Saturday, May 31, 2008
On Hillary's RFK remark: some have rightly noticed that in elevating a non story into a big story the press revealed its bias for Obama and sadly demonstrated just how fraught with abject foolishness politics under the spell of modern media has become - but none as far as I know made mention of the fact that the remark served Obama's interests, not by making Clinton look bad, but by solemnly linking him with RFK. It was the Obama camp that was being cynical, not Clinton - and I guess that no one seeing fit to comment on that is further evidence of a media bias. I mean it's pretty obvious - anything that links Obama with RFK or with the Kennedys in general and the lost dreams of Camelot the assassinations evoke is going to be welcomed by him - hell, his speeches are virtually ripped from Bobby's '68 campaign. So why did no one point this out? Why was it ok to suggest, wrongly, that Hillary was up to no good by associating RFK's assassination and Obama's campaign yet apparently wasn't ok to suggest, rightly, that Obama campaign probably welcomed such an association?
