The latest NYTimes's hack job on Hillary

[Mass]

Liberal media? Judge yourself. In what is supposedly an article about Pirro's campaign, the NYTimes succeeds in smearing Bill and Hillary Clinton. I am no big fan of either of them, but this is the type of BS you can expect to read about every Democrat as soon as they will appear to have some momemtum. Nobody will escape to this treatment from our media.

tmpcafe points at it like better than I could

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/sep/28/dude_look_like_an_echo

Dude Look Like an Echo
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By Mark Schmitt | bio

I’m obsessed, but don’t really know what to say, about the torture bill passing the Senate. But then I come across this, and fortunately for my sanity, I know exactly what to say. This is the third paragraph, the third paragraph of the New York Times’ front-page story about the self-destructing candidacy of Westchester County attorney Jeanine Pirro for attorney general of the state:

"But to many people who have been watching the couple for decades, the Pirros look a lot like an echo of that other Westchester power couple, the Clintons, who are also political and financial partners whose fates and fortunes are profoundly intertwined. The Pirros live in Rye, the Clintons in Chappaqua."

"Look a lot like an echo of" is one of the great weasel phrases of modern journalism, even apart from the simple fact that echoes don’t "look" like anything. Here are the "echoes" between the Pirros and the Clintons:

* Apparently they live in towns that are a mere sixteen miles apart.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Yes, this is a farce. nt

[PATRICK]

2. Tortured associations, self-revealing

logic. They shouldn't give up their day jobs as hack propagandists for the Bush GOP.

Will they lose subscriptions in Chappaqua and Rye or do they expect the neighbors to riot and drive them from their midst?

That haughty, idiotic private feud the NYC elite has with the Clintons is pathetic.

[karynnj]

6. As a mystified NYT reader, I have NO idea who they LIKE

not love, but just like.

I've read the NYT since moving to NJ in 1972, when I was proud that that was the paper I could have delivered to my appartment. There has been a shift in the last several years in their reporting.

The NYT was as snarky and obnoxious to Gore in 2000 and to Kerry in 2004. (They even had the bizzarre event where their ombushman editor defended a reporter referring to Kerry as a "social loner". Oddly, it was defended as her conclusion after speaking to about 20 long term friends. To me this begs the question of how many soial loners have 20 long term friends. Maureen Dowd was absolutely obnoxious to Gore.)

Yet their editorial board endorses Democrats.

[BoneDaddy]

3. Actually I don't find anything off in that piece

unless there is more that I didn't read. I mean the comparison is that here we have two political couples who have similar struggles and that when it all boils down, they stay together for practical political purposes.

How can that be construed as slamming the Clintons? Hillary and Pirro are political animals first and foremost.

[Mass]

4. First, Pirro does not run anymore against Clinton, so why compare the two.

How is it relevant? The article is about how Pirro's campaign was terrible (she asked Kerik to spy on her husband).? What does this have to do with anything.

[karynnj]

5. I dissagree - the overall article is negative on

the Pirros. When reading it, an unbiased person would transfer that negativity. I take offense to your comment that the Clintons' "stay together for practical political purposes", because that may not be true. I assume they stay together as they love each other in spite of past problems.

As you mentioned, there is a similarity in that you have couples where both are high powered people. The actions of one sffect the other to a greater degree than actions of a less dynamic spouse. The problem is that in the Pirro's case, she had to withdraw from a race years ago because of her husband's legal problems. This makes the link extremely unfair as the article in the OP suggested.