Shrillitude!

As Somerby has been reminding us for, lo, these last eight years, Frank Rich did as much as anyone to advance the false media "analysis" that would kill Al Gore's chance to keep George W. Bush out of power. He is, of course, at it again.

The inclusiveness preached by Obama-Oprah is practiced by the other Democrats in the presidential race, Mrs. Clinton most certainly included. Is Mr. Obama gaining votes over rivals with often interchangeable views because some white voters feel better about themselves if they vote for an African-American? Or is it because Mrs. Clinton’s shrill campaign continues to cast her as Nixon to Mr. Obama’s Kennedy? Even after she apologized to Mr. Obama for a top adviser’s “unauthorized” invocation of Mr. Obama’s long-admitted drug use as a young man, her chief strategist, Mark Penn, was apparently authorized to go on “Hardball” to sleazily insinuate the word “cocaine” into prime time again. Somewhere Tricky Dick is laughing.

Not only is Clinton "shrill" in a way that none of her male counterparts are, apparently, capable, but now she's positively Nixonian. Yes, "Tricky Dick" would no doubt be laughing...he was the master of creating a narrative about his opponents for a gullible press.

Our "liberal" columnists are our greatest impediment.