Roy Sekoff on the Media's Treatment of Hillary, with Dan Abrams, Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan

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[apcalc]

Sekoff comes off looking like a jerk.

[Ph0en1x]

Hey Roy, how does that crow taste? Wow you were dead wrong on this appearance. I'm no Hillary fan (Go Edwards!), but it's funny to see Roy's bias touted as fact. So HuffPo is just as guilty as MSM in regards to piling on Hillary, not covering any other candidates but Obama (mine particularly), and just plain getting it wrong.

[nikto]

Uh oh, just as I feared...

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/autorank/212

[nikto]

Once again...
Exit pools should not be that far off.

Was someone like Diebold or ES&S involved
in any way?

Our elections are so suspicious these days.

I don't trust anybody any more.

[HOLY]

HOW SAD YOU PEOPLE ARE. EVERYTHING THE MEDIA PUTS ABOUT HER IS MEAN AND CRUEL. HEY LADIES HOW WOULD YOU HAVE HANDLED IT, YOU WOULD CRY TO. THEY JUST KEPT CHEERING ON OBAMA, HE WOULDN'T EVEN PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!

[ljsfolly]

She was drawing on the real fears of losing it all to show a bit of emotion. More emotion to follow as it got her votes and anyone who thinks different will see it now as we go along. I lokked at the number of deleagtes that the 2 percent difference betweeen hillary and obama meant and SUPRISE suprise they both got nine outta the primary so who lost and who won?

[CammyV]

If her feklempt moment was contrived, then she should get an Oscar for acting. I total believe she was just worn out and was being completely honest and real. It was refreshing to see. I liked her before this, and even more now.

[CologneCitizen]

Hillary has won NH, get over it. Doesn't matter if the tears were real. The race is long and still open.

[Wonderwheel]

They didn't cover her fairly because they reported on her "tears" now what she said, which was essentially "I'm the best and honest candidate." making her seem meglomanical.

[SmolderingRuin]

All day long, one after another of the CNN "best political team on television" gored Hillary Clinton. Their delight at what they assumed was the end of her campaign was naked and unabashed. Just as with Huffington Post, their hatred for her is unreasonable and visceral. Well, hahahahahaha to those who were dancing on her grave. I'm an Edwards supporter, but it was hugely satisfying to see all the male pundits trying to puff up their sails again, when their carefully crafted talking points were so completely deflated. Lame, lame, lame. Loved it.

[rblackbird]

Hillary wins N.H. What do you think now Mr. Sekoff?

[leftbehind2000]

Clinton's tears are like everything else about her. Contrived.

Now that it looks like she's going to win in NH, it looks like she can chalk it up to good strategy.

[condieshoes]

NABNYC you are right. If she had been truly representing American people instead of triangulating her position and actually stood for something, Obama would not be here right now.

People are sick of the political game and they are starting to be able smell a phoney spin quickly.

They also are getting the picture of the talking heads that are paid to lie and triangulate for their careers sake.

If the media is pushing for Obama, then there's something fishy. Dean scream comes to mind. If William Crystal is thanking Obama, then ......well, need I go further.

[ceasenake]

She's only crying because she's losing.

If she was winning it would be that patented harpy laugh of hers.

[esgabel]

I was once told that strong women do not cry--I have lived long enough to know that is not true. What I saw in the video of Hillary Clinton was a frustrated woman who tried so hard to convince a vast variety of people that she was electable...that she finally went unscripted and became the real Hillary Clinton...even her voice was changed.
Who knows what would have happened if she didn't need people to help her triangulate...she's not the only one...look at John McCain, who in the last 4 years pandered to the very people who buried his last presidential run. Look at Larry Craig and countless others who have felt the need to have an iron facade to be electable.
Somehow we have made running for public office in this country only available to those who either triangulate or calculate their way to the top. How many of the citizens who voted for President Bush could actually ever get near enough to him to drink that alcohol free beer. When he is in public life again, will he be any more a man of the people than he was before he was elected? Our perceptions are warped and manipulated and when we see honest emotions we don't know what to do with them. We either imply weakness, or we are snarky or we say it is really scripted. I'm not a Hillary supporter at all, but I could hear her frustration and bewilderment at the bottoming out and downhill slide of her campaign--she has worked so hard, it is all so sad to her. We should as a nation look at ourselves and the bloodlust that we have, when we see people in public life fall. Who in their right mind would ever run for public office?