If there’s a team up between MSNBC and the New York Times, you can bet your bum that the paper’s Gay Mafia is involved. Adam Nagourney, Pat Healy, Jeff Zeleny, and Gail Collins are part of a new programming hour, NYT Primary Edition, co-hosted by Times scribe and CNBC Washington’s John Harwood with MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer. Well, that’s one way of getting CNBC talent to work with papers other than the Wall Street Journal while waiting for their pact to expire. That, and isn’t the Washington Post Co.’s Newsweek usually MSNBC’s preferred print partner? TVNewser has the memo.
Responding to criticism over his blog post about Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch, where he noted “white males” applauded at Clinton’s declaration that “we’re going to start standing up for America again,” the Times‘ Patrick Healy writes: “I also noted that the men who were applauding were white because all of those that I observed were white.” Reeeeally.
NYT gay mafia member and Hillary Clinton tag-along Patrick Healy (who, we confess, makes our heart tingle) ain’t so happy with the treatment he and his gaggle of campaign trailers have been getting. In a note shot out to all pool reporters about what happened following a University of Iowa rally, Healy says Clintons camp gathered small groups of people in private rooms “and asked them to be county coordinators, etc.” What the Clintons didn’t ask for was any press to join them. Bad move, says Healy.
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It’s here, it’s here! The New York Times‘ political blog Empire Zone’s video intro from metro political scribe Patrick Healy is online. It’s four-plus minutes of dragged out explanations and conspiracy theories (okay, not really) about Hillary Clinton’s “Senate” campaign, New York political parties (conservatives are among us!), George Pataki’s presidential ambitions, Michael Bloomberg’s looming large, and Eliot Spitzer’s huge lead.
All the while, the shots jump around like a Mariah Carey music video; the New York Times has about as much faith as TRL in our attention spans. On the lawn! In front of the Capitol Building! Inside the Capitol Building! And those neat video editing hacks from 1996 (”Look, two Healys!”) only grant confidence to the Empire Zone’s promise to stay “fresh.”
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