The Press Cares More About a Blue Dress than the Campaign

When Hillary’s white house calendar was released some hoped it would clear up details. Like how much she was actually involved in legislation and diplomacy. But what are the first items the press goes after? Where Hillary Clinton was during Bill’s Lewinsky affair. Here’s what ABC news had to say for their irrelevant”initial” review:

Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky, and may have actually been in the White House when it happened, according to records of her schedule released today by the National Archives.

The public schedule for Sen. Clinton on Feb. 28, 1997, the day on which Lewinsky’s infamous blue dress would become stained by the president, shows the first lady spent the morning and the night in the White House.

But it wasn’t just ABC, the front page of CNN’s Political Ticker also featured the story. The real news in the release was meanwhile buried. At least the LA Times had an article:

Federal archivists Wednesday released 11,000 pages of schedules from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s eight years as first lady, but the material offered little to support her assertion that her White House experience left her best prepared to become president.

What does the “blue dress” incident have to do with her campaign? Surely the press isn’t concerned that Hillary won’t know everything occurring in the 132 room, 55,000 square feet building. This type of story only distracts from the real news, like McCain repeatably and incorrectly claiming Iran was fueling Al-Qaeda in Iraq.