This week’s Mainstream Media Scream, for the first time, is a cheer for a giant in the media world blowing the whistle on her friends who want to give Hillary Rodham Clinton a free pass.
We feature Maureen Dowd of the New York Times who told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd that her friends won’t even read her interviews with Republican Donald Trump, choosing to censor GOP news as well as negative stories about Clinton.
Asked by Todd to describe the “East Coast freak out” among “the elites” over Clinton falling in the polls, Dowd replied:
“Well my friends, one of my friends, Leon Wieseltier, calls it a national emergency. And my friends won’t even read any, if I do interviews with Donald Trump, they won’t read them. And basically they would like to censor any stories about Trump and also censor any negative stories about Hillary. They think she should have a total free pass. Because as she said at that fundraiser recently, ‘I’m the only thing standing between you and the abyss.'”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “I thought the media already were giving Hillary a free pass? All kidding aside, sort of, this scream goes not to a journalist, but to those who prefer to get their news from the New York Times. Dowd did a good service in revealing the intolerant attitudes of liberals and it might help explain how the Times slants its coverage to satisfy its readers.”
Rating: Five happy faces.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
