Media Darling
[T]he reporters mostly all worshipped [Obama] [. . .] That part of the media-conspiracy narrative is definitely true. [. . .] Needless to say nothing like that went on in the Hillary press corps, or more especially in the McCain plane, where the more likely back-of-the-plane recreation was a reporter musing out loud about the benefits of hanging himself over continuing even one more minute on that assignment.
Told you so. Anyway, I am not a fan of Taibbi (his hit job on Wes Clark in 2003 shows he knows how to wield a hatchet himself), and I think he really misses the mark in this section:
That said, even back at the very beginning of the campaign, before the signal came down that it was okay to start giving Obama big sloppy b--wjobs on the air, when reporters were all slamming the one-term Illinois Senator for being a “lightweight” prone to “rookie mistakes” (those among us whose version of recent history imagines Obama being handed the 2008 election by the campaign press seem always to forget that part, but go back and look — the “Hillary is the presumptive frontrunner” period lasted a solid nine or ten months) [. . .]
First, the value of being called the "presumptive frontrunner" in the Summer of 2007 is tremendously overrated. Second, after the October 2007 NBC debate where Tim Russert and Brian Williams led an all out assault on Hillary absolutely changed that dynamic. From that debate on, Hillary was under constant assault by the Media and Obama became the Media Darling in full.
It's all old news of course, but, it will be fun to see who snaps at Taibbi for this.
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