Mike Allen Reports Old News in Order to Hit Hillary
22 August 2008 1:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Reporting from Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bad journalism gets a lot of attention. That’s especially true on a day when everyone is waiting for veep news. There’s nothing yet to report. So, some rehash old stories.
Via Mike Allen.
Clinton was never vetted. The dream team is dead. This
was reported weeks ago by Mike Allen’s own Politico colleague, Ben
Smith, who got the story first, straight from Howard Wolfson’s mouth in early
July. Allen rehashes the story again today anyway.
Obama has often said, most recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
on July 27, that Clinton “would be on anybody’s short list.”But apparently not his.
“She was never vetted,” a Democratic official reported. “She
was not asked for a single piece of paper. She and Senator Obama have never
had a single conversation about it. How would he know if she’d take
it?”The official also said Clinton never met with Obama’s vetting team
of Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy. …
But let’s be clear, Mike Allen doesn’t just want to relay the information,
which again we already have heard, from a pretty good source. He wants to make
the entire event as insulting to Hillary Clinton as possible. “Hillary
gets stiffed” is as harsh as it gets. It may have the virtue of possibly
being true, but Mike Allen didn’t exactly get it story first.
