Our misogynist male dominated media appears to have geared up in attack mode when faced with the reality that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s approval rating in the past year has soared far above that of President Obama. Even more galling to the good ol’ boyz media network, it has become abundantly clear that their euphoric allegiance to Obama in 2008 and simultaneous sexist assault against Hillary has become an accepted truth by most thinking people.
Ugliness emerging from the sensationalist, gossipy recently published trash, Game Change, by Heilemann and Halperin erupted at Politico the other day in an item by Ben Smith titled Game over; the Clintons stand alone. Not quite, Ben.
Peter Daou, a Clinton campaign advisor has stepped forward on behalf of his former boss with an eloquent, balanced mature article this morning at the Huffington Post.
Daou writes:
I am reading Game Change now and will update this entry once I've completed the portions about Hillary Clinton but I wanted to post something immediately in response to the Politico story.
Ben Smith is a savvy, well-connected reporter and Heilemann/Halperin are about as plugged into Beltway culture and DC power centers as anyone can be -- whether that's good or bad I'll let others judge. I became acquainted with Halperin during the campaign -- and with Smith -- but never spoke to the former about the book, nor with the latter about his article, so I'm coming to this as an outside observer. I don't dispute that Heilemann/Halperin have high level sources. I just want to be sure their readers get an accurate picture of Hillary Clinton's conduct during the campaign.
To read Daou’s article in its entirety, go here.
Ben Smith is an idiot.
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