Posted on 02/13/2008 6:31:32 PM PST by george76
When you run an attack ad against your opponent for refusing to compete in a debate, you can’t very well bow out of one yourself. So today, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said that she would participate in a debate sponsored by MSNBC in Cleveland, Ohio.
Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton...expressed its concerns...on a comment by an anchor, David Schuster, who said that the campaign had “pimped out” Chelsea Clinton to make calls to superdelegates on her mother’s behalf.
Despite Mr. Shuster’s on-air apology and temporary suspension, the campaign threatened to boycott the network’s debates, citing “the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language.”
The campaign backed down today.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
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Put some ice on it.
“The campaign backed down today.”
That didn’t take long....
“The campaign backed down today.”
That didn’t take long....
New mouse....;-)
I suspect this is far less about MSNBC response post “comment” nor about criticizingg O for bowing out of one either...
She just knows at this point she’s bordering on being up a really big creek and ANY face time that keeps the talking heads for saying how screwed she is she had better do it.
She’s needs to get them talking about a debate now...or even her threat to MSNBC...anything’s got to be a cost worth paying for her now to avoid more “O may be unstoppable” now.
The beast would sell her ugly daughter to a saudi arabian harem for the power of the presidency.
Anyone teach her the art of hari kari?
She’s probably really starting to irritate the powers that be at MSNBC. They can’t like her dictating what they can and can’t say. She intimidates all the TV stations this way. Soon they will all totally turn against her.
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