The BIG Story

For many, the big news of today is that the Associated Press is declaring that Obama has officially gained enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination fight over Hillary. And they may be right, even if it is kind of old news. Apparently, Hillary is going to concede that Obama has the number of delegates to secure the nomination, but she is not going to concede the race or drop out. How does this make sense in a system where Hillary's campaign is on the record many times saying "delegates nominate?" It doesn't. It's stupid. And you can read about it here and here.

What I think is the big story is the Vanity Fair article on our former President Bill Clinton. I read the article yesterday (which you can find here) and was struck by the fantastic nature of the story. I know the Bill Clinton has led a life straight from a fairy tale, but this article is so fantastic that it became harder and harder to believe. And then I went back over it and noticed that there was not a single, named source. Again, I know that the Clintons are powerful and people are afraid of their retribution, but to print a scathing critique of a former President, wherein no one is willing to stand up and put their name behind it is weak.

Slate.com tries to deconstruct the Bill Clinton's critique of the article here. They fail to do so with any insight because they focus on the fact that Bill Clinton just all in all lashes out at the writer and Vanity Fair itself.

This critique, while seemingly getting the point, misses the simple point, and the simple point is this. The piece is garbage journalism befitting a tabloid writer and quite glaringly lacks the credibility one might expect from the husband of Clinton's former Press Secretary.