MSNBC wheeling and dealing
Earlier today, the Clinton campaign blew up at MSNBC:
Howard Wolfson suggested that there's a "pattern" of reprehensible comments by MSNBC personalities, and said outright that the Hillary campaign could no longer "envision a scenario where we would debate on that network given the comments that were made and have been made."Wolfson made the comments in response to a question about a now-notorious comment by MSNBC's David Shustser, in which he asked if Chelsea's campaigning on her mom's behalf meant she was being "pimped" by the Hillary campaign
I'm not sure there's a connection (it could just be a coincidence) but MSNBC just did the Clinton campaign a huge favor by running 20-or-so minutes of uninterrupted live footage from an HRC campaign stop in Tacoma, Washington.
I'm gonna do some irresponsible speculating and ask, Is that the price for maintaining access to the Clinton campaign?
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I can't understand the Shuster thing: he's always seemed just like what the left wanted in a TV reporter - facts, hard hitting, even-handed mostly.
Now he's suspended from MSNBC....
The 'pimped out' line was/is way over the line, but not much worse than the regular-but-no-so-blunt anti-Hillary line from Chris Matthews.
What seems clear to me is that now that most Dems won't go on Faux News anymore, the Clinton Campaign threat to not do a debate on MSNBC must have had some sting of reality incoming.
Dems must learn to punish as well as reward media figures. The GOP has been doing this for years. Note the DOJ ban on Talking Points Memo being included on the DOJ email notices.
Kick them in the nuts, harder, harder....
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