NBC Downplays Bill Clinton Sex Allegations With Family’s Talking Points

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.

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:

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.

EXCERPT/MAUREEN DOWD/NYT/11/19/ 17 Institutional feminism died when Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright and other top feminists vouched for President Clinton as he brazenly lied about never having had a sexual relationship with “that woman” — Monica Lewinsky. The Clintons and feminists were outraged when Thomas’s supporters painted Anita Hill as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.” Yet that was precisely the Clintonian tack when women spoke up about Bill’s misbehaving. Time and again, Hillary was a party to demonizing women as liars, bimbos, trailer trash or troubled souls when it seemed clear they were truthful about her philandering husband. She often justified this by thinking of the women as instruments of the right-wing conspiracy. As I reported in ’98, even some veteran Clinton henchmen felt a little nauseated about the debate inside the White House on a slander strategy for Lewinsky: Should they paint her as a friendly fantasist or a malicious stalker? BACKSTORY 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. SOURCE: Breitbart.com The Washington Post recently recalled the pattern of Hillary Clinton’s defenses of her husband against what she called “bimbo eruptions”: … 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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EXCERPT Institutional feminism died when Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright and other top feminists vouched for President Clinton as he brazenly lied about never having had a sexual relationship with “that woman” — Monica Lewinsky.

The Clintons and feminists were outraged when Thomas’s supporters painted Anita Hill as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.” Yet that was precisely the Clintonian tack when women spoke up about Bill’s misbehaving.

Time and again, Hillary was a party to demonizing women as liars, bimbos, trailer trash or troubled souls when it seemed clear they were truthful about her philandering husband. She often justified this by thinking of the women as instruments of the right-wing conspiracy.

As I reported in ’98, even some veteran Clinton henchmen felt a little nauseated about the debate inside the White House on a slander strategy for Lewinsky: Should the

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y paint her as a friendly fantasist or a malicious stalker? BACKSTORY 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.

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SOURCE: Breitbart.com The Washington Post recently recalled the pattern of Hillary Clinton’s defenses of her husband against what she called “bimbo eruptions”: … 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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