ObamaFest

The worst kept secret in California is that the L.A. Times supports Senator Clinton and opposes Senator Obama.  We've chronicled two examples, here and here. 

And here:  The big story so far in Senator Clinton's campaign is how much resistence she is encountering from voters upset with her support of the war in Iraq.  But the L.A. Times chose to run a front page feature today on low-level conservative PACs and bloggers who are targeting the Senator. 

WASHINGTON — Old enemies of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are out in force. Just weeks after she joined the Democratic Party's flock of presidential contenders, Clinton is being targeted by conservative and Republican-allied activists intent on derailing her campaign before the start of next year's primaries.

They have surfaced with a flurry of planned projects: a Michael Moore-style documentary film, book-length exposes, and websites such as StopHerNow.comand StopHillaryPAC.com.

ObamaFest staffers checked out the two websites and found poorly designed blogs hawking t-shirts and trolling for donations.  The Times continues:

Clinton has been publicly bracing for "Republican machine" attacks from the moment she launched her exploratory committee last month.

What does that even mean?  How does one "Publicly brace" for verbal attacks?  And "Republican machine" is in quotes, but who is being quoted?  Nobody, actually.  It's a case of the Times mentioning two lame blogs, then tossing in this line to give the impression that the two blogs are part of a "machine" that is out to get the Senator. 

It's a cleverly constructed sympathy piece.  You know, sympathy, it's that thing you feel when you see young men and women coming back from Iraq without limbs or in flag-draped coffins.