On courting the right-wing media

Just a few interesting tidbits...

1. Strange bedfellows:
Hillary Wins Approval from Architect of Right-wing Conspiracy

Hillary sat for an interview with right-wing magnate, owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Richard Mellon Scaife, who "reassessed" Hillary, and now approves--10 years after he spent 1.8 million to discredit the Clintons.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell praises Fox:

"I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present -- FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks. You hate both of our candidates. No, I'm only kidding. But you actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news, and some of the other stations are just caught up with Senator Obama, who is a great guy, but Senator Obama can do no wrong, and Senator Clinton can do no right."

(My take: I guess Rendell wasn't watching those two weeks where Rev Wright was on a non-stop loop, when Fox and its associates worked to smear him with Farrakhan, when they tried to provoke fear by using his middle name, Hussein, when they compared Obama to Hitler, when they asserted that Obama would attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmedinejad, claimed he waffled on immigration and drivers' licenses, claimed he has a "patriotism problem," , claimed that he has "attacked the troops," ..and on and on like that. Not only have these stories been pushed on Fox, but they've been simplistically repeated on CNN and other mainstream media. The idea that Obama has gotten a free ride is ludicrous. Clearly, Hillary has also been put through the grinder by the media, but this notion that he's never been vetted or that the media has never investigated him is baloney.)

2. Another way to do the math
The key statement in this analysis:

"...consider if the race were being projected like on election night, where each candidate is given a percentage of the vote with a certain percent of precincts reporting. In this scenario, Obama has 1408 delegates and Clinton has 1251 with a total of 3250 delegates up for grabs. This is the equivalent of Obama having 53 percent of the vote to Clinton's 47 percent with 82 percent of precincts reporting...for Clinton to overcome that 6 percent lead with only 18 percent of the vote outstanding, she'd have to receive a whopping 27 percent margin in the last 18 percent. She's only achieved a margin that size once--in Arkansas."

Also, you may have noticed that the North Carolina delegation did not endorse en masse. There's varying reports about this, so we'll have to wait and see what happens.