Who Needs Fox? NY Times and Morning Joe Battle for Title of Chief Hillary Basher

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Something is awful wrong in America.



Who Needs Fox? NY Times and Morning Joe Battle for Title of Chief Hillary Basher


September 3, 2015
ANALYSIS

By Peter Daou and Tom Watson

One of the most egregious aspects of the 2016 presidential campaign is the vitriolic, gender-biased attacks against Hillary Clinton by major media outlets.

The New York Times has taken the lead, but they are not alone.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski use their Morning Joe platform on MSNBC to malign Hillary and mangle her public image. The show has become a cesspool of Hillary-bashing rivaling the fetid swamps of fringe rightwing Clinton haters.............


......It is difficult to articulate the particular brand of anti-Hillary invective honed by the Morning Joe crew. Suffice it to say it is an unhealthy and unhinged combination of envy, awe, muted rage and dripping disdain, typically delivered by a panel of males with the eager participation of Mika Brzezinski.

Consider this exchange:

“You want me to indict and damn Hillary Clinton and I’m not going to do it.” This was an exasperated NYT reporter Jeremy Peters on the set of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” as Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski tried to chip away at him and push him to personally declare that Clinton did something horribly wrong. The topic was Clinton’s infamous email server, which, in recent weeks, has absolutely outraged Brzezinski.

Or this:

The panel of MSNBC’s Morning Joe mocked Hillary Clinton for her wardrobe choice during a press conference about her emails, saying it looked like a prison jumpsuit or Mao Zedong.

Or this:

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Hell DU can squeeze right in there!

[LettuceSea]

2. I wonder, in the eyes of the independent voter...

Whether these "IT'S UNFAIR!" articles help or hurt HRC's image?

I get the frustration, but I'd be concerned playing that card too extremely will only make her support smaller, angrier, and more insular. It's not as though the NY Times and MSNBC are bastions of the GOP...

[840high]

4. +1

[Juicy_Bellows]

5. Agreed, but Scarborough is a Republican jackass. nt.

[oasis]

3. Could Joe's memory gets a jolt, now and then, about his late intern, Lori?

Is He owned by those who know how and why she died?

[rusty quoin]

6. I don't watch him. I've had his number long ago.

[sunnystarr]

7. Here's the link that's missing in the OP

[link]
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/ny-times-and-morning-joe-battle-for-chief-hillary-basher

[karynnj]

8. your rant contradicts your point

In the details, you position the NYT reporter as being unwilling to go beyond what they reported.

If comments on her pants suits were made, they are inappropriate. Speaking about the mess HRC created with her server is fair and, given that you dismiss it out of hand, is a topic you will never agree with ANY reporting on. Go over to State.gov and read ANY daily briefing. Amid questions on Iran, Israel, ISIS, and climate change, you will find questions on the emails. There is a problem there.