Media Matters Whine about Hillary's Now Lack of "Inevitability"

Media Matters is now complaining about Hillary's freefall in the polls to be the front runner Democratic candidate for 2008 by blaming the media for building up her "inevitability" to become the 2008 U.S. president and then tearing her down.

So what was all that talk about "inevitability" really about?

Maybe it reflected the impression the Clinton campaign itself was trying to create; political reporters and pundits have long ascribed that strategy to the campaign even as candidate and staff insisted they weren't taking anything for granted.

I don't think it was the Clinton campaign, well maybe to an extent thinking Hillary did that on her own with Bill's help, but perhaps it's Robert D. Novak's doing back in 2005 on talks about a pre-planned "inevitiablity" by "well placed Democrats" that Hillary would be the president in 2008:

Robert D. Novak:
Savvy Dems in LA say no to Hillary run
By ROBERT D.
NOVAK

BACK EAST, well-placed Democrats have agreed that the party's 2008 nomination is all wrapped up better than three years in advance. They say that the prize is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's for the asking, and that she is sure to ask. But here on the left coast (Los Angeles), I found surprising and substantial Democratic opposition to going with the former first lady.

Remember the Plame story? And whose supposed fault that was? And now will they try and place the pin on Novak as the originator on the concept of "inevitability" and planted it for the media? I guess Liberals and their favorite MSM outlets will soon find a reason to go after Novak again as their favorite whipping boy.