Is Media Really Qualified To Discuss What Politicians Are Authentic & Those Who Are Not?
/Large numbers of Hillary Clinton supporters were shocked to hear the anti-Hillary MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell actually report the story about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's admissions that the candidate would have been "unbeatable" without the intervention of the Select Committee on Benghazi, which is committed to destroying Clinton's presidential chances.
The word now is that Mitchell is not pleased that her voice is used in Hillary Clinton's new campaign ad. That is such a pity for Andrea, because It's out understanding that news reporters don't own their words -- something about the public airwaves.
VOX writes:
It was a stunning acknowledgment of the political nature of the committee's work, and Clinton allies believe it will take the sting out of the investigation. Moreover, it couldn't have come at a better time — or on a better issue — for her. That's because she's locked in a primary against Bernie Sanders, and possibly Vice President Joe Biden, and some Democrats have been concerned about her handling of the email scandal at the center of the committee's work. Now Democrats have a vivid reminder of just how much Republicans hate Clinton, which could help rally them to her defense.
Joe Biden & Maureen Dowd
Exclusive: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish Politico
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is more pathological in her hatred of the Clintons than MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell or the Morning Joe crowd, about whom we write often. Still, it was a shock on Aug. 1 when Dowd wrote in her weekend column about the pleas of Vice President Joe Biden's dying son Beau's final wishes.
According to multiple sources, it was Biden himself who talked to her, painting a tragic portrait of a dying son, Beau’s face partially paralyzed, sitting his father down and trying to make him promise to run for president because "the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values.”
Politico writer Edward-Isaac Dovere's piece carried the sub-headline: "The vice president is mourning. He's also calculating."
AOC and HillaryWomen News on Facebook have no interest in speculating about Joe Biden's motives or intentions. But this VOX article really got our attention.
Imagine how the press would react if Hillary Clinton did what Joe Biden just did VOX
Since Joe Biden has been weighing a run for president, members of the press have repeatedly praised him for his "authenticity." This has largely been in contrast to Hillary Clinton, who is frequently pilloried by the media as secretive and calculating, and has its members yearning for a more natural candidate. "With Joe Biden, what you see is what you get," Mike Barnicle wrote for the Daily Beast.
The refreshingly insightful VOX reminds us not to trust media accounts of who is authentic. VOX goes so far as to suggest that "authenticity" seems to be a synonym for "better at working the press" or more "fun to cover".
Politico's Glenn Thrush tweeted on August 1, the date of Dowd's article: "Joe Biden (while being a natural born bullshit artist) is the nicest most sincere and menschy national pol I've ever covered.
We ALL know that no one would cut candidate Clinton any slack if her actions mirrored Biden's. If Hillary is involved, the media employ different strokes for different folks -- which is why the younger and less incestuous VOX and Buzzfeed are fresh political reads these days.
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