Scaife is as damaging to the middle-class Republicans as he is to middle class Democrats. And Clinton is pandering to this guy.

Like many right-winger power-brokers, Scaife likes to use race and gun rights and gay rights, etc., to divide the middle class. So long as voters are divided on race, they won’t pay attention to their crumbling bridges, the unfair tax structure, poor schools, greedy insurers, the war in Iraq, etc. They vote against their own best interests because Scaife appeals to their prejudices.

This is divide-and-conquer strategy, and few are bette at it than Scaife. If Clinton gave an interview to Scaife without pointing out the damage that he’s done to America, then she’s pandering to him.

It’s dumb for a Democrat to do that. Democrats should be out talking to middle class Republicans, not the big money guys who are ruining their lives.

Also, it worries me that she’s talking to Scaife because it makes me think that she gave him assurances that she won’t scrap the 1996 Telecommunications Act, a law that Bill Clinton signed that gives media owners like Scaife far too much power over deciding what’s news and what isn’t, and what’s true and what isn’t. Clinton has been friendly with Rupert Murdoch too. And that also worries me.

Obama, on the other hand, has one of the best telecommunications policies out there. Therefore he poses more of a threat to the power of these big media companies. As a blogger, I would think you’d be concerned about Clinton’s lack of clarity on this issue.