May I do a favor for my late husband?

[arlyellowdog]

I saw Maggie Haberman on Colbert last night blaming the “news media” fo getting Trump elected. My husband died suddenly in 2016. His final day, at dinner, he said, “Fuck the New York Times, they’re going to defeat Hillary and get that clown elected.” He meant you, Maggie. You think we forgot?

[niyad]

1. Exactly.

[JohnSJ]

2. Sorry for your loss, but yes, your husband is right

[NCDem47]

3. It's amusing how she thinks she flies above it all.

Irony is not dead.

[Botany]

7. NYT, "Hillary Clinton's Long Road to 'Sorry' Over Email Use" By Maggie Haberman and Amy Chozick

Maggie Haberman has never apologized for what she did to HRC by pushing the phony email scandal.
The NY Times published "a correction" about their coverage of HRC/emails in 2018 in a short blib inside
the paper.

Hillary Rodham Clinton did not want to apologize.

For months, when advisers or friends gently suggested she say she was sorry for using a private email address and server while at the State Department, Mrs. Clinton replied that her actions had been within the law and that political opponents and journalists were manufacturing the controversy. Apologizing, she argued, would only legitimize it.

On Tuesday, she relented. In an interview with ABC News, Mrs. Clinton said using a private email had been “a mistake,” adding: “I’m sorry about that.”

The tortured path to what some of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters saw as an overdue and essential step is the story of a presidential campaign in flux, adapting to unanticipated challenges it was not entirely prepared to handle — and of a candidate whose instincts, over a tumultuous lifetime in politics, have repeatedly guided her toward digging in, not giving in, when under attack.

But Mrs. Clinton, sliding in the polls — which show voters increasingly questioning her trustworthiness — does not want to see this shot at the presidency slip away. And the pleas from friends and advisers became more fervent almost a month ago, according to interviews with a half-dozen people with direct knowledge of the discussions, most of whom insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/hillary-clinton-email-secretary-of-state.html

[2naSalit]

9. +1

[betsuni]

31. Ugh.

[Botany]

4. Clinton vs Trump media coverage

And they are doing the same things to Biden (best President of my lifetime) and the Democrats right now.

[lpbk2713]

6. I'll never get over how easily the news was manipulated.

It was so obvious there had to be complicity. They made issues out of non-issues and vice versa.

[Botany]

8. And in 2016 if you read something about HRC and emails on Facebook you were reading Russian ....

.... propaganda and something that the media never pushed was that Facebook paid a $5 billion
penalty for rat fucking our elections.

BTW FYI the media is selling "the horse race meme" now https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217224808

[Xoan]

10. In most cases ...

the news is owned by Republicans.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Scandals (real or manufactured) sell copies and get clicks. Issues don't...

It's always been that way. Probably always will as long as revenues are ad based.

It's all about getting eyeballs on the content. If it bleeds it leads.

[robbob]

21. Yes, but don't forget...

If it’s a Democratic candidate literally ANYthing can be a scandal, and it gets dragged out for weeks, or even months. If it’s a Republican it’s a one day story, often explained with a shrug and a dismissal; “oh, that’s just tRump being tRump…he’s so unconventional…” etc. etc.

Where are the endless stories about Matt Gaetz (sp?), or Gini Thomas and her husband refusing to recuse himself? I could go on and on. To dismiss it as just the media looking for a scandal is to miss the point. It’s heavily slanted, and not by accident.

[betsuni]

32. Only 10% of MSM coverage was about policy. "Jobs" was the most frequent word in Hillary's speeches.

But of course we didn't hear any of that. I remember seeing the policies of the two parties side by side on the news only on the day after the election. But no, they made that election all about a fictional corrupt Hillary cartoon. Emails disappeared the day after the election the same way drone warfare used to bash President Obama disappeared. Now everybody likes Hillary and says she was right about everything. Oh, now you like and trust her. At least Biden has Dark Brandon.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. K & R!

[Mad_Machine76]

13. Wow

Who does she think she works for?!

[Tommymac]

15. Herself and herself only. Maggie is just as much of a malignant narcissist as TFG. The 1% loves it.

She is all and only about Maggie. Numero Uno. The rest of reality is just a setting for her play.

She uses the 1% blood money to line her fragile nest with blood covered feathers.

She is a vile piece of shit.

[LittleGirl]

19. Thank you

I can’t stand the woman. Her family and 45 have been in cahoots for decades.
We are being played by MH. I don’t trust anything she says.
Just like 45.
Void of reality.

[calimary]

30. Neither do I.

It must kill her to have to write bad news about the donald. Especially not having Hillary as her convenient scratching post anymore. Wake up and smell the stench, Maggie-baby. You created a lot of it.



And God bless your husband, arlyellowdog. He sure called it.

[okaawhatever]

14. I'm so sorry. You must miss him so. Clearly he was a smart, good man. nt

[arlyellowdog]

26. Thank you that's nice. He never met his grandkids, but never knew that clown actually was elected.

[okaawhatever]

37. It's sad he didn't meet his grandkids, but I'm sure the best of him is in your

children and your grandkids will know his spirit through them.

[Warpy]

16. I sure as hell didn't forget

While hanging on TFG's ever word, they did voice overs when Hillary Clinton spoke, so that no one outside her physical presence got to hear what she had to say. It's the same shit they've been pulling on Democrats and why I pulled the plug on the evening news in 2004, opting for YouTube if something was deemed important enough to post. They haven't changed and I haven't, either, so during the news hour I'm happily listening to music or watching a movie or something that doesn't involve those corrupt assholes. I can catch up later, usually via the WaPo, the BBC, France 24, DW, Al Jazeera, and a variety of other print and video media.

The NYT, in its quest for spurious balance, was just as bad as the broadcast media. It still is. I keep the free subscription for Krugman's editorials. The rest is not worth the struggle for me to read.

Your husband was dead right, but it was only part of the plot to elect that POS. There were also the slick disinformation campaigns, carefully targeted by Cambridge Analytica, the Russian troll farm campaign, and finally James Fucking Comey throwing the election to TFG by claiming their was dirt on Hillary Clinton on Anthony Weiner's cell phone days before the election.

Still, we haven't forgotten Maggie.

[betsuni]

33. +1

[CaptainTruth]

17. He sounds like he was a wise & perceptive man.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. He was spot on. Thanks for sharing that. Very sorry for his passing.

[Lonestarblue]

20. I haven't forgotten either--and never will.

But the Times started its hit job on the Clintons long before 2016. I still remember the absolute venom from William Safire, who considered the Clintons trailer trash.

We have very little, if any, objective media left in this country. Even the so-called liberal media is careful not to offend any Republican, and they continue to hype Trump as a 2024 candidate.

[yonder]

22. I'm sorry for your loss. He was as right then as he would be now.

[Lucinda]

23. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Jarqui]

24. The bigger concern for me: it is happening again NOW

Few can forget, it happened before:

New York Times: we were wrong on Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublishing.usnews

CNN has not been "good" for a long time.

They're turning into a gentler version of FOX Propaganda network.

We see the outrageous criminal behavior of Trump & his crime family - often toned down on cable news by some advocate on the right.
But Joe Biden's age or stutter/misspeak or other trivial criticism nonsense by comparison gets equal time or worse.

Biden's approval ratings are roughly similar to Trump's because he's getting unflattering coverage constantly and often being painted by some as categorically worse than Trump.

Republicans enabled Trump. He could not have got elected or maintained his time in the Oval Office without them. That makes them pretty close to as bad as Trump. And they're grooming a more dangerous replacement in DeSantis.
All of that would not be possible is it were not for the six Republican sympathetic entities who control 90% of the US media.

Maggie Haberman is just a small part of the bigger problem.

[wryter2000]

25. What is she

If not the news media? Eff her.

[imavoter]

27. I thought she was kind of rude to Colbert

They finally settled into a nice
conversation after he went 100%
serious.

Most of those conversation are half
scripted, so something didn't
go as planned.

I hate to say this, but she was kind of a
bitch at first.

[brer cat]

28. I'm sorry for your loss, arlyellowdog.

It sounds like your husband was a very astute Democrat. I'm sure you miss him.

[Skittles]

29. I know I would have liked your husband

my sympathy to you arlyellodog

[onecaliberal]

34. I refuse to read anything she writes. I purposely avoid any show that interviewed it.

These garbage humans in the media are 💯 responsible for peddling the Russian talking points.
Somewhere In the material that Orange pussbag ripped off is all the proof of his contact with Putin and his marching orders.

[FakeNoose]

35. Haberman has been a Chump enabler, and she helped get him elected

Once he was in the White House, she continued to help him (well it was mutual because he gave her exclusive interviews too). So why is she all angry and shit now, like she had nothing to do with it? She's trying to have it both ways, because she wants people to forget how she enabled Chump when he REALLY needed the help.

Your late husband was so-o-o-o right!

[pansypoo53219]

36. mainstream media is more for $ than democracy. trump was their ratings god. tho, i always saw HIM.

trump an empty braggart. like my paternal unit.

[lark]

38. I will not watch that self serving troll.

She kept this hidden for her own profit and she's a part of the reason HRC lost. I never read her crap and don't intend to restart.