Hillary Surrogate: Media "Has Relished" Hillary's Fall
A day after Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson unloaded big time on the news media, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a key Hillary surrogate, hit the media again in an interview:
"The media does not like the Clintons for whatever reason," Rendell, a Clinton supporter, said in an interview with The Fix. "Maybe some of it's [the Clintons'] fault, but the media does not like the Clintons."Rendell insisted that the "media has relished this fall with glee that I have never seen in any other candidate in the thirty years I have been in the business."
As Ben Smith noted, Wolfson absolutely blistered the press on a conference call yesterday, saying that "the press has largely applauded" Obama's attacks on Hillary.
Between that and Rendell sounding a similar note today -- that the media is actively enjoying Hillary's downfall -- it seems that a key part of the Clinton camp's endgame strategy is a rearguard effort to shame the media into toughening up its coverage of Obama.
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