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Email Confirmation
Press Club Prez Denies Serving Clinton Agenda
by Jeff Bercovici
Apr 29, 2008
Apr 29, 2008
Did the non-partisan National Press Club unwittingly allow itself to be used as a tool of the Hillary Clinton campaign?
It certainly seems that way if you read Errol Louis's column in the New York Daily News today. Louis notes that Barbara Reynolds, the journalist and professor who organized Rev. Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the club yesterday, is a fervent Clinton supporter -- and thus someone with an interest in keeping the controversial minister in the headlines.
But Sylvia Smith, the club's president, says Louis was wrong: There was no hidden agenda behind Wright's speech. "It should not be seen that the Press Club is in any way taking sides in the Clinton-Obama race because we had the Rev. Wright as a speaker" ...
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