This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features NBC News anchor telling Hillary Rodham Clinton that he “winced” when she was called dishonest by a young voter during the recent CNN Democratic presidential debate.
The interview came on Friday after the debate.
Lester Holt: “I want to ask you about a moment at the town hall the other day. A young man, a Bernie Sanders supporter, stood up and said young people don’t trust you.”
Taylor Gipple, at CNN’s January 25 Democratic town hall: “I’ve heard from quite a few people my age that they think you’re dishonest.”
Holt: “And when he said that I winced. And I was wondering, you’ve obviously been in tough battles, political battles, but do you get your feelings hurt sometimes?”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “Pathetic. A year after the Brian Williams fiasco, his replacement embarrassed himself by treating Hillary Clinton as some kind of sympathetic victim. It’s very difficult to tell any difference between the stridently left wing MSNBC and NBC News when NBC’s star anchor is so in the tank for the candidate of whom MSNBC’s star, Chris Matthews, declared: ‘Personally and politically, I think she’s great.'”
Rating: Five out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
