Not exactly a fair comparison.
If this had been a national security issue, it may have been possible.
This was a political issue and if our President had used government resources to comment on it he would have been guilty of converting government money for his own personal use.
I don't think the intellectual power and speed of the internet has been recognized by anyone but daily participants in the phenomenon.
I agree with you on all points. During the Clinton WH, the MSM would have written that the WH was too busy working on the people's business.
This was a political issue and if our President had used government resources to comment on it he would have been guilty of converting government money for his own personal use.
During the Watergate scandal and Clinton administration, the use of government resources for political aims was exactly what happened. The MSM has been conditioned to expect that "everyone does it". However, that's a false assumption.
I agree with you. The net has become the national "Town Hall", as well as "Truth Squad" of sorts. It's what the Founding Fathers meant by the 1st. Amendment, not the constriction of information as practiced by the MSM.
The MSM is dead. Long live the MSM.