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• Talking Points Memo: ... a meeting with the editors of South Carolina's biggest paper, Obama hits Bill Clinton again for lying -- and the press for not correcting him. Hillary Adviser: Calling Bill a Liar is Right-Wing Talking Point VIDEO: Obama Calls Out Bill TPMtv: ...
• uggabugga: ... It belongs to everybody: Something of a ruckus is happening because a senior Hillary Clinton advisor is accusing Obama of brandishing a "right wing talking point". What is Obama brandishing? According to the senior advisor, that Bill Clinton is fibbing. Lying, in other words. ...
• The Private Intellectual: ... PM Clinton Nostalgia OK, liberals, it's time to stop seeing politics through the prism of 1998. Lies are bad , even when told by Bill Clinton. Dishonest, knee-capping politics are bad, even when perpetrated by Bill Clinton. Say it ten times before breakfast every day: I have no obligation to defend Bill Clinton. ...
• D-Day (#): ... UPDATE: Howard Wolfson calling any criticism of Bill Clinton a right-wing talking point is puzzling. Lying about Obama's statements is a right-wing talking point? Does someone want to explain that? ...
• Matthew Yglesias (#): 21 Jan 2008 02:12 pm This is pretty neat. According to Howard Wolfson, pointing out that Bill Clinton is lying is a "right-wing talking point" and thus all good liberals have a duty to grant Clinton a blanket license to fib. So when Clinton said he opposed the Iraq War, that must have been true, because I'm a liberal. ...
• Ezra Klein | The American Prospect (#): ... He'd made some mistakes, overstepped a couple bounds, but it was his wife, and whatever the pop-psychology speculations of the day, that's a tough bond to step back from. But the overwhelming deployment of Clinton into the primary as an attack dog, as a bad cop, as a figure large enough to engage Obama in the mud of the primary while Hillary Clinton floats above the fray, is unsettling. ...
• Open Left (#): ... Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 15:48:18 PM EST I don't particularly care if Bill Clinton chooses to step out of his elder statesman role, but this is very annoying. "From time to time the Obama campaign has used right-wing talking points against Bill and Hillary Clinton," Wolfson said at one point in response to questions about Obama's appearance. ...