Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, greets Pink as Ellen DeGeneres watches during a taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, at Rockefeller Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Mainstream Media Scream: Ellen tells Clinton, 'You are the smartest, most-qualified'
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features a new voice, Ellen DeGeneres, talking about, well lauding, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
On last week's syndicated daytime "the Ellen show," she told Clinton:
"Let's just get this out of the way. Let's talk about the emails. What? ... I mean, I actually don't think you need to. It's just that people keep bringing it up. They have not found a thing. They keep saying they've found something, but then we don't hear anything about it. So they haven't found anything ...
"You are the smartest, most-qualified person for this job. If I'm looking for someone who's qualified, if I'm looking for a plumber, I want someone who has snaked a drain before – you know what I'm saying? I think you know what I'm saying. I want someone who is qualified and I feel like, if I look at all the other candidates, someone who is for rights across the board — equal rights for women, equal rights for every ethnicity, equal rights for everyone — it is — the only person I can look at is you."
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Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Hillary Clinton couldn't have picked a bigger sycophant to 'interview' her. DeGeneres makes the MSNBC team look tough by comparison. Note to Ellen: 'They have not found a thing' in the email because Mrs. Clinton deleted all the incriminating ones!"
Rating: Four out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
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