Whew. I was really worried that it was the Russians, the FBI and racism that cost Hillary the election. Now the New York Times in a piece titled, “The Men Who Cost Clinton the Election,” lays the blame at the feet of Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose.
“Every day I believe more in karma,” Clinton said to that, referring further to several “men who shaped the narrative” during the campaign who have since been sidelined in the wave of sexual harassment scandals...
Many of the male journalists who stand accused of sexual harassment were on the forefront of covering the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Matt Lauer interviewed Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump in an official “commander-in-chief forum” for NBC. He notoriously peppered and interrupted Mrs. Clinton with cold, aggressive, condescending questions hyper-focused on her emails, only to pitch softballs at Mr. Trump and treat him with gentle collegiality a half-hour later.
Mark Halperin and Charlie Rose set much of the televised political discourse on the race, interviewing other pundits, opining themselves and obsessing over the electoral play-by-play. Mr. Rose, after the election, took a tone similar to Mr. Lauer’s with Mrs. Clinton — talking down to her, interrupting her, portraying her as untrustworthy. Mr. Halperin was a harsh critic of Mrs. Clinton, painting her as ruthless and corrupt, while going surprisingly easy on Mr. Trump. The reporter Glenn Thrush, currently on leave from The New York Times because of sexual harassment allegations, covered Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign when he was at Newsday and continued to write about her over the next eight years for Politico.
Obviously.
Never mind that the media was biased Hillary's way. Now members of the media will claim that the media was biased against Hillary because some of its members were rapey. I'd love to see this thesis used to reinterpret the political history of the Kennedy family. Not to mention Bill Clinton.
But the question is how do the Russians, the FBI and racism come into it?
Maybe Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose were really secret FBI-KGB agents whose mission was to make Hillary lose the election by being vocally for her. Because of their sexism. And racism. Because you know how racist-sexist the FBI-KGB is.
It used to be that we laughed at the crazy Communist countries where insane political conspiracy theories that made no sense were used to explain every failure.
Crop yields fall? It must be a CIA-Zionist-Rockfeller conspiracy with the Baptists who are trying to undermine the Socialist revolution by asking uncomfortable questiions.
Now we're one of those crazy Communist countries. If you don't believe me, read the New York Times.