This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features more TV fawning over the Clintons, this time graced with the title, “American royalty.”
It came last week when TheGrio’s Chris Witherspoon was talking about a GOP hit on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s election travel expenses on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show “PoliticsNation.” Reports show that candidates spent $700,000 to fly the Clintons in for campaign events.
Witherspoon defended the spending. “They’re the Clintons. They’re American royalty,” said Witherspoon.
“I don’t want to see them flying on domestic Delta flights in first class. I mean, they were flying on Air Force One for eight years. How do you go from that to not staying on private jets and kind of having like that luxurious travel experience? So I’m not mad about their spending,” he added.
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “Witherspoon is all too reflective of how the press corps so admire the Clintons that they really do see them as ‘American royalty’ and aren’t, as they should be, embarrassed to say so. Hard to imagine any journalists with a similar view of the Bush family.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
