'The serpent resurfaces': Hillary shields up! James Carville joins forces with MMFA

Sarah D. | 1:12 PM on March 12, 2015

Quite a coup for America’s “premier progressive media watchdog”:

Media Matters for America announced that political commentator James Carville will begin writing a recurring guest column for its site.

— Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) March 12, 2015

We're excited to welcome James Carville as a guest contributor. His first column is on "the Clinton Rule." http://t.co/0l2ZdsaXEf

— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 12, 2015

This is good stuff here, folks:

Having been on the front line fighting these battles for over 20 years, let me explain to you the basic rule the Washington Press Corps employs when it comes to covering Bill and Hillary Clinton. It is an ironclad rule that most any journalist covering the Clintons must follow: There shall be one standard for covering everyone else in public life, and another standard for the Clintons. Because, well…. because they are the Clintons. Henceforth this will be referred to as the Clinton Rule.

My point to you, dear reader, is that it is the Washington Press Corps’ rule, and they’re not going to change it, but we as progressives don’t have to accept it. That is why I am proud to be posting on this site, because no one is more effective at combatting the Clinton Rule than David Brock and his organizations.

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The endless, breathless coverage of the Hillary Clinton “email scandal” is nothing more than another made-up scandal in a long, long line of made-up scandals. Over the past 20-plus years, I have seen Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, Pardongate, and every piece of fake nonsense that the press and right can come up with. They all have one thing in common: take ’em all together, add ’em up, and multiply it by ten, and you come out with a pile of crap.