Posted on 01/15/2016 4:22:44 AM PST by Zakeet
NBC News journalists - including veteran reporter Andrea Mitchell - conducted interviews last week with Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas woman who says Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, but decided not to go forward with a story, claiming that there was not "anything new" to report.
"When Juanita Broaddrick went public last week, NBC News sent an associate producer to Arkansas to see if there was anything new in her story. We established there was not, and decided not to pursue it any further," an NBC spokesperson told Buzzfeed News.
Broaddrick, a 73-year-old retired nursing home administrator, spoke out on Twitter last Wednesday after 17 years of silence about the alleged rape.
"I was 35 years old when Bill Clinton, Ark. Attorney General raped me and Hillary tried to silence me. I am now 73 ... it never goes away," Broaddrick wrote in a tweet that has been shared 13,000 times.
Broaddrick, who is one of numerous women who have accused Clinton of sexual violence or harassment over the years, had first talked publicly about the 1978 incident in a 1999 interview with NBC's "Dateline." She said during that interview that she met Clinton when she went to volunteer at the Little Rock headquarters of his gubernatorial campaign. She said she and Clinton later met for coffee at a hotel where she was staying but that the politician asked to carry on their discussion in her room. There, Broaddrick says Clinton raped her.
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100% this.
NBC/MSM knew Bubba could be elected in spite of criminal behaviour BUT they are deeply concerned Madame Cankles cannot ... Thus spike the story.
Meanwhile, if they find out Silent Cal fathered a black child, we’d hear about it immediately.
NBC sucks, but we already know that don’t we...
You're right Civ - they've known all along... and flat out don't care.
Remember when liberal elites huddled around Kennedy after he killed that woman Mary Jo? The lowlifes were worried Teddy might feel bad about killing an innocent woman because he was a drunken coward.
Clinton supporters are cut from the same cloth.
She spoke publicly about it, or someone did, in 1992.
The bitter truth is that Bully Hillary2016 is worse than BULLY Hillary2008. Once again Bully Hillary is mincing around getting schlonged.
Bully Hill put some ice on it!
Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and BULLY Hillary is his Goebbels!!!!!
Clintoon the "affluenza" serial rapist!
How about “this was a story 15-20 years ago. A lot of people (read: voters) were barely out of diapers and don’t know the story. How Hillary reacted and treated Brodderick speaks directly to statements she’s made recently on the campaign trail”
Just the same old truth....not interesting to NBC.
Thanks StAnDeliver, for both comments.
No. The decision not to run with the story came from the top. Then the editor sent the reporter out with a qualifier that could not be met (something new to the story).
This was to guarantee that no matter what, they would not publish a story of any kind based on the interview.
If she did had something new to say, she would be dismissed as having no credibility because “she keeps changing her story.”
Maybe Hillary has ‘pictures’ of Andrea Martin (NBCNEWS) “exchanging glances” with Bill O’Reilly.
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