Bill Clinton observes that MSNBC is in the DNC's pocket...

[Luminous Animal]

Bill Clinton: MSNBC 'Has Become Our Version Of Fox'

The former president was speaking to the magazine about "things we can agree on" in a polarized time, and he cited the network as one of the culprits when his interviewer asked, "why does the politics seem so much more caustic now than even [when you were president]?"

Clinton said he thought that "the diffusion of the media has complicated things." He then used MSNBC as an example of this.

"I was just watching MSNBC, and they had a woman that used to work for me and a couple of other people on there, and they were talking about the Republican primary," he said. "And I was laughing. I said, 'Boy, it really has become our version of Fox.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/bill-clinton-msnbc-fox_n_1214143.html

[JoePhilly]

1. Bill must be sleeping in and missing Joe Scab every morning.

[tularetom]

2. Maybe he has forgotten the "Telecommunications Act of 1996"

that some idiot president signed in his decades long effort to suck up to and be accepted by the wealthy people who really run things in the US.

I'm sort of fed up with his whining about why we can't get along when what he really means is why can't Democrats give up even more of the programs that made the party successful.

[GeorgeGist]

11. +1

[City Lights]

3. Thanks for nothing, Bill.

[BeyondGeography]

4. Spectacularly wrong

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. The Big Dog strikes again!

[Mass]

6. So, Michael Steele is also an alumni of the DNC? Or Joe Scarborough,...

Sometimes, Bill should stop and take the time to think.

[ProSense]

9. The quote is from January 2012, and

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could you imagine Clinton saying that during the heat of the 2012 campaign or even now?

It just goes to show how ridiculous it is.

This is after the election:

Fox News Captions Footage Of Illegal Border Crossings With ‘The Hispanic Vote’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021825552

[hughee99]

7. Keeping in mind that the DNC seems to be somewhat to the right

of many Democrats, I can see where he might think that, but even then it's still not an accurate comparison.

[ProSense]

8. Well,

"Bill Clinton: MSNBC 'Has Become Our Version Of Fox'"

...Greenwald doesn't agree. He seems to believe that Fox displays more balance that MSNBC:

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MSNBC did not air a single story critical of the President or a single positive story about Romney - not a single one - even as Fox aired a few negative ones about Romney and a few positive ones about Obama. Meanwhile, Obama campaign aides who appeared on MSNBC were typically treated with greater deference than that shown to the British Queen when one of her most adoring subjects is in her presence for the first time.

<...>

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/19/msnbc-axelrod-gibbs-obama

In Greenwald's head, Fox is a standard that MSNBC should aspire to.

Glenn Greenwald: I Defend Snowden Like MSNBC Defends Obama '24 Hours A Day'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024231709

[FarPoint]

10. I'm guessing this statement was taken out of content if said at all.

I think this is trash talk pre- game 2016.