(P) Ordinarily I am weary of Democrats who go to great lengths to try to court media moguls such as News Corp's Murdoch. To make a long story short, Democrats can sell out, but they're typically not as good as their counterparts in the Republican party, so in the end they get beat playing that game. But with Hillary Clinton's very public association recently in New York, this might actually be a good thing, for it exposes her true colors in unambiguous clarity. Here's a good article, replete with obvious biases against Senator Clinton.
After all, while the Clintons' corporate sympathies with regard to the telecom industry have been clear since at least 1996's terrible legislation, Hillary always had some room for deniability from her husband's actions. Basically, she has now laid the gauntlet to would be challengers for 2008, and I'm hoping somebody really challenges her on it. Media consolidation is an incredibly important issue among people all across the country of all political stripes, and I think this may be the issue with strong enough Democratic grassroots energy to keep Hillary from securing the nomination in 2008. With the combination of an issues focused Al Gore, tremendous success of documentaries like Outfoxed, and a DNC chair sympathetic to media issues, maybe we can keep Hillary in New York.
And that's something we can all get behind.
Well, except Ruport Murdoch. The Clintons have done wonderful things for his business interests in the US. The only thing better for News Corp would be Hillary losing to the Republican nominee.
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