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But I can't help wondering why Hillary Clinton would willingly give an interview to a right-wing rag that is owned, controlled, and financed by Richard Mellon Scaife, the man who financed the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that almost destroyed her husband's candidacy. Is she really that desperate?
More to the point, is someone who would consort with someone who attempted to wreck her entire family a decade ago showing the sort of character America needs in its next President?
Courtesy of Daily Kos.
Note for those not familiar with Pittsburgh:
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, the ultra-conservative billionaire who financed the infamous Arkansas Project. The paper became a daily when the old Pittsburgh Press folded in the early 1990's, and promotes itself as an alternative to the traditionally liberal Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
It's not as bad as the Moonie-owned Washington Times when it comes to slanting the news, but it's not far off. It's also not nearly as popular as it claims to be; when my aunt died two years ago I asked the funeral director about printing an obituary in the Trib as well as the Post-Gazette and he told me flat-out that the paper has a very limited circulation area so I shouldn't waste my money. Local gossip has it that the Trib would have gone under years ago if Scaife didn't keep pumping his own money into it so he'd have a reliable media organ.
This, more than anything else, is why I'm appalled that Hillary Clinton would so much as spit in the Trib's direction. Scaife spent millions of dollars doing everything but hiring a man on a grassy knoll to bring her and her husband down, and now she's giving interviews to his newspaper?
More to the point, is someone who would consort with someone who attempted to wreck her entire family a decade ago showing the sort of character America needs in its next President?
Courtesy of Daily Kos.
Note for those not familiar with Pittsburgh:
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, the ultra-conservative billionaire who financed the infamous Arkansas Project. The paper became a daily when the old Pittsburgh Press folded in the early 1990's, and promotes itself as an alternative to the traditionally liberal Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
It's not as bad as the Moonie-owned Washington Times when it comes to slanting the news, but it's not far off. It's also not nearly as popular as it claims to be; when my aunt died two years ago I asked the funeral director about printing an obituary in the Trib as well as the Post-Gazette and he told me flat-out that the paper has a very limited circulation area so I shouldn't waste my money. Local gossip has it that the Trib would have gone under years ago if Scaife didn't keep pumping his own money into it so he'd have a reliable media organ.
This, more than anything else, is why I'm appalled that Hillary Clinton would so much as spit in the Trib's direction. Scaife spent millions of dollars doing everything but hiring a man on a grassy knoll to bring her and her husband down, and now she's giving interviews to his newspaper?
