Flying Glean

Monday morning finds us yet again entrusting the Gleanermobile to safely deliver us across the valley to the area public radio station, where we will be called upon to pretend that we know something that everybody else doesn't already know. As if.

But before we fly, we'd like to note that the community can be very, very proud of its local media for giving such a warm and polite welcome to Hillary Clinton (Sun, LVRJ, AP). And don't miss the exclusive hard-hitting interview with Clinton on KLAS.

Also, we noticed in the course of hitting buttons on the remote control that all the Republicans running for president, in cooperation with Fox News personalities, had a debate on the teevees Sunday. Mostly, they vied to see who could be the most shrill and alarmist in their irrational knee-jerk myth-based hatred of the former first lady (Post). But it wasn't all fun and games. They also hated on each other a lot, all the candidates ranting about all the other candidates not being enough of a radical right-wing extremist to deserve to be the War Party nominee. It remains to be seen which one, if any, of them will ultimately connect with the rapture-anticipating churchy voters, fist-pounding armchair nuclear war enthusiasts, libertarian utopians and the rest of the deluded nutjobs who make up the Republican Party's base.

A personal favorite moment: When Crazy Old Man McCain compared his party's churchy wing to the Vietnamese, because both have taken him prisoner. We're paraphrasing. But not much.

You can peruse for that and other knee-slapping favorites quickly and elegantly, by the way, with the really quite snazzy interactive debate video/transcript technology the NYT is sporting.

Comments

[IronJawed]

Cheney is threatening war with Iran.

I was at the Hillary rally @ Springs Preserve, and she's hit stride. Her stump speech was very good (although a bit more about Nevada issues might have been nice).

An efficient, smart, friendly operation she's got. Example: Smart to have her introduced by the black assemblyman. Crowd was loaded with voter-types.

Love the Gleanermobile!

[The Mole]

Hm. Why didn't the R-J, on a Monday when there isn't as much news, put the Hillary story INSIDE the SECOND section?

Hm.

Mole: Likely it was the editorial call of Tom "I'm an anti-Clinton/Reid Rightwinger, so can I keep my job, Stephens Media?" Mitchell.

Clinton's splash was big -- by FAR the biggest story in the valley on Sunday -- but not the R-J's.