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News Networks Bump Clinton Out of Picture
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 Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:00 am Post subject: News Networks Bump Clinton Out of Picture |
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 News Networks Bump Clinton Out of Picture
By Howard KurtzIf it were a basketball game, the refs might have blown the whistle on Barack Obama for elbowing Hillary Clinton out of the way. Clinton was seven minutes into her speech Tuesday night, shortly after being projected to lose the Wisconsin primary, when Obama bounded onto a stage and all the cable news networks -- after a brief split-screen moment -- cut away from her to him.
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By Howard KurtzIf it were a basketball game, the refs might have blown the whistle on Barack Obama for elbowing Hillary Clinton out of the way. Clinton was seven minutes into her speech Tuesday night, shortly after being projected to lose the Wisconsin primary, when Obama bounded onto a stage and all the cable news networks -- after a brief split-screen moment -- cut away from her to him."Take it now!" Fox News anchor Brit Hume was heard saying. The freshman senator proceeded to speechify in a Houston arena for 46 minutes, hijacking the television spotlight and -- in a move he seems to have perfected -- upstaging his Democratic rival.As Obama went into overtime -- while the rest of Sen. Clinton's speech in Youngstown, Ohio, went unheard by the country -- her aides were stewing over what they see as media favoritism toward the Illinois senator. And political spam marveled at Obama's ease in capturing a sizable chunk of prime time on one Tuesday night after another."Whatever happened to equal time?" Clinton spokesman Phil Singer asked yesterday.Obama spokesman Bill Burton denied any Machiavellian plotting, noting that Clinton had been scheduled to speak an hour earlier. "We hit the stage on time," he said. But he did not minimize the importance of such speeches: "When you have the opportunity to broaden your audience outside the four walls that contain your event, it's an important moment."While this sort of power move is not unprecedented, Clinton aides grumble that Obama is rudely dispensing with the niceties that have usually prevailed on primary nights, in which candidates stagger their speeches and the winners go last. By delivering the longest victory remarks of the primary season -- Sen. John McCain, who carried Wisconsin on the Republican side Tuesday, spoke for all of 12 minutes -- Obama found a way to get a swollen version of his stump speech, in its entirety, onto the three cable news channels.
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