Hey folks, I wanted to share my latest column with everyone here at OpenLeft -- a review of Bernard Goldberg's latest book, "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media".
-K
That certainly didn't take long. Just shy of a week after Barack Obama took the oath of office, becoming America's 44th president, the nation's foremost right-wing publishing house has released a new tome by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.
The three-ringed circus of liberal media bias cryptozoology is nothing new for Goldberg. He's been part of this factually challenged freak show for years. This isn't even his first book on the subject -- he wrote 2001's creatively titled, Bias.
Ever since Hillary Clinton announced her White House run, we all knew that her past support for the Iraq War would be a liability. But nobody expected that her very popular husband would turn into a problem. It all started three weeks ago when Bill Clinton lied that he had always opposed the War, and it has grown worse since. His December 14th PBS interview with Charlie Rose was a disaster - as he lashed out at Barack Obama with contempt, even going so far as to say that the Illinois Senator should just wait his turn to run for President. For a campaign that has largely relied on Clinton nostalgia, Bill's conduct under pressure has shown that the ex-President has a less seemly side to his demeanor. Voters may agree that things were better in the 1990's, but they don't want to revisit an Administration that left progressives with no lasting legacy.
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