The Corrupt Democrat-Media Complex Seeks Clinton Victory

Roger Aronoff While the left-wing so-called mainstream media continue to raptly discuss dissension within the Republican Party and Republicans who oppose Donald Trumps presidential campaign the media are quietly ignoring evidence of their own enduring and pervasive bias on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The recent WikiLeaks documents about Mrs. Clintons Wall Street speeches are receiving some coverage. However few in the media want to repeat the names of those reporters who have directly promoted the Hillary campaign. Using leaked documents from Guccifer 2.0 The Daily Caller reports that campaign chairman Joel Benenson had cocktails with a number of reporters on April 10 2015 on subjects including to give reporters their first thoughts from team Hillary Clinton in advance of the announcement" and framing the Hillary Clinton message and framing the race." It was just two days later that Mrs. Clinton announced she was running for president. Among the reporters who said they were attending this cocktail party were ABCs George Stephanopoulos and The New York Times Maggie Haberman who formerly worked for Politico. One of the campaigns memos The Daily Caller reports describes Habermans many favors for the Clintons. We have had a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed" states the memo. In other words Haberman was and likely still is a go to" journalist for reliable pro-Hillary bias. Stephanopoulos should have been listed by the campaign as another friendly journalist. After all he loyally served in Bill Clintons White House and more recently contributed $75000 to the Clinton Foundation. We have written before about how Stephanopoulos decided not to inform viewers of his many conflicts of interest when he grilled Peter Schweizer author of Clinton Cash during an ABC interview. Not only did Stephanopoulos do the Clinton campaign a favor by trying to undermine Schweizers allegations of Clinton pay-for-play it appears that the Clinton campaign realized how valuable his efforts were. Not to pile on but this is therapeutic to watch" writes Nick Merrill about the grilling to other Clinton campaign staffers according to WikiLeaks. George is cool as a cucumber doesnt rush into it but just destroys him slowly but surely over the course of the interview…" Many more reporters rsvpd for cocktails with the Hillary campaign including reporters from ABC Bloomberg CBS CNN The Daily Beast The Huffington Post MSNBC NBC The New Yorker The New York Times People Politico Vice and Vox. The diverse variety of attendees demonstrates just how widely and deeply the Hillary Clinton campaign has penetrated the mainstream media. We have documented the many close family relationships between the Democrats and the establishment media such as brothers David Rhodes (president of CBS News) and Ben Rhodes (President Obamas deputy national security advisor). The coverage on many stories such as the Benghazi scandals is clearly influenced by these relationships. Another media figure CNBC anchor and Republican primary debate moderator John Harwood had a habit of reaching out to the campaign to offer unsolicited compliments" reports Mediaite. Harwood sent the campaign an email with the subject line good letter" according to recently released WikiLeaks documents. He also wrote to Clinton loyalist John Podesta She looked so much more comfortable talking to MSNBCs Andrea Mitchell today than to CNNs Brianna Keilar a few weeks ago." Podesta responded that he thought Hillary was over the hump. Knows she has to do this ad infinitum." Harwood even reached out to ask Podesta How are you feeling about where things stand?" We have reported how journalists such as Jim Rutenberg of The New York Times argue that the so-called mainstream media have abandoned unbiased journalism in the face of a possible Trump presidency. Recent leaks by WikiLeaks DC Leaks and Guccifer 2.0 each demonstrate that the media havent abandoned their objectivitythey never had any in the first place. Consider for example the leaked email that MSNBCs Chris Hayes editorial producer Sheara Braun wrote in 2015 to a Clinton aide. Braun commented that MSNBC had been airing a Millennial-focused segment each night. The point of the segment is basically to inform young people about all of the crap and nonsense that Sec. Clinton and President Clinton (but mostly Sec. Clinton) had to face back in the 90s when President Clinton was running for office… everything from cookie-gate to stand-by-your-man-gate to Hillarycare" Braun writes. The point isnt to dwell on the past but the point is to talk about this amazing intelligent woman who probably faced more nonsense back in the day because she is a woman…and she continues to have to face it. She is smarter than most men and more qualified than most men to be president." Of course Hillary Clintons die-hard loyalists in the media will dislike and find invalid any suggestion that she engaged in any sort of questionable conduct" wrote Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept this September. Their self-assigned role is to defend her from all criticisms. They view themselves more as campaign operatives than journalists: Their principal overriding goal is to ensure that Clinton wins the election." Greenwald like much of the radical left-leaning media is no fan of Trump. In fact he writes in the same column That American journalists have dispensed with muted tones and fake neutrality when reporting on Trump is a positive development." The fact that the mainstream media have been working to elect Clinton from the very start needs no more substantiation. These revelations follow closely behind another batch of WikiLeaks emails released just before the Democratic convention that provided other egregious examples of this corrupt alliance between the establishment left-wing media and the Democrat Party particularly the Clinton wing of the party. Whether fact-checking the candidates or reporting on new political developments it is clear that a pro-Hillary dogma permeates current press reporting. Roger Aronoff is the Editor of Accuracy in Media and a member of the Citizens Commission on Benghazi.