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HarperLee · 04-01-2008, 08:49 PM

Keith Olbermann read an "editorial" from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on Countdown tonight, but transcript won't be up until tomorrow or I would not quote World Net Daily. (Mellon Scaife founded NewsMax and was at one time the third largest stockholder.)

Olbermann called Mellon Scaife the "Godfather of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"

No. 1 'Clinton hater' may endorse Hillary
'Vast, right-wing conspiracy' leader now holds 'very favorable' opin

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Posted: March 30, 2008, World Net Daily
Richard Scaife

WASHINGTON – Rush Limbaugh isn't the only surprise supporter in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Only thing is, this guy is for real.

Continuing the transition from No. 1 Clinton media enemy to political ally, Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a principal owner of NewsMax.com, met with Hillary Clinton and pronounced he now has a favorable view of the presidential candidate and may even endorse her in the Pennsylvania primary.

Noting that his paper had criticized some of Clinton's policies the very day she visited the editorial board last week, Scaife praised her courage for walking into what could have been a lion's den.

"Reading that, a lesser politician – one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions – might well have canceled the interview right then and there," he writes in a special column today. "Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions. Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her."

Actually, though, Scaife's mind has been changing about the Clintons for some time, as WND previously reported.

Scaife said he found more areas of agreement with Clinton than disagreement – especially on the Iraq war and domestic policy matters.

"Does all this mean I'm ready to come out and recommend that our Democrat readers choose Sen. Clinton in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary?" he asked in his column. "No – not yet, anyway. In fairness, we at the Trib want to hear Sen. Barack Obama's answers to some of the same questions and to others before we make that decision. But it does mean that I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today than before last Tuesday's meeting – and it's a very favorable one indeed."

The turnaround for Scaife is striking, indeed.

There is little question that when then-first lady Hillary Clinton famously lashed out at foes as a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," Scaife was one of the people on her mind. It was Scaife, an heir to fortunes made in banking, oil and aluminum, who subsidized the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and underwrote countless conservative and Republican causes – including "the Arkansas Project," specifically designed to expose Clinton scandals.

But that was then. This is now.

Link to entire story: No. 1 'Clinton hater' may endorse Hillary
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Since Hillary answer questions posed by members of Mellon Scaife's
editorial board last week, including a planted question about
Jeremiah Wright, it will be interesting to see if she repudiates
the endorsement of a man who tried for years to prove that she
murdered Vince Foster.

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HarperLee Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,718 Thanks: 1,673 Thanked 594 Times in 378 Posts	Richard Mellon Scaife to Endorse Hillary Clinton Keith Olbermann read an "editorial" from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review on Countdown tonight, but transcript won't be up until tomorrow or I would not quote World Net Daily. (Mellon Scaife founded NewsMax and was at one time the third largest stockholder.) Olbermann called Mellon Scaife the "Godfather of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" No. 1 'Clinton hater' may endorse Hillary 'Vast, right-wing conspiracy' leader now holds 'very favorable' opin -------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 30, 2008, World Net Daily Richard Scaife WASHINGTON – Rush Limbaugh isn't the only surprise supporter in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Only thing is, this guy is for real. Continuing the transition from No. 1 Clinton media enemy to political ally, Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and a principal owner of NewsMax.com, met with Hillary Clinton and pronounced he now has a favorable view of the presidential candidate and may even endorse her in the Pennsylvania primary. Noting that his paper had criticized some of Clinton's policies the very day she visited the editorial board last week, Scaife praised her courage for walking into what could have been a lion's den. "Reading that, a lesser politician – one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions – might well have canceled the interview right then and there," he writes in a special column today. "Sen. Clinton came to the Trib anyway and, for 90 minutes, answered questions. Her meeting and her remarks during it changed my mind about her." Actually, though, Scaife's mind has been changing about the Clintons for some time, as WND previously reported. Scaife said he found more areas of agreement with Clinton than disagreement – especially on the Iraq war and domestic policy matters. "Does all this mean I'm ready to come out and recommend that our Democrat readers choose Sen. Clinton in Pennsylvania's April 22 primary?" he asked in his column. "No – not yet, anyway. In fairness, we at the Trib want to hear Sen. Barack Obama's answers to some of the same questions and to others before we make that decision. But it does mean that I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today than before last Tuesday's meeting – and it's a very favorable one indeed." The turnaround for Scaife is striking, indeed. There is little question that when then-first lady Hillary Clinton famously lashed out at foes as a "vast, right-wing conspiracy," Scaife was one of the people on her mind. It was Scaife, an heir to fortunes made in banking, oil and aluminum, who subsidized the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and underwrote countless conservative and Republican causes – including "the Arkansas Project," specifically designed to expose Clinton scandals. But that was then. This is now. Link to entire story: No. 1 'Clinton hater' may endorse Hillary --------------------------------------------------------- Since Hillary answer questions posed by members of Mellon Scaife's editorial board last week, including a planted question about Jeremiah Wright, it will be interesting to see if she repudiates the endorsement of a man who tried for years to prove that she murdered Vince Foster.
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