OMG. THE Tonya Harding Comparison is Taking off in the MSM

[berni_mccoy]

It's being reported on more than one news channel now that Clinton's ONLY CHANCE to win is the Tonya Harding option: Knee Cap Obama!

They are showing Side-by-side pics of Clinton and Tonya... not flattering at all.

Say Dem Officials are getting ready to call this thing over.

[GarbagemanLB]

1. Good.

[slinkerwink]

2. which show?

[berni_mccoy]

13. ABC and MSNBC news shows.

ABC Video here: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4526361

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

33. It was on GMA this morning, as well.

nt

[MadBadger]

3. Is it taking offf on CNN as well?

[Zueda]

7. HAH...Good One!

[berni_mccoy]

14. ABC and MSNBC. Clinton News Network not discussing it (yet).

[H2O Man]

4. Yep.

Not a good sign for the Clinton supporters.

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Jake Tapper asked yesterday if this makes Big Dog "Jeff Gillooly..."

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

6. Can Maureen Dowd resist this one?

[CoffeeCat]

8. She fits the Tonya Harding personna...

...very well.

Her general attitude is very unpleasant.

Just like Harding---"How dare someone take MY trophy away!"

[underpants]

9. This is horrendous. The MSM is going to create a dirty campaign "food fight" all by itself

when none exists well at least it has been one-sided so far.

This is horrendous.

[DemVet]

32. Agreed. The 'pubs are laughing their asses off.

With alternating negative stories on both Obama and Clinton, us Democrats are being played for fools. Couple that with the FL and MI fiasco, and McCain has a strong chance of winning the GE where he used to have none. Shameful.

[underpants]

39. It is the only chance he has

The MSM will need a two minute lead up to recap everything they are pushing to embarass the Dems.

Florida Michigan
Rev.Wright
Bosnia
Supposed in fighting
etc.

[Royal Oak Rog]

41. Maybe Hilly should of thought of that before she launched preachergate

....what a Nixon, er I mean Tonya Harding.

[DemVet]

42. Hillary launched the Wright fiasco?

Yeah, she made Osama, er, I mean Obama sit in the pew and listen to that racist for 20 years. Implied Consent is a bitch, isn't it?

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Is there another option?

[quantass]

11. Tonya Harding is a PERFECT comparison

[berni_mccoy]

12. ABC Video here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4526361

[Marblehead]

15. will she hire

Jeff Gillooly???

[davidpdx]

16. Hillary Clinton: The campaign that never was, starring Tonya Harding

Maybe they can get her for the made for TV movie.

[jakem]

17. CLINTON / GILOOLY '08

:rofl:

[george_maniakes]

18. thats a comparison clintons campaign wants out there....

and a just one after hillarys comments on wright.

[napi21]

19. I voted for Barack, but I'm really ashamed of the meda for this.

Whether you like a candidate or hate them, and no matter what party they're in, this kind of crap doesn't belong in our media!

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. Yes, it's a planned knee capping of Hillary

Obama's campaign has worked to destroy both Bill and Hillary Clinton all along, since that was the only way he could overcome her initial front runner advantage to get the nomination for himself. Same game at best, except one side claims they are above it while blaming all the divisiveness on the other side.

Hint: A candidate whose campaign encourages claims that Hillary Clinton belittles African Americans, will do or say anything to win, is a monster, engages in McCarthyism, is destroying the Democratic Party out of personal ambition, etc. etc. could easily be accused of pursuing "the Tonya Harding option", except no one would dare equate a male candidate with Tonya Harding. How convenient it is to dredge up the image of a woman who the media had a field day making fun of to equate Hillary Clinton with. A new twist on a below the radar gender based attack.

[GarbagemanLB]

22. Ah yes. Sexism! Always pull that card when the queen is under attack!

[ShortnFiery]

27. Not. This. Time.

HRC gracelessly answered the question and thus breathed "new life" into an continuous attack on Obama which he has fully explained.

That behavior is vile and continues to worry those who love Rev. Wright to be concerned with his security. In addition, the good congregation of the 8400 Trinity Christian Church, a mainline church, to be UNFAIRLY labeled as "America Hating" by their mere association of those non-representative snippets that the M$M has played in a continuous loop over the period of two weeks.

It's time for the party elders to stop the bleeding lest there won't be ENOUGH of a Democratic Party to put back together for the GE against McCain.

[DemzRock]

23. Yep, TR. The knee capping pointed AT Hillary. So true! n/t

[rucky]

30. Hint:

All this theater is 90% fueled by the media.

Don't get played, Tom.

[ashrob123]

35. Please give me a break

The only people working to destroy the Clinton campaign is the Clinton campaign. Ever since Maggie Williams joined her campaign it has taken every nuanced racial baiting turn that it could.

It is not the Obama campaign that says that the Clintons are belittling African Americans. It is African-Americans that are saying that. African-Americans who supported Billary Clinton through good times and in bad. So, please give me a break with this sexist nonsense. She's compared to Tonya Harding because it's an accurate assessment of a mentality of privilege gone awry.

[Eurobabe]

21. She even looks a little like Tonya. Scary!

[dkf]

24. Here ya go!

[ShortnFiery]

25. This evening may be the clincher when she tells Greta on FOX tonight how self-righteous

and worthy she is to rule the USA. While at the time throwing Obama, Rev. Wright and the entire congregation (8400 diverse population) of the Trinity Chuch of Christ *under the bus.*

Maybe, just maybe, THEN the ELDERS of our beloved party will wake up?

[Elidor]

26. Hold on

I believe I'm on record as officially loathing Hillary Clinton, but this is not journalism or reporting. This is our national discourse in the fucking gutter. It's perfectly reasonable for a pundit to say that Clinton's only chance is to destroy Obama somehow, and god knows many of us find her attempts to do that vile, but to compare her to Tonya fucking Harding?

Sometimes I forget for a couple of moments that our press corp is more disgusting than Clinton's tactics. Her campaign should demand an apology. This is revolting.

[berni_mccoy]

28. It was a DEM OFFICIAL who made the comparison... the MSM is reporting on that.

[dkf]

31. Anonymous official too.

But the media ran with it anyway because they liked the quote so much.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

37. Donna Brazile was discussing it on GMA

nt

[Elidor]

34. Ah, I misunderstood

Well, I expect they'll run all day with it, then. More's the pity.

[ShortnFiery]

36. The M$M has failed thus far to show us the FULL background of Rev. Wright.

Guess what, he's in hiding and his church is being branded "Un-American." That is just plain vile of both HRC and the M$M. Hell, the Tonya Harding comparison is definitely apt if she demonstrates the self-righteous indignation during her interview with Greta Van Sustren tonight.

She is underestimating the undercurrent of anger for the UNFAIR treatment that both Rev. Wright as well as the Trinity Christian Church has had to endure over the past few weeks.

[marshall]

40. That's the way language develops

Five hundred years from now when some teenage boy is getting a "lewinsky" from his girlfriend, he won't make any connection between the action and a former president of the United States.
Likewise, "tonya harding" has become a term used for dirty competition.
The lexicon is full of such terms we use everyday with no knowledge of their origins.

[liberalmuse]

29. Sheesh. The 'news'.

I wish we had real news in this country, like the BBC. Not this tabloid crap that only caters to the lowest common denominator. Disgraceful!

[madrchsod]

38. bbc america on sat and cable...

who else would report on the tent cities in california....