damage report, Mr. Scott!

Once again on the ropes for past comments, Hillary is trying to rewrite her history. This time involving comments she made downplaying Martin Luther King’s role in civil rights history.

It must be frustrating for her to not have her usual allies, the media, go along with her plan they way they always have in the past.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama’s campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distorted for political gain her comments about Martin Luther King’s role in the civil rights movement.

“This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully,” the former first lady said in a spirited appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.””I don’t think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it’s not about race.”

Both New York Sen. Clinton and her husband, the former president, have engaged in damage control this week after black leaders criticized their comments shortly before the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday.

The senator was quoted as saying King’s dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a “fairy tale” about his opposition to the Iraq war.