Ken Berwitz
My last post talked about the problem Hillary Clinton has with people from another era coming out of the woodwork to support her.
As if to prove me right, here\’s another example of just what I\’m talking about: James Carville, resurrected just for Hillary, reprising his “aw, that ain\’t nuthin\'” routine on her behalf.
From Carville\’s interview with New York radio host John Catsimatidis, during yesterday\’s show:
“This is going to be nothing. The idea that there\’s some kind of a criminality involved in here is, I think, patently ludicrous.”
There you go. Right out of the Clinton playbook. Declare a scandal to be nothing by ignoring the facts and just sneering out a comment like the above, while assuming (usually correctly) that most mainstream media will show their Clinton-love and go along with it.
Will trotting out another relic from days gone by like James Carville work? Will today\’s voters look at Carville and think “wow, what a dynamic guy that is, what a great asset for Ms. Clinton, how can I not believe in her now”?
The truth? James Carville, like Lanny Davis, and Madeleine Albright, and Gloria Steinem, are VHS recordings in the digital age. They may wow the folks in 55+ gated communities, but are little more than amusing (sometimes not so amusing) flotsam and jetsam of history to most others.
No wonder this campaign is going down the tubes.
