Oh boy, now he’s gone and done it. The man who once was revered as one of the dragon slayers during Watergate has just shown his true colors. Oh yes, you know it’s true, even if you don’t believe it, but Hillary’s “people” will point it out to us very shortly. Carl Bernstein is a closet rightwingnutlander. Yep, you heard it here first, boys and girls.
In the tradition of Joe Namath before Superbowl III, I am going out on a limb here. I predict, no…I guarantee that before he knows what hit him, Bernstein will be demonized by almost every media outlet as a right wing hitman for the Republicans. Does anyone remember Edward Klein, and the way the New York Times turned on him? Not to mention anyone else who had a desire to see Hillary succeed. The article in the “Salon” link offered this confused bit of wishful thinking combined with a fear of the results:
“Even if most of the claims in “The Truth About Hillary” turn out to be baseless, there’s a palpable fear that it could be a lethal cousin to 2004’s campaign killer “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” Larry O’Donnell would be proud.
Bernstein can look forward to the same kind of offhand dismissal that Klein received, with cancelled interviews galore, and a general shunning from his old pals. Woodward is probably spitting mad right about now. My advice would be for Bernstein to rush to David Horowitz immediately to receive counseling. (There’s a guy who knows all too well what it’s like to leave the reservation.)
If there is to be any consolation prize for Besnstein, it is this: with the company of Klein, and the supposed safety in numbers that that affords, he will be less like Salman Rushdie and more like John O’Neill.
In the meantime, as Hillary’s campaign goes farther off the tracks and the wheels begin to bounce high into the air on either side as they work their way into the distance, it will be interesting to see how this pantsuited tempest handles the realization that she will not be crowned in January 2009. She may surpass Howard Dean for the fastes freefall award. Can you say “YEAHHHH!!!”?
Oh, and I hope that Carl Bernstein “loves the smell of napalm in the morning”. Hillary’s “people” will be sure to give him a whiff.
-Woody
