Joe Conason has always been a reliable defender of Bill and Hillary Clinton in both THE NEW YORK OBSERVER and SALON.
Here's a link to his latest column on SALON's website:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/03/14/ferraro_clinton/
The bullshit Conason is asking readers to buy is that Geraldine Ferraro is a lone gunperson/loose cannon who made the racist remarks about Obama strictly on her own--without any coaching or prompting from the Hillary campaign.
This is the way I see it: At the very least, tacit approval came from a combination of Hillary, Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson. And Conason seems to have been asked to write the article as part of a "plausible deniabilty" defense plan.
Even in Keith Olbermann's tippy-toe-cautious "special comment" on COUNTDOWN Wednesday night, he brought up the valid point that there have been too many Hillary surrogates behaving in a contentious (I might say racially inflammatory in certain cases--Bill Clinton and Ed Rendell, anyone?) manner towards Obama--even though Keith seemed to hedge by saying that people "might see a pattern."
There IS a pattern--and Hillary, Bill, Governor Rendell, Penn and Wolfson--plus Geraldine Ferraro--owe Barack Obama an ultrasincere apology for their can't-win-with-honor conduct.
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