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In reply to the discussion: Clinton: 'That was my last race' [View all]still_one
(92,676 posts)Something to boost their ratings
Even the NY Times review of this book is trying to capitalize on the Hillary hate.
The media had it in for Hillary from the start, and they were only too willing to do their part.
Nice of the book to briefly mention the contribution of the FBI, and the Russian interference.
Thinking that by pushing the narrative that "she never reached out", can cover up their complicity in propagating "a lie told often enough becomes the truth"
This isn't rocket science.
Hillary was leading in all the polls before Comey came out 11 days with the letter to the republicans in Congress, and MSNBC was the first network to report that the email investigation was reopened. THAT WAS A LIE. MSNBC then proceed to parade every right wing politician across their screen for the next two hours propagating that LIE. Soon every other news network followed suit with the same LIE. A few days later Bret Baier broadcast that according to "his sources in the FBI, an imminent indictment was pending on the Clinton Foundation. Another LIE, but the other news outlets picked that up quickly too. a few days later Baier came out and apologized saying that there was no pending indictment, and apologized. He was mistaken. Just peachy. The damage was pretty much done then, and the poll numbers reflected it. Hillary completely lost the lead she had.
Just like the Iraq War, which was based on a lie, they were only too willing to bang the drums.
The false equivalencies, and the legitimizing of racism, sexism, and xenophobia by the media spoke volumes.
When Chuck Todd said "It's Not the Media's Job To Correct GOP's Falsehoods", or CNN entertaining the question, "are Jews human?", the fourth estate has exposed what they have become,
The fault dear brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves