Campaign against Hillary Clinton foundering? Blame the news media.
Throughout last week’s withering, barb-filled debate between GOP Senate candidates KT McFarland and John Spencer, Spencer had choice words for both Clinton and McFarland. But sometimes it seemed his greatest contempt was reserved for the press.
On charges he’d used ethnic slurs: “My friends in the media want to spin things and take tapes and cut them, that’s what I have to live with, and as a conservative Republican, that’s the way it goes.”
On whether it’s wrong for Clinton to have presidential aspirations: “I wish the liberal media would go after her and put the question.”
But the “liberal media” apparently holds no succor for Clinton’s Democratic anti-war challenger, Jonathan Tasini, who paused several times in a recent City Hall steps news conference to lambast the news media ....
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for giving his struggling campaign short shrift.
“The press has not covered this race properly,” Tasini said, echoing his would-be opponent far to the right on the ideological spectrum on this, if on no other issue. “I urge the press not to be fooled .
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Isn't Tasini right? Do a google search and see all the news coverage Tom Suozzi got vs. Tasini's run. Tasini will likely poll higher on primary day, still. Is it because Hillary donors and such own many of the corps that run papers? Is it because papers don't want to offend a future president? Papers are businesses and readers are becoming wise to that.