Update #2 at the end of the diary.
I'm pretty sure that hell has officially frozen over. Hillary Clinton may have single-handedly reversed global warming today by sitting down with the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Review-Tribune, which is basically Richard Mellon-Scaife's personal vanity newspaper.
Certainly not that Richard Mellon-Scaife you're probably thinking to yourself. Not the Richard Mellon-Scaife that funded the Arkansas Project, which spent millions of dollars attempting to tie Bill and Hillary Clinton to the death of Vince Foster.
She wouldn't sit down with the paper that specifically hired a "journalist" to write stories for the Tribune-Review challenging the conclusion that Foster's death was a suicide, would she?
Unfortunately, the answer to those questions are yes she would and yes she did. Candidate Clinton breaking bread with the financier of the "vast right-wing conspiracy."
Here's the picture, just in case you don't believe me.
I had planned on exploring this topic further. However, I think I very well may be in too large a state of shock to coherently continue.
I mean . . . WOW!
Update: I've regained my senses and wished to add one more thought. Putting aside the unseemliness of this, it simply is unbelievably BAD POLITICS.
It confirms all of the worst thoughts that people have of her. Specifically, that she will do anything and say anything to be elected.
EVEN IF, she were to get the endorsement, it would be a dubious distinction at best and probably not garner her any extra votes.
However, the backlash potential is tremendous. I just don't get it.
Update #2: Oh, The Irony
It just dawned on me that Hillary Clinton:
- Sat down for an interview with the Pittsburgh Review-Tribune
- Richard Mellon-Scaife was seated next to her.
- Richard Mellon-Scaife has been one of the biggest pushers of hate speech over the past 15 years.
- Hillary Clinton, while sitting with Scaife, was making these statements: "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Yes, and you can also choose the endorsements you seek.
And, this: "I spoke out against Don Imus . . . , saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that," Clinton said. "I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."
My head continues to spin.