Scaife's Paper Endorses Clinton

By Cernig

No...really?

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.

It was one of a handful of endorsements the New York senator has received from Pennsylvania newspapers before the state's primary Tuesday. Most of the state's major papers have endorsed Barack Obama.

In its endorsement, Tribune-Review editors said Obama is too inexperienced to be president and that his recent comments about bitter voters living in small towns showed a lack of respect for middle-class values.

"In sharp contrast, Clinton is far more experienced in government _ as an engaged first lady to a governor and a president, as a second-term senator in her own right," the paper said. "She has a real voting record on key issues. Agree with her or not, you at least know where she stands instead of being forced to wonder."

So now you know the result of Clinton's meeting with Scaife back in March. The man who funds the fever swamps of neoconservativism is backing her.

The organizations and publications Scaife has funded include the American Enterprise Institute, the American Spectator, the Center for Immigration Studies, the Center for Security Policy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Committee for the Free World, the Committee on the Present Danger, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Federalist Society, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Freedom House, the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, the Hudson Institute, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the Jamestown Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Institute for Public Policy, The National Interest, and the Philanthropy Roundtable.

It's a match made in Hell and surely a final indication that Clinton will, indeed, do anything or anyone to win.

Comments

[Earl]

"...do...anyone to win."??

I'm just curious as to your choice of words, if you'll excuse my ripping them completely out of context...

[Cernig]

She's in bed with Scaife. No, I don't mean it sexually - simply that she'll accomodate anyone, even someone who funded the smear machine against her and Bill all those years, in search of a win.

Regards, C

[carol]

I don't know much about this Scaife guy. Is it possible that he wants to fund her because he thinks McCain can beat her, and not Obama?

[Fledermaus]

well to a certain extent the 90s were a good deal for the clinton shreekers. Regular media gigs, book deals, and a bunch of fans cheering them on. These guys are smart enough to know that the market for this stuff with obama is much smaller and the wingnut welfare budget will require some cuts.

[carol]

interesting point Fledermaus.

[Earl]

Kidding, C, but it put a hellacious picture in my head, showing where my head is at...

I've been amazed that she wasn't breathing fire in her meeting with her, considering his descriptions of her in the past...

Come to think of it, he should have had an aneurysm at said meeting, as well.

[Batocchio]

This development is just crazy.