Working the Refs

[rosetta627]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=103
by Rory O'Connor | March 5, 2008 - 12:15pm

"Hillary won this week by working the refs.

By constantly complaining about coverage, and relentlessly focusing on charges that the news media has favored Barack Obama and treated him far more gently than herself, Hillary was finally able to staunch the bleeding and stage a desperately needed, last minute comeback that will keep her in the game. By mocking the media, quoting Saturday Night Live, and "practically browbeating reporters,” her campaign lived to fight another day.

And fight is the operative word. Going negative against the media, as well as her opponent, saved the day for the Clintons."

[Diane R]

1. I don't want someone to 'fight' for me, especially when they fight dirty. I want to be represented.

[NC_Nurse]

2. Me too.

[yellerpup]

3. Amen.

Keep it clean, please. I didn't realize how alienated I could feel until this week. Stop it or a lot of people will bail. I NEVER thought I could think that about this election. No more Rovian tactics out of the mouths of Democrats.

[madrchsod]

4. i worked the refs for 17 years coaching youth soccer

never got very far....:rofl:

i do know that the coaches who taught or let their kids play dirty had no respect on the field nor on the sidelines