Democratic Underground - Obama and his supporters take talking points from Drudge

So where do Obama and Co. and the MSM get their talking points from these days? As incredible as it seems, “the boyz” are following marching orders from none other than one of their former arch-enemies, Drudge. I guess he’s their new BFF since he hates Hillary as much as they do. Fox news reports that the latest WWTSBQ frenzy started with a NY Post story that was spread through the ranks of the press corps by Drudge, playing up the “Hillary wants him dead” meme. This article was appropriately titled, “Hillary brings up Kennedy Assassination, Press Freaks Out”. http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/obama-takes-his-talking-points-from-drudge/

BRANDON, SD - Another example of the power of the Drudge Report today, as a NY Post story pointing out that Clinton brought up the assassination of Robert F Kennedy in 1968 during an editorial board meeting sent reporters traveling with Clinton into a frenzy….Almost instantly, the Post story was circulated to the press corps via blackberry and Drudge, and reporters here at Clinton’s town hall meeting abandoned any pretense of listening to the event — flocking around the first Clinton flack they could find for a response to the quote.

Apparently it took the creative mind of Drudge to inspire the Obama campaign to tastelessly exploit the death of an American icon for political gain, in the very same week his sole surviving brother was diagnosed with a brain tumor… very classy. Now this is the kind of thing we expect from Drudge, but from a Democratic presidential candidate, and the left blogosphere? It appears that is the path they are choosing. But they still have some lessons to learn from the pros. See, this isn’t the first time Clinton has made this comparison, as the Fox article goes on to say:

But Clinton has made a similar “long primaries are fine” argument before — once with a more oblique reference to the Kennedy assassination. “If you look at successful presidential campaigns, my husband didn’t get the nomination until June of 1992. I remember, tragically, Senator Kennedy won California near the end of that process,” she said at a DC fundraiser on May 7th. “It has often gone on. And we have a lot to work out here. Because we have to figure out who would be the stronger candidate.”

Where was the outrage then? Where was “Special” K’s spittle ridden rant when she said it on May 7th? Obviously neither Olbermann, the Obama campaign, nor anyone at CNN, MSNBC, etc, was as creative as our friend Mr. Drudge. We all know that the MSM salivates at his every blackberry message, but Democrats? Obama has become just another cog in the right wing, bottom feeding, tabloid rumor-mill machine of which Drudge is commander-in-chief. I noticed that the Obama campaign started to back away from this story almost as soon as they started to push the “it has no place” message that they used in SC. I imagine someone in the Kennedy family told them to stop using RFK to score points and suppress votes. We know that telling Drudge “shame on you” is an exercise in futility. Well maybe some of the OFB still have some semblance of a conscience. If they do, this ones for them. Shame on you!!

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