I got an unpleasant surprise over at dKos today when I posted this as a "developing story." They basically called both me and Kendrick Meek a liar. According to Tove in the comments here, Kendrick Meek was on MSNBC today and said there was another part to the question asking Bill to talk about historical black candidates. I called Meek's FL office once and his DC office twice and got a confirmation that he was with Bill in SC, and that he did hear something extra that the staffer could not personally confirm, and that he was on with Chris Jansing on MSNBC at 2pm eastern. I have not yet found footage of that. I was hoping that maybe someone else might have seen it and tivoed it for some reason. One commenter in my dKos diary did confirm that Meek said what I had heard, then proceeded to dump all over Meek's credibility.
The unpleasant surprise I got was that Josh Marshall and ABC had posted what they purported to be a full transcript of the interview, a transcript which does not include the part Meek said happened. Of course, the juvenile supporters of a certain candidate who is classier than his supporters would rather believe their transcript and call Meek a liar and me a hack.
One reason this is an unpleasant surprise is that we were the ones doing the work on this and I sent Josh Marshall an e-mail asking nicely, or at least so I thought, if he had a more complete transcript. He completely ignored that we were working on this in his post here and completely ignored my e-mail, even though both he and Greg Sargent did respond to my friend Jen, as she confirmed here. I have been hard on him because I think he buys a lot of BS about the Clintons that is not true, so maybe that's why he didn't answer me.
For now, I am hoping to get a transcript of the Meek interview. I have to admit that his staff did not seem interested in getting my message to him, for whatever reason. I wonder if some of them are Obama supporters and don't want to help him defend Bill Clinton? I am tired now and will go out to eat and rest after I post this.
Any help you can offer will be appreciated.
UPDATE: Video here.|
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