"It was not clear if Clinton and Rice saw each other at the State Department as Clinton left the building shortly after Rice arrived."

HOLY SHIT!

Reminds me of McIntire and Zeleny's piece in the NY Times today. Obama promoted an ethics law, stayed squeaky-clean, even snubbed Blagojevich, but his history is still all seamy and murky and dirty and suspect.

Blagojevich bad, therefore Illinois bad. Obama Illinois, therefore Obama (probably) bad. It's simple.

We're back to Clinton Rules.

Brutal.

Isn't AP still run by that McCain fan?

That couldn't be it, could it?

Pathetic political reporting.

Sometimes you have to read between the lines. Condi Rice invited Hillary to her home for dinner, but NOT Susan Rice. On the menu was Wild RICE pilaf, clearly a metaphor for Susan Rice, since wild rice is a weed that grows in a swamp (think Foggy Bottom). There were probably nuts and fruit as well (Think San Francisco. Rice went to Stanford, not far away). Once you imagine the conversation that took place as they gnashed mouthfuls of that nasty side dish, you can consider yourself a 21st Century journalist.

Between this cat fight at State and the scandal in Illinois, this is the beginning of the unravelling of BHO's presidency.

A lot of the cabinet didn't support Hillary. What's the big deal?

Yep, and just listen to all the stupid, pathetic, cable pundit/pimps about Obama and the Illinois governor. Event though Fitzgerald stated as clearly as possible that there is ZERO to implicate Obama in anyway at all, zero, all the stupid cable/ pundit pimps then 'yes, but...........''' and then go on is their stupid ways to somehow create such a link to Obama .. the corporate media in this country are as shameless as they are dangerous to what is left of our country .........

This is like the whole Blagojevich thing. There's no evidence Obama was involved, Blagojevich is on tape calling Obama a mothereffer because Obama wouldn't play along, but now there is a "stain" on the presidency that hasn't even started yet.

This is also like all those calls for Obama to "do something" about the economy, why isn't he doing anything? He's not president yet, that's why!

The AP, NYT, all of them...they should just introduce a "Page 3 Girl" feature and get it over with.

one could just as plausibly speculate that Rice setting up a team at Foggy Bottom is to better coordinate with Clinton because they are now BFFs and this shows the administration is working together better than any administration in all of recorded history.

that would be just as plausible - but clearly not as fun for the AP.

Whether it is CNN or someone else, outlets definitely need choices other than AP for wire content.

It appears the AP is going to maintain it's hostility toward anything non-republican. With newspapers either going under, or ditching the AP's increasingly biased offerings, will they have any relevance in a year or two?

Salacious news that hasn't happened and won't happen is much better than real events. Now, don't be angry at AP, they're just trying to compensate
for the dreaded "liberal media bias" that dominates US airwaves. Everybody knows that.

Now we clearly see the beginnings of the inevitable fall of another great empire. they just rot from the inside.

The American people want tabloid news, not real news, and the media gives them what they want. They don't want to know what Clinton and Rice are up to professionally. They just want to know how they're sniping at each other and jockeying for power and favor in Obama's administration.

Last night I tuned in on Anderson Cooper, hoping I might get something about Gore's meeting with Obama and Biden, after striking out with my usual favorites. And the big story of the day, apparently, after the Blagojevich scandal, was Oprah's latest battle against her increasing bulge.

If I were a religious man, I'd say God help us.

"Think Foggy Bottom"

Actually, when I think of Foggy Bottom, it is rats running above the ceilings of GWU buildings. They, easily, could rename FB as Rat City.

Many are still there.

However, serving Tilda's Basmati and Wild Rice from NJ put it closer to Hillary's "Home" state.

I don't know about you , but when I want unbiased clear reporting I always turn to AP.

To me it is clear that the problem stems from a steady reduction in the quality and educational background of members of the media, not to mention a massive increase in sheer laziness in reporting via the pass it on philosophy which is so much easier than real work. For the past ten years or so, I have taken to buying newspapers to start fires in my wood stove. My criteria for newsworthiness is now thicker is better, as long as the paper contains no dangerous inks !

Not only the paper medium, but, during the Iraqi-Iranian War, a young lady who was a newsreader for one of the Vegas TV stations, reported a missile strike - She said, "Several were killed and a whole bunch more were injured". Funny that she didn't add "For sure, for sure".

re: "Between this cat fight at State and the scandal in Illinois, this is the beginning of the unravelling of BHO's presidency"
Hey, Al, I believe you've got it. You have absorbed the AP mindset completely. Next stop AP reporter ?

From this and the previous posts, it looks like the AP has drunk the kool-aid. There were similar shtupid stories from the AP during the election, as I remember. Who's the wing-nut heading it up right now?

There will be a lot of fabricated "news" over the next four years. Unfortunately, a lot of the administration's energy will go into preempting and responding to it. The Blago thing may well become Obama's Whitewater - all heat and no light - because that's a whole lot more interesting than reporting on lower unemployment or improving water quality.

This is all so much crap. They are inventing crisis just to get people to read their crap. All day even on MSNBC I kept hearing how is this going to affect Obama, is this going to derail Obama's plans etc etc. It is all just the political version of National Enquire...made up stuff.

Between this silly report on the State Dept. and the utterly idiotic report on Obama somehow being connected to his replacement scandal, both from AP, one wonders if maybe AP is not your "fair and balanced" report source. Then one realizes that the doofus that runs the thing was a major McCain backer and during the campaign, AP reporting was heavily slanted towards McCain. Then one wonders why AP should be taken seriously on anything. After that, in the absence of a valid answer, one stops taking AP seriously.