Picking up where Markos left off, the New York Times caucus blog gives air to CNN's overt pro-Clinton bias in its post-debate spin room, where Anderson Cooper joins a former Clinton advisor (Gergen), a current Clinton advisor (Carville), and a former Republican Congressman (Watts) to give 'objective' assessments of how the debate went down. As Media Matters corrects CNN's (and its mindshare mama Fox News') wild pre-fab spin on the debate, diary after diary from Clinton campaign plants embrace the corporate media's manufactured frame.
It's enough to make one nostalgic for "Mission Accomplished!"
It's one thing to debate policy. But c'mon, folks. You have to feel a little dirty when you are using Blitzer, Carville and Cooper to establish a false consensus over your candidate's performance. Especially when that candidate was given a handicap of 15 coming into the contest.
I remain an undecided voter, but I also have a good memory. The way many of the primary news organs are coalescing around a very artificial and undiscerning portrait of Hillary Clinton feels unnervingly like the buildup to war. And seeding their "war room" with Clinton clientele is transparent and grotesque.
So much for sunlight.
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(EDIT: Some posters here take issue with my term "plant" to describe self-identified members of a given campaign within the DailyKos community. Fair enough. We can disagree on how to use the term. But see my definition here.)