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Will the L.A. Times Cover Hillary’s Clueless Comments About Pakistan?
Patterico's Pontifications ^ | Jan. 02, 2008

Posted on 01/02/2008 7:26:45 PM PST by jdm

Earlier today, DRJ noted that Hillary screwed up some comments about Pakistan, revealing a frightening ignorance about the current state of affairs there. As Pakistan analyst Thomas Houlihan put it:

And then it hit me:

Sen. Clinton really didn’t know that the upcoming elections were for individual seats in Pakistan’s parliament. She actually believed that Bhutto, Nawaz and Musharraf would be facing off as individual candidates for leadership of the country in the upcoming elections.

Sen. Clinton didn’t know that Nawaz Sharif isn’t allowed to run for office in Pakistan because of a felony conviction. She didn’t know that President Musharraf won’t be on the ballot because he’s already been elected.

Sen. Clinton, a candidate for the leadership of the free world, apparently doesn’t know the first thing about the country referred to by some as “the most dangerous place on earth.”

I am waiting with bated breath to see how the L.A. Times covers this. I looked tonight to see if there was anything online about it yet. I did find an article that noted the fact that Mike Huckabee had stumbled earlier in the month in commenting on Pakistan. The same article described the unstable situation in Pakistan as a plus for Clinton, because she is considered so great on foreign affairs.

But I could find nothing on Hillary’s numerous gaffes on Pakistan — at least through and including their January 1, 2008 edition.

Surely, they’re hard at work on something about it.

After all, when George W. Bush failed a pop quiz in 1999 regarding the names of the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan, the L.A. Times thought it was worth an article. And a follow-up. And another follow-up. And some Page A1 commentary from Ron Brownstein.

Hillary’s comments about Pakistan are more worrisome than Bush’s poor performance on the 1999 pop quiz. After all, the current election situation in Pakistan is more critical than a pop quiz regarding the names of world leaders. And Hillary’s statements were unforced errors, not the answers to a pop quiz.

So I’m expecting at least four “Hillary doesn’t know squat about Pakistan” pieces in the L.A. Times over the next couple of weeks.

At least.

Because the L.A. Times isn’t biased against conservatives. And you’ll never find me saying anything different.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clueless; gaffe; hillaryclinton; latimes; pakistan

1 posted on 01/02/2008 7:26:51 PM PST by jdm
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To: jdm
The LA Times is too in love with Hillary’s sex and Obama’s color to ever publish shortcomings. If it was Edwards, it would have been published by now.
2 posted on 01/02/2008 7:37:26 PM PST by kingu (No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
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To: jdm

Cover up? Of course.


3 posted on 01/02/2008 7:39:07 PM PST by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: jdm

This from the most experienced and smartest candidate for the democrats????


4 posted on 01/02/2008 8:00:10 PM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: jdm

Actually, it’s the Pakistanis who are wrong. Hillary is going to make them hold another presidential election—they just don’t know it yet.

She’s working on it as we speak. She and Nancy and Harry plan to hold a congressional investigation. But they have already decided to commission Jimmy Carter and Patty Murray to supervise the new presidential election that will be decreed.


5 posted on 01/02/2008 8:16:59 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: jdm

Well, Joe Biden must have read this report since I just saw on PMSNBC’s Headline News bottom screen scroll that Biden has called attention to Hillary’s ignorance on Pakistan’s elections. Now, will the drive-bys pick up on this? Probably not. No doubt Rush will tomorrow.


6 posted on 01/02/2008 8:40:52 PM PST by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: jdm
Sheesh.

Hillary is almost as ignorant about ASIA as Mike HUCKABEE!!


7 posted on 01/02/2008 8:43:35 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Your FR Pledge: Bookmark It Today! "I Won't Support Mitt/Rudy/McCain/Huckster in General Election")
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To: jdm
I am waiting with bated breath to see how the L.A. Times covers this.

Heh. Let me help out - - the same way the New York Times will handle it. Like this:







































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8 posted on 01/02/2008 8:46:02 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: jdm

No. Next question.


9 posted on 01/02/2008 9:01:36 PM PST by TBP
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To: The Forgotten Man

Well, she can find akistan on a map.

If it says “Pakistan.”

Even that is more than some of the Dimmycraps can do.


10 posted on 01/02/2008 9:02:58 PM PST by TBP
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To: jdm

Further proof that Hitlery’s entier foreign policy experience consists of once having had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.


11 posted on 01/02/2008 9:03:44 PM PST by TBP
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To: TBP

Yeah, Bill and Hill both stiffed the waitress.


12 posted on 01/02/2008 9:33:30 PM PST by jwh_Denver (Scrooge, my kind of guy.)
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To: jdm

This morning I saw an article stating that the revenue and value of the print media is down 42 percent last year alone.
Wit such bias as is shown in the L.A.Times is it any wonder.


13 posted on 01/03/2008 3:59:53 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: jdm

No. The LAT has not covered the Paul vs clinton lawsuit, why start now.


14 posted on 01/03/2008 4:19:29 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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