… “Nobody has lived the life she has. Nobody is treated the way she is,” Maddow continued. “I think the bottom line here is that there’s a real question about whether or not Hillary Clinton gets vetted effectively and fairly as a presidential candidate, particularly one who’s not going to have a challenging primary, given the amount of static there is about everything she does.”
“The media noise, and static, and nonsense around her is so loud, it’s very hard to have effective reporting that people might actually care about about what she’d be like as a national leader,” Maddow added.
I don’t know. Seems to me that The New York Times breaking two stories about Hillary Clinton, one involving her alleged violation of an ethics agreement with the Obama White House by accepting Clinton Foundation donations while serving as a Cabinet official and another regarding her attempt to intentionally skirt FOIA laws, gives us a pretty clear indication as to what kind of a president she would be. That seems like effective reporting to those of us in the “hinterlands,” as Maddow derisively referred to the majority of the United States of America.
But the most delightful morsel came at the end of Maddow’s pep talk. Consumed by introspection, she furrowed her brow and stared into her desk. Forlorn, Maddow fretted about the stability of the republic given the lamentable condition of its Fourth Estate.
“Seeing the scrum this week, and a lot of the stupidity in the coverage around this issue, I worry about whether we’re going to be well-served by a Beltway press corps that doesn’t know how to talk about either Bill or Hillary Clinton without treading into real nonsense,” she closed.