Left-wing pundit Eric Alterman, in today's installment of his MSNBC blog, reports a conversation with Bill Clinton in which the 42nd President indicated yet again that he thinks the media are slighting or shortchanging him.
On Saturday, Alterman -- who's probably best known to NewsBusters readers as the author of What Liberal Media? -- attended a ceremony at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in Hyde Park, N.Y. at which Clinton was awarded the Four Freedoms Medal. (Tom Brokaw was awarded the Freedom of Speech Medal.) Alterman notes that he had a "nice chat" with Hillary Clinton, and then
caught up with her (perennially mobbed) husband for a minute as he was walking out and told him, politely but pointedly, that it was “nice to see him giving the guy [Bush] a little bit of hell for a change.”
This made him mad, and he stopped and gave me a little talking-to. He insisted that he had been attacking Bush’s tax cuts and foreign policies for more than two years, “but it is not up to me to make the media cover it.”
