Well our Homegirl returned from a successful trip to India and Thailand on Friday, went straight to her office and the White House, appeared for the full hour on Meet the Press today, and STILL THIS MYTHOLOGY PERSISTS!
In the July24 New York Times, the article Asia Trip Propels Clinton Back Into Limelight propelled the mythology of Hillary in the shadows back into the limelight while purportedly shining the limelight on her. How tricky is THAT? The article, authored by Mark Landler, in signaling Hillary’s emergence from the shadow of The Great Oz Obama, propels the myth back into the MSM. Like the original myth, the story contains misleading statements as well as outright lies. For example here:
After being sidelined at home in recent weeks by a broken elbow, Mrs. Clinton thrust herself back into the limelight, making headlines with unexpected statements about Iran, North Korea and Myanmar….
This statement gives the impression that Hillary Clinton has spent the five weeks since her accident and surgery resting at home while nothing could be further from the truth. She has been at the State Department and the White House every single week since the surgery with no time off. To say she “thrust herself back into the limelight” is misleading. It is the press that decides what to cover and what not to. That news organizations spent big bucks sending correspondents along with Hillary on this trip mystifies me when they then neglect to cover the trip – Oh! – until she makes statements about Iran and North Korea, which, by the way, she has been speaking about all along. She did not need to fly to the other side of the globe to make these statements. At most press opportunities during bilaterals with representatives of many countries, the subjects of Iran and North Korea have been raised and she has regularly addressed them. Click on Secretary of State here to see videos of many bilaterals where these countries are mentioned. Another great source of videos of our Homegirl is Secretary Clinton Blog where Homegirl Stacyx posts video energetically. Since the news was not covering these events I am not surprised that journalists characterize these statements made overseas as some kind of launching pad for a newly visible HRC, but I will not give them a pass for not doing their job.
Hillary, herself, addressed the ubiquitous myth:
Mrs. Clinton batted away suggestions that she had been marginalized. That, she said, was a canard propagated by the news media, which jumped on the fact that her recovery from the elbow injury forced her to cancel two foreign trips, including one with Mr. Obama to Russia.
“I’m not with the president on the trip and all of a sudden everybody goes, ‘Oh, where is she? She’s gone, disappeared,’ ” Mrs. Clinton said in a tone of mock horror, as the audience giggled.
I am glad to see her fighting back. Here we continue to fight back also. She has it exactly right by pinning the rap on the news media. Yes! They ignored her and then said she had disappeared. DU-UH!
There was also this:
She warned about nuclear links between North Korea and Myanmar. And she offered a rare glimpse into what the United States might do if Iran did not respond to its diplomatic overture. Her comments about the possibility of extending a “defense umbrella” over the Middle East ricocheted around foreign-policy circles.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides did their best to convince reporters traveling with her that she was not signaling any change in administration policy. But when a secretary of state muses publicly about one of the world’s most sensitive diplomatic problems, the story quickly takes on a life of its own.
Well, of course if the reporters are not covering her statements they would have no idea what policies she has already outlined. Ahem! It’s just like college, you guys! If you miss a class, you are still responsible for the material! She has said these things before. That you were absent that day does not excuse you. I guess this is why she has to have so many teaching assistants staffers along.
Then there was this:
Fortunately for her, most of the audiences seemed to care less about greenhouse gases and security umbrellas than about hearing dish from her about her life, her ambitions and, particularly, her relationship with Mr. Obama.
Fortunately for whom, Mark? She can go for hours on these subjects without a teleprompter. This is the kind of gossipy stuff you guys like, and it’s where this silly story came from to begin with.
Sorry, I should not have referred to college above. Seems the American Press never got out of 5th grade.
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Thanks, Annie!
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Ok, the light blue pantsuit- I was beginning to worry you were ignoring all my cries for help on your blogs 😉 I really wish you’d put a blue-pantsuit pic in your blogs header though. Pretty please.
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If I have time today I will try resizing a pic in photoshop. I tried with Gimp and it didn’t work so well. There are only 2 problems:
1) Will it fade against the blue background?
2) If it’s too big I can’t even get her whole face.
I like this header for this blog, but I’ll see about Still4Hill (although I really like that impish little smile she has there – she can be a handful – you can tell).
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