For anyone who is interested in the facts (i.e., not Barry), there's a fascinating piece in the New York Observer tracing the development of the Hillary-for- SoS story through November 18:
http://www.observer.com/2008/media/foggy-bottom-top It begins: "Andrea Mitchell started it. "It was she who told viewers of NBC's The Nightly News With Brian Williams on Thursday, Nov. 13, that Hillary Clinton 'is under consideration to be secretary of state.'... "On Nov. 13, Ms. Mitchell came on with Brian Williams and offered a very tight, succinct report. Few details, but 'two advisers to Barack Obama' confirmed that, yes, Hillary was under consideration for the secretary of state post. It was at this point we knew she made a business trip to Chicago, but we didn't know why. (Ms Mitchell reported that an 'adviser says that [it] was on personal business.')" [Note that when the story first broke, Clinton's people weren't even acknowledging she had had a meeting with Obama.] "It took real reporting. Ms. Mitchell said this wasn't a 'trial balloon' that the Obama or Clinton people wanted out there. This wasn't a story that both camps were planting to see how it played out. "'There are several people who have said, "This is a campaign that hadn't leaked for 22 months and now they're leaking like a sieve!"' she said in an interview with Off the Record. "I want to make this clear. This is something I picked up 10 days earlier and had really worked on.'" Here's the video of her scoop from Nightly News: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619#27706294
