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The MSM wants to fawn too prematurely.

By Mark Kilmer Posted in 2008 | Barry | Bill | Hillary — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Things are still not looking good for Hillary's Presidential campaign, but her peeps say that she will not concede tonight, as they AP had reported.

STILL, the media believed that she would. Scott Whitlock at NewBusters.org has a bit of emotionality from the hostess of ABC's morning show:

Over the span of just ten minutes, various GMA personalities cooed over video of Bill Clinton on a plane gently placing a hand on his wife's face and shoulder.

Co-host Diane Sawyer and reporter Kate Snow each separately lauded this as a "tender moment." In a second segment, Sawyer seemed entranced as she played the video again and haltingly narrated, "When we see that iconic scene on the plane where he's reaching out to her and she's so tired-- She's so clearly tired there."

So close to nothing yet so far from nothing else.

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Former Clintonista George Stephanopoulos from ABC's This Week, added his two bits:

STEPHANOPOULOS: All eyes are going to turn back to Senator Clinton. We see that she's meeting all day today with President Clinton, with her other supporters. She's going to face something of a difficult decision. I imagine that he's going to telling her, take your time. Don't be rushed into anything. You're tired right now. Don't make any decisions under pressure. But she is going to face pressure to say something by tomorrow, Thursday at the latest.

SAWYER: When we see that iconic scene on the plane where he's reaching out to her and she's so tired-- She's so clearly tired there. As well as you know them, do you think that this is a scene-- are these people going to suspend the campaign or are they going to end the campaign?

STEPHANOPOULOS: And that is the clear question right now. First of all, he's, I'm sure, saying to her on that whole plane ride, is how proud he is of her for the work she's done over these last 18 months. They probably shared some anger at the media And we saw a little bit of that yesterday as well. But the real debate is going to come down, do you suspend or do you get out? They might try to have it both ways where she formally suspends the campaign but gives a fulsome speech endorsing, endorsing Barack Obama again sometime this week.

Something fulsome from those of iconic stature. They want the happy ending for the political icons, a romantic sail into the sunset as the torch is passed to the new (change) Democrat Party (hope).

But it is not time for the tearful goodbyes just yet. Who is there in the Dem Party to tell her that it's time to hang up her cleats? Who is that major party figure who can do this? Howard Dean? Hardly. Jimmy Carter? Hey, I can still snicker. Teddy Kennedy? They haven't listened to him yet.

No, the Dems have only one overpowering icon, and that's Bill. Is he resigned to her fate when he refused to be resigned to his own when impeachment was there?

Dan Balz observed at his WashPost blog this morning:

Whenever she seems on the verge of resigning herself to the inevitable, she then suddenly turns defiant -- or at least determined to make her case one more time to the superdelegates in whose hands the nomination remains.

She has a good case: Barry's going to be squished.

But can she calmly make that case, or will her shrill anger possess her. (Bill and Hillary have joint custody of that anger, btw.)

Do former first ladies have the legal need for concealed carry permits?