Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 1:44 PM Pacific

It's the cynicism, stupid

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton won the endorsement of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Clinton actively sought the endorsement -- a bitter irony, given that Scaife had funded The Arkansas Project, which, as this clip from "The Hunting of the President" shows, played an important role in the impeachment of President Clinton:

Incredibly, during Hillary Clinton's editorial board meeting with Scaife, she attacked Barack Obama over Jeremiah Wright:

And now, after embracing Scaife and adopting the right-wing tactics that undermined her husband's presidency, Hillary Clinton accuses Barack Obama of hypocrisy?

$109 million later, they learned all the wrong lessons.

It's the cynicism, stupid

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton won the endorsement of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. Clinton actively sought the endorsement -- a bitter irony, given that Scaife had funded The Arkansas Project, which, as this clip from "The Hunting of the President" shows, played an important role in the impeachment of President Clinton:

Incredibly, during Hillary Clinton's editorial board meeting with Scaife, she attacked Barack Obama over Jeremiah Wright:

And now, after embracing Scaife and adopting the right-wing tactics that undermined her husband's presidency, Hillary Clinton accuses Barack Obama of hypocrisy?

$109 million later, they learned all the wrong lessons.

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