Thank goodness for Eugene Robinson, who appears to be the only one to call this nonsense out:
Recall that the Michigan primary, like the Florida contest, was not legitimate. Period. As far as the party was concerned — and as far as Clinton herself was concerned, before she fell behind Barack Obama — the primary never happened. None of the candidates campaigned in Michigan. Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot.
Yet, in the interest of party unity, the rules committee came up with a formula that gave Clinton credit for 69 delegates that she “won” running virtually unopposed in a vote that technically never took place. Ickes and the angry Clinton supporters who protested the committee meeting objected to the fact that Obama was awarded Michigan delegates that he didn’t win. But Clinton, too, was awarded delegates she didn’t win, because — remember? — there was no legitimate Michigan primary.
One of the things that is so maddening about the Clinton campaign is their ability to reshape the media narrative, and then have everyone act and react to their alternate reality, rather than to the simple facts. This is yet another example of that- people running around having to react to the hysterical notion that delegates were “stolen” or “hijacked.”