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Post Slams Hillary in Backing Obama

Murdoch tabloid rails against 'Clinton co-presidency'

By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 31, 2008 2:15 PM CST
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(Newser) – The New York Post today endorsed Barack Obama in Tuesday's Democratic primary, but devoted most of its space to railing against “the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled” Clinton couple. Words like “thuggish,” “cynical,” and, of course, “triangulating,” flew in the right-wing tabloid. Only a few column inches were saved to argue that Obama, though short on “seasoning,” has “the ability to inspire.” 

Post owner Rupert Murdoch has “sucker-punched" Hillary Clinton, responds AOL blogger David Knowles. When the endorsement warns of “déjà vu all over again” in a Hillary White House—a rehash of all the scandals that engulfed Bill's tenure—the line “reads more like a threat than prophecy,” Knowles notes. This despite recent Murdoch-Clinton chumminess; he threw a fundraiser for her Senate re-election campaign in 2006.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the Georgia Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the Georgia Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)   (Associated Press)
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Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp, addresses a crowded Wall Street Journal newsroom on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 in New York. Murdoch's $5 billion-plus bid for Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, cleared its final hurdle Thursday as shareholders of the financial publishing company...
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp, addresses a crowded Wall Street Journal newsroom on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 in New York. Murdoch's $5 billion-plus bid for Dow Jones & Co., publisher of...   (Associated Press)
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer News Corporation, USA, speaks during a panel session on the second day of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. Top business leaders, heads of state from around the world as well as representatives...
Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer News Corporation, USA, speaks during a panel session on the second day of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland,...   (Associated Press)
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