Updated W/ Link to Clip: The Outrage Generation Machine

UPDATE: America blog has the clip of the First Lady claiming that nobody. NOBODY has suffered as much as she and her husband.

Consider, if you will, a parallel universe in which Bill Clinton presided over a deeply unpopular war in Iraq which was increasingly opposed by members of the Republican party. Thousands of US troops had died, and many thousands more had life-altering injuries. And, then, First Lady Hillary Clinton said, on a popular morning show, that over the course of the war no one had suffered more then she and her husband had.

Just imagine for a moment how that would’ve played out on talk radio, Drudge, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the nightly news, the Sunday shows, the wingnut columnists, the liberal columnists, NPR, etc…

I imagine few honest members of the media industrial complex could deny this point, though most refuse to learn the broader lesson implied by it.

– Eschaton