MSNBC is flogging the dead horse of Bill Clinton's past again

[redstateblues]

though Clinton did a terrible job responding to Craig Melvin, who is so pleased with himself to have this to talk about all week.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Why is it being talked about, why in the FUCK would MSNBC allow this?

[Hortensis]

14. Because the network is a player. And try to find

even one way using this could benefit, or be neutral to Democrats. Contrast that with the guarantee that this would benefit Republicans.

Exactly the test that should be applied to Comey's series of actions that predictably would be expected to hurt Demorats and could only hurt Democrats.

We only know of ones that involved public exposure. What others might the enormously powerful director of the FBI have privately taken? The huge breach when the FBI asked the NYT to publish a story on October 31, 2016, that implied the FBI wasn't finding anything to the Trump-Russia connection (even as that was under serious investigation) only very recently became widely known when the NYT published a half-assed, mea-not-all-that-culpa apology for their role in the subversion of the election.

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. Why now though? Book? Anniversary?

[Hortensis]

19. Trump the sexual predator? Hey, Democrats are

just as bad. 60,000,000 Republicans, remember your double standard and fake outrage!!!

Trump impeachment? Hey, Democrats are just as bad. 60,000,000 Republicans, remember that EVEN Clinton wasn't removed from office.

Just a couple of quick thoughts.

And I can't even guess which, among the many things happening that we do and don't know about now, this might be especially meant to distract from.

[Eliot Rosewater]

20. FFS so it is for NO reason, I just assumed someone wrote a book or it was the anniversary

of "depends on what the meaning of is is" or something like that.

If any media does equivalency now, we are doomed as a society, that is the ONE thing we cant survive.

Thanks for not PERSONALLY ATTACKING me when I asked this question. But then you never do that.

[cwydro]

17. Because it is news.

Surely you understand that.

[Iliyah]

2. Squirrel!

[TimeSnowDemos]

3. My hot take

Clinton put himself out there for obv reasons. This involved media availability. He let himself answer in a way that could be misconstrued, which he admitted. He was then given a chance to explain and he largely did.

In a REASONABLE country this would all be to his credit. He's human he made a mistake, he explained his mistake. No big deal.

Sadly the US isn't very reasonable.

[Hugin]

4. Trump must still have their number on speed dial.

Odds are he's been on the line with them over the past few days.

[Backwoodsrider]

5. Clinton has lost his edge

I watched the clip and I saw him try and deny answering the question. Back in his prime Bill used to come up with great stuff that provided enough of a change of direction the person answering the question did not go back to the same question, but this time when he was asked he fumbled and it was obvious he was trying god bless him but he had that old man blank look in his eyes and I knew he was finished. Hes done, I love the guy he did some great things for the US regular folk but now we need to gather up our knickers and move on to a new frame of institutional thinking.

[samnsara]

6. i will cont to turn the channel whenever they start pearl clutching

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Well,said the mid terms were going to be a replay of 2016.

Same false equivalencies,which was evident in Melvin's California GOP blathing idiots spewing the 2016 talking points without push back.

[redstateblues]

10. That was appalling. Melvin tries to be such a badass until

He interviews some right wingers spewing happy talk

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Knowing a little bit of

behind the scenes of Cable News. He is just a Talent that reads his teleprompter,it is his Producers who control the on Air spew and the Booking of their so called guests.

The management of Comcast Media,NBC-MSNBC,political Positions come through loud and clear in their programing. Right know,it is Velsia/Ruhle,Nicole Wallace,Maddow and O'Donnell that seem to have total control of their Programming. Do know,Maddow and O'Donnell have their own Production Companies as for the rest,do not know.

Melvin lost all creeds when he allowed his Clinton Interview to be edited.

[R B Garr]

8. They should refuse to answer questions, just like the rest of the GOP does

and some certain other special politicians who are never held accountable. They just act grumpy and refuse to answer or they insult the questioner. Seems to work -- that's all the Clinton's need to do differently. Easy peasy.

[onecaliberal]

9. Turn them off. Contact advertisers

[Paladin]

11. I'm not listening to ANY of this Clinton-bashing, not at this point.

Folks, we have a monstrous, autocratic lunatic in the White House at this very moment. We have no time for pointless arguments over Bill Clinton's old sins. Keep your heads in the game---and consider what the source of this Clinton distraction might be.

[Sneederbunk]

12. If you can't find a new shiny object, polish an old one.

[SoCalDem]

22. This !

And of course, "political fame & notoriety" can be a potent drug, and they love to write books ..

Media types like to interview them

It's an endless circle...

and of course once-famous people rarely "go away".. They are like zombies...always showing up at often the most inopportune times

[dlk]

13. The Right is Absolutely Desperate for an Equivalency to the Abomination of Trump

If one doesn't exist, they will do their best to create one.

[oasis]

15. Idiot Craig Melvin, lousy interviewer. Today he asked the daughter

of the Trump pardoned, Alice Marie Johnson, "how much time did your mother have left on her sentence?"

Before the interview, Melvin stated that Jonson has been incarcerated since 1996 and was serving a life term.

[senseandsensibility]

21. Melvin seems to be auditioning for Fox! Very slanted coverage this morning.

He is very concerned about MeToo issues,apparently, but during the entire segment about how HORRIBLE Bill Clinton's apology was, it was not mentioned that trump has just as many transgressions and NO apology.
Plus, he's the one in office now. He had a female African American guest on who worked for Hillary (don't know her name, sorry), and I though for sure that she would point out the double standard, But no.