and coy denials, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday that she would seek the presidency for a second time, immediately establishing herself as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. ***
“I’m running for president,” she said with a smile near the end of a two-minute video released just after 3 p.m. *** ‘Everyday Americans need a champion. And I want to be that champion,’ Mrs. Clinton said. ‘So I’m hitting the road to earn your vote — because it’s your time. And I hope you’ll join me on this journey.’ *** The announcement came minutes after emails from John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, alerting donors and longtime Clinton associates to her candidacy. *** Regardless of the outcome, Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign will open a new chapter in the extraordinary life of a public figure who has captivated and polarized the country since her husband, former President Bill Clinton, declared his intention to run for president in 1991. Mrs. Clinton was the co-star of the Clinton administration, the only first lady ever elected to the United States Senate and a globe-trotting diplomat who surprised her party by serving dutifully under the president who defeated her. *** She will embark on her latest — and perhaps last — bid for the White House with nearly universal name recognition and a strong base of support, particularly among women. But in a campaign that will inevitably be about the future, Mrs. Clinton, 67, enters as a quintessential baby boomer, associated with the 1990s and with the drama of the Bill Clinton years....” ( See “Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Presidential Bid” by Amy Chozick. 4/12/15, NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/us/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-campaign.html?_r=0]).
The Times-Chozick article also noted, “For all the months of quiet and careful planning, however, her campaign’s rollout did not come off as smoothly as envisioned. Rather than gliding into the spotlight as an above-the-fray former secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton entered the 2016 race in the midst of lingering questions about her exclusive use of a private email address while at the State Department and about donations from foreign countries to her family’s philanthropic foundation....”
As another notable woman ground-breaker, Linda Ellerbee, used to say way back when Hillary was a young person, “And so it goes....”
Breaking:
Blogger Galewyn Massey refers to Hillary Clinton Presidential candidate as a "Notable Woman Ground Breaker."
Please re-tweet far and wide.
UPDATE: THE “IN BROOKLYN – THIS AIN’T A LITTLE BIG DEAL” EDITION
THE REAL NEWS ON HILLARY CLINTON’S ANNOUNCEMENT DAY IS THAT A TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE LEFT WON’T ENDORSE HER — IN SPITE OF ONCE BEING HER CAMPAIGN MANAGER
WHEN YOU’RE IN BROOKLYN, AND NEW YORK CITY MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO, WHO’S FROM BROOKLYN, HOLDS-OFF ON ANY ENDORSEMENT FOR HILLARY CLINTON ON NATIONAL TV ON THE DAY OF HILLARY’S BROOKLYN-BASED CAMPAIGN ROLL-OUT — FIRST, YUH GOTTA SAY: “THIS AIN’T NO ACCIDENT” — THEN YUH GOTTA AX : “WHAT’S GOIN’ ON HERE ?”
Here’s how the New York Times is playing the De Blasio-Hillary thing in it’s main news section today [Monday]: “She plucked him from obscurity to run her 2000 campaign for United States Senate, sat onstage at his swearing-in as mayor of New York City and, just this month, visited Brooklyn for a high-profile photo opportunity with his wife. *** But when it came time for Bill de Blasio to return the favor on Sunday by endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, the mayor’s answer was clear: *** Not just yet. *** In a televised moment rich with political intrigue, Mr. de Blasio repeatedly declined to offer Mrs. Clinton his blessing during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying he would hold off until learning more about his former boss’s economic platform....” (See “Mayor de Blasio, Saying He Wants More Policy Details, Holds Off on Endorsing Hillary Clinton” by Michael M. Grynbaum, 4/12/15, NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/nyregion/on-national-television-de-blasio-declines-to-endorse-clinton-for-president.html] [“A version of this article appears in print on April 13, 2015, on page A15 of the New York edition with the headline: Saying He Wants More Policy Details, de Blasio Holds Off on Endorsing Clinton.”]).
Michael Grynbaum’s NY Times article ended on this note: “... Still, the notion of Mrs. Clinton’s former campaign manager declining to endorse her on network television, hours before she declared her candidacy, was bound to attract attention to the mayor. Mr. de Blasio, a relative newcomer to the national political scene, found himself the subject of dozens of news reports on Sunday tying his comments to Mrs. Clinton’s relationship with the left. *** ‘You see the hesitancy right there,’ Maria Hinojosa, a radio host and another guest on ‘Meet the Press,’ said after Mr. de Blasio finished his remarks. ‘He was her campaign manager. You would expect him to say, “I’m in!” ’ ”
Here’s a sample of what media outlets other than the NY Times think that Mayor Bill De Blasio’s comments dissing Candidate Hillary Clinton are quite newsworthy:
“... De Blasio won't endorse former boss Hillary Clinton — yet
New York Post-14 hours ago – Hillary Clinton won't be getting an official stamp of approval from Bill de Blasio quite yet. Photo: Seth Gottfried, Startraks Photo ...
Bill de Blasio Is 'Not Yet' Willing to Back Hillary Clinton for President
New York Observer-15 hours ago
Wait and See: NYC Mayor De Blasio Will Not Endorse Hillary ...
NBCNews.com-14 hours ago
De Blasio won't endorse Clinton without details on her 'vision'
The Hill (blog)-14 hours ago
De Blasio not yet willing to endorse Hillary Clinton for President ...
In-Depth-New York Daily News-12 hours ago
De Blasio Undecided on Whether to Endorse Clinton
In-Depth-Wall Street Journal-6 hours ago...”
(from Google Search “DeBlasio Won't Endorse Hillary Clinton ”on 4/13/15 [https://www.google.com/search?q=DeBlasio+Clinton+Endorse&oq=DeBlasio+Clinton+Endorse&aqs=chrome..69i57.14661j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#tbm=nws&q=DeBlasio+Won%27t+Endorse+Hillary+Clinton]).
What ? No Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn Paper, Brooklyn Courier !
UPDATE: THE “HILLARY CLINTON’S ANNOUNCEMENT TO ‘EVERYDAY AMERICANS’ TIPS HER VERY WELL-FINANCED HAND” EDITION
IS THE WASHINGTON POST WARNING US “EVERYDAY AMERICANS” WITH “ORDINARY HOPES” ABOUT WHAT HILLARY REALLY IS TRYING TO DO ?
YES, YES IT IS ! — LOOK OUT FOR HILLARY GOING ALL OUT TO TRY TO BUY THIS ELECTION WITH A SOFT MESSAGE OF MOSTLY “MORE OF THE SAME” AND/BUT “THE NEED FOR A LITTLE BIT OF CHANGE” — PARTICULARLY AFTER HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF FAT CATS’ DOLLARS HAVE REDEFINED THAT CHANGE INTO THINGS THAT EVERYBODY WANT OR THINK THEY NEED
The Washington Post has immediately come out and belled the Hillary-cat, by telling us that “Hillary Clinton’s video announcement of her presidential run features Americans who are entering transitional periods in their lives — an expecting mother, a pair of immigrant brothers starting a business, a man changing to a new skilled blue-collar job, a woman running for president (Clinton herself). They discuss the future with a mix of trepidation and self-conscious hopefulness. This includes Clinton; by discussing her own story in similarly personal terms, she seeks to humanize her ambitions and tie them to the ordinary hopes for the future expressed by the “everyday Americans” that precede her in the video. *** Behind all the sentimentality lies some fairly serious signaling about where Clinton’s campaign is headed and what it will be about ( See “What Hillary Clinton’s campaign announcement video tells us” by Greg Sargent, 4/13/15, The Washington Post/ Plum Line [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/04/13/what-hillary-clintons-campaign-announcement-video-tells-us/]).
According to this particular WaPo view, Hillary is girding herself to do battle “... [with a] GOP hoping to terrify voters with the prospect of Hillary-as-Obama-third-term, and with the 2016 GOP hopefuls zealously vowing to roll back the Obama presidency, [and assuming that] Republicans will likely continue re-litigating how awful the Obama years have supposedly been....” For her part, [the Hillary] Clinton gamble is that swing voters don’t want to hear this argument anymore; that they agree Obama’s policies have not turned the economy around fast enough, but think this was understandable given the circumstances and don’t see those policies as an utter, abject failure.... [T]he Clinton team believes Republicans, flush from their epic 2014 victory, will again over-read public disapproval of Obama and will mistakenly premise their strategy too heavily on the notion that the public agrees the Obama presidency was a disaster. And as Jonathan Chait notes, there is a decent chance the economy will continue to expand; that the desire for change will not prove as potent as Republicans expect; and that national demographics will continue to favor Democrats. *** The Clinton gamble is that swing voters won’t necessarily be seduced by the GOP promise of dramatic change, particularly after hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars are spent defining that change through a contrast of the GOP nominee’s agenda with her own. Just as happened in 2012....”
UPDATE: THE “HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN CAUGHT OFF-BASE ALREADY ?” EDITION
RIGHT AS IT “COMES OUT OF THE GATE” — HAS THE HILLARY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN CREATED ITS OWN “SOCIAL MEDIA-GATE”
ARE A HUGE NUMBER OF HILLARY CLINTON’S OSTENSIBLE “SUPPORTERS” ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK PHONY ?
That’s what reports in “The Daily Mail” of London are saying ( See “More than 2 MILLION of Hillary Clinton's Twitter followers are fake or never tweet – and she's already under fire for 'buying' fake Facebook fans” by David Martosko, 4/14/15, The Daily Mail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html]).
UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "BILL DE BLASIO -- HILLARY CLINTON REDUX" EDITION
DE BLASIO'S REFUSAL TO ENDORSE HILLARY WAS A VERY BIG STORY --- BIGGER THAN EVEN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
HILLARY "SUPPORTERS" COME DOWN ON NYC MAYOR DE BLASIO WITH BOTH FEET -- BLUNDER GIVES STORY OF DE BLASIO'S REFUSAL TO ENDORSE HILLARY CLINTON EVEN MORE LEGS
The Bill de Blasio refusal to endorse Hillary Clinton on the day of her announcement was every bit as big a news story as I had earlier predicted --- as we go into day three it's even more so....
Almost predictably, the New York Post and the Daily News played it up the biggest with frontpage coverage ( See "De Blasio’s Hillary diss leaves Democrats, Clintons fuming" by Carl Campanile, Michael Garland & Marisa Schultz, 4/13/15 -- 4-14-15, NY Post [http://nypost.com/2015/04/14/de-blasios-hillary-diss-leaves-democrats-clintons-fuming/] [With an even more inflammatory frontpage headline "HILL'S FURY -- Blas won't endorse as prez run official"]) and ( See also "De Blasio not yet willing to endorse Hillary Clinton for President, wants her to embrace progressive ‘vision’ " by Erin Durkin, Cameron Joseph, 4-12-15-- 4/13/15, NY Daily News [with it's bombastic frontpage headline: "STABBED IN DE BACK ! Refuses to endorse Clinton Prez bid"]).
However, the most interesting piece of coverage came from the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, whose article focused on how the various papers' front covers handled the Hillary Clinton rollout of her campaign. And what did he say was the best --- If you guessed the New York Post or Daily NEWS headlineS about Bill De Blasio's holding back on his endorsement of Hillary --- well, not quite (See "Here’s the best front page on Clinton presidential announcement" by Chris Cillizza, 4/13/15, The Washington Post [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/13/heres-the-best-front-page-on-hillary-presidential-announcement/]). Cillizza picked his own WaPo, however, he particularly mentioned the NY Post and the NY Daily News next, and the fact that their coverage were the most "buzzed about."
The backlash by the Clinton Campaign and varius Hillary Clinton supporters against NYC Mayor De Blasio is making this an even bigger barn burner. De Blasio is even pushing back on the pushback.
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