Everyone knew the leftist media was in the tank for Hillary Clinton during her failed run for the White House in 2016. Yet such is the media’s commitment to protecting the failed secretary of state that they have ignored one of the most significant news stories of the year. Last week, the Federal Election Commission fined Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee for lying about their role in paying to create the Steele Dossier.
Example: Leftist Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, interviewed Clinton for about 11 minutes yesterday. He asked not one question about the fine, or Clinton’s role in trying to destroy her opponent in 2016, Donald Trump, with lies crafted by a British secret agent.
Recall that the dossier not only falsely accused Donald Trump of “colluding” with Russia to defeat Clinton. Even worse, it was the reason the FBI initiated wiretaps on Trump campaign official Carter Page.
Todd was uninterested, law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley observed, in asking about the only thing in the news that concerned Clinton. Instead, he asked about Russia and American politics.
Todd’s Questions
Not one of the NBC bigshot’s questions were relevant to news involving Clinton. Todd permitted Clinton to bloviate about foreign policy, a field in which she has proven singularly incompetent, apropos of her disastrous handling of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012.
Todd’s introduction was a big juicy kiss hello. Then came a long embrace:
Welcome back. Hillary Clinton has a lot to say about Vladimir Putin. As secretary of state, she famously called for a reset in U.S.-Russian relations, but Putin was having none of it. And by the time Clinton left office in 2013, Putin repeatedly attacked her in very personal terms. That animosity may have played a role in Russia’s efforts to help Donald Trump in his 2016 campaign against Clinton. Perhaps he feared she’d have a much tougher policy against him. Hillary Clinton joins me now. Madame Secretary, welcome back to Meet the Press.…
I know you were listening to the interview with Masha Gessen. I want to pick up on Masha’s last point there, which seemed to imply that no matter when we’ve confronted Putin, and I could go back really all the way to when he came into power, we’ve — it seems as if we’ve always come up a bit short. We’ve drawn a line not quite as far as others would like to draw, you — whether it was — you’ve made points of this about Syria. Perhaps we should have drawn a thicker line on what happened in Crimea. Why is that, and are you concerned we’re — we’re maybe holding back now a little too much?…
You heard Secretary Blinken essentially say, look, sanctions relief could happen. That all depends on the behavior of Russia. Can we really live in a world where Putin’s let back into the new world order?…
If a country that we provide an extraordinary amount of defensive weaponry to, an extraordinary amount of support to, and I’m speaking of Saudi Arabia, who could essentially turn the dial tomorrow if they wanted to — we know this with OPEC nations, they’re choosing to essentially be on the side of Putin on this one. Should there be some consequences to this in our relationship going forward?
When Todd turned to Joe Biden and domestic politics, he ducked the obvious questions again. What about that FEC fine and the Steele Dossier? Do you have any regrets about colluding with a British spy to craft a lie to defeat your opponent, then lying about the lie?
Turley’s Reaction
After documenting the media’s suppressing news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Turley noted Clinton’s comment about President Biden’s job performance and polling numbers. “I’m not quite sure what the disconnect is,” she said.
“The same can be said about the interview itself,” Turley wrote:
For many of us we are “not quite sure what the disconnect is” between an interview on how Clinton would handle the next election and how her campaign was just fined for her handling of the last election. This was not some trivial record-keeping violation. This was the concealing of the role of the Clinton campaign in funding and pushing a major scandal — and allegedly lying about that role to reporters.
Indeed, the FEC nailed Clinton and her DNC hit squad for lying about their role in creating the dossier. They also conned the FBI into launching an expensive investigation of nothing.
Yet NBC’s premier top anchor couldn’t be bothered to ask about it
Six years after Clinton lost to Trump, much to the media’s anguish, and they’re still in the tank.
