Democrats say that things are very harmonious at their convention and that the media is playing up tensions that are nonexistent.

From Daily Variety.

“Hillary Rodham Clinton is still seething about losing the nomination.”

“Michelle Obama doesn’t like her country and is an angry black woman.” “Bill Clinton continues to dis Barack Obama privately.”

While hardly definitive, that’s some of the undercurrents swirling in much of the news coverage — particularly television news, some say — at the Democratic National Convention.

“I’m just amazed at the negative coverage, all the negative innuendo of things that do not exist,” former Clinton adviser Terry McAuliffe told Daily Variety. “It’s all press invention.”

Case in point: McAuliffe has been at the Pepsi Center appearing on numerous programs — wearing an Obama lapel pin — proclaiming his and Hillary’s unequivocal support for Obama. “I’ve appeared on more shows than the Obama campaign people have,” he said.

When interviewers learn that he will be leaving before the end of the week to go on vacation with his family, with whom he has not spent any time in the past 16 months, he said, the lead has invariably been: McAuliffe will not be at Invesco Field when Obama accepts the nomination Thursday night; is he truly a supporter?

“The media always look for conflict,” McAuliffe said, “but let’s be honest — this is also about the Clintons. Some of the networks were just shameless with their negative coverage of them, and it’s time they stopped.”

Since neither Bill or Hillary have shown a great deal of enthusiasm for Barack Obama nor did they do anything to stop supporters from making their voices heard, it would have been pretty hard for the media to have ignored the story.

 

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