Whitewash: Humanizing Hillary, Canonizing Chelsea

Published: August 8, 2007, 2:59 pm

Tags: hillary clinton, 2008 presidential election, hillary clinton make overs, editorials opinion, against hillary, dick morris, hillary, hillary rodham clinton

By L. Brent Bozell III Here's one sign that Hillary Clinton is the Democratic presidential frontrunner. Reporters are tripping over themselves to convince us how likable and human she is — strong and yet nurturing. It's the same playbook the media used for Al Gore and John Kerry, both just as stiff, robotic and unlikable then as Hillary is now. So they're portraying Hillary not only as strong and invincible, but also as warm as a down comforter and as sweet as Mrs. Butterworth. The New York Times stands out as a primary transmission belt for the Clinton campaign's effort to melt the ice-queen image. On the July 29 front page, Times political writer Mark Leibovich lavished his awe on personal correspondence Hillary wrote as a Wellesley co-ed to her high school friend John Peavoy at Princeton. The headline was, "In the '60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters." Leibovich stressed how missives from this "unformed and

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