Yglesias' comment is laugh-out-loud funny, given that he and the other Obama worshippers completely bought the line that Obama was a new kind of candidate, he was the antithesis of "old-style" politics; Obama decreed it, and it was so.  

That's why it's been such a calm, may I say even boring, past few months on the road to the Democratic nomination. Because everyone recognizes that pols are pols, and BTD is the prophet of us all. [/snark]

Anyone else feel as if we've entered an alternate reality?

Now you're not only insulting people's efforts, but inventing statements to afford you the false position of insulting them further as "equally" lying.

Ask Arianna. She knows all about it.

"What's more, Clinton was the only top-tier candidate to refuse the ultimate Iowa and New Hampshire pander by removing her name from the Michigan ballot. That makes her essentially the de facto winner since Edwards and Obama, caving to the cry babies in Iowa and New Hampshire, took their name off Michigan's ballot. Sure, the DNC has stripped Michigan of its delegates, but that won't last through the convention. The last thing Democrats can afford is to alienate swing states like Michigan and Florida by refusing to seat their delegates.

So while Obama and Edwards kneecap their chances of winning, Clinton is single-mindedly focused on the goal."

http://tinyurl.com/6q4y78

"I know that this is all posturing for Clinton's VP hopes, but I wish Clinton surrogates would stop with the dishonest talking points. It really is time to move on.

The ONLY way Clinton can claim a popular vote victory is to 1) count the Soviet-style Michigan election results, 2) give Obama zero votes in the state, and 3) ignore the caucus states.

You aren't making much sense.

Somerby, Howler (link), on Drum, Marshall & Black via his takedown of the newsprint hacks:

BRODER/TONER (6/9/08): [SNIP]
But she also made comments that divided voters along racial lines, stretched the facts and last month raised the specter of assassination as a justification for remaining in the race to the bitter end despite a mathematical near-certainty that she had lost weeks earlier.
Wow! According to Broder and Toner, Clinton "raised the specter of assassination....

Second up was Michael Kinsley, who didn't seem to hate the lying at all. On Sunday, he bravely said this in the New York Times, knowing that Kevin and Josh and Duncan and all good pseudo-liberal house-brokens have accepted this evil conduct for years: "[A]t the end, when her own clumsy comment about Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June was willfully misinterpreted to suggest that she was wishing that fate on her opponent, it served her right."

Now, on to Duncan Black, Eschaton (link):

Like Scott, I think the Bobby Kennedy gaffe was less of a big deal than some are making, but it has finally gotten some people to point out that the various historical comparisons the Clinton campaign is making are in the "isn't it great that people are so stupid that they'll swallow this [hors----t]" category. It did not take her husband until June to effectively have the nomination, and the 1968 primary season started much later than this one.

We've had little but dumb arguments like this from the Clinton campaign for some time. I'm not entirely sure if they're stupid enough to believe them, or if they just assume we're stupid enough to believe them. Either way I'm tired of having my intelligence insulted.
-Atrios 12:45

When did Bill Clinton clinch the 1992 nomination?
Fact Check posts (link):

Hillary Clinton is correct to say that Bill Clinton didn't officially clinch the nomination until June of 1992.

But he had it in the bag months before, despite the fact that primaries and caucuses were held weeks later than at present.

It did take Bill Clinton until June 2, 1992 to clinch the nomination--precisely & exactly as Sen. Clinton stated.  Atrios initially posted a false interpretation of the RFK "psuedo gaffe" & then fabricated a false back story to deflect his own mendacity toward the Clinton campaign.  His intelligence is insulted, all right, because the sequence of events & comments indicated that he's too dumb to follow & accurately comprehend what took place.

Especially disappointing was Pam's House Blend who lost all rationality in the throes of Obama-love and TPM where I used to love the muckraking which turned to muck itself.

There's a lot of ground to make up to get the bills paid on the Clinton campaign, so that she has a future. The story of a senator who lost a presidential run and had the debt hanging over him for twenty years is not a fantasy. This does not mean typed-out ire on websites over. . . . whatever lights your bulbs or expressions on websites of enduring respect. Respect don't pay those bills. It means dollars in the till for the Primary, people, so that debt can be paid off and not strangle her later. If you want to see her run again, she needs this particular form of help now.