Village Voice - Hillary and the VRWC - Wayne Barrett - complete media analisys

[robbedvoter]

It's long, but a must read:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374100,374100,2.html
The prime movers of both political parties have long tried to game the presidential nominating process—not only to choose their eventual winner, but also to pick their November opponent. And in this landmark election without incumbents, the media wing of the Republican Party, in particular, has quite visibly been playing that game. Right-leaning pundits for months now have very openly not just called for Hillary Clinton's head, but also coddled and promoted Barack Obama, salivating over the prospect of facing him in November.
Meanwhile, voters have been echoing that program: Barack Obama has been beating Hillary Clinton in part because Republicans are helping him.
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In the lead-up to Texas and Ohio, Rush Limbaugh, whose radio show reaches 13 million, dropped his "mafia wife," "Nurse Ratched," and "testicle lockbox" descriptions of Hillary Clinton long enough to urge his listeners to vote for her "if they can stomach it." His rationale was to keep the bloodbath going. Up to then, he was unabashedly boosting Obama with the same perverse purpose. Obama still carried most of the 252,000 Republicans who voted in Texas—a Limbaugh stronghold—but his percentage dropped from 72 percent in Wisconsin to 52 percent.

later he proceeds to analyse each of them - Limpballs, Novak, Kristol, etc
posted in GD-P here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5043466

[kerstin]

1. I replied on the GD-P posting.

Kicked it as well.

Hasn't been a reply since.:shrug: