{"id":19321,"date":"2024-05-20T12:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/youll-laugh-at-who-msnbc-brought-to-whine-about-trumps-alleged-affair\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:47:08","slug":"youll-laugh-at-who-msnbc-brought-to-whine-about-trumps-alleged-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/youll-laugh-at-who-msnbc-brought-to-whine-about-trumps-alleged-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll laugh at who MSNBC brought to whine about Trump\u2019s alleged affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s hard to watch the incessant gavel-to-gavel coverage of former President Donald Trump\u2019s trial in Manhattan without feeling like you\u2019re traveling in a time warp back to 2016. We\u2019re back reliving the \u2018Access Hollywood\u2019 tape and talk of how Trump would have never been elected except porn star Stormy Daniels accepted a six-figure check to keep quiet. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The richest vein of hypocrisy on this adultery-mangles-electability question flows through the Clintons. Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC\u2019s \u2018Morning Joe\u2019 to denounce Trump for squashing the bimbo stories. It was typically shameless. She said: \u2018I think the defendant, the former president, knew exactly what he was doing when he went to such great lengths to try to squash, bury, kill stories, pay off people because he understood the electoral significance of them.\u2019 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The cast of \u2018Morning Joe\u2019 treated Clinton as a therapist for their Trump angst, and no one interrupted and asked about all the squashing, burying and killing of stories that Hillary Clinton engaged in when she and Bill Clinton first sought the White House in 1992. \u00a0<\/p>\n

On the cusp of the Gennifer Flowers allegations breaking in January of that year, Hillary Clinton was telling Margaret Carlson of Time magazine, \u2018My marriage is solid, full of love and friendship, but it\u2019s too profound to talk about glibly.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

But after Flowers asserted she had a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton, Hillary and Bill appeared on \u201960 Minutes,\u2019 and Hillary claimed women being questioned about their relationship with Bill were her friends. \u2018We reached out to them. I met with two of them to reassure them they knew they were friends of ours. I felt terrible about what was happening to them.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

In retrospect, one can smell what Hillary was cooking. She was pressuring potential accusers to stay quiet, but pitching it on national TV as just chatting things over with friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One can only imagine how Melania Trump processed the Stormy Daniels tale, but paying a nondisclosure agreement isn\u2019t exactly maintaining your innocence. That\u2019s why the Democratic prosecutors in New York are pumping this out on CNN and MSNBC, every hour on the hour. Theleft thinks those religious conservatives are bothered by this, and it should cause them to vote for someone else, preferably that \u2018devout Catholic\u2019 Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Hillary has always waged war on anyone who would seek to damage her and Bill\u2019s future in politics, and the media have always gushed over her warfare. At the end of the Year of Our Intern in 1998, Time magazine was aglow. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reporters Nancy Gibbs and Karen Tumulty oozed that \u2018as she pursued the private rescue of a marriage and the public rescue of a presidency, she was the one person who seemed to see the larger story and shaped its telling.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u2018larger story\u2019 was the \u2018vast right-wing conspiracy.\u2019 In this election cycle, Democratic prosecutors lobbed 91 felony charges at Trump, and the networks largely refuse to even describe them as Democrats, let alone a vast left-wing conspiracy. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Time managing editor Walter Isaacson even wrote that they wanted to name her \u2018Person of the Year\u2019 in 1998 for her, um, \u2018dignity.\u2019 That\u2019s how they describe Hillary lying for months that Bill didn\u2019t have sexual relations with That Woman. \u2018Her strength and her almost surreal ability to assert her dignity were remarkable to some and mystifying to others.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the cusp of the Gennifer Flowers allegations breaking in January of that year, Hillary Clinton was telling Margaret Carlson of Time magazine, \u2018My marriage is solid, full of love and friendship, but it\u2019s too profound to talk about glibly.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

This kind of copy is why most Americans don\u2019t trust the \u2018mainstream media.\u2019 They don\u2019t report stories as much as they \u2018shape\u2019 them for the benefit of their political allies. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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