House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Wednesday that “the strength, the popularity” that Hillary Clinton has enjoyed “has driven the Republicans to their wits’ end.”
Appearing on CNN, she responded to Republican operative Karl Rove’s reported claim that Clinton may have a “traumatic brain injury” from when she suffered a concussion in December 2012.
“What he said is just — he only makes her stronger,” said Pelosi.
Rove said afterward he “never used that phrase,” as first reported by the New York Post, but said on Fox News the former secretary of state had a “serious health episode” that “causes you to look at life a little bit differently.”
Here we have a prime illustration of how the media gladly carries water for the Republicans, day in and day out, and how easily they are manipulated – and gladly manipulated.
Here is an absolute nothing of a story, a lie, a smear by a known GOP operative with literally no credibility, and this story not only makes all the cable shows but the New York Times, made into a two-day news cycle. And its based on nothing at all.
This is why reporters in the beltway earn the utter contempt of their audience. Sheer stupidity. Just utterly worthless people. They should all be fired and be asking for handouts on skid row.
What we have here are “reporters” chasing a former and embarrassed political operative trying to hustle up new business, thinking he still has the glory days’ connections and the magic of the Bush reelection. That’s the story and it isn’t at all exciting. Or credible.
Well, it’s made two cycles on the cables, national news both in print and on teevee, serious questions have been asked, a bunch of stories written, it’s been the talk of the town and the talk of the nation. Jackie Calmes wrote a big piece for the New York Times. You can’t get much more prominent and respectable that that. So I’d say that Rove has been very successful at what he has tried to do.
You notice, don’t you, that literally none of the stories call into question his credibility, do they, @Darcy? Not a single story notes Rove’s credibility, despite the emphasis put on that as the White House response.
“Serious questions have been asked…”
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! By who?
…by the very serious people, of course.