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With Enemies like Clinton’s, who needs Friends?

A few days ago, Bill Clinton started placing blame for Hillary’s failing nomination bid on a number of “enemies”, powerful forces including a brazenly biased media, and the group MoveOn.org.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10715.html

Speaking about the press, he said that Hillary faced a hostile and imbalanced media environment. But a new study by Harvard University says that from January 1 to March 9, the media stories about Obama and Clinton were almost identical in tone. And after that (and well before the Rev. Wright mess) media coverage turned against Obama.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/reports/Character%20and%20the%20Primaries%20of%202008.pdf

What caused this change? According to the report, it happened precisely after Clinton criticized the media for being soft on Obama during a debate!

Placing blame on MoveOn.org is even more bizarre. After all, MoveOn was founded in 1998 to oppose the Republican-led effort to impeach Clinton himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_MoveOn.org

With enemies like these — a media that you can easily turn against your opponent and an organization that was founded to support you — who needs friends?

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