Hillary Gets Grilled Over Nothing; Fiorina Gets Lightly Poached Over Bald-Faced Lies
If you wanted a perfect illustration of the media’s 2016 election coverage, you couldn’t have asked for better than this. On Sunday morning’s Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former secretary-turned-CEO Carly Fiorina faced scrutiny from host Chuck Todd, and the contrast was illuminating.
First up was Secretary Clinton, whom Todd confronted over the newest email “scandal” revelations. which seem to consist mainly of a single email chain with David Petraeus from before Hillary was secretary of state. Hillary did a good job of explaining it, while also making the grossly underreported point (except, ironically, by Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade) that there was no herculean effort to set up a private server. To paraphrase LL Cool J, it had been there for years:
Todd: “Let me stop you there. You say you weren’t focused on it, but this seemed to be — to put an e-mail server at your house is not a — it’s a complicated thing.”
Hillary: “Yeah, but it was already there. It had been there for years. It is the system that my husband’s personal office used when he got out of the White House, so it was sitting there in the basement. It was not any trouble at all.”
The rest was pretty much a recap of things that have been covered before. It’s nice that this email conversation with Petraeus turned up, but as hard s I’m trying to give a rat’s ass about it, I just can’t. It’s from before Hillary was secretary of state, it didn’t take any extraordinary sleuthing to turn it up, and it mainly “included Clinton and Petraeus getting acquainted as well as some personnel matters.” Stop the presses.
What is remarkable is that despite that thin basis of new information, Chuck Todd spent more than…READ MORE
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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.
13 responses to Hillary Gets Grilled Over Nothing; Fiorina Gets Lightly Poached Over Bald-Faced Lies
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nola878 September 28th, 2015 at 19:55
Returned late last night from yet another fruitless search for the mythical liberal media. Did meet a cute little mermaid named Nora and a Yeti named Joseph. Oh, and the unicorns all say hi.
I’ll continue my quest next weekend, but I’m really beginning to think I’m wasting my time.
tracey marie September 28th, 2015 at 20:01
do unicorns really fart rainbows?
katkelly57 September 28th, 2015 at 20:40
Yes, stinky rainbows…nothing like Skittles.
tracey marie September 28th, 2015 at 20:56
I am laughing at that answer.
katkelly57 September 28th, 2015 at 21:05
It’s the best medicine…that and a root beer float.
tracey marie September 28th, 2015 at 21:10
Your funny is showing.
katkelly57 September 29th, 2015 at 01:42
Well, why you lookin’ woman?!?
Ain’t nuttin’ private around here anymore….
tracey marie September 29th, 2015 at 11:37
;0;0;0
katkelly57 September 28th, 2015 at 20:40
Oh nola, you’re such a skeptic.
:P
robert September 28th, 2015 at 22:32
its hard to grill carly when there are no accomplishments to speak of
NBC was giving her a mulligan
Budda September 28th, 2015 at 22:52
Toad let carly avoid answering her lies
Warman1138 September 28th, 2015 at 23:24
CNN, MSNBC, Etc. might a well call themselves what they really are, The Corporation.
rg9rts September 29th, 2015 at 03:03
The New and improved FAUX Lite Wanna be……any surprise