{"id":89,"date":"2008-01-04T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T20:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/bill-clinton-the-media-is-forc.html"},"modified":"2008-01-04T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T20:32:19","slug":"bill-clinton-the-media-is-forc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/01\/bill-clinton-the-media-is-forc.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton: the media is forcing Hillary to go negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0108\/Bills_reason_to_go_negative_media_bias.html\">Oh. My. Heck<\/a>! No one can beat Clinton for sheer audacity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media&#8217;s coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.<br \/>\nHe also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.<br \/>\nClinton, like his wife, is traveling New Hampshire taking questions from voters, and he spoke at the University of New Hampshire in Durham in response to a plea from a woman who said she&#8217;d like it &#8220;if you and Clinton joined Barack Obama in putting the Republicans on notice&#8221; that it was time to &#8220;change the game&#8221; and end the &#8220;meanness&#8221; and &#8220;manipulation&#8221; in politics.<br \/>\nClinton replied that he liked the idea \u2014 in theory.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think we can change it as long as you have access to information by people who are committed to judging everybody by the same set of rules and following the same set of rules,&#8221; he said. &#8220;According to the most recent media analysis, that\u2019s not what\u2019s happened so far, but yeah, I think it should be done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do yourself a favor and go read his whole quote.  When you read it keep in mind how coddled the Clintons are by the MSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh. My. Heck! No one can beat Clinton for sheer audacity: Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media&#8217;s coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama. 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