Journalists like to describe themselves as “speaking truth to power” — at least when they want to give themselves an excuse to engage in full-throated political activism. But that sense of mission only seems to apply when they want to scream at conservatives; the media elite have little interest in puncturing the self-serving lies of their liberal heroes.
Which brings us to how the networks covered former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s memoir, Living History, twenty years ago this week. In June 2003, Hillary had been in the Senate for two and a half years, and there was little doubt she hungered to be President. But she also had some famously unfinished business from her role in the early days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which led to her husband’s impeachment five years earlier, in 1998.
In January of 1998, as news broke of Bill Clinton’s affair with Lewinsky, Hillary appeared on NBC’s Today show to claim it was all a fraud and blame conservatives for concocting the story. “The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.”
[If I say something right now… ~ Beege]
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