The mainstream media parses Clintons' support...

[Bucky]

"In naming my colleague and friend Sen. Joe Biden to be the vice presidential nominee, Sen. Obama has continued in the best traditions for the vice presidency by selecting an exceptionally strong, experienced leader and devoted public servant. Sen. Biden will be a purposeful and dynamic vice president who will help Sen. Obama both win the presidency and govern this great country."

--Senator Hillary R. Clinton

In naming my colleague and friend Sen. Joe Biden...

"When you look at this statement, Wolf, I think it's obvious that Hillary is signaling that she's only supporting the Democratic out of personal loyalty to her friend, Joe Biden. Could this be another subtle jab at Barack Obama?"

Sen. Obama has continued in the best traditions for the vice presidency ...

"You may be right, Candy. She seems to be underscoring the fact that she didn't get the vice presidential nomination herself--a job she has been privately lobbying for ever since she was college."

"My sources----well placed sources--deep within the Clinton compound tell me she's privately furious and may well vent her boiling anger in subtle, hard to read ways throughout her convention address Tuesday."

"And we'll be here to cover it, blow by blow, right here on CNN."

"Wolf, if I can cut in here, Wolf..."

"Go right on ahead, CNNsJohnKing."

"Wolf, this seems to be a direct slam at Obama, calling it the 'traditions' of the vice presidency. She's undercutting his campaign's core narrative here, that he's the 'change' candidate, signaling that he's just another 'traditional' politician."

"Good catch, CNNsJohnKing. Could she be setting herself up for a challenge to Obama in 2012? Candy?"

... by selecting an exceptionally strong, experienced leader and devoted public servant...

"Wolf, you can't help but notice how she's emphasizing the senior senator's experience and strength in stark contrast to the pencil necked Star Trek geekery for which, you know, many critics have critically criticized the Obama campaign."

"Thank you, Candy. Ed Rollins, give us an outsider's viewpoint here. How are political professionals like yourself interpreting Clinton's tepid response to the Biden nomination?"

"Well, Wolf, the US Senate is notoriously clubby club. But sources--well placed sources--deep within the Senate culture tell me privately that Joe Biden doubts Barack Obama's manliness and hasn't spoken a word to him in private since Obama's freshmen year in the Senate, when Biden led a group of veteran senators to confront Obama in the Senate men's room and hang him from a stall door with a super-wedgie..."

"Thank you, Ed Rol---"

"Oh, I forgot to add that's he's also an elitist."

"Biden is?"

"No, Obama, Wolf."

... Sen. Biden will be a purposeful and dynamic vice president who will help Sen. Obama both win the presidency and govern this great country.

"We turn now to Campbell Brown on the scene. Campbell, what do you read into this open, 11th hour smear attack on Obama and Biden coming out of the Clinton bunker?"

"Wolf, sources--well placed sources--deep within the Democratic Party are privately telling me that Hillary is livid about this selection. As her own statement released this morning reveals, she and her supporters harbor deep and profound doubts about Barack Obama's ability to govern as president, and perhaps even his ability to function as a man."

"And these sources--your well placed sources--deep within the Democratic Party aren't mollified by the selection of Joe Biden as vice president?"

"Wolf, I'm confident they'd tell me that this is only a bandaid covering up over the deep gushing wounds left by the cut-throat primary season... and that they are not going to be appeased. Denver is shaping up to be a real dramatic show-down between these two armed camps. I think we can look forward to many more such torpedo like attacks on Obama throughout the convention."

"Thanks, Campbell, and we'll be here to cover them, and explain them to you, right here on CNN"

Screw this CNN crap! I'm switching the channel...

"That's only your liberal bias talking, Geraldo. My sources are telling me that Obama's desicratioun of the flag was meant only as a distraction, specifically meant to hide his gay affairs with Rev. Wright..."

[JeffR]

1. !!

:rofl:

[Bucky]

7. Thanks.

At least someone laughed.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

2. CNN is dead to me. MSNBC is where it's at right now.

[Bucky]

3. Maybe. I think they're probably a bit worse when it comes to bashing Clinton

CNN is just a lot more shallow.

[Egnever]

12. I dont see CNN as bashing Clinton here

I see them bashing Obama and using Clinton to do it.

[Bucky]

14. I think what they're really trying to do is gin up a soap opera. We'll see this week.

But my money says everything Bill and Hillary say over the next 48 will be parsed to a fine point, looking for any hint of disloyalty to the ticket. Honestly, Senator Clinton doesn't worry me too much. I think it's easier to be inched out by a guy who seems to be a superhuman hybrid of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Bobby Kennedy, and Phil Donohue than it is to watch your wife get demonized all over again and be unable to fight against it. I expect Bubba to be a pro, but you never know what might slip out and be left open to media twistings.

[ladjf]

4. These people are like "farts in a whirlwind".

[Bucky]

5. I love biblical allusions

thank you

[ladjf]

6. Well, I apologize for the vulgarity but, it just seemed like the most

efficient way to express the situation.

[JeffR]

8. Kick!

3 recs, DU? Come on.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Well, its close to being the truth

I thought I had Tivo-ed it earlier

[JeffR]

13. LOL!

Fair enough.

[Bucky]

17. Thank you, Jeff. The 3 recs don't bother me so much as the 300 views.

Perhaps I should've denounced Biden as an illuminatus who's behind the Loch Ness hoax. Then I'd get more feedback.

[JeffR]

19. That seems to be the key.

As long as you don't get moved to the Dungeon in the process, of course.

[Jim Lane]

21. Failed try at the 10th rec

Sorry, I've fallen behind on my online reading, and I didn't get to this until now. The recbot tells me it's past the 24-hour window. Well, you made it to 10 in spirit, anyway. Nice job!

[Whisp]

10. LOL! great job, Bucky! rec'd!!

[Bucky]

15. Thanks, Whisp.

It took a while and I've had to keep kicking it myself, which is kind of a depressing prospect for an attention whore like myself.

[Egnever]

11. Theres a lot of Clinton investment in that channel

They bet early on this one and bet deep and now they are stuck with a whole bunch of Clinton fans on their staff. Not really surprising they are as bitter there as many are here with her loss.

Disgusting display just the same.

I am pretty sure I am tagged as a Clinton hater and I think her statement was fine.

[AtomicKitten]

16. Conflict is low-hanging fruit for the MSM & they aren't above stoking the flames.

[Life Long Dem]

18. Well done Sen. Clinton!

[davidpdx]

20. I don't like their attitude either, but unfortunately

over here in South Korea I don't get many English TV news channels. At least now I have CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and BBC

[moriah]

22. As with all good satire, you had me going for a minute....

Thanks for expressing with humor the absolute disgust that many of us former Clinton supporters have for the way that she (and all other candidates and politicians but it seems like she gets it pretty bad) has been hyper-analyzed and misinterpreted in the media.

[Cha]

23. Oh Kriii-ssst! cnn didn't get what they

wanted so they can't let go. Fuck 'em and the corporate whore troughs they sleep in.