What's the consensus about media coverage of the Clarke story?

[rockymountaindem]

How is the media doing covering the story today? What do you think?

Honestly, I can't decide.

[ewagner]

1. Flourish this morning

Now CNN has just short bits on it...

Skimmed through the cable channels. Nothing at the moment on MSNBC ....Faux doing Lacy...

Maybe Blitzer will be on it at 11AM Central time.......

[goclark]

2. Cndi Gets More Play Than Clarke

CSPAN had a great segment with call ins.
Everyone else that I clicked into had 'Leeza RiceBowl defending her man and defending herself and lies lies lies.

Clarke seemed to be overshadowed by Condi IMO

[vi5]

3. Does it matter? Haven't we seen time and again...

That even when an issue gets hammered in the media, that the general public just does a collective yawn? We saw it with Awol and with Plame and with O'Neill and countless other times. Most people don't pay attention to political stuff beyond the surface and all of these issues require them to spend time on and think about, which by and large americans are unwilling to do.

I'm not hopeful this will have any more lasting impact than any of those other things.

[roscoeroscoe]

4. good morning america was givin' it to 'em~

with charlie asking the tough questions. clarke looked really serious. rice was impossible to believe.
supposedly today show had wesley clark commenting, but we couldn't catch up with that segment.

[k in IA]

5. Good Morning America had Clarke on

first thing this morning. Whenever he speaks it is always jaw-dropping bad news for shrub.

[rockymountaindem]

6. In that case I hope he never stops talking.

Perhaps we could find some way to make a Bruce Willis action movie and a Broadway musical out of this.

[robnycny]

7. Hamas leader killing...

...is overshadowing the Clarke coverage on most mainstream "news" sites... but it is the second lead story. Of course, they are providing ample room for Condi-sleez' rebuttal of spin and lies.

"After we had all been briefed on the al Qaeda threat and understood what the Clinton administration had been doing, he wanted another meeting. I didn't think another meeting was necessary. The principals knew what the problem was, and what we needed was a strategy."

Rice said Clarke's memo "was a series of ideas, a series of steps, most of which, by the way, we did (undertake) within a matter of months." Those steps included accelerating arming U.S. Predator drones and increasing counter-terrorism funding, she said.

"These were steps that he said would roll back al Qaeda over a three- to five-year period. This was not going to address the quote, 'urgent threat of September 11th,'" she said. - Condi Sleeze

WHAT?!?!

edit: a tiny typo