Vox’s Ezra Klein: ‘Al Gore Should Run For President’
March 16th, 2015 2:09 PM
Klein thinks pushing the climate-change issue might cost Gore votes, but it’s a risk that could pay off big if Gore’s elected, since “climate change is an issue where the president has real unilateral authority.” In any event, funding the campaign wouldn’t seem problematic. Klein noted that Gore himself now is “fabulously wealthy — richer, even, than Mitt Romney” and added, given super-rich…
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ABC & CBS Cover Clinton Controversies, NBC Reports on Bieber Roast
March 16th, 2015 1:14 PM
While both ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Monday covered the latest developments in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal and the Clinton Foundation accepting money from foreign governments, NBC's Today didn't bother to update viewers on either of the controversies continuing to swirl around the likely 2016 contender.
Susan Estrich: Hillary Should Turn Over Her E-Mail Server
March 16th, 2015 11:23 AM
Susan Estrich is a bigtime Hillary Clinton supporter. Therefore it was no surprise that in her March 6 column she wrote off the Hillary e-mail scandal as mere silliness. However, following reader input and Hillary's disastrous press conference at the United Nations, Estrich had a bit of a change of heart. Not exactly a 180. More like a 90 chock full of extreme naivete.
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Carville 'Suspects' Hillary's Private Server Set Up to Dodge Oversight
March 16th, 2015 10:06 AM
After his appearance yesterday on ABC's "This Week," Hillary Clinton may be wondering whose side James Carville is on.
Never mind Carville's frequent and rude interruptions of other guests, his seemingly calculated incoherence, and his false claims about the Clintons' past record of corruption. Even though that behavior doesn't represent the Clintons well, they have to know that's part of the…
USA Today Columnist Defends Hillary's Server As 'Responsibly Paranoid'
March 16th, 2015 7:32 AM
In Friday’s USA Today, media columnist Michael Wolff came out defending Hillary Clinton’s shifty e-mail tactics as ... “responsibly paranoid.”
Wolff barely nods to the argument of "do-gooders" and “schadenfreudeists” that perhaps when four Americans die in a terrorist attack at a badly secured consulate in Benghazi, e-mail might help figure out the mess. That’s “vastly disingenuous,” because e-…
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Chuck Todd: Will GOP Cause Public to ‘Sympathize' With Hillary?
March 15th, 2015 11:58 AM
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd took time out of the ongoing controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails to bring up the usual mock media concern, whether or not the GOP will overreact in their handling of the situation: “Do you fear, as somebody who would like to see the Republicans win the White House, do you fear that congressional Republicans could get in the way and…
Maureen Dowd: Hillary Exploits Fear of 'the Anarchists' in Congress
March 14th, 2015 7:39 PM
"Anarchists?" If only! Let's stipulate that Maureen Dowd's current column is absolutely brutal about Hillary. Riffing off the Republicans' letter to the ayatollah, Dowd deigns to send a letter from "America" explaining the Constitution to Clinton. Dowd denounces Hillary for being "willing to cite your mother's funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails," and describes her…
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Hillary's E-Mail Press Conference Inspires Comedy
March 13th, 2015 10:11 PM
One fringe benefit, from an entertainment POV, of the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal is the comedy it is inspiring. Last Saturday, SNL presented Katie McKinnon performing an hilarious sketch of Hillary discussing her e-mail. Hillary's e-mail press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday, has inspired yet more comedy on YouTube.
Hillary's Matter of Convenience
March 13th, 2015 5:52 PM
Hillary Clinton finally met with reporters at the UN Tuesday to explain why she used a personal email account for the vast majority of her communications as secretary of state.
The problem for any public figure attempting to testify to their innocence is that one's believability is directly tied to the public's perception of one's character. Like a bad case of the winter flu, character is…
Society of Professional Journalists Backs AP Lawsuit Against Hillary
March 13th, 2015 3:38 PM
This afternoon the Society of Professional Journalists issued a press release noting their support of the Associated Press's lawsuit against the State Department over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's e-mail.
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Rose to Kevin Spacey: 'Talk About Your Bromance with Bill Clinton'
March 13th, 2015 3:27 PM
Charlie Rose, on his PBS show, couldn’t resist asking actor Kevin Spacey about his “bromance” with former President Bill Clinton. The star of House of Cards -- whom CNN recently hired for their documentary on the 2016 presidential candidates -- revealed how tight he is with the ex-president. Spacey: "I was a true friend. And never doubted him, never stopped believing in him. Thought he was an…
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Kimmel to Obama: ‘Do You Have Hillary Clinton’s New E-Mail Address?'
March 13th, 2015 12:07 PM
President Barack Obama was both comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s main topic of discussion and guest on his late night talk show on ABC Thursday night, with topics in the opening monologue and sit-down interview ranging from softball questions about driving, seeing a dentist, and aliens, to substantive topics such as the letter 47 Republican Senators sent to Iran, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, and…
English, Spanish Network Evening Newscasts Skip Clinton E-Mail Scandal
March 13th, 2015 1:06 AM
The English and Spanish language networks combined to completely ignore the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal on their Thursday night shows. The network evening news blackout, which involved English-language networks ABC, CBS, and NBC and Spanish-language networks MundoFox, Telemundo, and Univision, was only the second such occurrence since the scandal broke after the evening newscasts on March 3 in…
Liberal Writer: Hillary Should Nominate Obama For Supreme Court
March 12th, 2015 11:05 PM
Veteran journalist Steven Waldman, a former Washington correspondent for Newsweek and a senior adviser to the Federal Communications Commission for two years during Obama’s first term, argues that an Obama nomination would be “good for [Hillary], and very good for progressives. Would he want it? It’s possible he’d view it as too confining, but it may be the only job a former president can get…