CNN reports Hillary Clinton won the Democratic caucus in Nevada (Mitt Romney won in the G.O.P. primary). CNN states she did that "with solid backing from Latino voters and women"
noting of the latter, "by a nearly 3-1 margin".
And what do they say over at The Hillary Hater aka The Nation?
John Nichols's "Hillary's Nevada Win" states: "Women, older voters, Latinos and self-described liberals delivered a decisive victory for Hillary Clinton in Nevada."
What of Air Mebler? He offers up "Clinton and Obama Win Nevada." Huh? He's suddenly interested in delegates (Barack Obama got one more delegate than Hillary and Hillary has more delegates than Obama -- the latter detail is left out by Air). He also ignores the issue of the super-delegates. But it doesn't matter, his goal was just to try to find a win for his lover Bambi. So Bambi lost and Mebler's saying, "They both won!"
Reality isn't all that important at the opinion-journal apparently.
Bambi love matters far more which is Air actually wrote two pieces in one night (he must be exhausted -- he's never worked so hard!). "Obama Wins Most Nevada Delegates" is a cute little mash note to his man-crush and one in which he quotes the Obama campaign repeatedly (improving on a Nation writer last week who merely re-wrote the campaign's e-mail to reporters and put his name to it) but never thinks to get a quote from the Clinton campaign. Air notes "The Obama Campaign is now pushing hard to promote this delegate victory." That's probably the closest to a confession of "I'm a paid whore" Air's going to get. But they are pushing it hard and so was Air with not one, but two pieces.
John Nichols contributes a second piece as well (truly, The Nation was sobbing as the results came in) which has a cute little title that neglects all other supporters, "In Nevada, Women Win One For Hillary . . . Updated."
This follows Nichols' earlier slam on Dolores Huerta. She's a Latina activist -- so you know she's never made the cover of The Nation. In "Obama Camp Takes A Hit From A Labor Icon," Nichols writes, "Even if she is wrong, even if she is being unfair" to Bambi -- what? Even if? Does Nichols think she's wrong? If not, he shouldn't be tarring her with his weasel words. If he thinks she's wrong, he should say so. (Huerta was right.) Nichols compounds his smear by suggesting in his final paragraph that Huerta and Obama need to make up (they've never met, Huerta doesn't need to do a damn thing she doesn't want to) and in his second to last paragraph, he's noting "If Obama wins . . ."
Where is the "If Clinton wins . . ."?
No where to be found. A Clinton win is the ultimate nightmare at The Nation. It's one nightmare that a number of readers referenced last week in their e-mails, picking up on Elaine's point in last week's "Roundtable" that a vote for Hillary might be a way to demonstrate how unimportant The Nation truly is.
Reader (and community member) Domingo came up with "The Hillary Hater" for "The Nation" and we'll go out by quoting from his e-mail:
Having spent issue after issue slamming Bambi down everyone's throat, what would happen to The Nation if Hillary won the nomination? She's got my vote now and that's in part because I want to see how The Nation tries to rewrite history if she gets the nomination. Elaine's right, it will send a message about how ineffectual and light-weight our so-called 'independent' media is. I understand Ava and C.I. are tackling Democracy Now this Sunday. Long overdue.