What the Hell?
March 27th, 2008
I thought it was weird when Hillary Clinton snuggled up to conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, even to the extent of having him run a fundraiser for her and accepting donations from Murdoch and other Fox News execs.
But now there’s a photo of Hillary sitting down to have an interview with Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the most rabid right-wing attack dogs during the Clinton years.
WTF?
I can’t bring myself to believe in some bizarre conspiracy between Hillary and hard-core right-wing sleaze merchants, but I do have to ask, what the hell is Hillary thinking and doing?
I am quite sure that I read several months ago, that Bill Clinton had a face to face meeting with Schaife and reportedly told him to back off of Hillary.
What I see, from my little remote perch is that perhaps the Clintons have performed a diplomatic revolution sometime earlier. Probably a promise by Hillary to continue certain policies inherited from Bush if she happens to get elected (I’m thinking Neocon policies, particularly Iraq, but just guessing). This realignment began a long time ago, from Murdoch, to Bill’s relationship with Bush the elder, and I think those contacts pushed Schaife into meeting with Bill, where upon Bill told him point blank to desist in his attacks. I think Bill’s point would have been to inform Schaife that if Hillary is going to carry water for the Neocons, he’s got to get on board too. That sort of thing. And I think in this meeting Schaife was serving up soft balls for Hillary to whack.
I’m sure if you look into it, you’ll find that Bill Clinton met with Schaiffe in the last 4 or 5 months or something like that. I believe the article said they met at a restaurant in New York City.
There’s more to the Schaife and Hillary thing than meets the eye.
She’s just like McCain; she’s doing whatever she thinks she needs to do (or is told she needs to do) to win the nomination. It’s depressing to see, isn’t it?