Dana Milbank, seen here in a recent
Washington Post staff photo
If there is such a thing as a Kool-Aid™ shark, Dana Milbank has yea verily jumped it in his latest column over at the Washington Post. In it he directly references "Kool-Aid" in relation to Camp Clinton and their supporters no less than 9 times, and makes numerous other references to it. Very nearly one per paragraph.
Examples and some ranting commentary below the fold.
The promised excerpt:
And yet, take a sip of the Clinton Kool-Aid and listen to Bill Clinton explain how Obama's status as the presumptive nominee is a media fabrication.
"By their own admission it's been the most slanted press coverage in American history," he told a crowd Monday night in Lexington. The former president went on: "Every time you turn on the television and listen to one of the people dissing her, they all have a college degree, they've all got a good job, they've all got health care and they're having no trouble filling up their gas tank."
But why would it be in reporters' interests to declare the race over prematurely? Take a long draft from the cup of Kool-Aid; Hillary Clinton has the answer. "It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists," she told The Post's Lois Romano this week. Clinton detected a "deeply offensive" sexism in the media.
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You are probably feeling a buzz from the Kool-Aid by now; savor the high while Bill Clinton lays out the case. "They've declared her dead more time than a cat's got lives," he told the Lexington crowd. He walked through her various wins and predicted that "she will have won a majority of the votes cast in all the states in spite of being outspent by something like $60 million. In every single electoral map I've seen, she is beating Senator McCain handily and she is the only Democrat who is doing that today."
At this point, doubt may be creeping back into your head. Doesn't Obama's money lead reflect his broader support? Isn't Clinton's popular-vote claim including Michigan, where Obama wasn't on the ballot, and excluding some caucus states where Obama had big wins? Relax, and take another sip. The former president has a rebuttal. "These people who are saying the delegate race is over are depending on the Democrats decapitating Florida and Michigan; that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in my entire life," he told a Louisville rally.
Quaff the magical potion, O ye of little faith . . .
Damn, Dana! That shit is harsh!
Granted, I agree completely with the point he's making, but the greater part of me still doesn't like these glib Kool-Aid references. Maybe it has something to do with crying children being force-fed against their will, murdered congressional delegations, and septuagenarian women hiding under their beds to keep from being forced to die. Then again, maybe it's just me.
As to the actual content of Dana's column, I also don't like the Clintons not-so-subtly pumping up this "Liberal Elitists ♥ Obama" bullshit, either. As has been repeatedly noted here at The Great Orange Satan, it's not so much that Obama has a "working class whites" problem. It's that the racist asshats of Appalachia have an Obama problem. Somehow, in spite of his "problem with working class whites," Obama has won the "working class whites" vote in several states coughOregoncough. That's why it hasn't become a favored meme among Team Clinton and the Bobblehead Punditocracy until recently, when all these states Appalachian states started voting more or less back-to-back.
Nor do I like the ever-moving goalposts they have over at the Clintonville Municipal Stadium. As Jed has reported time and time again, each and every one of Team Clinton's new Metric of Winliness™ is horseshit. Why don't they just rename it "The Latest Metric Concocted by Us Wherein We Are the Only Ones Who Can Win."
But I suppose I'm just a latte-sipping, Prius-driving, elitist, liberal Misogynist scraping by with my middle class existence here in the boutique state of Indiana.
. . . or something. :-P
Cross posted o'er at My Eponymous Playground