As predicted, with Hillary Clinton all but confirmed as the Democrat nominee the liberal media has stepped up their game of protect her. On Monday evening CBS and NBC took to whining about Donald Trump’s latest attacks on the former secretary of state and her husband. “She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful,” Trump exclaimed at a campaign rally. The liberal media was having none of it.
“Tonight the battle for the women's vote, back to the future. Donald Trump with his most personal attack yet on Bill Clinton. For the scandals of the '90s,” Andrea Mitchell whined on NBC’s Nightly News. “Echoing an accusation from Monica Lewinsky two years ago, that Hillary Clinton had the impulse to blame the woman,” Mitchell stated, trying to play it off as something unimportant.
Mitchell attempted to argue that his accusation would blow up in his face with interviews she had with Republican women from Virginia. “In this neighborhood, Trump's revival of the '90s scandals aren't working with Republican women like Stacy Styles,” Mitchell said. She also reported that unnamed Republican strategists claimed that Trump’s attacks were “unlikely to work” citing his negative rating with women.
Reporter Nancy Cordes of CBS also claimed Trump’s line of attack wouldn’t work. “Her approval ratings improved when her husband cheated,” Cordes said parroting Clinton supporters. At the end of her report Cordes threw Trump’s own history in his face saying, “it's an unconventional line of attack from man who has openly bragged about his own infidelities and once called Bill Clinton's philandering "totally unimportant."”
Univision also tried to counter Trump in this way. Reporter Lourdes Meluza saying of Trump comments about Bill abusing women, “but that’s not what he thought in 2008, “Look at all the trouble Bill Clinton got into for something that was totally unimportant and challenged him on what turned out to be silliness.””
It’s easy for Clinton’s pals in the media to jump in and protect her. They only focus on calling the attacks “low blows” and playing them off as events of the past. But they wouldn’t dare report about what Hillary actually said at the time, like how she call Monica Lewinski a “narcissistic looney toon.”
Transcripts below:
NBC
Nightly News with Lester Holt
May 9, 2016
7:05:54 PM EasternLESTER HOLT: Tonight, what appears to be a preview of a big general election fight. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are trading barbs over who would be better for women. Trump invoking Bill Clinton's past to fend off attacks on his own history of controversial comments. Meantime, Hillary Clinton is trying to court Republican women in a crucial swing state. NBC's Andrea Mitchell has more.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Tonight the battle for the women's vote, back to the future. Donald Trump with his most personal attack yet on Bill Clinton. For the scandals of the '90s.
DONALD TRUMP: Hillary Clinton's husband abused women more than any man that we know of in the history of politics. Right?
MITCHELL: And calling Hillary Clinton an enabler.
TRUMP: She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful. So put that in her bonnet and let's see what happens.
MITCHELL: Echoing an accusation from Monica Lewinsky two years ago, that Hillary Clinton had the impulse to blame the woman. Clinton responding today.
Donald Trump has really gone after your husband, and even you as an enabler, for the scandal of the 1990s.
HILLARY CLINTON: I'm going to let him run his campaign however he chooses. I'm going to run my campaign, which is about a positive vision for our country.
MITCHELL: Clinton making a play for Republican women voters today in a suburban Virginia swing district, focusing on issues like equal pay.
CLINTION: I raise it all the time. And you know, I'm accused of playing the gender card and all that. The fact is that it's a real problem.
MITCHELL: In this neighborhood, Trump's revival of the '90s scandals aren't working with Republican women like Stacy Styles.
STACY STYLES: It would make me not vote for Trump. I think that's making him look even worse in the eyes of the female voters, especially married voters.
MITCHELL: So, you would vote for Hillary Clinton, or consider voting for Hillary Clinton?
STYLES: Yes, I would.
MITCHELL: Kat Huff also Republican will not vote for Clinton but is not sure about Trump. Will you vote for Donald Trump?
KAT HUFF: I don’t know.
[Cuts back to live]
MITCHELL: Tonight Republican strategists tell NBC News they are mystified why Trump, with a 69 percent negative rating among women in our latest poll, would get so personal, and so—so negative, so soon. And they say it is unlikely to work. Lester?
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CBS
Evening News
May 9, 2016
6:38:27 PM EasternSCOTT PELLEY: Well, Trump has opened a very personal line of attack targeting Hillary Clinton's marriage. Nancy Cordes has that.
TRUMP:: They're going after me with women? Give me a break, folks.
CORDES: Trump said last week he wants to take the high road, but he's already hit some potholes.
TRUMP: She's married to man who is the worst abuser of women in the history of politics.
CORDES: Clinton's allies argue attacks like that will backfire. Her approval ratings improved when her husband cheated.
CLINTON: I'm going to let him run his campaign however he chooses.
CORDES: Clinton herself says she has heard it all before. But Trump is taking it one step further, claiming Clinton silenced women who accused her husband of harassment.
TRUMP: She was a total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy their lives. She treated these women horribly. She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler.
CLINTON: Pleased to meet you.
CORDES: Clinton held a coffee klatch with working moms in Virginia today and declined to address Trump's specific allegations.
CLINTON: I'm not running against him. He's doing a fine job of doing that himself. I'm running my campaign, what I want to do as president, what I stand for, what I've always stood for, and what I believe is going to make a difference to the people of this country.
CORDES: Trump said today he only call Clinton an enabler as retribution for playing what he calls "The woman’s card." Still, it's an unconventional line of attack from man who has openly bragged about his own infidelities and once called Bill Clinton's philandering "Totally unimportant."
PELLEY: Nancy, thank you.
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UNIVISION
NOTICIERO UNIVISION
May 9, 2016
6:39:15 PM EasternJORGE RAMOS, HOST, UNIVISION: And now to the United States, Donald Trump is changing drastically his speeches. He’s saying things contrary to others that he had said in the past. For example, at the time, he defended Bill Clinton, and today he labeled him as the “biggest abuser of women”. Trump changed his opinion too on the payment of the US debt, on taxing the rich, and even the minimum wage. Lourdes Meluzá has the summary of the changes.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: Donald Trump already feels free to change his proposals, and step up his attacks against Hillary Clinton. He accused her of enabling the infidelities of her husband, the ex-president.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: [Translating Donald Trump’s remarks] “She was an incredible enabler, she chased these women down and destroyed their lives.” He said that as President, Bill Clinton was the biggest abuser of women in the history of the country. He also said that Hillary Clinton should not play the card that she supports women, but that’s not what he thought in 2008.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: [Translating Donald Trump remarks in 2008 about Bill Clinton’s affairs] “Look at all the trouble Bill Clinton got into for something that was totally unimportant and challenged him on what turned out to be silliness.” It’s not the only change. After adopting the conservative line on debt, this weekend he said that it would be possible to renegotiate the debt, paying less out to creditors.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: [Translating Donald Trump remarks on debt on radio/telephone interview] “This is the government of the United States, you will never stop payments on debt because we print the money.”
IAN VAZQUEZ, ECONOMIST, CATO INSTITUTE: It’s absolutely irresponsible, improvised. This is not a policy followed by the United States. This is policy similar to that of Argentina, to countries in the Third World, that manage their debts poorly.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: And it doesn’t stop there. In 2015, Trump presented his plan to simplify and reduce taxes, benefitting even the richest and corporations. Now, he says [translating Trump remarks] that he “will fight hard for business, but the rich will have to pay more, and that they should pay more”.
LOURDES MELUZÁ, REPORTER, UNIVISION: Trump also said repeatedly in the past that he was self-financing his campaign so that he wouldn’t be controlled by special interests. Now, he says that his campaign won’t be totally self-financed by him.
