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Hillary being hyped?

By L.A. Holmes
December 20, 2007

"There's a large, pent-up desire" within the press corps "to let her have her turn" as president, author Tim Graham says of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Many TV sports commentators predicted that the Dallas Cowboys would be one of the top teams in the National Football League this fall, but the Green Bay Packers have pounded their way to Super Bowl contention in a storybook season.

In this year's presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama is shaping up to be the Green Bay Packers of the Democratic field, challenging the preseason favorite, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Just as sportscasters hyped a Cowboy championship as a foregone conclusion, the big names in TV news yearn for the restoration of another dynasty from the 1990s, L. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham argue in their book, "Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, But Conservatives Will."

Both officials of the Arlington-based Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell and Mr. Graham say that Mrs. Clinton's cozy relationship with the press was what made her the "inevitable" 2008 Democratic nominee.

"Our whole mission ... is to say: These people are not objective. They're not disinterested, the press and people need to see them for what they are," Mr. Graham said in a recent telephone interview.

Demystifying the relationship between the press and the Clinton camp is essential for Americans to decide this year's race, Mr. Bozell said.

"Past is prologue," he said. "The kind of behavior that was going on 15 years ago is going on today."

"There's a large, pent-up desire" within the press corps "to let her have her turn" as president, Mr. Graham said.

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