The Daily Howler has this from Anne Kornblut in today’s Washington Post:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on all five talk shows yesterday morning and demonstrated a particularly senatorial skill: the art of the filibuster.
Asked by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos whether she would withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq during a first term as president, Clinton (D-N.Y.) gave a simple answer: She did not know.
But she used more than 225 words to say so…
Guess what, the Howler did his homework —
That took us back to Sunday, August 5, when Rice appeared on Face the Nation. Her first answer ran 172 words–but soon, she was expounding at greater length. Her next uninterrupted answer ran 198 words, and soon she was ripping off replies of 212, 238 and 268 words. Meanwhile, on that day’s Fox News Sunday, Rice gave answers which totaled 319, 269 and 268 words. But a search of the next day’s Washington Post finds no complaints–in alleged “news reports”–about the way Rice “filibustered.” Instead, the complaint pops up today, with pseudo-evidence, as the Post’s small loudest yapping dog expresses her distaste for her subject.
They have already begun to crucify Democratic candidates with innuendo in the so-called “liberal media.” The last time they did this we ended up with the worst president in American history.