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In January 2018, Toobin made similar remarks in a podcast with comedian Larry Wilmore. I think there was a lot of false equivalence in the 2016 campaign," said Toobin back then. "That every time we said something, pointed out something about Donald Trump whether it was his business interests, or grab em by the p---y, we felt like, Oh, we gotta, like, talk about we gotta say something bad about Hillary. And I think it led to a sense of false equivalence that was misleading, and I regret my role in doing that.
For both of his meae culpae, Toobin has received applause from media-watchers. After all, not all pundits, editors and correspondents offer honest reflection of this sort.
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and corruption from this asshole
calimary
(81,085 posts)Hes the ONLY member of the media whos even tried to come clean on this.
Even Andrea oh but her emails Mitchell just HAD TO bring it up, again, just recently, in connection with something on the trump side. One of those but in fairness... moments to make sure we were all reminded about the problem of Hillarys emails, which has now been confirmed by investigators as one big fat nothingburger.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)No mea culpa will erase his culpability.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Unfortunately it is not what we want them to learn.
The pundits are richly paid to put on their serious faces to tell us about their shallow insights on subjects they actually know nothing about.
Then when it turns our they were disastrously wrong the truly heroic ones come out and tell us ooops. But dont worry. Being so wrong wont slow any of them down one bit.
The lesson is there is no standard or accountability for pundits.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)the Electoral College due to ratfuckery. Always remember and never forget that.
Gothmog
(144,876 posts)Link to tweet
Toobin told POLITICO he has been flooded with responses since his surprise admission Monday morning on CNN. The feedback have largely fallen into two categories, he said: Thank you for saying this and Youre a jerk, you shouldn't have done it in the first place.
The conclusion on Friday of a nearly three-year State Department investigation into the Clinton email saga has reignited criticism among Democrats of the news medias heavy coverage of the issue in the 2016 election. The claims that she had exposed classified secrets through her use of a private server dogged Clinton down to the final days of the campaign, when a surprise admission by then-FBI Director James Comey that the bureau was reopening its probe into the emails corresponded with a last-minute downturn in her polling numbers.
Nonetheless, the State Department found that there was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information by any officials while Clinton was serving as secretary of state, a conclusion that Democrats quickly seized upon to bemoan the campaign coverage.