Posted by
Black Knight on Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:30:01 PM
James Carville worked for Bill Clinton. Mary Matlin is married to Carville. Mike Murphy worked for John McCain. Bob Shrum
is from the DLC and has been shown on other programs, is for Senator Clinton and no friend of Obama's.
So what you have here is 4-1 in favor of Clinton.
MR. RUSSERT: With us, he helped put Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House in 1992: Democrat James Carville. She worked for Bush 41, Bush 43 and Dick Cheney: Republican Mary Matalin. He worked for John McCain on his 2000 presidential campaign: Republican Mike Murphy. And he worked for Kerry, Gore and Barack Obama's key supporter Ted Kennedy: Democrat Bob Shrum. The very latest polls, strategies and issues. The race for the White House through the eyes of Carville, Matalin, Murphy and Shrum, only on MEET THE PRESS...
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Now this next section shows how unfair this process is. They always ask on MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX, "What can Hillary do to win?"
They never ask "What can Obama do to continue to win?"
This has been going on since Hillary lost Iowa, for three months favorable free advice from all the experts.
Sports commentators on ESPN are fair. They ask "What are the keys to victory for both teams A and B?" so as not to show a bias towards one team or another.
If one takes the position that life is not fair, then don't lie and say that the media is against Clinton and for Obama.
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MR. RUSSERT: Mary Matalin, as a political strategist--take away your own political identity--what would you be saying to Hillary Clinton today after looking at those polls?
MS. MARY MATALIN: That even if she wins barely--well, she loses, she's out. But one thing that we don't know for sure yet, and there's not been a pattern that's emerged through these primaries of who voted early and who did they vote for, and who's voting late and where are they going to break. They've broken in different spots. So say, if she loses both, that's one scenario. If she wins both, even fractionally, she says, "He can't close the deal. There's something, you have a lot of concerns about me. I've run a terrible campaign. I might not be the face of change that he is, but I've"--you know, go back to the message that worked, connect with people,
quit talking about herself like, "Why do I always get the first question?" "Why do I always get the last question?" What, what--that's not about what they care about. So go back to those things that work and say, "Why can't he close the deal? He can't close the deal."
MR. MIKE MURPHY: And she's got one thing working for her, which is the near-death experience phenomena this year. Every time it looks like...
MR. BOB SHRUM: That's right.
MR. MURPHY: ..."Perils of Pauline," the train's coming, she has a rescue. And in their meeting, they have the simplest message of all: "Guys, victory or death." So.
MR. SHRUM: Right.
MR. CARVILLE: And, and, and if--but if she does win both, it changes the narrative.
MR. SHRUM: Well, if she wins...
MR. CARVILLE: And wins big--if she wins both, it changes the narrative.
MR. BOB SHRUM:
MR. CARVILLE: Then she has a real case, then she has a real sort of case to make that she's coming back.
MR. SHRUM: She has a real...
MR. MURPHY: She does. She has...
MR. SHRUM: She has a real case to make where the math is very much against her.
MR. MURPHY: Right.
MR. CARVILLE: Right. That's right. Right.
MR. SHRUM: She has to go to Pennsylvania then, which is going to be a seven-week campaign, which is going to be amazing. And she has to win by more than a point or two, not only because she can't catch up in the math, but because she's got to establish some kind of moral claim to the nomination.
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And it goes on and on like that on every network every day.
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I'm not whining about this. We black people have accepted this as
standard operating procedure for years.
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So we are not the ones who are complaining, but the Clintons are.
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We just wanted to point that out to correct the record.