Reply #38: Then this. Huffington Post headline "Clinton Camp Says Obama Now "Black Candidate" [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

Wow? I wonder who they quoted to get that racially charged message? Hillary? Bill?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/27/clinton-camp-says-obama-i_n_83451.html

I go to the link and get an AP story. I search for the quote that goes with this racial shocker.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080127/south-carolina-primary/

Clinton campaign strategists denied any intentional effort to stir the racial debate. But they said they believe the fallout has had the effect of branding Obama as "the black candidate," a tag that could hurt him outside the South.

WFT! Associated Press, the people who hired John Solomon to write a bogus story about Harry Reid's bogus land scandal at the same time that GOP politicians were having real land scandals and needed "They all do it" coverage, that outfit is claiming some anonymous source within the Clinton camp is now calling Obama "the Black candidate". And based upon the word of the AP, the Huffington Post is going to make a great big fat headline proclaiming that this is now the official word from Hillary?

Once again, incompetence or malevolence? I would say incompetence, but then they let Lawrence O'Donnell do his race baiting piece about John Edwards and there was no excuse for that.

When Michael Gordon cited anonymous sources within the White House for his series of pieces about the threat from Iran, the left wing said this was irresponsible journalism on the part of the NYT. What does this make the Huffington Post? A liberal rag that has no standards is just a rumor mill?

Read Buchanan's strategy guide for fixing Democratic primaries again. You make it look like one opponent has said something unforgivable about another opponent. Back then, journalists had some standards. Now they are all either sloppy or whores or both.