On August 3rd, Ryan Cooper of "The Week" posted this opinion piece:
The media needs to get over its blind hatred of Hillary Clinton
in which he specifically calls out the New York Times Clinton coverage for, basically, CDS (Clinton Derangement Syndrome). He calls it "blind hatred", which is a stronger word for the same thing.
His thesis is this:
It not only leads to gross failures in journalism, but ends up being a massive distraction from the actual scrutiny Hillary Clinton deserves.
He goes on to give examples from The Times starting from the manufactured Whitewater scandal and ends with this gem of insight:
And perhaps more importantly, this annoying, narcissistic media spectacle is proving to be an enormous distraction from the important task of actually reporting on Hillary Clinton. There are all manner of things to cover, from her poor choice in advisers, to her foreign policy views, and yes, even the deleted emails from her years at the State Department. Just make sure to actually, you know, check the facts before hitting publish.
Kossacks, let's not make the same mistakes that
The Times is making. The Clinton emails, Benghazi, Whitewater, Lewinski are all unsubstantial and irrelevant and are all common snarky banter in the comments of diaries (and in some cases the subject of reccd diaries themselves)
Lets' instead look at the record of all our candidates, how they voted, who are their advisors, what they have said and what they have done. I know it is less fun, potentially, but feeding on Republican red meat and vomiting it back here to support our candidate is not the way to go.
For the record, I don't want to go through another round of elections feeling pissed off on behalf of a candidate I am not even planning on voting for (like I was constantly pissed for HRC here in 2008 and I voted for Obama). Substance over cheap shots.
Sending this out to the world,
Coigue