NPR Anchor's Carpetbagger Contrast: Liz Cheney's Rude, But Hillary Was Easily In Like RFK
By John Williams | July 18, 2013 | 15:34
NPR afternoon co-host Melissa Block inexplicably seems to have changed her view of the value of U.S. Senate candidates living in a state for a while before running. On the July 17 All Things Considered, Block wondered why Liz Cheney would run for a Senate seat in the West. She "grew up in the East. She only moved back to Wyoming last year. Why is she running for Senate now and launching a primary fight against the incumbent?“
While Cheney had lived off-and-on in Wyoming before considering a Senate run, in 2000 then-First Lady Hillary Clinton had never lived in New York. Yet Block blithely announced on the February 16, 1999 All Things Considered: “On the books, there's nothing to bar Mrs. Clinton from a New York Senate run. All she needs to do is set up residence here by Election Day, and that's worked before....Robert Kennedy came from out of town to win the New York Senate seat in 1964.”
While Cheney moved back to Wyoming a full year before announcing her candidacy, Clinton moved to New York just a month prior to her announcement, even though it was clear about a half year earlier that she was going to run.