Posted on 11/19/2017 10:25:43 AM PST by Kaslin
With the national discussion centered on sexual harassment and sexual assault, many in the liberal media had been itching to get to the allegations directed at the President. The media seemed to have recently gotten the ‘okay’ to pursue the claims when Hillary Clinton brought them up in a radio interview. It’s hypocritical for Clinton to lead the charge because of her philanderer husband with a rape charge. But that wasn’t a problem for NBC’s Sunday Today who disregarded it using Clinton’s defense.
Anchor Willie Geist kicked off the show by hyping how the claims of sexual misconduct had made their way back to Trump. “Last year's presidential campaign opponents slinging insults at each other on Saturday in a week where the allegations of sexual harassment against the President have come back to the forefront, ” he announced at the top of the program.
During her report which highlighted Trump and Clinton taking shots at each other over the weekend, NBC Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell gave voice to Hillary’s gripe that “the President is getting a free pass” on his allegations.
“Look, we have a man who's accused of sexual assault sitting in the oval office, don't we? And the very credible accusations against him have not been taken seriously,” Clinton whined during a radio interview. Of course, the obvious fact was that the same was true for her husband throughout his presidency. And she didn’t believe those women and actively attacked them with the aid of the media, a fact CNN’s Jake Tapper drew attention to last week.
NBC Downplays Bill Clinton Sex Allegations With Family’s Talking Points
But O’Donnell had Clinton’s back. In wrapping up her report, O’Donnell disregarded the accusations of sexual impropriety of Bill by parroting the Clinton family’s decades old and tired out talking points:
Clinton was asked if her own husband, former President Bill Clinton would be judged differently in today's current political environment. She said, you cannot rewrite history but pointed out there was an investigation, he was held accountable and paid an appropriate price.
And what appropriate price was that exactly? Besides the public humiliation for sexual misconduct, there wasn’t any real price. They’re multi-millionaires who gallivant around and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements, including from Russia.
This is just the latest example of the media willfully skipping over or downplaying the accusations against Bill Clinton. The Media Research Center had noted for a while now that when the media has reported on sexual harassment in politics, they always included the litigated and debunked assertions against Justice Clarence, skip Clinton and go right the accusations against President Trump.
NBC was also the network whose executives tried to shut down the explosive investigation into the claims against Hollywood Producer Harvey Weinstein and omitted it from NBC Nightly News and Access Hollywood when the story broke. NBC reporter Ronan Farrow had to pay for a camera crew out of pocket and was barred from using NBC resources. He eventually took his story to The New Yorker who did publish it.
The network seems to struggle when it tries to get it's priorities in order when it's reporting sexual misconduct.
NBC's downplaying of rape allegations was sponsored by Wayfair, Pillsbury, Theraflu, Liberty Mutual, Quaker Oats, Ocean Spray, Olay.
Transcript below:
NBC
Sunday Today
November 19, 2017
8:01:53 AM Eastern
WILLIE GEIST: But let's begin this morning with the new war of words between President Trump and Hillary Clinton. Last year's presidential campaign opponents slinging insults at each other on Saturday in a week where the allegations of sexual harassment against the President have come back to the forefront. Let's get more now from NBC's White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell. Good morning.
KELLY O’DONNELL: Good morning Willie. The President and former Secretary of State sure know how to push each other's buttons and they keep finding current ways to do that. The engaging each other in this way seems to please both of their very different bases.
[Cuts to video]
376 days after their election battle ended, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton is giving up the fight.
HILLARY CLINTON: Apparently, you know, my former opponent is obsessed with my speaking out.
O’DONNNELL: The President revived his beef on Twitter Saturday: “Crooked Hillary Clinton is the worst and biggest loser of all time. She just can't stop, which is so good for the Republican Party.” Clinton made the President a punch line Saturday night in Arkansas.
CLINTON: Honestly, between tweeting and golfing, how does he get anything done? I don't understand it.
O’DONNELL: President Trump toyed with a rematch: “Hillary, get on with your life and give it another try in three years.” In a radio interview Clinton said, the President is getting a free pass.
CLINTON: Look, we have a man who's accused of sexual assault sitting in the oval office, don't we? And the very credible accusations against him have not been taken seriously.
O’DONNELL: Clinton also raised the 2005 audio recording that Donald Trump dismissed as locker room talk.
(…)
O’DONNELL: Clinton said reactions fall along partisan lines.
CLINTON: Look at the contrast between Al Franken accepting responsibility, apologizing and Roy Moore and Donald Trump who have done neither.
[Cuts back to live]
O’DONNELL: Clinton was asked if her own husband, former President Bill Clinton would be judged differently in today's current political environment. She said, you cannot rewrite history but pointed out there was an investigation, he was held accountable and paid an appropriate price. Willie?
Didn’t NBC stand for “ Nothing But Clinton?”
NBC is a rubber stamp for the Democrat Party.
Minor aside away from all the sexual blather: She said “you cannot rewrite history.”
So why tear down monuments to great men, then?
Imagine if Trump were a governor, and he ordered the State Police to go and pick up a woman from her residence and take her to a hotel where he was staying and demanded she perform sex acts on her?????
Oh, wait, that was Bill Clinton. Never mind
Bill Clinton’s record of misogyny and brutality against women:
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - “forced himself on her, biting, bruising her”
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidation, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidation
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances while married to one of his supporters
And Hillary was orchestrating the vicious smears of these women once they spoke out. Now she promotes herself as a champion of women’s rights and has said that women accusers against rapists should be believed.(Unless the accused is her rapist husband) Go figure.
BTW. Hillary took down her quote from her website about always believing the victims of sexual assault. Wonder why?
Lost in the confusion and noise is the real event everyone seems to have forgotten.
The WHITE HOUSE Old West Wing War Room,"
CREATED BY HILLARY, STAFFED WITH A DOZEN TAXPAYER-PAID "INVESTIGATORS" WITH THE EXCLUSIVE TASK OF INVESTIGATING AND DESTROYING THE TARGETED WILLIE BIMBO ERUPTIONS
That "War Room" LED BY HILLARY ROTTEN, lasted 8 years! and did nothing else!
Has Hillary been asked about that?
If not, why not?
It probably still stands for it.
Looks like the left is contradicting themselves.
Maybe the should dance in the sand and talk about adopting a baby.
When you live by the creed that there is no knowable, objective truth, any story, lie, or contradiction will do for the moment you are in.
It’s what the left does. The left is willing to lie, cheat and steal to protect their own. May they all be damned to hell.
Hillary, get it right. He’s not your “former opponent.” He’s your effing ASS WHIPPER.
And those 24 victims of sexual assault by Bill are only the ones we know about.
During her report which highlighted Trump and Clinton taking shots at each other over the weekend, NBC Correspondent Kelly O’Donnell gave voice to Hillary’s gripe that “the President is getting a free pass” on his allegations.
“You’d Better Put Some Ice On That”
Phew!! I was really worried that the media wouldn’t twist itself into a pretzel to defend Clinton and Franken. But after today it appears that worry was unfounded.
Trump allegedly harassed the fake women in Hillary-McCain’s Russian dossier?
Old news.
Works for Clintons (don’t need to argue details).
George’s got a lot or ‘splaining to do.......Former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now a anchor for ABC News, wrote in his memoir All Too Human: A Political Education....... Hillary Clinton had to “savage her enemies” during the Lewinsky affair, repeating a pattern from previous scandals involving her husband’s behavior towards women.
In 1991, for example, when a woman named Connie Hamzy emerged to accuse Bill Clinton of having an affair with her, Hillary Clinton said, “We have to destroy her story,” according to Stephanopoulos. George then set about arranging affidavits from people who couldback up Bill Clinton’s story: “We’d survived our first bimbo eruption,” Stephanopoulos recalled.
… Hillary Clinton dismissed an accusation made by Gennifer Flowers, the singer who sold her story to a supermarket tabloid after having previously denied an affair. In an ABC News interview, she called Flowers “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a résumé to fall back on.” She told Esquire magazine in 1992 that if she had the chance to cross-examine Flowers, “I mean, I would crucify her.”
The Post noted: “Six years later, Bill Clinton acknowledged a sexual encounter with Flowers.”
It added that when the Lewinsky scandal emerged, in which Clinton had oral sex with the then-White House intern in the Oval Office, Hillary Clinton refused to credit the story of his accuser, choosing to believe her husband’s lies instead.
Hillary reportedly called Lewinsky a “narcissistic loony toon.”
Former Bill Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, now an anchor for ABC News, wrote in his memoir All Too Human: A Political Education that Hillary Clinton had to “savage her enemies” during the Lewinsky affair, repeating a pattern from previous scandals involving her husband’s behavior towards women.
In 1991, for example, when a woman named Connie Hamzy emerged to accuse Bill Clinton of having an affair with her, Hillary Clinton said, “We have to destroy her story,” according to Stephanopoulos. He then set about arranging affidavits from people who could back up Bill Clinton’s story: “We’d survived our first bimbo eruption,” Stephanopoulos recalled.
Later, Stephanopoulos wrote, he wondered whether he had been “complicit” in Bill Clinton’s behavior “because my defense of Clinton against past bimbo eruptions had been predicated on my belief that he wouldn’t create new ones.” The same might be said of Hillary Clinton.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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Gloria Steinem says it’s okay to use the power of your office to have law enforcers bring a woman to your room where you then drop trousers and order her to kiss it.
If you proceed after she says no, then it’s a foul but all of the rest was excused explicitly by co-founder of the feminazi movement Gloria Steinem.
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