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Tuesday at the Los Angeles International Airport, CNN anchor Jake Tapper told TMZ the media made “mistakes” while covering the 2016 presidential election. Tapper said, “I think there were a lot of media mistakes this season in all sorts of directions. I think polling needs to be re-examined quite a bit.” He added, “Certainly there is a lot of people whose behavior and professionalism this election season should be re-examined and thinking about how to be better and how to do it better.”

Donald Trump received a question for the first debate of the primary election in advance, Megyn Kelly wrote in her new book. In "Settle for More," the Fox News anchor writes that Trump had angrily called Fox executives the day before the first GOP debate, saying he had heard that her first question was "a very pointed question directed at him," according to The New York Times. Kelly would go on to ask Trump about his history of using disparaging language about women, kicking off a feud between the two.

On Thursday, Democratic Party officials held their first staff meeting since Hillary Clinton’s stunning loss to Donald Trump in the presidential race. It didn’t go well. Donna Brazile, the interim leader of the Democratic National Committee, was giving what one attendee described as “a rip-roaring speech” to about 150 employees, about the need to have hope for wins going forward, when a staffer identified only as Zach stood up with a question. “Why should we trust you as chair to lead us through this?” he asked, according to two people in the room. “You backed a flawed candidate, and your...

Donna Brazile is not apologizing for leaking CNN debate questions and topics to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the Democratic primary. Her only regret, it seems, is that she got caught. “My conscience — as an activist, a strategist — is very clear,” the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee said Monday during a satellite radio interview with liberal activist and SiriusXM host Joe Madison. She added that “if I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity.” In other words, Brazile would have made sure that her improper...

An email released by WikiLeaks on Sunday shows that the husband of CNN vice president and Washington bureau chief Virginia Moseley tipped the Clinton campaign off to a favorable poll just before its release last September. “Good CNN poll coming,” Thomas Nides, Moseley’s husband, wrote to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in a Sept. 20, 2015 email. Nides served as deputy secretary of state under Clinton and is currently vice president at Morgan Stanley. His name has been floated for a possible high-level spot in a Clinton White House. “I’ll look forward to how that is spun,” Podesta responded to...

Kleptocracy: A form of government in which corrupt rulers (kleptocrats) use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political power. - Wikipedia. Until now, the present generation of ultra-rich ruthlessly exploit the media disninformation technicians, the Winston Smiths, to bring billions under the sway of mass delusion. But is there potential for the media to take advantage of their present idea hegemony, to stage a coup, to overthrow their masters? In past centuries, the was the concern with the Military. (You likely never heard that...

This email has also been verified by Yahoo! DKIM 1024-bit RSA key Re: Mellody Hobson From:laurasnichols@yahoo.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2008-09-26 19:47 Subject: Re: Mellody Hobson whose partnership w/larry brilliant at google?? what is Lux telling you about his $$ing - never know what's real w/he and stan ----- Original Message ---- From: John Podesta To: laura nichols Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 2:22:57 PM Subject: Re: Mellody Hobson Good plan. I can get back into this tomorrow. Will help move thru wvwv or powerpac if ads test well. What happened to their partnership with larry brilliant at google? Thoght he...

CNN wants to move on from the recent scandal that revealed one of its paid contributors had shared questions from presidential forums in advance with Hillary Clinton's campaign. The network is declaring itself in the clear of any wrongdoing, though it is not addressing some key issues. "I can confirm we did an internal review," a high-ranking source at CNN told the Washington Examiner on Thursday. "The results are: Nobody at CNN did anything wrong."

Wikileaks: HRC’s Campaign Has Power Over When PBS Airs Its Stories Jim Hoft Nov 3rd, 2016 10:30 am 17 Comments Your tax dollars at work— Via Wikileaks — The Hillary Campaign calls the shots at PBS.Public television and radio stations like PBS and NPR got $445 million from the government in 2012.Via Wikileaks documents:

Senior Department of Justice official Peter J. Kadzik, newly exposed by WikiLeaks as colluding with Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, is the same Obama appointee who helped cover up the Internal Revenue Service’s deliberate targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. It is troubling that Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Kadzik is involved in, and possibly overseeing, the Justice Departments’s investigation of the 650,000 potentially sensitive emails found on a laptop computer thought to have been used at home by disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and his estranged wife, longtime senior Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

And the hits just keep on coming. At the same time as the latest Wikileaks email dump revealed an email sent from the gmail account of DOJ assistant attorney general, Peter Kadzik, to the gmail account of John Podesta, warning him of a FOIA case that would make it "a while before the State Department posts the [Hillary] emails", an off-the-record communication which the DOJ apparently had no complaints about, we learned of another coordinated, collusive event, this time involving not the Department of Justice, but the Secretary of State, the New York Times, and the Clinton campaign. In an...

Full title: AT&T and DirecTV colluded in an illegal plot that kept Dodgers games off the air, DOJ lawsuit alleges AT&T and DirecTV acted as ringleaders in an illegal plot against the Dodgers Channel that kept Los Angeles sports fans from watching their favorite team on television, according to a major lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Justice Department. The anti-collusion suit alleges that DirecTV -- and its corporate parent, AT&T -- shared private negotiating information in 2014 with other TV providers, including Cox Communications and Charter Communications, in order to gain a collective advantage over Time Warner Cable, which was...

Jeopardy contestant and media guru Wolf Blitzer recently interviewed Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s senior adviser. Blitzer asked Conway if she is comfortable with Trump calling the news media “lowlifes” and “all sorts of other ugly words.” She responded that she avoids personal insults herself and then went on to catalogue a bevy of media misdeeds. She described the media as advocates rather than journalists and elaborated that “many journalists have admitted that Donald Trump compels them to suspend objective standards of journalism.” Media bias is pervasive. The Media Matters headline reveals its biased point of view: “CNN's Wolf Blitzer Presses...

“She could be gone by Thursday or Friday,” the DNC source said. “Wikileaks is her undoing. Who knows what else they have on her. She’s a complete liability and is hurting Hillary at this point. She has no long term upside as chair. She’s not that charismatic to begin with.” The DNC insider said Brazile might last until after the election next week, given the FBI-provoked tailspin the Clinton campaign is trying to pull out from. Firing Brazile this week may ultimately throw gasoline on what appears to be a week-long Democratic bonfire, the source said. But the party might...

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Donna Brazile, the acting chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, resigned from her role as a CNN contributor earlier this month. Her departure was announced Monday amid fresh revelations that she sent questions to Hillary Clinton's campaign in advance of a CNN debate and a CNN-TV One town hall. In a statement, CNN said it was "completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor."

CNN has accepted Donna Brazile’s resignation as a contributor after new hacked emails showed she tipped off Hillary Clinton’s campaign about likely primary debate questions. “CNN never gave Brazile access to any questions, prep material, attendee list, background information or meetings in advance of a town hall or debate. We are completely uncomfortable with what we have learned about her interactions with the Clinton campaign while she was a CNN contributor,” CNN spokeswoman Lauren Pratapas said in a statement. …

CNN says it is "completely uncomfortable" with hacked emails showing former contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile sharing questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation. Hacked emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile, whose CNN contract was suspended when she became interim DNC chair over the summer, sharing with the Clinton campaign a question that would be posed to Hillary Clinton before the March CNN Democratic debate in Flint, and sharing with the campaign a possible question prior to a CNN town hall also in March....

It’s not the first time the Huffington Post was caught colluding with Hillary’s campaign to help her campaign. Former Huffington Post writer, David Seaman fears for his life, as he explains how he was shut out from the HP website, as he was writing about concerns over Hillary’s poor health. In August 2016, David Seamon claims that the Huffington Post abruptly disabled his password and deleted two articles that he authored about Hillary Clinton’s health. In a YouTube video posted late last night with the stated purpose of documenting the situation (embedded below), David Seaman insists that he successfully published...

Part III of the undercover Project Veritas Action investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it’s all disguised as a duck. In this video, several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations. “In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground,” says Creamer in one of several exchanges.