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NBC’s Chuck Todd: Media knew how ‘hated’ Hillary was in heartland
2017-01-28
[WASHINGTONTIMES] NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
 was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing "sexist."

What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."

"Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as news hounds and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were in the heartland," the "Meet the Press" host admitted Thursday to former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer in a interview for the "1947" podcast.

"And I think it was a fear of, ’Oh, is it going to look like it’s sexist, anti-woman if we say that?’" he added, pointing out that on the hustings he saw numerous "Hillary for Prison" signs adorning the front yards of rural America.

"I think we underplayed it a little bit out of political correctness fears," Mr. Todd said. "No member of the press corps wants to look like they’re singling out a group and making a group feel bad, right, whatever that [group] is.
Unless it's Rethuglicans...
"If we sort of were straight-up honest and blunt about hey do we understand the level of hatred that’s out there and you know, all the Hillary for Prison signs that are out there, we certainly would have at least made the viewer know, hey, you know, she’s not well-liked in some places in this country in ways that’s times 10 when it comes to Trump," he said
Posted by:Fred

#16  Sorry Abu, but I do miss Ebbang's views.
Posted by: Snack Claitch2138   2017-01-28 17:23  

#15  What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to "tell the stories of all Americans."

You misspelled 'refused', Chuckie, ya lying sack of wet shit...
Posted by: Raj   2017-01-28 14:30  

#14  Nice that he didn't bring this up right after the election when the Dems were trying to sell the myth the Russians stole it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-01-28 13:57  

#13  I would have told him about Richard Nixon, Sam Hayakawa, Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson and how Hillary's husband let all the illegal aliens into my state so guys like that can never get elected again.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-28 13:32  

#12  Somebody ought to tell Mr. Todd that there's a difference between 'hated' and 'despised'.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-01-28 13:30  

#11  Never announced this yet but Ebbang and Abu are the same guy with two separate computers. But I got rid of the Ebbang computer so now it's just Abu. But you're right, Chuck Todd never interviewed me and he certainly never told my story. Hillary and Soros wouldn't have liked it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-01-28 13:26  

#10  I'm a "Coastal American", as is Ebbang and Abu. They didn't tell our stories
Posted by: Frank G   2017-01-28 13:09  

#9  "We told the stories of coastal Americans"

...in addition we told alot urban stories. And come to think of it we told alot of minority, climate change, and LBGT stories as well. So you can see why I reject the Liberal bias allegation
Posted by: DepotGuy   2017-01-28 09:21  

#8  Your cowardice, Chuck, aggravated the split in America.

But I haven't watched MSM news on TV since the invasion of Iraq 'quagmire' remark.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-01-28 08:22  

#7  but don't you dare call them partisan
Posted by: Frank G   2017-01-28 08:07  

#6  NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton

In other news, water is wet.
Posted by: bbrewer126   2017-01-28 07:57  

#5  > fear of appearing "sexist."

I don't believe you. It never happens when you attack masculinity.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-01-28 07:08  

#4  It was not political correctness that prevented the media from telling the real story of how Heartland Americans felt about Hillary. They really feared the liberal coastal sheeple watching the news and beginning to wonder if they should join the group think.
Posted by: Airandee   2017-01-28 06:33  

#3  They have no idea. They could could have asked but they did not want to hear.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2017-01-28 05:13  

#2  Well, if you live in a corporate social experiment with platoons of lobotomized parrots, you begin to sound like them too.


Besides, mocking your own Countrymen is much better than having a cheeseburger in middle America, if only to act like you care.

YOU ARE FIRED.
We shall reform the Media, and have the ability to do so.

Posted by: newc   2017-01-28 03:38  

#1  Its not "news" that those pretending to provide "news" have no stomach for actually providing "news" to those who tune expecting to watch "news".
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-28 00:14  

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