The media are assholes. Anything to depress turnout in the last two contests.
Speaking of media assholes, Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum (pictured) has been labeled a "scumbag" by former president Bill Clinton, despite the fact Purdum is married to his former press secretary, Dee Dee Myers.
"That's all right-- he's still a scumbag," Clinton said. " Let me tell ya-- he's one of the guys -- he's one of the guys that propagated all those lies about Whitewater to Kenneth Starr. He's just a dishonest guy-- can't help it."
Purdum's piece, featured in this month's edition of Vanity Fair, included former advisers criticizing former President Clinton for bringing negative attention to Hillary Clinton's candidacy and for surrounding himself with friends who might discredit her campaign.
The former president's tirade continued:
"The editor of Esquire-- he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."
"You know he didn't use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy. It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's just the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do-- he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain-- maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it."
And it isn't really media bias for Obama that's driving it; it's media bias for JOHN McCAIN so McCain has no real opposition against him in the fall. It's also retaliation by the media for failing to run the Clintons out of Washington in the 1990s. Call it being "Gored," for the media bias against Al Gore was also driven by Clinton hatred.
You can hear the audio of him on the rope line talking about it at the link. Or else you can listen to the audio on YouTube:
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