{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-29T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-09-19T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:21","slug":"a-gander-stews-in-the-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"A Gander Stews in the Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/uselection2008\/barackobama\/2211812\/Bill-Clinton-says-Barack-Obama-must-%27kiss-my-ass%27-for-his-support.html\"><q>Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must <q>kiss my ass<\/q> for his support<\/q> by Tim Shipman of <cite>the Telegraph<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">It has long been known that Mr Clinton is angry at the way his own reputation was tarnished during the primary battle when several of his comments were interpreted as racist.<\/blockquote><\/div><div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/06\/27\/its-my-party-ill-cry-if-i_n_109735.html\"><q>It's My Party, I'll Cry If I Want To<\/q> by Thomas B. Edsall at <cite>the Huffington Post<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><q>He is still bruised from the trail, really hurt about the racist charges leveled against him, and convinced the Obama campaign fomented it<\/q>, said another source familiar with the former president's attitude. <q>What he would really like is for Obama to apologize, but on one level he knows that is never going to happen<\/q>, a third source said.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>Very simply, Bill Clinton felt that he and Hillary were entitled to be treated by the mainstream media as the media generally treat&#8230; uhm, <em>Democrats<\/em>.  Instead, the mainstream media treated Barack Obama as they do Democrats, and treated the Clintons as they do&#8230; <em>Republicans<\/em>.  Bill Clinton's conviction that Obama's campaign was <em>able<\/em> to foment charges of racism speaks to the relationship that has long existed between the Democrats and the mainstream media, through which the Republicans haven't been able to do much <em>fomenting<\/em> in the last half-century. (Republicans have only been able to <em>foment<\/em> by way of alternate channels, such as talk radio, Fox News, and the right-wing &#39;blogosphere.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must kiss my ass for his support by Tim Shipman of the Telegraph It has long been known that Mr Clinton is angry at the way his own reputation was tarnished during the primary battle when several of his comments were interpreted as racist.It's My Party, I'll Cry If I [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,4],"tags":[135,273,43,275,274,45,276],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-clinton","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-obama","tag-william-jefferson-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}