NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on Tuesday night's Risk & Reward program on Fox Business to discuss the new website for Hillary Clinton backers called "Verrit" that's supposed to bring "truth" to the people who felt "unrepresented" by the media in 2016. Graham said this story brought two major spit takes for people who didn't vote for Clinton.
TIM GRAHAM: There's two things about this that are total spit takes for most of us, which is, first of all, the Clintons are going to have a pro-truth website! You know, you could see even in those quotes [that Fox showed of Hillary explaining her defeat] the way she tried to say for example that first, the media covered the email scandal like Pearl Harbor. I mean, you can't have a more ridiculously exaggerated statement. Well, maybe you could, but they seemed to dislike it when the Republicans uncork them.
And that whole idea, when Peter Daou, the Clinton aide that started this website that tweeted out, you know, that there was no -- the Clinton voter was unrepresented in the media. It's like, I dare Peter Daou to go ask everyone in the media, at CBS, ABC, and NBC, 'who'd you vote for?' Because I think what you're going to find an overwhelmingly pro-Clinton press corps that they're now blaming for their loss.
Fox showed clips of network anchors in late October announcing Hillary was winning by 12 points, and no one had ever recovered from that: "Obviously, there's a difference between the media's polls, the media's polling samples, and the actual voters who turned out, and the problem we have with news media coverage is, that kind of coverage in a certain sense tells the voter 'Don't bother turning out, she's got it in the bag,' and maybe the Clinton voters, that was part of the problem. They got overconfident because the media kept telling him they had it in the bag."
