But the real kicker was when Russert brought up the "vast right-wing conspiracy charge," too vaguely, and Hillary cackled. She said something demonstrably false, that she hadn't given the "organized" right wing a thought in ten years. That's not why she was setting up Media Matters and the Center for American Progress? That's why she tells left-wing audiences she's "your girl" in fighting the right wing?
Update at 1:47PM by Noel Sheppard
Here's what Sen. Clinton had to say about the vast right-wing conspiracy on August 4, 2006, while speaking in front of the YearlyKos convention (video and audio available here):
We are certainly better prepared and more focused on, you know, taking our arguments, and making them effective, and disseminating them widely, and really putting together a network, uh, in the blogosphere, in a lot of the new progressive infrastructure, institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and Center for American Progress.
You know, we're beginning to match what I had said for years was the advantage of the other side. Uh, you know, when I made that comment about the vast right-wing conspiracy, I wasn't kidding. Uh, what I never could have predicted is that it was not a conspiracy, it was just wide open and out there for everybody to see.
I guess this slipped Hillary's mind Sunday when she said:
I haven’t paid much attention to [the vast right-wing conspiracy] for about 10 years. I really don’t have any idea. ... I’m just too busy to worry about that.
I guess Hillary's admission in August slipped Russert's mind as well. Now that's what I call good journalism.
