WaPo's Murray: Chris Dodd Is A Loser
October 29, 2007 -- 1:07 PM EST // //
What did Chris Dodd ever do to The Washington Post's Shailagh Murray? She just can't seem to stop dropping snide little asides about the Connecticut Senator. From her chat with readers today:
Silver Spring, Md.: I see that Rep. Duncan Hunter has vaulted from "asterisk" to "viable longshot" in the GOP nomination race (he's up to 2 or 3 percent in most of the latest polls). He's no Mike Huckabee perhaps, but it seems like more than noise. Is this fallout from the immigration debate heating up?I know, I know, this is a really boring and earnest thing to say, but this latest from Murray is basically indistinguishable from saying, "Nyah, nyah, Chris Dodd is a loser."Shailagh Murray: Whew, this is news to me. Must make Chris Dodd feel GREAT.
Note that Murray brought up Dodd completely out of nowhere here -- it's the first mention of him in the chat. It's also worth recalling that a couple of weeks ago Murray was similarly snide about Dodd's announcement that he would put a hold on the Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity, lampooning him for his phony concern about the rule of law. "Here's a first for a Senate presidential candidate: blocking a bill that doesn't exist yet," Murray wrote about Dodd's move, adding the impeccably objective observation that his press release was "breathless" and that his rhetoric "got hotter with every paragraph."
And now this. Really, if you're gonna be this hostile to a particular candidate, at a certain point you want to try to be a bit more subtle about it.
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