NBC Lowers The Bar For Omarosa

NBC "News" is perfectly demonstrating why the American people distrust the media's professed belief in facts, or their supposed approach of holding a story until they have enough documented evidence.

The latest shameless exhibit? Championing former "Apprentice" star and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman's new "tell-all" book in which she claims President Donald Trump is a racist and a bigot. She claims that she has heard a tape recording (which she did not produce) of Trump saying the N-word on the set of his NBC reality show. In the book, Newman describes hearing about the tape but not hearing it herself. She claimed on Sunday that she personally listened to it after her book had gone to press.

As with the "Access Hollywood" tape, NBC seems to be trying to do penance for the "sin" of building Trump's national profile over the years with "The Apprentice" and then "Celebrity Apprentice." It doesn't seem sorry for making Newman a rich and famous TV personality -- and now a well-compensated author of tabloid trash. NBC overdosed on the story with 67 minutes of "fake news" right out of the gate.

Newman spoke sweet nothings into NBC's ear: "I was complicit with this White House deceiving this nation. They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process complex information, how he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country."

So the president is not just a racist but mentally incompetent. NBC already broadcast this garbage about Trump's unfitness when it came from Michael Wolff's Trump-trashing gossip book, "Fire & Fury."

But it's not the first time NBC skipped the hard work of digging for evidence before attacking a Republican. This resembles NBC's opportunistic set of morning-show interviews with Kitty Kelley back in 1991 when she wrote a book on former first lady Nancy Reagan and claimed -- with a glaring lack of proof -- that Reagan had an affair with Frank Sinatra. "All That Glitters Is Not Real" was the headline in The New York Times. That was transparently obvious.

This is a dramatic contrast with 1998 and 1999, when then-NBC investigative reporter Lisa Myers carefully investigated and verified details of Juanita Broaddrick's allegation that then-President Bill Clinton raped her in a Little Rock hotel in 1978. The network suppressed its own report and waited for more "facts" for months ... until the threat of removing its darling President Clinton from office had passed.

And then, when it finally aired on "Dateline," NBC's Tom Brokaw would not allow any story on Clinton rape allegations to soil his nightly newscast, and he wouldn't even say the name "Juanita Broaddrick" on his show. The network's "standard" for evidence is a flaming double standard.

NBC News no longer has Myers to verify Newman's book before promoting it. Myers grew discouraged and left, because the network had no interest in investigative reporting if it was going to damage their hero then-President Barack Obama. NBC only likes stories that serve its political allies.

These "news" outlets complain that when President Trump attacks them for pushing "fake news," he is undermining "democratic norms." That's not correct. He is decrying the media's Democratic norms.

“...how he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country.”

It seems to me that President is holding a public rally almost weekly where he talks for an hour or more. He has met with world leaders both publicly and privately. Whenever he goes out in public he is under constant observation.

If he was as described wouldn’t you think someone other than someone with an ax to grind. That the major news organization would cover this story without any actual proof tells us more about them then it does the President.

The sad part of this is there are people who will believe all this and begin repeating it all as fact.

As Edward R Murrow once said, “Have you no sense of decency?”

They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, how difficult it is for him to process complex information, how he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impact our country."

I wonder how many times she actually talked to him while she did her half assed job - apparently she wouldn't show up for meetings or showed up late - but meanwhile she somehow discerned Trump's mental state? Yeah....right.

People: “Omarosa’s Long History of Being Fired” (flashback to 2004 and her Clinton-Gore WH jobs)
People ^ | April 08, 2004 01:00 PM | PEOPLE STAFF
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Donald Trump wasn’t the first person to fire Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, the combative “Apprentice” contestant who makes a heralded return to the NBC reality show on Thursday, the next-to-last episode of the ratings hit.

According to the new issue of PEOPLE, the former political appointee — who spoke glowingly of her White House days — was banished from four jobs in two years with the Clinton administration.

At her last one, “she was asked to leave as quickly as possible, she was so disruptive,” says Cheryl Shavers, the former Under Secretary for Technology at the Commerce Department, where Omarosa worked several weeks in 2000. “One woman wanted to slug her.”

Manigault-Stallworth, 30, was also bounced from a previous position at Commerce, says another former administration official, “because she couldn’t get along with people.”

At her first White House gig, answering invitations received by Vice President Al Gore, “she didn’t do her job, and it got everybody in trouble,” says a former Gore staffer...

...When asked about her employment history, the former Apprentice at first told PEOPLE, “I left when I got married,” but later said she left “to go out on the campaign for Al Gore.”...

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ..

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