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CBS's Rose: 'Why' Are Clinton's Emails 'Getting So Much Attention?'
March 4th, 2015 12:06 AM
On Tuesday night, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued to report on the latest scandal involving Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a private email account while she was Secretary of State in what may have been a violation of federal law. On the CBS Evening News, substitute anchor Charlie Rose flashed his favoritism for his dear “friend” Hillary Clinton by wondering to CBS News…
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Hardball's Matthews Fails to See Big Deal About Hillary Emails
March 3rd, 2015 11:56 PM
Hardball host Chris Matthews just doesn't get why Hillary Clinton's email scandal is all that big a deal.
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'Godzilla With Mothra on Back': Heilemann on Size of Hillary Mistake
March 3rd, 2015 6:47 PM
On the Bloomberg TV show he co-hosts, John Heilemann—asked today to quantify on a scale of "1-to-Godzilla" how "dumb" politically it was of Hillary Clinton to use personal email—answered "Godzilla with Mothra riding on his back dumb." Heilemann also revealed having reached out to former Hillary aides and that "to a person" they responded that the situation is a political "disaster."
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Harwood: Clinton Probably Just Used 'Excessive Caution' with Emails
March 3rd, 2015 5:25 PM
Wrapping up a segment on CNBC's Closing Bell on Tuesday, reporter John Harwood suggested that Hillary Clinton's use of personal email to conduct State Department correspondence may well have been just a case of "excessive caution" on her part.
Fournier on Clinton Email Scandal: Maybe Hillary Shouldn't Run in 2016
March 3rd, 2015 2:52 PM
In a Tuesday article for National Journal, senior political columnist Ron Fournier blasted Hillary Clinton over the breaking email scandal and even suggested she give up her presidential ambitions: "Perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton shouldn't run for president....Because she doesn't seem ready for 2016. Like a blast of wintry air in July, the worst of 1990s-style politics is intruding on what needs…
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Networks Show Double Standard in Coverage of Hillary's Controversies
March 3rd, 2015 10:03 AM
On Tuesday, the “big three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) morning shows all covered a New York Times report exposing how Hillary Clinton potentially violated federal law during her tenure as Secretary of State by conducting all government business with her personal email account, and when asked by the State Department to turn over the emails her staff “decided which ones to turn over."
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Morning Joe: Reporter Fearing 'Retribution' From Hillary Camp?
March 3rd, 2015 8:19 AM
When Joe and Mika interviewed New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough had to work to get Schmidt to say something that was in his own article: that while Colin Powell also used private email as Secretary of State, there were no rules prohibiting that at the time. Later, Joe and Mika later remarked that they were "taken aback" by the interview and that "…
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Hillary Used Only Private Email While Sec. of State; Will Nets Report?
March 3rd, 2015 1:30 AM
Late Monday night, The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton “exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state” and in turn “may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.”
With a story potentially as big as this one, the question ahead of the Tuesday morning network newscasts…
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NBC Devotes Nearly 4 Mins to Dress Debate, Secs to Clinton Corruption
February 27th, 2015 3:47 PM
On Friday, NBC finally noticed the corruption scandal swirling around Hillary Clinton. However, the coverage on the Today show was relegated to a 49-second mention within a story slamming Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. By contrast, the morning show devoted 3 minutes 56 seconds to a social media debate about the color of a dress.
Nets Spend Six Mins on Runaway Llamas, But Skip Clinton Ethics Story
February 26th, 2015 10:19 PM
After ABC and NBC failed to cover a front-page story in The Washington Post on Thursday morning about ethics questions surrounding the Clinton Foundation, their evening news counterparts continued the blackout by showing no interest in this story -- yet allocated nearly six minutes to efforts to catch two runaway llamas in Arizona.
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Chris Matthews: Jeb Would Be Hillary's 'Worst Nightmare'
February 26th, 2015 8:43 PM
In this week of the CPAC straw poll, the kiss of death for a Republican hopeful might be to say "endorsed by Chris Matthews."
But that dubious honor has been bestowed on Jeb Bush. On this evening's Hardball, Matthews declared that Jeb would be "the Hillary people's worst nightmare, if he runs, because if he wins the nomination the middle is in play." So Bush would be formidable because he's a …
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Andrea Mitchell: Softball Hillary Interview 'Challenging' and 'Edgy'
February 26th, 2015 4:15 PM
On her Wednesday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell gushed over Hillary Clinton's "strong performance" during an interview at a Silicon Valley conference on Tuesday: "...just looking at it as political drama. No notes, no Teleprompter, she's walking around the stage, she does a Q & A with Kara Swisher which is, you know, a challenging, interesting Q & A, edgy at times....A great reporter."…
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Brent Bozell Blasts Media for Ignoring Clinton Foundation Controversy
February 26th, 2015 12:40 PM
Appearing on the Fox Business Network’s (FBN) Varney & Company on Thursday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell reacted to the lack of media coverage following two Washington Post articles that revealed the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in donations from foreign governments, including more than $500,000 from the Algerian government while Hillary Clinton was…
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ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Clinton Foundation’s Foreign Money Problem
February 26th, 2015 10:40 AM
On Thursday, the Washington Post revealed that during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars from foreign governments, including “one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the Obama administration.”