Mainstream Media Downplay Hillary Clinton Comment

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Mainstream Media Downplay Hillary Clinton Comment


A day after many observers declared it nearly impossible for Sen. Hillary Clinton to overtake Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton told USA Today, "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on." As evidence, the story said, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.

"There's a pattern emerging here," Clinton said.

To many, it was a shocking statement — equating "hard-working Americans" with "white Americans" and a naked attempt to cast herself as "the white candidate" in the race.

But while bloggers, some columnists and editorial writers and some readers jumped on the comments, stories in the mainstream media downplayed them.

Even USA Today, to whom Clinton uttered the comment as a response to a general question about her campaign, broke the story under a bland Web site headline, "Clinton makes case for wide appeal."

An Associated Press story by Beth Fouhy seemingly attempted to validate Clinton's comments and to marginalize those who found them offensive.

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http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/080509_prince/

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1. of course they did.

the teevee gnews must defeat obama. it's their only chance to look smart.