Couric: Clinton “Received Some of the Most Unfair, Hostile Coverage I’ve Ever Seen”

I would not be surpirsed if they were refering to two of the MSNBC anchors, I can think of one man who gave one of the nasties, rudes editorals I had ever heard and stop watching his show because of it.

ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
NO OBAMA — HE HAS BASED HIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN ON LIES. THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA HID THE TRUTH FROM AMERICANS UNTIL AFTER OVER HALF OF AMERICANS HAD VOTED.
BARACK AND MICHELLE ARE RACIST ANTI-AMERICANS. READ HIS BOOK. READ HER COLLEGE THESIS.
I BELIEVE THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS AND THE DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES HAVE FORCED OBAMA DOWN OUR THROATS. MOST OF MY FRIENDS FEEL THE SAME WAY.
AMERICANS NEED TO REPLACE ALL THE DEMOCRATICS IN CONGRESS WHO DID NOT LISTEN TO US — THEY STOLE THIS ELECTION.
HOW MUCH MONEY DID OBAMA PAY DELEGATES? WE NEED AN ACCOUNTING.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND “ELECTED” — NOT “SELECTED”!

The example that Couric cited is a classic example of biased news coverage that is NOT rooted in sexism. I wish that she could have at least cited a more relevant example to make her point. Bias is firmly rooted in the overwhelmingly libera mass media, as well as in the vastly smaller conservative media, like FOX and talk radio. You can’t change a reporter’s inherent ideology or motivation. Sexism was far less prominent in this campaign than simple bias and preference for one candidate over another. Let’s face it, the media does not like the Clintons, and never have. The press liked their liberal ideology, but hated the Clintons on a personal basis, for many reasons as heavily discussed in the media for years.

senator Clinton WAS treated unfairly – even in this article – you bring up Bosnia as a reason. Was Obama treated unfairly due to Rev Wright? NO! He was given Prime Time to vent a civil rights address. And when it was apparent HE HAD LIED – he was given more time to address the issue.
THE MEDIA DID IT’S BEST TO POINT US TOWARDS A LIAR AND A RACIST – OBAMA.
HILLARY OR MCCAIN 2008

OH KATIE GIVE IT A REST!!!!!

Please!!! I am woman. It embarrasses me that people claim sexism. If that was true why then before the primaries started did all the major news outlets do stories on how Hillary is shoe in and she is going to crush everyone else and it would be a quick primary.

When you’re president, you’re ultimately accountable for what happens in the country, no matter who’s to blame for it. With the office comes great privilege and great responsibility. When you’re running for president, you’re also accountable–for your campaign. So while it’s a shame that Patti Solis Doyle apparently almost ran the campaign into the ground, and that Mark Penn didn’t choose the right message, and that Pres. Clinton ran his mouth off, and that some members of the media were biased, and a whole host of other unfortunate events, ultimately it’s Hillary who lost, and it’s Hillary who’s accountable for that loss. You can try and pass the buck all you want, but all that ends up communicating to the American people is that your candidate is not presidential material.

It’s not only the subtle sexist comments and condescending tone (words like pimping out comes to mind) – but the unfair coverage Clinton got. Just take the debates, for example, no one ever pressed Obama for answers until the ABC debate. When Clinton announced her economic plan, the media was busy praising Obama on his basketball skills. Even if you say that it galvanized Clinton supporters, the undecided voters were the ones that got affected by this very biased coverage. DNC elders like P Leahy, Pelosi, practically pushing Clinton out the door didn’t help. Clinton’s campaign also made mistakes but so did Obama’s. The media just magnified Clinton’s because they want to and they can.

ABC debate wasn’t unfair they were fair to the point that they were the only ones that didn’t give BO a pillow & a free ride! He was asked questions that no one would ask & he got pretty irritated! He was skirming pretty good. Looked like a big idiot!!

Please!!! I am woman. It embarrasses me that people claim sexism. If that was true why then before the primaries started why did all the major news outlets do stories on how Hillary is shoe in and she is going to crush everyone else and it would be a quick primary.

Angelina,
I take offense with your comment about Sen. Clinton wasn’t presidential material. Obama will have a harder time convincing people he is presidential material. As well as McCain. Because of attitudes and media biases, Obama may not get elected. People would rather live in poverty than vote for a black man. As far as McCain, he may have a slight edge in becoming president because he’s white eventhough he isn’t presidental material.

Senator Hillary Clinton certainly did receive unfair and sexist statements from MSM, the Obama campaign, his supporters, the DNC and Democratic VIPs. They muiliplied each and every gaffe Clinton made by 1000% and ignored the same in Obama. Obama’s basckground is absolutely filled with crooks, criminals and crazies and the MSM ignored the truth about him. Obama would not know truth if it hit him in the face. And he would blame soimeone else. He was a whiner and blamer amd so very corrupt. He is not presidential material.

Whiteclintonsupporter posted:
“DIFFERENCE, HE DOES NOT WHINE,WHINE,WHINE ABOUT IT”
That is very sexist. Do you even know that?

Clinton, Obama, and Ron Paul all got the shaft by the media. I am waiting for McCain’s thrashing.

No kidding. Of course Clinton was treated horribly by the media. Most of us know that. So, where was Katie WHILE this was happening?
Where was Feinstein and all the others WHILE this was happening? Too little, too late. Now we have a grossly inexperienced person as our nominee.
I wish those people would have had the courage to speak out when the sexism and hostility were going on.

My admiration for Couric just increased tenfold.

The flip side of reporters being hard on Hillary is being easy on Obama, and echoing the talking points of the Obama campaign. This was especially true when the Obama campaign engaged in race baiting.
Early on, the Obama campaign followed Bill and Hillary (and their friends) around looking for any comments that could be interpreted as racial. They pulled comments out of context or purposely misinterpreted them, fed them to the press under the table, and let the press do the dirty work. Once the press started accusing the Clintons of making racial comments the Obama campaign jumped in claiming to be shocked.
This travisty of press coverage was orchestrated by the Obama campaign, with the help of an adoring press. The purpose was to turn the black community against the Clintons.
Obviously, the Obama campaign was successful. Now it owns the black vote. If I were a black voter I would be outraged by the hypocracy of the Obama campaign in manipulating black voters.
The obvious dishonesty of the Obama campaign reminds me of the Bushies. The appeals to the baser instincts of their supporters reminds me of the way the Bush campaign used to work up its base.
McCain at least tries to be honest with people. He may be the only hope for avoiding four more years of Bush-like corruption in Washington.

Jake
I know it’s convenient for journalists to believe that the media doesn’t influence people. I think the fact that the most undemocratic dictatorships so closely control the media should give you a clue.
Not just the constant Hillary bashing but the use of Obama’s campaign’s talking points to try and prove racism against civil rights activists are blatant attempts to influence the American public to the advantage of a political agenda.
The unbelievable slander of the Clinton’s and Ferraro regarding racism has done a disservice to America. If their sin was speaking in “racial coding” then what about the Wrights and Pflegers and Farrakans of the world? This election has created an environment where we have gone retro in race relations to the extent that the profane and anti-White hate talk from Obama’s pulpit has been excused and accepted. And Obama’s blatant lies regarding his church are being accepted with no scrutiny.
Can you imagine if Clinton’s long term mentor was Rezko and trust me Whitewater was not comparable to the thousands of dollars that obama benefited from his real estate transaction.
Despite the constant and calls by the media for Clinton to step down she won 9 or the last 14 contests. Of course she lost votes in the process. And how would the DNC reacted if the media would have slanted the story to be that every vote should count instead of “Clinton’s breaking the Rules?
So when you notice the ex-Clinton supporters voting for McCain and assume that they are raving lunatics remember that before the biased coverage sent them to FOX they never would have considered it.
Unlike many of the disgruntled people I know I believe it was only 50% sexism. I think the rest was personal…”Clinton fatique”? You guys got tired of the story so you have changed it for us…This makes your responsibility greater..
Well many of us will see what we can do to change the story for Obama! I’m guessing the massive anti-Obama story will not make it to the MSM, but it is playing out in the blogs and communities everywhere. The backlash is massive. So polls are telling you that it’s OK and Obama will be annointed?…and Democratic party heads aren’t mentioning the thousands of emails and calls that will not stop? Not a story that interests you guys I guess.
I saw this outrage from the beginning! It no longer puzzles me…there is no excuse and we will REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

I turned to CBS (away from NBC and ABC) because I found that Couric’s nightly broadcast was the least insulting to Hillary. My husband and I concluded that Couric was sensitive to this. Couric may not have spoke out on this, be she walked the walk.

Well, everyone has their opinion I guess.
I personally didn’t think the coverage of Clinton was all that unfair. What WAS unfair was her campaign trying to inject sexism and racism into the mix because they were losing.

Katie,
Once again, you’ve shown the masses that you only need to read the news in front of you. You don’t need to understand it. Did it ever occur to you that the lies that Hillary spewed did her in? YES, LIKE BOSNIA!

kerry…I think an investigation should be done to see how much Obama did pay the superdelegates. I agree with your post 100%.

So, is Katie the siren on the Clinton WAH-mbulance now?
Jeez. This and the NYT report that the Clintons are keeping some sort of enemies list like a pair of 4th graders is yet another in a long list of examples as to why they are finished politically and should NEVER be in the upcoming Administration.

Unprovable comment, gross supposition such as this, just one of the many reasons why press has become more commentary rather than reporting.
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OUTSTANDING OBSERVATION.
THE MEDIA NO LONGER REPORTS THE NEWS. THEY INTERPRET THE NEWS AND SPIN IT TO THE READERS AND VIEWERS. (aka. Fox “journalism”)
ED MURROW WOULD BE ASHAMED TO BE CALLED A REPORTER IN THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENT.

She tried, she failed…GET OVER IT!!! Even if she was running against “None of the above”, it would get a sizeable amount of voters against her. That’s just the way she is. She is polarizing just like Bush. And nothing will change that, no matter what. Realize it and MOVE ON! I’m sure if Bush was running again he would have the same result, okay. THINK about it! It’s time for somebody else, she’s done enough for now.

I’ll say it again- the media coverage was biased simply because of who they preferred for the nominee. Not particularly because of sexism. The media practically hand-picked McCain for the Republican nominee. How? They did not ever report a negative story about McCain, excluding his alleged infidelity with a female lobbyist, which was broken by FOX news. The liberal media was forced to run a few stories on it, largely discounting it. In the meanwhile, they wrote way too many negative stories about Romney, to hurt him. The MSM also refused to run any negative stories about Huckabee, so that he would stay in the race, and split the conservative vote with Romney. This insured a victory for McCain, orchestrated by the media. The media controls everything. Hard to win without their support. Hillary and Romney most definitely did not have their support. Obama and McCain certainly did. Sexism played only a small role in this nomination process, and Hillary is strong enough to stand on her own with any male.

Katie should just shut her trap.
She is on tape asking the obama how can you even think to ask Hillary to be your vp, then making faces after the question.
Just shut up Katie, who I can see why she is the only major news anchor to not host a debate.

Why complain about how unfair and hostile the media covered Hillary?
The media was much more unfair and hostile toward Obama about Jeremiah Wright, especially since Jeremiah Wright was just telling the truth. So what if Obama looked up to Jeremiah Wright. The guy is right on what is wrong with America. Obama will fix these problems after he gets elected.

After 8 years of Bush, resession, maybe depression, Iraq, maybe Iran, global warming, ask the polar bears, the best we can come up with is Affirmative Action Plus Obama and a man who thinks he fought with George Washington, maybe he did. HELP

YES, EVERYONE WAS OUT TO GET POOR HILLARY!
EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WAS MEAN TO POOR HILLARY.
NO ONE WAS NICE TO POOR HILLARY.
IT WAS A MEDIA CONSPIRACY AGAINST POOR HILLARY.
AWE, POOR HILLARY. POOR, POOR HILLARY

Share the power!
Share the wealth!
Share the dream!
Obama 08

It’s not at all certain that either the Presumptively-Anointed One OR Senator McCain actually will be nominated
——————–
Care to bet on it?
I’ll give you 5 to 1

Please!!! I am woman. It embarrasses me that people claim sexism. If that was true why then before the primaries started did all the major news outlets do stories on how Hillary is shoe in and she is going to crush everyone else and it would be a quick primary.

–DaShawn wrote–
Share the Power
Share the Wealth
Share the Dream
THAT IS SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM. And Obama will take us there.

Clinton got the worse media, the headlines were not nice. Seem like they always tried to Dig into her.
Obama got Just about all favorable media.
McCain they like to dig into also. Which they have increased on that.
Obama started the dirty campaigning when he first walked out and started blaming everyone for everything. When he was asked questions he would divert the subject by taking a dig at one of the other Candidates. The others caught on but none could or wanted to compete with him in that fashion. But when they did, he whinned and moaned all over the media.
Worse Obama started a hatefest. I have never seen anything like it.
His blame and condemn game payed off for him. From his first days campaigning it was blame bush, blame the country, blame hillary on and on and on. every speech, adding to it. a constant barrage. Then stand back and try to play the innocent one.
Still sad when you see so many hateful people

Get a Life…………. Please…
Its time to go after the 100 Year man ..
than sees no Problems!

We will GET OVER IT! right after we vote President McCain into office. :D

RobY writes:
“I believe if Obama divorces Michelle . . . ”
As long as he DOESn’t, she can’t be forced to testify against him.

Wasn’t Katie the person that asked Hillary important questions,at a debate, like pearls or diamonds? Then in a 60 min interviewasked about her “Someone told me your nickname in school was Miss Frigidaire. Is that true?”
I guess she could have been referring to herself, but NOW she is complaining about others, Good One

Lyn,
just an add on. Katie Couric also asked Condaleeza Rice if she was dating — ya know, just standard questions asked of every Secretary of State.

Dee I agree with you….the undertones and overtones of racism are floating around with the “affirmative action” jabs at Obama. As the grandmother of a bi-racial grandson I appreciate your mentioning it.
LeeLee07-
I believe that by constantly playing Wright’s clips the media actually desensitised the public to them and they became less offensive and more acceptable. The last time this particular phenomonon struck me was the Rodney King beating by LA police in the 90′s. It was seen so much that it lost it’s impact. Did you notice how the clips that were a direct attack on Hillary were played less? I don’t think it was really intentional. Somehow though this election crossed a line and hate talk and profane political attacks from the pulpit are excused.

WELL SAID DEE and JOAN.
The Media wanted both McCain and Obama. They are still claiming that McCain is a Maverick – which is so far from the truth – how many times has he flipped -flopped? Yet he’s never been called out. They maligned/persecuted/vilified Sen. Clinton (Pres. Clinton and even Chelsea)at every turn. They played the “race card” as in the fairytale story and the MLK/LBJ story to cause African Americans to turn on the Clintons. Obama did not have to play dirty because he had the media doing that.

I’ve been paying attention lately on MSM.
Who they hit harder between the 2 nominees.
I think they are still on Obama’s side.

I love “The List.” I hope they all pay.
I also hope Bill Clinton packs up his Harlem, NY office and takes the Revenues he generates by being there, with him and I’m sure he could also do something different with his Global Initiative charity. He’s not appreciated? Neither is his charity.
There’s so many things the Clintons can do to those back-stabbers. I will enjoy watching EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

Toby, the only reason Katie didn’t host a debate is because crybaby Obama cancelled the one scheduled for NC after getting his butt whipped in the PA debate. Funny how he claims to want to debate McCain “anytime, anywhere” but ran from debating Hillary. (I guess that doesn’t include joint Town Halls since he’s turned McCain down on those too.)

DeShawn wants us to Share the Power, Share the Wealth, Share the Dream… um, how about working to get your own power, wealth, and dreams instead of trying to take it from the people who earned it as though you’re entitled to it for doing nothing? America is a great country of unlimited opportunity – but you’ve got to be willing to work (and work hard) for it.

@Posted by: Jackie | Jun 11, 2008 4:52:14 PM
Hi Jackie – Just getting back to this blog. Yes, I think you are right about how that particular tape being played over and over lost its shock value. I also could not understand why the one about Hillary was seldom played and was not really addressed by the media or the Obama campaign. Obama acted as if that particular episode had never happened. As far as crossing the line – when I heard Roland Martin and company essentially excuse the way Wright had behaved because he was an “older” black man, I knew the news media really had lost all objectivity!
Funny thing though, is that the Wright tape aired the day after Keith Olbermann did his rant against Hillary and Ferraro, saying basically that Hillary was running a racist campaign. I don’t think I ever heard Olbermann say a thing about the Wright tapes…
Party Unity My *** – PUMA
A Proud, Black, Hillary Supporter
Rise, Hillary, Rise!’08

Hoosier Sue as someone whose ancestors fought at Lexington and Concord…whose grandparents gave them a leg up…
whose parents worked their blue collar butts off to give me opportunity and who myself worked my way out of lower than middle class income bracket over twenty years…
who earned it…
Their are people who earn it…and their are people who have the deck stacked in their favor because of our government and mistakes of our history…
including women…
if you think it is wrong for obama to shift the weight of responsibility to those people who have prospered exponentially MUCH more from the way the deck is stacked and from the opportunities this country and it’s deck have afforded them…
…well, as an American…that says give me your tired your poor…your HUNGRY.
you’re wrong…everyone needs to work but everyone needs to keep working at making this a more perfect union and that every person is created equal under the law at birth.
That is not socialism…that is working capitalism…which is informed by grace.
and what makes America great.

The impact it had is obvious to anyone with thinking abilities. It encouraged female bashing of Hillary and female supporters as well as bashing of all and any Hillary supporters and THAT is what intensified female and male support. There are a lot of intelligent men who see the injustice as well. It discouraged people who were “leaning” for her. Come on people, it was deliberate political tactics provided by the owner of TIME WARNER and the likes.

many of the talking head women, andrea mitchell, etc. all said it is not bashing women, it is just hillary.
well if they think, that they would be spared, just because they are who they are, they are mistaken.
msm bashing one woman anywhere
is bashing all women everywhere
but sen. clinton is out now,
so leave her alone, she is out of this.
talk about michelle and cindy

I so agree with Couric about the media unfairly going after Hillary. Had the level of racism reached half the level sexism heads would have rolled. This was not journalism. We were given lies and propaganda. There was a time when being a journalist stood for something. A time when a journalist would never allow personal opinion to be known. I now cringe when I hear the likes of a David Gregory’s being a White House correspondent. Where does the truth begin for the Tim Russert’s of the media and slander end? I have been robbed of my faith in the media by all of those who behaved in such a dishonorable manner. Clearly Hillary Clinton did not deserve what took place during the campaign. More to the point the public was entitled to something far better than what was delivered throughout the primary season.

The list is starting to grow, Brokaw, Couric, Phil Bronstein, that are coming out and outright just sticking it to MSNBC.
Appaently MSNBC couldn’t be happier, their ratings are up, and that’s probably all that matters.
http://www.FAIR-REFLECTION.com
http://www.Hillary-Wins.com
http://www.CaucusCheating.com
http://www.Florida-Michigan.com

One other thing in all of this, there absolutely was a ton of bribing and cheating and intimdiating that went on in the caucus state voting, while the reporters fawned over Barack Obama.

Let’s face it, Clinton was not winning until she started whinning. The negative press and her crying about it definately helped her win in the final states.
I can remember her absolutely crowing when Obama was getting bad press. She stood on stage and said “If you can’t stand the heat…..”.
Whatever you say about MSNBC and Hillary can also be said about Obama and FOX. The even each other out.

Katie Couric is one to be added to the list..She herself did Hillary such an injustice when she interviewed her.
“Sen Clinton, what are you going to do if you lose?” Hillary said, “Well, I don’t intend to lose.” Katie, “Come on. Aren’t you just a little bit afraid?” Later in the interview, “Sen. Clinton, I understand that the boys in school had quite a unique nickname for you.” Hillary was obviously embarrassed but answered, “Well yes. They called me Frigidare.” This was right after the big smear about Hillary crying, a media EXAGGERATION!! It was obvious that Katie was trying her best to get Hillary to tear up again so she could be credited with the next big “Top Story” that the MSM viciously compete for. Those are just a couple of examples. Katie had a wonderful opportunity to help Hillary show that a woman can and was very qualified to be President. The media injustice didn’t just include the sexist remarks. It was also about the things the media didn’t do. Early in the race, their was absolutely no mention of the delegate count while Hillary was leading by 170 over Obama. The media also showed Obama’s speech after a huge victory for Hillary. I had to got to BBC to see her victory speech. When Hillary would win, the reporters headlines were, “What caused Sen. Obama to lose?” rather than congratulating her. Spins like..”Sen. Obama is only trailing Sen. Clinton by two states.” rather than, “Sen. Clinton is leading Sen. Obama by two states.” There’s a lot of to be said about the way a reporter words things, and the reporters intentionally worded things to Obama’s favor..From The O’Rielly Factor…he referred to a report that stated 84% of the reports about Obama were positive, compaired to only 53% percent of positive coverage of Sen. Clinton.” I could go on and on, but I think I made my point….

As far as I’m concerned, the free press no longer exists; it’s power is available to the highest bidder… similar to the sale of our votes in the purchase of delegates.
What has happened to our DEMOCRATIC way of life?
It has become a joke…. just as this election has become a distorted burlesque of what our forefathers intended elections to be!
As a result, the best of the candidates was thrown out with the garbage even though she won the popular vote…. and we are stuck with an egomaniacal con artist and an older gentleman who may not have the fortitude to withstand the dirty campaign heading his way.
Couric’s change of heart is too little, too late.
The fourth estate should be renamed
“the FEH! estate”.
The DNC should be demolished.
Hillary before Obama
McCain before Obama…
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!!!