« Romney For Congress | Main | SEIU Pours Money Into Texas and Ohio To Help Obama » HRC's Giving Her Major Foreign Policy Speech Right Now...25 Feb 2008 12:46 pm And no cable network is covering it. As I type, MSNBC is showing Mike Huckabee's appearance on Saturday Night Live...ABC News Now is in a commercial...CNN is on weather, and Fox News is covering the DNC's complaint against John McCain. (To MSNBC's credit, they dipped into the speech for about 20 seconds.) A few weeks ago, any speech deemed by the campaign as "major" would have been broadcast in its entirety. Is today's Clinton dis a sign that television producers have given up on her campaign? Comments (20)
Isn't it, um, a bit late to be making a speech like that? 
when you say nothing but crap, 24/7, then i can't blame for the media for passing on this--when HRC goes on her crazed attack shtick, its at least entertaining in a car-crash kind of way. but a policy speech would have everyone reaching for their remotes--"hey, a Beverly Hillbillies marathon!"
I seem to recall a couple weeks ago Hillary billing a speech as a "major" event, but which turned out to be a relatively minor variation on her standard stump speech. Is my recollection accurate? If so, the producers may have felt burned and aren't willing to indulge her with more free media. Regardless, the fact remains that even if the speech is "major," the candidate is decidedly less so in that she has no realistic prospect of ultimately prevailing. I bear no particular ill-will toward Hillary (though I despise many aspects of the campaign she's run) but I fervently hope that in eight days she's presented with incontrovertible evidence of the end of her campaign.
No, it's a sign that the press doesn't give a whit about issues, especially foreign policy. Did you read Michael Singer in today's WaPo? Same story, different candidate. I say this as an Obama supporter.
Don't worry, it'll be all over CNN's "Ballot Bowl." That's all they do, replay speeches.
Karma's a bitch. Run a two-bit divisive campaign that treats the media and everyone who didn't vote you for like garbage and sooner or later it's going to bite you in the ass. Can't wait to hear the summary of this speech. I hope somebody asks her how we're supposed to trust her knowledge of the intricacies of the Middle East when she couldn't be bothered to decipher the intricacies of the Texas delegate allocation until a week ago. After her stunts of late, I just want to see her campaign crash and burn in the most horrific manner possible.
I agree with Jeff...most of the speeches that she has given lately that she's touted as "Major" turn out to be very minor stump speeches. It reminds me of the "Concession" speeches that turn out to be very minor stump speeches (with no concession). I think the media are recognizing that, until the general election, these candidates don't have much new to say.
Wow, she's even more irrelevant than Huckabee now?
I remember back when Obama gave the speech titled "The War We Need to Win" and the media didn't cover it either, choosing instead to focus on Sen. Clinton's 3rd quarter fund-raising numbers. They just don't care about foreign policy.
In response to lampwick: Search for her article in Foreign Affairs on here foreign policy. Was writing in late 2007. It echo's her speech she gave to a Washington Committee in 2006 (just more concise). Barack also has an article in Foreign Affairs. Read them both, they are virtual identical. Which in my opinion means that we should be getting good foreign policy agenda no matter who is the nominee as long as the democrats win :)
In response to lampwick: Search for her article in Foreign Affairs on her foreign policy published in late 2007. It echo's her speech she gave to a Washington Committee in 2006 (just more concise). Barack also has an article in Foreign Affairs. Read them both, they are virtually identical. Which in my opinion means that we should be getting good foreign policy agenda no matter who is the nominee as long as the democrats win :)
As annoying as it is to listen and watch HRC, she has given Obama good practice for the general elections. Thanks to HRC, Obama keeps improving as a candidate.
The cable channels probably got the speech ahead of time, looked through it and decided there really wasn't anything new there worth live coverage. If she isn't saying anything new, then it's not news. It's just another campaign rally.
Doesn't anyone find it odd that the media does not report a major Foreign Policy Speech by one of the remaining 2 Democrat candidates, but they report on Obama blowing his nose at one of his rally's? Also Odd is that Obama says voters are tired of Debates between him and Hillary, yet people are clamoring for tickets? What is it, are voters really tired of debates or is he afraid voters might see something in him he wants to keep hidden? The media is picking the Dem nominee now without giving equal time to Hillary, except to bash her. The question is: During the general election will their coverage of Obama become the same as their coverage of Hillary has been? Hate to say it, but watch and pay attention and you might find out exactly how the Republicans managed to retain control for so many years.
"The media is picking the Dem nominee now without giving equal time to Hillary, except to bash her." You mean, the way they insisted on running stories of her lambasting Obama and waving her hands in the air at one her rallies saying Obama and his supporters are full of shit? Don't blame the media for that. Her schtick is making it TV, and if she's tanking it's because angry, bitter, and sarcastic people don't often get elected to high office.
Who gives a crap what that bitter old crone has to say anyway? Reaching, screaching, Shrillary.
"Angry, bitter, and sarcastic people don't often get elected to high office." Right... because, sadly, people don't vote on the issues; they vote on which candidate has the "best personality." That's how George Bush got elected twice.
Answering Skelter, who evidently agreed that the cable channels, after pre-reading Hillary's speech, decided not to broadcast it because it "wasn't any news worthy of live coverage."
It's a sign that they know better than to jump every time Sen. Clinton says she has a "major" speech. Come on, Marc, she's on the ropes and just lookin' for some positive press. Any press, actually. I heard it was basically her usual stump (you could see it on cnn.com).
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As an Obama supporter, I've got to say...That sucks. Foreign Policy is something I've felt long that she's been weak and sorely deficient on, and I'd like to know what she has to say about it. Karma for her comments this weekend I suppose, but still, I'd like to think she could still command the bull horn enough to get covered.
Posted by Skalite | February 25, 2008 12:53 PM