Lynn Sweet Smacks Down Fiorina Shill’s Attack On Hillary Clinton

To say that the ostensibly objective political media does a piss-poor job of evaluating Republican spin would actually be an insult to piss, which is why it’s so wonderful when it actually happens. The reporter in me really wishes the phenomenon worked both ways, but what they really do to Democrats is dismiss legitimate responses as “spin,” while treating Republican nonsense as legitimate. Part of this is due to the fact that the right has been so effective at working the ref that reporters are deathly afraid to hear noise about their lack of even-handedness.

That’s why it was so refreshing to see my former colleague Lynn Sweet completely bulldoze Carly Fiorina surrogate and former Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-NY) on Sunday morning’s Up. In between stalking Hillary Clinton and complaining about sexism in how the media covers the only woman candidate in a Republican field of 17, Fiorina has managed to move up in the polls by being the least ridiculous thing at the kiddie-table debate.

Hayworth thinks that puts her in Hillary’s league, but more importantly, that Hillary is no big deal when it comes to women’s issues. Lynn Sweet set her straight in short order…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.